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Meaning of "entr'acte" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ENTR'ACTE

French, literally: between-act.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ENTR'ACTE

entr'acte  [ɒnˈtrækt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENTR'ACTE

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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Entr'acte is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ENTR'ACTE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Entr'acte

Entr'acte, means "between the acts". It can mean a pause between two parts of a stage production, synonymous to an intermission, but it more often indicates a piece of music performed between acts of a theatrical production. In the case of stage musicals, the entr'acte serves as the overture of act 2. In films that were meant to be shown with an intermission, there was frequently a specially recorded entr'acte on the soundtrack between the first and second half of the film, although this practice has died out in recent years.

Definition of entr'acte in the English dictionary

The definition of entr'acte in the dictionary is an interval between two acts of a play or opera. Other definition of entr'acte is an entertainment during an interval, such as dancing between acts of an opera.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENTR'ACTE


abstract
ˈæbstrækt
attract
əˈtrækt
bract
brækt
cataract
ˈkætəˌrækt
contract
kənˈtrækt
cracked
krækt
detract
dɪˈtrækt
distract
dɪˈstrækt
extract
ɪkˈstrækt
fluidextract
ˈfluːɪdˈɛkstrækt
half-tracked
ˈhɑːfˌtrækt
precontract
priːˈkɒntrækt
protract
prəˈtrækt
retract
rɪˈtrækt
subcontract
sʌbˈkɒntrækt
subtract
səbˈtrækt
tesseract
ˈtesəˌrækt
tracked
trækt
tract
trækt
untracked
ʌnˈtrækt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENTR'ACTE

entozoon
entrail
entrails
entrain
entrainement
entrainer
entrainment
entrammel
entrammelled
entrammelling
entrance
entrance examination
entrance fee
entrance hall
entrance permit
entrance qualifications
entrance ramp
entrance requirements
entrance ticket
entranced

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENTR'ACTE

absolute
accurate
affiliate
ante
appreciate
appropriate
associate
at any rate
black and white
black-and-white
brunette
carte
certificate
charlotte
chocolate
cite
complete
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in the white
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Synonyms and antonyms of entr'acte in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «entr'acte» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENTR'ACTE

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Translator English - Chinese

插片段
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

entreacto
570 millions of speakers

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entr´acte
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

entr´acte
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

entr´acte
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

антракт
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

entr´acte
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Translator English - Bengali

entr´acte
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

entracte
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Masuk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

entr´acte
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

間奏曲
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

entr´acte
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Entr_acte
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

entr´acte
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

entr´acte
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रवेशद्वार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

entr´acte
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

intermezzo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Entr´acte
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

антракт
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

entr´acte
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Entr´acte
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

entr´acte
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

entr´acte
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Entr´acte
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of entr'acte

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENTR'ACTE»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ENTR'ACTE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about entr'acte

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENTR'ACTE»

Discover the use of entr'acte in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to entr'acte and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dada and Surrealist Film
"Entr'acte ou le cinema autonome." Integral 1.1 (March 1925). Kovacs, Steven. " Dada comes in at Intermission: Picabia and Rene Clair on Entr'acte. " In his From Enchantment to Rage. London and Toronto; Associated University Presses, ...
Rudolf E. Kuenzli, 1996
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Republic of Images: A History of French Filmmaking
In Entr'acte this logic is exposed as arbitrary, as a trap. In the world of Dada, the world of nonsense masquerading as reason, we are all victims of the demented pseudo-rationality of the World Machine. Entr'acte was directed by Rene Clair, ...
Alan Larson Williams, 1992
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Interpreting the Moving Image
Entr'acte,. Paris. and. Dada. Dada is a form of nihilism. But it would be a mistake to characterize it as a movement without a moral posture. Instead, it is of a piece with the kind of moral immoralism which emerges in the wake of Rousseau and ...
Noel Carroll, 1998
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Masterpieces of Modernist Cinema
Often linked with Dada, René Clair's film Entr'acte is one of those films to which I have returned time and again, always a little mesmerized, always a little curious, always unsatisfied with my understanding of why and how the work fascinates.
Ted Perry, 2006
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Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company
... Entr'acte's critique of gender threatens to lapse into parody and thus risks reinforcing the codes and symbolic order that it ostensibly takes to task.28 One of the distinguishing features of Entr'acte is that the film's major protagonists are played ...
Dalia Judovitz, Marcel Duchamp, 2010
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Grétry and the Growth of Opéra-comique
Sedaine knew his English theatre, and his storm-entr'acte here is not a meaningless intervention but a counterpart to Richard's anger on hearing of Jenny's attempted seduction by the aristocratic Lurewell: as the oak-trees are lashed by the ...
David Charlton, 1986
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Mathematical Knowledge: Its Growth Through Teaching
CONTENTS Introduction Entr'acte 1 G. brousseau and M. Lotte / The Fragility of Knowledge Entr'acte 2 s. mellin-olsen / The Double Bind as a Didactical Trap Entr'acte 3 w. dorfler / Forms and Means of Generalization in Mathematics Entr' acte ...
Alan J. Bishop, Stieg Mellin-Olsen, J. van Dormolen, 1991
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Beethoven
Entr'acte I 3. Entr'acte II 4. Song, 'Freudvoll und leidvoll' 5. Entr'acte III 6. Entr'acte IV 7. Music for Clärchen's death 8. Melodrama (speech with music), 'Su ̈sser Schlaf' 9. Victory Symphony After setting the songs, Beethoven next worked ...
Barry Cooper, 2000
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Silence, Music, Silent Music
They are indeed also very differently conceived films: Entr 'acte is the work of a surrealist, whereas Rain reads like a cross between a study in light and a city- symphony film-poem. For all their differences, though, these two films share that ...
Nicky Losseff, Jennifer Ruth Doctor, 2007
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Prokofiev's Ballets for Diaghilev
The longest example of of the latter practice— a 30 measure section based on Molodukha's theme in the third entr'acte— resulted from the dearth of other exploitable, lyrical material in the preceding scene. Aside from the second entr' acte 's ...
Stephen D. Press, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENTR'ACTE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term entr'acte is used in the context of the following news items.
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Erik Satie: a life less ordinary
And his music for René Clair's 1925 surrealist film Entr'Acte was remarkable for being bespoke and synchronised with the pictures. All pretty ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Entr'actre's Into The Woods Is Appropriate Segue To Performers …
By Bill Hirschman, FloridaTheaterOnStage.com, Special to EyesOnNews.com,June 24, 2015 – At Entr'acte Theatrix's production of Into The ... «Eyes On News, Jun 15»
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Best bets for June 24
The Entr'acte Theatrix stage production follows on the heels of the recent star-studded film version. 8 p.m., Crest Theatre, 51 N. Swinton Ave., ... «SouthFlorida.com, Jun 15»
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Maverick at 100
Ibert's brief and delightful Entr'acte was published for flute and harp or guitar. Wincenc had to take off at this point for another event but Allen ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jun 15»
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Uptights "Further from Home"
... you'll find both an audio stream of the track and an accompanying video splicing together clips from René Clair's 1924 short, Entr'acte. «Exclaim!, Jun 15»
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Entr'Acte Theatrix Presents INTO THE WOODS, Now thru 6/28
Entr'Acte Theatrix' upcoming production of this acclaimed Broadway musical will run at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts' Crest Theatre from ... «Broadway World, Jun 15»
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Music Mountain Welcomes Calidore String Quartet with Daniel …
Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte (2011) - a Music Mountain premiere!; Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F Minor Opus 80; and Brahms: Viola Quintet in G ... «Broadway World, Jun 15»
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Summer stages keep South Florida theater hot
Into the Woods: The young actors of Entr'acte Theatrix take on the challenge of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods, ... «Miami Herald, Jun 15»
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Falls Village: Music Mountain season continues June 19-21 with …
Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte (2011); Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F Minor Opus 80; and Brahms: Viola Quintet in G Minor, Opus 111. «Torrington Register Citizen, Jun 15»
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Entr'Acte Theatrix brings 'Into the Woods' to Crest Theatre
Entr'Acte Theatrix is bringing Stephen Sondheim's fractured fairy tale "Into the Woods" to Delray's Crest Theatre. The company takes creative ... «Sun Sentinel, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Entr'acte [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/entracte>. May 2024 ».
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