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theater
[ thee-uh-ter, theeuh- ]
noun
- a building, part of a building, or outdoor area for housing dramatic performances or stage entertainments, or for showing movies.
- the audience at a theatrical performance or movie:
The whole theater was weeping.
- a theatrical or acting company.
- a room or hall, fitted with tiers of seats rising like steps, used for lectures, surgical demonstrations, etc.:
Students crowded into the operating theater.
- the theater, dramatic performances as a branch of art; the field or discipline of staged drama:
an actress devoted to the theater.
- Often the theater. dramatic works collectively, as of literature, a nation, or an author:
the theater of Ibsen.
- the quality or effectiveness of dramatic performance: bad theater;
good theater;
bad theater;
pure theater.
- a place of dramatic action, especially during a war: theater of war.
the Pacific theater during World War II.
Synonyms: , ,
- a public display of action or speech that gives a false impression of accomplishing or promising something, merely for the sake of appearances (often used in combination): Public health experts have said that the time and money spent on cleaning may be unnecessary hygiene theater. Forget all his blustering about doing what's best for our city鈥攊t's just theater to please his union masters and protect his political base.
Washington D.C.'s Metro transit system has instituted random bag searches, and many travelers are just as unhappy about the security theater on the train as in the airport.
Public health experts have said that the time and money spent on cleaning may be unnecessary hygiene theater.
Companies need to go beyond diversity theater and commit to long-term, concrete metrics for change.
Forget all his blustering about doing what's best for our city鈥攊t's just theater to please his union masters and protect his political base.
- a natural formation of land rising by steps or gradations.
Pronunciation Note
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 苍辞苍路迟丑别路补路迟别谤 adjective
- 辫谤别路迟丑别路补路迟别谤 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of theater1
Example Sentences
鈥淒ead Outlaw鈥 evokes at moments the droll perversity of 鈥淪weeney Todd,鈥 the cold-hearted glee of 鈥淎ssassins鈥 and the Brechtian skewering of 鈥淩oad Show鈥 鈥 Sondheim musicals that fly in the face of conventional musical theater wisdom.
Moviegoers 鈥 especially ones who don鈥檛 live in major metropolitan areas 鈥 have little originality to choose from at the theater, which is why 鈥淪inners鈥 felt even more like a godsend from the cinema heavens.
By the time the tunnel was completed, the Metropolitan Water District had released a 20-minute film that was shown in movie theaters and schools celebrating its conquest of the Colorado River and the desert.
The visual is 鈥渁bsolutely sharp from edge to edge on a 90-foot screen,鈥 said Bill Counter, a theater historian and retired projectionist.
Trujillo, who is originally from Cali, Colombia, was undocumented for several years in Toronto before moving to New York to pursue a career in musical theater choreography.
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