Intermission
noun
A short break in the middle of a play, concert, or similar activity.
The audience will get a few minutes of intermission before the show continues.
Often appears as...
- take an intermission
- during the intermission
noun
A break between two periods of activity.
There will be a short intermission between the two sessions of the conference.
Often appears as...
- brief intermission
- short intermission
noun
A short break in the middle of a play, concert, or similar activity.
The audience will get a few minutes of intermission before the show continues.
Often appears as...
- take an intermission
- during the intermission
noun
A break between two periods of activity.
There will be a short intermission between the two sessions of the conference.
Often appears as...
- brief intermission
- short intermission
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Pro Tip 1/3Theatrical Use
Intermission is especially common in plays and operas as a fixed break.
The two-act play had an intermission after the first hour.
Pro Tip 2/3Stretch Legs
Use the intermission in live events to stand, stretch, or refresh yourself.
Let's stretch our legs during the intermission.
Pro Tip 3/3Refreshments Time
Intermissions are often used to buy snacks or drinks in a theatre setting.
They sold ice cream during the intermission at the ballet.
Pro Tip 1/3Theatrical Use
Intermission is especially common in plays and operas as a fixed break.
The two-act play had an intermission after the first hour.
Pro Tip 2/3Stretch Legs
Use the intermission in live events to stand, stretch, or refresh yourself.
Let's stretch our legs during the intermission.
Pro Tip 3/3Refreshments Time
Intermissions are often used to buy snacks or drinks in a theatre setting.
They sold ice cream during the intermission at the ballet.
Pro Tip 1/3Theatrical Use
Intermission is especially common in plays and operas as a fixed break.
The two-act play had an intermission after the first hour.
Pro Tip 2/3Stretch Legs
Use the intermission in live events to stand, stretch, or refresh yourself.
Let's stretch our legs during the intermission.
Pro Tip 3/3Refreshments Time
Intermissions are often used to buy snacks or drinks in a theatre setting.
They sold ice cream during the intermission at the ballet.
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Building a theater that...
procession allow people to come in and out for an intermission or to enter for the beginning or the end of a performance as I said all the balconies can move but they can also be disappear completely the proscenium can fly you can bring larger objects into the chamber itself but most convincingly when we had to confront the idea of
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How theater weathers...
or that we are at worst asymptomatic. But the truth is, our symptoms have been glaring onstage and off. We have the opportunity to use this intermission caused by one plague to work to cure another. We can champion a theater that marches, protests, burns, builds.
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Building a theater that...
procession allow people to come in and out for an intermission or to enter for the beginning or the end of a performance as I said all the balconies can move but they can also be disappear completely the proscenium can fly you can bring larger objects into the chamber itself but most convincingly when we had to confront the idea of
Video examples
How theater weathers...
or that we are at worst asymptomatic. But the truth is, our symptoms have been glaring onstage and off. We have the opportunity to use this intermission caused by one plague to work to cure another. We can champion a theater that marches, protests, burns, builds.
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Quote examples
Lily Rabe
American Actress
I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don't get off until it's over - and it's over very quickly, so don't miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don't miss a minute, because there aren't very many minutes of it.
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Jeff Jarrett
American Wrestler
During intermission, we reward the loudest, rowdiest fans with backstage passes, so we have a meet-and-greet, and then, at the end of the night, we give all the fans an opportunity to actually get up in the ring and have their picture taken with a TNA star. So we're very, very fan interactive.
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James Lapine
American Director
I'm never so into the three-act movie thing. I know that's the form that people talk about, but it seems to me, in the movie, you just have to keep charging forward. You couldn't start over again like you do after an intermission. You just had to keep the plot moving forward.
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James Mooney
American Scientist
The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.
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Van Heflin
Someday, I expect to see a television version of 'Hamlet' and see Hamlet come on during the intermission and hold up his sword and say 'This is made of the same fine steel as such-and-such razor blades.
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Joe Bob Briggs
American Critic
In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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Grace Slick
American Musician
Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.
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John Selden
English Statesman
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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Arnold H. Glasow
American Author
Make your life a mission - not an intermission.
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Lily Rabe
American Actress
I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don't get off until it's over - and it's over very quickly, so don't miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don't miss a minute, because there aren't very many minutes of it.
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Jeff Jarrett
American Wrestler
During intermission, we reward the loudest, rowdiest fans with backstage passes, so we have a meet-and-greet, and then, at the end of the night, we give all the fans an opportunity to actually get up in the ring and have their picture taken with a TNA star. So we're very, very fan interactive.
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James Lapine
American Director
I'm never so into the three-act movie thing. I know that's the form that people talk about, but it seems to me, in the movie, you just have to keep charging forward. You couldn't start over again like you do after an intermission. You just had to keep the plot moving forward.
Quote examples
James Mooney
American Scientist
The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.
Quote examples
Van Heflin
Someday, I expect to see a television version of 'Hamlet' and see Hamlet come on during the intermission and hold up his sword and say 'This is made of the same fine steel as such-and-such razor blades.
Quote examples
Joe Bob Briggs
American Critic
In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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Grace Slick
American Musician
Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.
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John Selden
English Statesman
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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Arnold H. Glasow
American Author
Make your life a mission - not an intermission.
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