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Curtain Call

Definition: Curtain Call

Curtain Call

Noun

1. An appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Curtain Call

Synonym: bow (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Curtain Call

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Curtain Call (1952)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Curtain Call

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Curtain Call

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

curtain call

37
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Curtain Call

Language Translations for "curtain call"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rithirrje e aktorit në skenë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏إستحسان (acceptance, applause, approbation, approval, favor, favour). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

извикване пред завесата. (various references)

   

Czech

  

opona (curtain, drop, drop scene, veil). (various references)

   

French

  

rappel. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kitapsolás a függöny elé. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

カーソル強調 (car chase, car train, card, card loan, card system, cardigan, cardinal, cart, carton, cartoon, cartridge, curd, cursored emphasis, curtain, curtain antenna, curtain lecture, curtain wall, passenger and freight train). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

カーテンコール . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urtaincay allcay

   

Russian 

  

вызов актера. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

podizanje zavese. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

inropning. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

alkışlarla tekrar sahneye çağırma (curtain). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

виклик актора. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự vỗ tay mời diễn viên ra một lần nữa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Curtain Call

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-i-l-l-n-r-t-u"

-2 letters: canicular.

-3 letters: acicular, nautical.

-4 letters: accrual, acicula, actinal, ancilla, anticar, calculi, callant, caracul, carinal, catcall, cranial, crucial, crucian, curtail, curtain, lacunal, lacunar, lanital, lunatic, natural.

-5 letters: acinar, actual, alcaic, alular, antiar, antral, anural, anuria, anuric, arctic, arnica, atrial, calcar, callan, cantic, canula, carina, carlin, carnal, catlin, cicala, citral, clinal, crania, cultic, curial, curtal, incult.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-i-l-l-n-r-t-u"
 

+2 letters: recalculating, recalculation.

 

+3 letters: recalculations.

 

+4 letters: acculturational, circumvallating, circumvallation.

 

+5 letters: circumstantially, circumvallations, undemocratically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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