Interlude
['ɪntəl(j)uːd] or ['ɪntɚ'lʊd]
Definition
(noun.) a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance.
(noun.) an intervening period or episode.
(verb.) perform an interlude; 'The guitar player interluded with a beautiful improvisation'.
Typed by Camilla--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting.
(n.) A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama.
(n.) A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music, a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line.
Typist: Rosanna
Definition
n. a short dramatic performance or play between the play and afterpiece or between the acts of a play: a short piece of music played between the parts of a drama opera hymn &c.—adj. Interlud′ed inserted as an interlude: having interludes.
Edited by Everett
Examples
- It was a mere interlude. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Their reign of five years formed a curious interlude in this history of great changes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This was one interlude among others. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Came an interlude of fanaticism or pedantry, when all the pressure was upon exact doctrine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here, for example, is a picture drawn by Edison of a laboratory interlude--just a bit Rabelaisian: When experimenting at Menlo Park we had all the way from forty to fifty men. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And the problem of a forecast is complicated by the possibilities of interludes and backwaters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Vicky