Interlude

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  • noun. An intervening episode, feature, or period of time.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A short farcical entertainment performed between the acts of a medieval mystery or morality play.
  • noun. A 16th-century genre of comedy derived from this.
  • noun. An entertainment between the acts of a play.
  • noun. A short piece inserted between the parts of a longer composition.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In dramatic art, an intermediate entertainment; a short independent performance introduced on the stage between the parts or in the course of the main entertainment; also, any similar by-play or episode or incident occurring in other circumstances.
  • noun. In the early English drama, a play; particularly, a play from real life, distinguished from the mysteries and moralities.
  • noun. In music, a subordinate passage or composition inserted between the principal sections of a work or performance.
  • noun. An instrumental piece between successive parts of a church service.
  • To insert between, as an interlude.
  • To act as an interlude; come between other things.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Any intervening period of time, space, etc.; a pause between phases of an activity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An intervening episode, etc.
  • noun. An entertainment between the acts of a play.
  • noun. A short piece put between the parts of a longer composition.
  • verb. To provide with an interlude.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. perform an interlude
  • noun. an intervening period or episode
  • noun. a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance