Recite vs. Rehearse — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Recite and Rehearse
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Recite
To repeat or utter aloud (something memorized or rehearsed), often before an audience
Recite a prayer.
Recite a poem.
Rehearse
To practice (a part in a play or a piece of music, for example) in preparation for a public performance.
Recite
To relate in detail
Recited to me his tale of woe.
Rehearse
To practice (an action) by repetition so as to improve performance
Rehearse military maneuvers.
Recite
To list or enumerate
The affidavit recites facts about the incident.
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Rehearse
To direct in a rehearsal
Rehearsed the orchestra.
Recite
To deliver a recitation.
Rehearse
To repeat or recite
"a florid and flippant attack that rehearsed some of the time-worn creationist canards" (Frederick C. Crews).
Recite
To repeat lessons prepared or memorized.
Rehearse
To list or enumerate
Rehearsed her complaints in a letter.
Recite
(transitive) To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.
Janice is able to recite pi to 100 decimals.
Rehearse
To practice something, such as a speech, before presenting it publicly.
Recite
(transitive) To list or enumerate something.
Rehearse
(transitive) To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
There’s no need to rehearse the same old argument; we’ve heard it before, and we all agree.
Recite
(intransitive) To deliver a recitation.
Rehearse
(transitive) To narrate; to relate; to tell.
The witness rehearsed the events of the night before for the listening detectives.
Recite
To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from recollection; to rehearse; as, to recite the words of an author, or of a deed or covenant.
Rehearse
(ambitransitive) To practise by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation, especially in theater
The main actors spent on average two hours a day rehearsing before the first night.
The lawyer advised her client to rehearse her testimony before the trial date.
Recite
To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.
Rehearse
To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
The director rehearsed the cast incessantly in the days leading up to opening night, and as a result they were tired and cranky when it arrived.
Recite
To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.
Rehearse
To contrive and carefully prepare (a story, etc.) to offer consistency.
The Crown argued that the accused had rehearsed her story.
Recite
To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.
Rehearse
To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
When the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul.
Recite
To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.
Rehearse
To narrate; to relate; to tell.
Rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord.
Recite
A recital.
Rehearse
To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.
Recite
Recite in elocution
Rehearse
To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her.
Recite
Repeat aloud from memory;
She recited a poem
The pupil recited his lesson for the day
Rehearse
To recite or repeat something for practice.
Recite
Render verbally,
Recite a poem
Retell a story
Rehearse
Engage in a rehearsal (of)
Recite
Narrate or give a detailed account of;
Tell what happened
The father told a story to his child
Recite
Specify individually;
She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered
The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug
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