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audition (iou)



audition noun & verb. L16.
[Latin auditio(n-), from audit-: see AUDIT, -ION.]
A. noun.
The action, power, or faculty of hearing; listening. L16.
E. Pound All that the critic can do for the reader or audience or spectator is to focus his gaze or audition.
Something heard. rare. M17.
Horace Walpole I went to hear it for it is not an apparition but an audition.
A trial hearing or viewing of an applicant for employment as a singer, actor, etc. L19.
J. Berger She had the impression that everyone was waiting their opportunity to compete, like singers at an audition.
b. verb.
verb trans. Give an audition to (an applicant); test by means of an audition M20.
verb intrans. Undergo an audition; be tested by means of an audition. M20.