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Introduction

Ever need a fact or quotation on auditions? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this is the largest book ever created for this single word. It represents a compilation from a variety of sources with a linguistic emphasis on anything relating to the term “auditions,” including non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. The entries cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This “data dump” results in many unexpected examples for auditions, since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under “fair use” conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. Proceeds from this book are used to expand the content and coverage of Webster’s Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).

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Ever need a fact or quotation on "geology and ourselves"? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this is the largest book ever created for this word. It represents a compilation of "single sentences" and/or "short paragraphs" from a variety of sources with a linguistic emphasis on anything relating to the term "geology and ourselves," including non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. This is not an encyclopedic book, but rather a collage of statements made using the word "geology and ourselves," or related words (e.g. inflections, synonyms or antonyms). This title is one of a series of books that considers all major vocabulary words. The entries in each book cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This data dump results in many unexpected examples for "geology and ourselves," since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a computer-generated linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under fair use conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain.

Excerpt

Use in Literature

Auditions

What It thinks, that It utters; and what It utters, that It hears; and It itself is Thinker, Utterer, Hearer, THought, Word, Audition; it is the One, and yet the All in All.–Edwin A. Abbott in Flatland.

Finally, these things show that the whole business of correcting some false auditions is very difficult. Yet this work of correction may be assumed to be much more easy with respect to hearing than with respect to seeing. If, e.–Hans Gross in Criminal Psychology.

In hearing, on the contrary, if once it is determined that there has been a false audition, the work of placing it, though difficult, need not be unprofitable.–Hans Gross in Criminal Psychology.

Women at the time of their climacterium hear all kinds of voices. Inasmuch as this soon stops, the abnormality and incorrectness of their audition is hard to establish.–Hans Gross in Criminal Psychology.

Milo's loud laugh broke in on his audition and on the suddenly rapt look upon Roke's bruised face.–Albert Payson Terhune in Black Caesar's Clan.

I went to hear it, for it is not an apparition, but an audition.–Horace Walpole in The Letters of Horace Walpole, vol 3.

Appuun whistles. Audition.–Robert M. Yerkes in The Dancing Mouse.

Nonfiction Usage

Script Usage

That's all television is, dear - just auditions.–Joseph L. Mankiewicz in All About Eve

Journalism Usage

Africa's - News: January 17, 2007 — Headline: 'Idols West Africa' Starts Search for Africa's Next Pop Star. Author: Phuong Tran. Excerpt: More than 3,000 would-be music stars turned out for the first of four open auditions in West Africa. The contestants were eager to prove that they deserved a chance to be Africa's next idol. … Auditions are taking place in cities in Nigeria and Ghana - countries in West Africa with the most M-NET subscribers. Following these auditions, judges will select 10 contestants. Though M-Net only has subscribers in two other countries in West Africa now, Senegal and Sierra Leone, it hopes Idols West Africa will attract new viewers.

Alabama - News: April 1, 2002 — Headline: The Bard in Alabama. Excerpt: Veteran actor Philip Pleasance leads this production, in the role of "Prospero," a part he has played often throughout the country and on Broadway. "When I used to do that in New York," he said, "people didn't know. 'Alabama?' They'd screw up their faces and say, 'What's that?' Now, however, every time I go back, every actor I know has heard about the Shakespeare Festival, how well it's doing. And believe me, when calls go out for auditions here, the place is jammed. There are hundreds of actors who would love to come down here because of the reputation it's gained."

Country Music Association Awards - News: September 12, 2003 — Headline: Country Legend Johnny Cash Dies. Author: Doug Levine. Excerpt: In 1955, he formed Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Two with bassist Marshall Grant and guitarist Luther Perkins. Following several auditions, the trio was signed to Sun Records in Memphis, where they recorded their first hit single, Cry! Cry! Cry! A year later, they recorded the Number One hit, I Walk The Line, a brooding love song that exposed Cash to both country and pop audiences around the world.

Auditions: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases