different between audition vs callback

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French audicion, from Latin aud?ti?, from audi? (“I hear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d???n/

Noun

audition (countable and uncountable, plural auditions)

1. (countable) A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.

2. (uncountable) The sense of hearing.

3. An act of hearing; being heard.
4. (rare) Something heard.

Synonyms

• (performance by an aspiring performer): casting
• (performance by an aspiring performer): tryout

Translations

Verb

audition (third-person singular simple present auditions, present participle auditioning, simple past and past participle auditioned)

1. (transitive) To evaluate one or more performers in through an audition.
2. (intransitive) To take part in such a performance.

Derived terms

• auditioner
• auditionee

Translations

Related terms

• audience
• auditory

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aud?ti?, aud?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.di.sj??/

Noun

audition f (plural auditions)

1. audition (all senses)

English

Etymology

call +? back

Noun

callback (plural callbacks)

1. The return of a situation to a previous position or state.
2. (telephony) A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon to a computer network.
   • 2007, James M. Lepkowski, Clyde Tucker, J. Michael Brick, Advances in Telephone Survey Methodology (page 318)

     For example, multiple callbacks might be made to a nonanswered number to increase the response rate.

3. A product recall because of a defect or safety concern.
4. (programming) A function pointer passed as an argument to another function.
5. (theater) A follow-up audition in casting.
6. (comedy) A joke which references an earlier joke in the same routine.

Synonyms

• (joke): running gag

Derived terms

Related terms

• call back

Translations