a dry run

(British, American & Australian) also a dummy run (British & Australian)

an occasion when you practise doing something to make sure there will be no problems when you really do it We decided to do a dry run at the church the day before the wedding. We'd better have a couple of dummy runs before we do the real thing.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Fion	-	Irish
Acket	['ækit]
Bharat	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi
Daniela	dahn-YE-lah (German)	Italian, German, Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, English
Bogdana	bawg-DAH-nah (Polish)	Polish, Russian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, Romanian, Medieval Slavic
Botros	-	Arabic, Coptic