Word Finder - plays

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Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.

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Children learn through play.

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Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.

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This kind of play helps the young lion cubs develop their hunting skills.

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The conduct, or course, of a game.

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After the rain break, play resumed at 3 o'clock.

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An individual's performance in a sport or game.

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His play has improved a lot this season.

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A short sequence of action within a game.

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That was a great play by the Mudchester Rovers forward.

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(turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.

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• move

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A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.

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This book contains all of Shakespeare's plays.

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• drama

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A theatrical performance featuring actors.

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We saw a two-act play in the theatre.

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A major move by a business or investor.

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ABC Widgets makes a play in the bicycle market with its bid to take over Acme Sprockets.

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A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources.

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The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.

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No wonder the fanbelt is slipping: there’s too much play in it.

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Sexual activity or sexual role-playing.

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An instance of watching or listening to digital media.

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• listen
• view

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A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

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(now usually in compounds) Activity relating to martial combat or fighting.

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To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.

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They played long and hard.

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To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).

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He plays on three teams

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To take part in amorous activity; to make love.

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• get it on
• have sex
• make out

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To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.

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He plays the King, and she's the Queen.

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(heading) To produce music or theatre.

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(heading) To behave in a particular way.

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To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate.

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He played the torch beam around the room.

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To move to and fro.

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To put in action or motion.

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to play a trump in a card game

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To keep in play, as a hooked fish in order to land it.

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To manipulate, deceive, or swindle someone.

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You played me!

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• defraud

By these plays and by Rioja and Consuelo he is entitled to be judged.

It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it.

It plays, doesn't it?

Later, when I talked to the FBI, they mentioned this turkey we're chasing plays the switch game with plates all the time.

The characters in his plays are the stock characters of the new comedy of Athens, and they remind us also of the standing figures of the Fabulae atellanae (Maccus, Bucco, Dossennus, &c.).

A performance of one of the plays is given annually.

The tongue plays between the poles of two straight electromagnets.

As travelling companies never visited Guadalcanal, and as ladies took no part in the representations, these three plays were written for men only.

Technically speaking, I have included a few that are not dependent on the Internet per se, but in which the Internet and technology plays some role.

Timocreon was also known as a composer of scolia (drinking-songs) and, according to Suidas, wrote plays in the style of the old comedy.

Radermacher assigns the Asinaria to a date as early as 212 B.C. Of the extant plays the Cistellaria and the Stichus must be associated with the Miles as comparatively early works; for the former was clearly produced before (though not long before) the conclusion of the Second Punic War, see 1.201 seq.; and the Stichus is proved by its didascalia to have been produced in 200 B.C. The Pseudolus and the Truculentus fall within the last seven years of his life.

He read plays, attended the village fairs, shot plovers in the fenland, and enjoyed a dance with his sisters.

A player who plays in the wrong ranking order is deemed ineligible.

The former of these two appendixes plays an especially important part in hepatoscopy, and, according to its shape and peculiarities, furnishes a good or bad omen.

The Ethiopian fauna plays but a subordinate part in Asia, intruding only into the south-western corner, and occupying the desert districts of Arabia and Syria, although some of the characteristic species reach still farther into Persia and Sind, and even into western India.

In such crystals each component plays its own part in determining the physical properties; in other words, any physical constant of a mixed crystal can be calculated as additively composed of the constants of the two components.

Every critic could recognize the structural merits of the earlier plays, for their operatic conventionalities and abruptness of motive are always intelligible as stage devices.

Pales plays a very subordinate part in the religion of Rome, even the sex of the divinity being uncertain.

At Bankside were the Bear and the Paris Gardens, used for the popular sport of bear and bull baiting; and the Globe theatre, the scene of the production of many of Shakespeare's plays for fifteen years after its erection in 1599.

It is useful and necessary, and plays somewhat the same part in economic investigation as ton-mile statistics do in the administration of a railway.

This cellular layer is called the hypodermis; it is protected externally by a cuticle, a layer of matter it itself excretes, or in the excretion of which it plays, at any rate, an important part.

The representation of plays was perhaps transferred to this spot from the early Orchestra in the Agora at the beginning of the 5th century B.C.; it afterwards superseded the Pnyx as the meeting-place of the Ecclesia.

The arrangements of the stage and orchestra as we now see them belong to Roman times; the cavea or auditorium dates from the administration of the orator Lycurgus (337-323 B.C.), and nothing is left of the theatre in which the plays of Sophocles were acted save a few small remnants of polygonal masonry.

In its final form, the outcome of an extended and complicated literary process, the Gilgamesh Epic covered twelve tablets, each tablet devoted to one adventure in which the hero plays a direct or indirect part, and the whole covering according to the most plausible estimate about 3000 lines.

It is related that, during the performance of one of his plays, the scaffolding of the wooden stage gave way, in consequence of which the Athenians built a theatre of stone; but recent excavations make it doubtful whether a stone theatre existed in Athens at so early a date.

Plautus in more than one place thinks it necessary to explain to the spectators of his plays that slaves at Athens enjoyed such privileges, and even licence, as must be surprising to a Roman audience.

The Public Debt Administration plays so considerable a part in the finances of the Ottoman Empire, and its history is of such importance that a special section of this article will be devoted to it below.

In the Norse version of the Carolingian epic Guillaume appears in his proper historical environment, as a chief under Charlemagne; but he plays a leading part in the Couronnement Looys, describing the formal associations of Louis the Pious in the empire at Aix (813, the year after Guillaume's death), and after the battle of Aliscans it is from the emperor Louis that he seeks reinforcements.

It plays a great part in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe.

Though the Uruguay plays a less important part, its relations to the country are similar to those of the Parana, and its tributaries from the plateau region are similarly broken by falls and rapids.

It used to be a popular resort for fish dinners, and it plays a prominent part in Charles Reade's novel of Christie Johnstone.

The knowledge of law shown in the plays is very much what a universal observer must have picked up. Lawyers always underestimate the legal knowledge of an intelligent layman.

Until this time no plays had been acted in Denmark except in French and German, but Holberg now determined to use his talent in the construction of Danish comedy.

Of these five plays, four at least are masterpieces; and they were almost immediately followed by others.

Of the institutions thus borrowed and adapted the most notable was the famous county system which still plays so conspicuous a part in Hungarian national life.

His plays bear a distinctive national character, the subjects of most of them referring to the golden era of the country.

He himself wrote several plays, including adaptations of Shakespeare.

Notre Image, in which Rejane made one of her last appearances, Les Sc urs d'Amour (1919), L'Homme a la Rose (1920) and La Tendresse (1921), are among his recent successful plays.

As his plays show, the spectacle struck Antonio's observation, but he had to criticize with caution.

His plays were published in the first two volumes of a collection entitled Theatro comico portuguez, which went through at least five editions in the 18th century, while the Alecrim e Mangerona appeared separately in some seven editions.

If Terence was born in 185, he published his six plays between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five.

After bringing out these plays Terence sailed from Greek parts, either to escape from the suspicion of publishing the works of others as his own, or from the desire to obtain a more intimate knowledge of that Greek life which had hitherto been known to him only in literature and which it was his professed aim to reproduce in his comedies.

According to one account he was lost at sea, according to another he died at Stymphalus in Arcadia, and according to a third at Leucas, from grief at the loss by shipwreck of his baggage, containing a number of new plays which he had translated from Menander.

Living in the interval between Ennius and Lucilius, whose original force and genius survive only in rude and inartistic fragments, he produced six plays, which have not only reached our time in the form in which they were given to the world, but have been read in the most critical and exacting literary epochs, and still may be read without any feeling of the need of making allowance for the rudeness of a new and undeveloped art.

The prologues to Terence's plays are of high interest.

The chief charge which his detractor brings against him is that of contaminatio, the combining in one play of scenes out of different Greek plays.

He recriminates upon his adversary as one who, by his close adherence to his original, had turned good Greek plays into bad Latin ones.

He meets the charge of receiving assistance in the composition of his plays by claiming as a great honour the favour which he enjoyed with those who were the favourites of the Roman people.

But the gossip, not discouraged by Terence, lived and throve; it crops up in Cicero and Quintilian, and the ascription of the plays to Scipio had the honour to be accepted by Montaigne and rejected by Diderot.

Cicero frequently reproduces his expressions, applies passages in his plays to his own circumstances, and refers to his personages as typical representations of character.'