| plantation | (noun) garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth | Synonyms: grove, orchard, woodlet |
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| (noun) an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas) | - |
| planted | (adjective) set in the soil for growth | - |
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| (adjective) (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held | Synonyms: deep-rooted, deep-seated, implanted, ingrained |
| planter | (noun) a decorative pot for house plants | - |
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| (noun) the owner or manager of a plantation | Synonyms: plantation owner |
| (noun) a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground | - |
| planthopper | (noun) related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants | Synonyms: plant hopper |
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| plantigrade | (adjective) (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do) | - |
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| (noun) an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings | Synonyms: plantigrade mammal |
| planting | (noun) the act of fixing firmly in place | - |
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| (noun) putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow | - |
| (noun) a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area | - |
| plantlet | (noun) a young plant or a small plant | - |
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| plantsman | (noun) an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) | Synonyms: horticulturist |
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| planula | (noun) the flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates | - |
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| plaque | (noun) a memorial made of brass | Synonyms: brass, memorial tablet |
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| (noun) (pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body | - |
| plash | (noun) the sound like water splashing | Synonyms: splash |
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| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splatter, splosh, swash |
| (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: pleach |
| plasm | (noun) the protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes | Synonyms: germ plasm |
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| (noun) the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended | Synonyms: blood plasma, plasma |
| plasma | (noun) the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended | Synonyms: blood plasma, plasm |
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| (noun) (physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons | - |
| (noun) a green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone | - |
| plasmablast | (noun) the precursor of a plasma cell | - |
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| plasmacyte | (noun) a cell that develops from a B lymphocyte in reaction to a specific antigen; found in bone marrow and sometimes in the blood | Synonyms: plasma cell |
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| plasmacytoma | (noun) neoplasm of plasma cells (usually in bone marrow) | - |
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| plasmapheresis | (noun) plasma is separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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| plasmid | (noun) a small cellular inclusion consisting of a ring of DNA that is not in a chromosome but is capable of autonomous replication | Synonyms: plasmid DNA |
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| plasmin | (noun) an enzyme that dissolves the fibrin of blood clots | Synonyms: fibrinolysin |
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| plasminogen | (noun) an inactive form of plasmin that occurs in plasma and is converted to plasmin by organic solvents | - |
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| plasmodium | (noun) parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans | Synonyms: malaria parasite, Plasmodium vivax |
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| (noun) multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds | - |
| plaster | (noun) adhesive tape used in dressing wounds | Synonyms: adhesive plaster, sticking plaster |
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| (noun) a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling) | Synonyms: plasterwork |
| (noun) a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc. | Synonyms: cataplasm, poultice |
| (noun) a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings | - |
| (noun) any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs | Synonyms: plaster of Paris |
| (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: poultice |
| (verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: daub |
| (verb) apply a heavy coat to | Synonyms: plaster over, stick on |
| (verb) apply a plaster cast to | - |
| (verb) affix conspicuously | - |
| (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: beplaster |
| plasterboard | (noun) wallboard with a gypsum plaster core bonded to layers of paper or fiberboard; used instead of plaster or wallboard to make interior walls | Synonyms: gypsum board |
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| plastered | (adjective) (of walls) covered with a coat of plaster | Synonyms: sealed |
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| (adjective) (of hair) made smooth by applying a sticky or glossy substance | Synonyms: slicked |
| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
| plasterer | (noun) a worker skilled in applying plaster | - |
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| plastering | (noun) the application of plaster | Synonyms: daubing |
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| plasterwork | (noun) a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling) | Synonyms: plaster |
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| plastic | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: formative, shaping |
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| (adjective) capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material) | Synonyms: fictile, moldable |
| (adjective) capable of being influenced or formed | Synonyms: pliant |
| (noun) a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has sufficient means of payment and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered | Synonyms: charge card, charge plate |
| (noun) generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives | - |
| plastically | (adverb) in a plastic manner | - |
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| plasticise | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticize |
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| (verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticize |
| plasticiser | (noun) a substance added to plastics or other materials to make them more pliable | Synonyms: plasticizer |
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| plasticity | (noun) the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking | Synonyms: malleability |
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| plasticize | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticise |
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| (verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticise |
| plasticizer | (noun) a substance added to plastics or other materials to make them more pliable | Synonyms: plasticiser |
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| plastid | (noun) any of various small particles in the cytoplasm of the cells of plants and some animals containing pigments or starch or oil or protein | - |
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| plastinate | (verb) preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes | - |
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| plastination | (noun) a process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened | - |
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| plastique | (noun) an explosive material that is easily molded around the object it is intended to destroy | Synonyms: plastic explosive |
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| plastron | (noun) (zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside | - |
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| (noun) a large pad worn by a fencer to protect the chest | - |
| (noun) a metal breastplate that was worn under a coat of mail | - |
| (noun) the front of man's dress shirt | - |
| (noun) the ornamental front of a woman's bodice or shirt | - |
| plat | (noun) a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.) | - |
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| (verb) make a plot of | Synonyms: plot |
| platan | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits | Synonyms: plane tree, sycamore |
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| plate | (noun) dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten | - |
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| (noun) a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) | Synonyms: scale, shell |
| (noun) a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic | - |
| (noun) a shallow receptacle for collection in church | Synonyms: collection plate |
| (noun) (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score | Synonyms: home, home base, home plate |
| (noun) structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage | - |
| (noun) a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper) | - |
| (noun) a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded | Synonyms: photographic plate |
| (noun) the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube | - |
| (noun) a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth | Synonyms: dental plate, denture |
| (noun) any flat platelike body structure or part | - |
| (noun) a main course served on a plate | - |
| (noun) the thin under portion of the forequarter | - |
| (noun) a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly | Synonyms: crustal plate |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a plate | Synonyms: plateful |
| (verb) coat with a layer of metal | - |
| plateau | (noun) a relatively flat highland | Synonyms: tableland |
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| plateful | (noun) the quantity contained in a plate | Synonyms: plate |
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| platelayer | (noun) a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks | Synonyms: tracklayer |
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| platelet | (noun) tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting | Synonyms: blood platelet, thrombocyte |
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| plateletpheresis | (noun) platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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| platelike | (adjective) as the hard flattened scales of e.g. sharks | Synonyms: placoid |
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| platen | (noun) the roller on a typewriter against which the keys strike | - |
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| (noun) the flat plate of a printing press that presses the paper against the type | - |
| (noun) work table of a machine tool | - |
| plater | (noun) a skilled worker who coats articles with a film of metal (usually silver or gold) | - |
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| platform | (noun) a raised horizontal surface | - |
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| (noun) any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons | Synonyms: weapons platform |
| (noun) a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole | Synonyms: chopine |
| (noun) the combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system | - |
| (noun) a long, flat raised structure of a railway station, where people get on and off of trains | - |
| (noun) a document stating the aims and principles of a political party | Synonyms: political platform, political program, program |
| plating | (noun) the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis) | - |
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| (noun) a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface | Synonyms: metal plating |
| platinize | (verb) coat with metallic platinum | - |
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| platinum | (noun) a heavy precious metallic element; grey-white and resistant to corroding; occurs in some nickel and copper ores and is also found native in some deposits | Synonyms: atomic number 78, Pt |
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| platitude | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, bromide, cliche, commonplace |
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| platitudinal | (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: bromidic, corny, platitudinous |
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| platitudinarian | (noun) a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes | - |
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| platitudinize | (verb) utter platitudes | - |
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| platitudinous | (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: bromidic, corny, platitudinal |
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| platonic | (adjective) free from physical desire | - |
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| platoon | (noun) a military unit that is a subdivision of a company; usually has a headquarters and two or more squads; usually commanded by a lieutenant | - |
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| (noun) a team of policemen working under the military platoon system | - |
| (noun) a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity | - |
| platter | (noun) a large shallow dish used for serving food | - |
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| (noun) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove | Synonyms: disc, disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, record |
| platy | (noun) small stocky Mexican fish; popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: Platypoecilus maculatus |
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| platyctenean | (noun) ctenophore have long tentacles and flattened body | - |
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| platyhelminth | (noun) parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body | Synonyms: flatworm |
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| platypus | (noun) small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae | Synonyms: duck-billed platypus, duckbill, duckbilled platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus |
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| platyrhine | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| platyrhinian | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| platyrrhine | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| (noun) hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: New World monkey, platyrrhinian |
| platyrrhinian | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinic |
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| (noun) hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: New World monkey, platyrrhine |
| platyrrhinic | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian |
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| platysma | (noun) either of two broad muscles located on either side of the neck and innervated by the facial nerve; extends from lower jaw to clavicle and is involved in moving the mouth and jaw | - |
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| plaudit | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, acclamation, eclat, plaudits |
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| plaudits | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, acclamation, eclat, plaudit |
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| plausibility | (noun) apparent validity | Synonyms: plausibleness |
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| plausible | (adjective) apparently reasonable and credible, and therefore convincing | - |
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| (adjective) given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments | - |
| plausibleness | (noun) apparent validity | Synonyms: plausibility |
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| plausibly | (adverb) easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | Synonyms: believably, credibly, probably |
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| plausive | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approbatory, approving |
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| play | (noun) gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | Synonyms: caper, frolic, gambol, romp |
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| (noun) (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession | Synonyms: turn |
| (noun) the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize) | Synonyms: gambling, gaming |
| (noun) an attempt to get something | Synonyms: bid |
| (noun) a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre |
| (noun) a preset plan of action in team sports | - |
| (noun) activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules | Synonyms: child's play |
| (noun) the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully | Synonyms: swordplay |
| (noun) utilization or exercise | - |
| (noun) movement or space for movement | Synonyms: looseness |
| (noun) a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage | Synonyms: drama, dramatic play |
| (noun) verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously) | Synonyms: fun, sport |
| (noun) a theatrical performance of a drama | - |
| (noun) a weak and tremulous light | Synonyms: shimmer |
| (noun) a state in which action is feasible | - |
| (noun) the removal of constraints | Synonyms: free rein |
| (noun) (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds | Synonyms: period of play, playing period |
| (verb) engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously | Synonyms: toy |
| (verb) pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind | Synonyms: act, act as |
| (verb) exhaust by allowing to pull on the line | - |
| (verb) consider not very seriously | Synonyms: dally, trifle |
| (verb) participate in games or sport | - |
| (verb) bet or wager (money) | - |
| (verb) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle | Synonyms: encounter, meet, take on |
| (verb) put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game | - |
| (verb) make bets | - |
| (verb) stake on the outcome of an issue | Synonyms: bet, wager |
| (verb) shoot or hit in a particular manner | - |
| (verb) employ in a game or in a specific position | - |
| (verb) use or move | - |
| (verb) use to one's advantage | - |
| (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, fiddle, toy |
| (verb) discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream | - |
| (verb) replay (as a melody) | Synonyms: spiel |
| (verb) perform music on (a musical instrument) | - |
| (verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: act, represent |
| (verb) perform on a certain location | - |
| (verb) be performed or presented for public viewing | - |
| (verb) cause to emit recorded audio or video | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity | - |
| (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, playact, roleplay |
| (verb) emit recorded sound | - |
| (verb) play on an instrument | - |
| (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: bring, make for, work, wreak |
| (verb) move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly | - |
| (verb) cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space | - |
| (verb) engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion | Synonyms: recreate |
| (verb) behave in a certain way | - |
| (verb) be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children | - |
| (verb) act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome | - |
| (verb) behave carelessly or indifferently | Synonyms: dally, flirt, toy |
| (verb) be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way | - |
| playable | (adjective) capable of or suitable for being played or played on | - |
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| playact | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, roleplay |
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| playacting | (noun) the performance of a part or role in a drama | Synonyms: acting, performing, playing |
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| playactor | (noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: barnstormer, play-actor, trouper |
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| playback | (noun) the act of reproducing recorded sound | - |
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| (noun) electronic equipment comprising the part of a tape recorder that reproduces the recorded material | - |
| playbill | (noun) a theatrical program | - |
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| playbook | (noun) a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign | - |
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| (noun) a book containing the scripts of one or more dramatic plays | - |
| (noun) a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team) | - |
| playbox | (noun) a box for a child's toys and personal things (especially at a boarding school) | Synonyms: play-box |
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| playboy | (noun) a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure | Synonyms: Corinthian, man-about-town |
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| playday | (noun) time for play or diversion | Synonyms: playtime |
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| played | (adjective) (of games) engaged in | - |
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| player | (noun) a theatrical performer | Synonyms: actor, histrion, role player, thespian |
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| (noun) a person who participates in or is skilled at some game | Synonyms: participant |
| (noun) someone who plays a music as a profession | Synonyms: instrumentalist, musician |
| (noun) a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously | - |
| (noun) someone who takes part in an activity | Synonyms: participant |
| playfellow | (noun) a companion at play | Synonyms: playmate |
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| playful | (adjective) full of fun and high spirits | - |
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| playfully | (adverb) in a playful manner | - |
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| playfulness | (noun) activities that are enjoyable or amusing | Synonyms: fun, merriment |
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| (noun) a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement | Synonyms: fun |
| (noun) a festive merry feeling | Synonyms: gaiety |
| playgoer | (noun) someone who attends the theater | Synonyms: theatergoer, theatregoer |
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| playground | (noun) yard consisting of an outdoor area for children's play | - |
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| (noun) an area where many people go for recreation, holidays or other purposes | Synonyms: resort area, vacation spot |
| playhouse | (noun) plaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of | Synonyms: wendy house |
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| playing | (noun) the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation | - |
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| (noun) the act of playing a musical instrument | - |
| (noun) the performance of a part or role in a drama | Synonyms: acting, performing, playacting |