Definition of play

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Play (n.) Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action..

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Opalesce :: Opalesce (v. i.) To give forth a play of colors, like the opal..
Cue :: Cue (n.) The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword..
Instrumentalist :: Instrumentalist (n.) One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist..
Sextolet :: Sextolet (n.) A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.
Admit :: Admit (v. t.) To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse..
Flirt :: Flirt (v. t.) One who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl..
Camp :: Camp (n.) To play the game called camp.
Player :: Player (n.) A dramatic actor.
Curl :: Curl (v. i.) To play at the game called curling.
Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump..
Boston :: Boston (n.) A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war..
Playmaker :: Playmaker (n.) A playwright.
Play :: Play (n.) Performance on an instrument of music.
Rubber :: Rubber (n.) In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist..
Disportment :: Disportment (n.) Act of disporting; diversion; play.
Haze :: Haze (v. t.) To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college students; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman..
Sign :: Sign (n.) A lettered board, or other conspicuous notice, placed upon or before a building, room, shop, or office to advertise the business there transacted, or the name of the person or firm carrying it on; a publicly displayed token or notice..
Racket :: Racket (n.) A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.
Giantize :: Giantize (v. i.) To play the giant.
Display :: Display (n.) Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade.
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