Play
To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.
To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute.
To act; to behave; to practice deception.
To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays.
To move gayly; to wanton; to disport.
To act on the stage; to personate a character.
To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump.
To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ.
To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin.
To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute; as, to play tricks.
To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action; as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the woman.
To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.
To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.
Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or diversion; a game.
The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune in play.
Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit.
A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action.
The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, he attends ever play.
Performance on an instrument of music.
Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action.
Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth.
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Play Quotations
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein
God does not play dice.
Albert Einstein
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Winston Churchill
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
William Shakespeare
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
Ronald Reagan
We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
Ronald Reagan
Play Translations
play in Afrikaans is speel
play in Danish is spille, lege
play in Dutch is uitvoeren, spelen, voorspelen
play in French is jouez, jeu, jouons, jouent
play in German is spielen, Spiel, Schauspiel, spielen, Spiel
play in Italian is giuocare, pezzo, giuoco, spettacolo
play in Latin is lascivio, fabula
play in Portuguese is jogo
play in Spanish is jugar, baraja, ta er
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