OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3905

play

/pleɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
juego
An individual's performance in a sport or game.
His play has improved a lot this season.
jugada
A short sequence of action within a game.
AWARD is better than either WARED or WADER. However, there's an even better play! If you have looked at the two-to-make-three letter list, you may have noticed the word AWA.
obra teatral
A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
This book contains all of Shakespeare's plays.
obra teatral
A theatrical performance featuring actors.
My kids are acting in the school play this Christmas.
We saw a two-act play in the theatre.
jugada
An attempt to move forward, as in a plan or strategy, for example by a business, investor, or political party.
ABC Widgets makes a play in the bicycle market with its bid to take over Acme Sprockets.
Turpin signals the Metric Party's long-term play for housing reform
reproducción
An instance of watching or listening to media.
That video of my cat falling off the piano has had ten thousand plays.
The most-streamed artist of the year was British singer Ed Sheeran, who amassed 860 million plays with hits like “I See Fire.”
Phrases
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Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 3904

play

/pleɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
jugar • trebejar
To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
A youngster[…]listed some of the things his pet did not do:[…]go on vacation, play in the same way that he did with his friends, and so on.
The children played in the park.
ejecutar • primorear • sonar • tangir • tañer • tocar
To produce sound (especially music), moving pictures, or theatrical performance.
Can you play an instrument?
I'll play the piano and you sing.
poner • poner play • proyectar • reanudar • reproducir • tocar
To produce sound (especially music), moving pictures, or theatrical performance.
Don't play your radio so loud!
You can play the DVD now.
embaucar • engañar • engrupir • hacer tonto • jugársela • jugárselas
To take part in amorous activity; to make love; see also play around.
Cheree, Cheree / Je t'adore, baby / I love you / Oh, come play with me
Her proper face I not descerned in that darkesome shade, But weend it was my loue, with whom he playd.
Phrases
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