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A play upon wordsPlay Play, n.
1. Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.
2. Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement
or diversion; a game.
John naturally loved rough play. --Arbuthnot.
3. 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.
4. Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair
play; sword play; a play of wit. ``The next who comes in
play.' --Dryden.
5. A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition
in which characters are represented by dialogue and
action.
A play ought to be a just image of human nature.
--Dryden.
6. The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy;
as, he attends ever play.
7. Performance on an instrument of music.
8. Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a
wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and
easy action. ``To give them play, front and rear.'
--Milton.
The joints are let exactly into one another, that
they have no play between them. --Moxon.
9. Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display;
scope; as, to give full play to mirth.
Play actor, an actor of dramas. --Prynne.
Play debt, a gambling debt. --Arbuthnot.
Play pleasure, idle amusement. [Obs.] --Bacon.
A play upon words, the use of a word in such a way as to be
capable of double meaning; punning.
Play of colors, prismatic variation of colors.
To bring into play, To come into play, to bring or come
into use or exercise.
To hold in play, to keep occupied or employed. Precatory wordsPreative Pre"a*tive, Preatory Pre"a*to*ry, a. [L.
precativus, precatorius, fr. precari to pray. See
Precarious.]
Suppliant; beseeching. --Bp. Hopkins.
Precatory words (Law), words of recommendation, request,
entreaty, wish, or expectation, employed in wills, as
distinguished from express directions; -- in some cases
creating a trust. --Jarman. SwordsmanSwordsman Swords"man, n.; pl. Swordsmen.
1. A soldier; a fighting man.
2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the
science of fencing; a fencer. Swordsmanship
Swordsmanship Swords"man*ship, n.
The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the
sword. --Cowper.
SwordsmenSwordsman Swords"man, n.; pl. Swordsmen.
1. A soldier; a fighting man.
2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the
science of fencing; a fencer. Wordsman
Wordsman Words"man, n.
One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. [R.]
``Some speculative wordsman.' --H. Bushnell.
Meaning of WORDS from wikipedia
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Words Words Words refers to both a stand-up
comedy routine and the
second album by
American comedian Bo Burnham. The live
performance debuted at the Boston...
- it
cannot stand on its own.
Words are made out of at
least one morpheme.
Morphemes can also be
joined to
create other words in a
process of morphological...
- "These
Words" (also
known as "These
Words (I Love You, I Love You)") is a song by
British singer-songwriter
Natasha Bedingfield. It was
written by Steve...
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Words,
Words,
Words is a one-act play
written by
David Ives for his
collection of six one-act plays, All in the Timing. The play is
about Kafka, Milton...
- "The
Fourteen Words" (also
abbreviated 14 or 1488) is a
reference to two
slogans originated by
David Eden Lane, one of nine
founding members of the defunct...
- new
words from
existing words (especially
those of
Germanic origin) or
stems (especially for
words of
Latin or Gr**** origin).
Formation of new
words, called...
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Words,
Words,
Words is a
comedy play by
David Ives. "
Words,
words,
words.", a
phrase quoted from Hamlet, may also
refer to:
Words Words Words, a 2010...
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longest word in
English depends on the
definition of a word and of length.
Words may be
derived naturally from the language's
roots or
formed by coinage...
- spell-checking programs. The
words file is
usually stored in /usr/share/dict/
words or /usr/dict/
words. On
Debian and Ubuntu, the
words file is
provided by the...
- on the
types of
words allowed for consideration.
Agglutinative languages allow for the
creation of long
words via compounding.
Words consisting of hundreds...
