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| Main Entry: |
play
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | have fun |
| Synonyms: | amuse oneself, be life of party, caper, carouse, carry on, cavort, clown, cut capers, cut up, dally, dance, disport, divert, entertain oneself, fool around, frisk, frolic, gambol, go on a spree, horse around, idle away, joke, jump, kibitz, kick up heels, let go, let loose, let one's hair down, make merry, mess around, rejoice, revel, romp, show off, skip, sport, toy, trifle |
| Antonyms: | work |
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| Main Entry: | play |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | act; take the part of |
| Synonyms: | act the part of, discourse, do*, enact, execute, ham it up, ham, impersonate, lay an egg, perform, personate, play a gig, playact, portray, present, read a part, represent, take the role of, tread the boards |
| Antonyms: | direct |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | play |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gamble, risk |
| Synonyms: | bet, chance, exploit, finesse, game, hazard, jockey, lay money on, maneuver, manipulate, put, set, speculate, stake, take, wager |
| Main Entry: | play |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce music |
| Synonyms: | blow, bow, drum, execute, fiddle, fidget, finger, operate, pedal, perform, render, tickle, work |
| Antonyms: | listen |
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | entertain by playing a role |
| Synonyms: | be on, bring down the house, burlesque, characterize, do a turn, dramatize, emote, enact, feign, go on, go over, ham it up, ham, impersonate, lay an egg, make debut, mime, mimic, mug, parody, perform, personate, personify, play, play act, play gig, play part, play role, portray, pretend, put it over, rehearse, represent, say one's piece, simulate, star, stooge, strut*, take part, tread the boards |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | acting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertaining, performing |
| Synonyms: | assuming, characterization, depiction, dramatics, dramatizing, enacting, enactment, feigning, hamming, histrionics, imitating, imitation, impersonation, improvisation, mime, mimicry, pantomime, performance, play acting, playing, portrayal, portraying, posing, posturing, pretending, pretense, putting, rendition, seeming, showing off, simulating, stagecraft, stooging, theatre, theatricals |
| Main Entry: | appear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be published; perform |
| Synonyms: | be created, be developed, be invented, become available, come into being, come into existence, come on, come on stage, come out, enter, make an appearance, oblige, perform, play, play a part, present oneself, take part |
| Main Entry: | beguile |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fool |
| Synonyms: | betray, bluff, burn*, cheat, chisel, con, deceive, delude, double-cross, dupe, entice, exploit, finesse, flimflam, gyp, have, hoodwink*, impose on, jockey, juggle, lure, manipulate, mislead, play, play for a sucker, rook, rope in, scam, seduce, shave, snow*, stick*, string along, suck in, take, take in, trick |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make sound, usually with instrument |
| Synonyms: | blare, blast, honk, mouth, pipe, play, sound, toot, trumpet, vibrate |
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