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101play — /pleɪ/ noun ♦ in play likely to be the object of a takeover ♦ company in play company which is being targeted by several takeover bids …
102PLAY — Senderlogo Allgemeine Informationen Empfang: nicht mehr auf Sendung Länder: deutschsprachiger Raum Eigentümer: GIGA Digital Television GmbH (alleiniger Gese …
103play to — phr verb Play to is used with these nouns as the object: ↑audience, ↑crowd, ↑house, ↑strength …
104-play — fair play …
105play — 1play s.m.inv., inter. ES ingl. {{wmetafile0}} 1. s.m.inv. TS tecn. tasto che mette in funzione apparecchi di riproduzione audio e video 2. s.m.inv. TS teatr. non com., rappresentazione teatrale, spec. drammatica 3. inter. TS sport nel tennis,… …
106play up — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb To accord emphasis to: accent, accentuate, emphasize, feature, highlight, italicize, point up, stress, underline, underscore. See IMPORTANT. II verb See play …
107play — [OE] The origins of play are obscure. It had a relative in Middle Dutch pleien ‘dance about, jump for joy’, but this has now died out, leaving it in splendid but puzzling isolation, its ancestry unaccounted for. Its underlying meaning appears to… …
108play — sb. RG. 272; [ple]. RG. 266; [plawe]. RG. 291. AS. plega v. n. [plawe]. Wright’s L. P. p. 45; pret. ‘pleide.’ RG. 507 v. a. ‘to play hands’ == clap hands. Ps. xcvii. 8 …
109play on — PHRASAL VERB If you play on someone s fears, weaknesses, or faults, you deliberately use them in order to persuade that person to do something, or to achieve what you want. [V P n] ...an election campaign which plays on the population s fear of… …
110play — A term used to indicate the relative movement between parts. As in the case of flight controls, play is the amount of movement of the control stick or the yoke without causing any movement of the control surfaces …
