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• passive — passively, adv. /pas iv/, adj. 1. not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling. 2. not participating readily or actively; inactive: a passive member of a committee. 3. not involving… …   Universalium

• play — play1 [ pleı ] verb *** ▸ 1 take part in sport/game ▸ 2 make music/sound ▸ 3 have part in play, etc. ▸ 4 when children have fun ▸ 5 when light moves ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) intransitive or transitive to take part in a sport or game: The girls are out… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• play out — phrasal verb Word forms play out : present tense I/you/we/they play out he/she/it plays out present participle playing out past tense played out past participle played out 1) [intransitive/transitive] to develop or end in a particular way They… …   English dictionary

• Play techniques (bridge) — Techniques by declarer *establishing long suits *finessing *when not to finesse *the holdup (mostly at NT contracts) *timing *unblocking *blocking *managing entries *trumping *the crossruff *when to draw trumps (how many rounds to draw) *when not …   Wikipedia

• play up — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you play up something, you emphasize it and try to make people believe that it is important. [V P n (not pron)] The media played up the prospects for a settlement... [V P n (not pron)] His Japanese ancestry has been played up… …   English dictionary

• play along — PHRASAL VERB: no passive If you play along with a person, with what they say, or with their plans, you appear to agree with them and do what they want, even though you are not sure whether they are right. [V P with n] My mother has learnt to play …   English dictionary

• play at — 1) PHRASAL VERB: no passive (disapproval) If you say that someone is playing at something, you disapprove of the fact that they are doing it casually and not very seriously. [V P n/ ing] We were still playing at war dropping leaflets instead of… …   English dictionary

• play out — PHRASAL VERB: usu passive If a dramatic event is played out, it gradually takes place. [be V ed P] The political turmoil is being played out against a backdrop of terror attacks by far right bombers... [be V ed P] The film has eerie parallels… …   English dictionary

• Sir Thomas More (play) — Sir Thomas More is an Elizabethan play by Anthony Munday and others that depicts the life of Thomas More. It survives only in a single manuscript, now owned by the British Library. Its main claim to fame is that three pages of it may have been… …   Wikipedia

• Seascape (play) — Infobox Play name = Seascape image size = caption = writer = Edward Albee characters = Nancy Leslie Charlie Sarah setting = premiere = January 26, 1975 place = Shubert Theatre New York City, New York orig lang = English subject = genre = Drama… …   Wikipedia

• Words and Music (play) — Samuel Beckett wrote the radio play, Words and Music between November and December 1961. [Both James Knowlson ( Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett , p 497) and Stan Gontarski ( The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett , p 650) quote these… …   Wikipedia