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noun
- The act of portraying.
- The result of portraying; a representation, description, or portrait.
- acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture
- any likeness of a person, in any medium
- a representation by picture or portraiture
- a word picture of a person's appearance and character
- representation by drawing or painting etc
adj
- Of or relating to the drama.
- pertaining to or characteristic of drama
- suitable to or characteristic of drama
- (informal) Tending to exaggerate in order to get attention.
- Striking in appearance or effect.
- Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.
- sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect
- used of a singer or singing voice that is marked by power and expressiveness and a histrionic or theatrical style
noun
- a dramatic or musical entertainment
- any recognized accomplishment
- the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment
- the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
- process or manner of functioning or operating
- That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character.
- The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc.
- The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.
- (linguistics) The actual use of language in concrete situations by native speakers of a language, as opposed to the system of linguistic knowledge they possess (competence), cf. linguistic performance.
- (art) A live show or concert.
noun
- a theatrical performance of a drama
- (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds
- a preset plan of action in team sports
- the removal of constraints
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules
- a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill
- movement or space for movement
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)
- the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully
- a weak and tremulous light
- a state in which action is feasible
- gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
- an attempt to get something
- utilization or exercise
- (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
- (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
- (uncountable) Movement (of a pattern of light etc.)
- (countable, uncountable) An instance or instances of causing media to be watched or heard, such as by broadcasting.
- The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely, as for example lash, backlash, or slack.
- (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
- (uncountable, informal) Sexual activity or sexual role-playing.
- (uncountable) Freedom to move.
- (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources.
- (countable) An instance of watching or listening to media.
- (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
- (uncountable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
- (uncountable) The conduct, or course, of a game.
- (countable) A short sequence of action within a game.
- (countable) An instance of wordplay.
- (uncountable) Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
- (countable) An attempt to move forward, as in a plan or strategy, for example by a business, investor, or political party.
- (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.
- (uncountable, sports, with certain prepositions, also figurative) The sphere or circumstance in which a playing implement, such as a ball, is available to be played (see also in play, out of play).
verb
- exhaust by allowing to pull on the line
- engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
- consider not very seriously
- discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream
- cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space
- use to one's advantage
- emit recorded sound
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- behave in a certain way
- play a role or part
- be performed or presented for public viewing
- stake on the outcome of an issue
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game
- make bets
- employ in a game or in a specific position
- play on an instrument
- move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly
- pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity
- act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome
- be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- bet or wager (money)
- be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way
- use or move
- perform on a certain location
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- perform on a stage or theater
- engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
- participate in games or sport
- shoot or hit in a particular manner
- perform music on (a musical instrument)
- replay (as a melody)
- (intransitive, of a musical instrument) To produce music.
- (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish in order to land it.
- (intransitive, of a theatrical performance, film or music) To be performed, reproduced, or shown.
- (transitive, colloquial) To manipulate, deceive, or swindle.
- (transitive) To handle or deal with (something) in a calculating manner intended to achieve profit or gain.
- (transitive) To act as (the indicated role).
- (transitive, intransitive) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
- (intransitive, copulative) To act or behave in a stated way.
- To give a false appearance of being; to pretend to be.
- To move so as to fall upon or sweep across something, or to direct or operate (something) in such a manner.
- (intransitive) To be received or accepted (in a given way); to go down.
- (intransitive) To contend or fight using weapons, both as practice or in real life-or-death combats; to engage in martial games; to joust; to fence
- (transitive) To handle or deal with (a matter or situation) in a stated way.
- (transitive) To bring into action or motion; to exhibit in action; to execute or deploy.
- To portray (a character) in (a film or theatre).
- (transitive) To compete against, in a game.
- To gamble.
- To move in a light or brisk manner.
- (African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To kid; to joke; to say something for amusement; to act, or to treat something, unseriously.
- (transitive) To act or perform (a play).
- For additional senses in various idiomatic phrases, see the individual entries, such as play along, play at, play down, play off, play on, play out, play to, play up, etc.
- (transitive, intransitive, of a device, media, broadcast, etc.) To emit or relay sound (especially music) or moving pictures; (of a device) to operate media.
- (transitive, of a person) To operate (a device or media) so as to cause sound (especially music) or moving pictures to be produced.
- (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love; see also play around.
- To move in an alternating or reciprocal manner; to move to and fro.
- (transitive, of a theatrical company or band, etc.) To perform or give performances in or at (a venue or location).
- (intransitive, especially with 'with'; see also play with) To toy or trifle; to act with levity or thoughtlessness; to be careless.
- (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
- Specifying a particular sporting role or position.
- (transitive, intransitive, especially of a person) To produce music using a musical instrument.
- (transitive, usually of a person) To render (a musical title, compositional style, film title, etc.) using a musical instrument or device.
- (transitive, in the scoring of games and sports) To be the opposing score to.
noun
verb
noun
- a serious (or tragic) role in a play
- an actor who plays villainous roles
- (journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.
- (aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
- (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
- (slang) A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
- (military, historical) A member of the heavy cavalry.
- A prominent figure; a "major player".
adj
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- unusually great in degree or quantity or number
- slow and laborious because of weight
- prodigious
- of relatively large extent and density
- full and loud and deep
- usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
- of comparatively great physical weight or density
- darkened by clouds
- full of; bearing great weight
- (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- sharply inclined
- dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
- (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
- marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
- (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
- requiring or showing effort
- made of fabric having considerable thickness
- large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
- lacking lightness or liveliness
- of great intensity or power or force
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- (of a person) Heavyset: overweight.
- Not raised or leavened.
- (of weather) Hot and humid.
- Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
- (of any physical thing) Having great weight.
- (oil industry) Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
- (of a topic) Serious, somber.
- (nautical, military) Heavily-armed.
- (of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.
- (of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
- (physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
- (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
- Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
- (of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
- Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
- Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
- (slang) Armed.
- (finance) Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
- Having the heaves.
- Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
- Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
- (of a rate of flow) High, great.
- Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
adv
verb
noun
- the production of a drama on the stage
- (theater) A performance of a play
- travel by stagecoach
- getting rid of a stage of a multistage rocket
- a system of scaffolds
- (programming, uncountable) An environment for testing that exactly resembles a production environment.
- The business of running stagecoaches.
- (logistics) The process of loading and unloading commercial vehicles.
- A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.
- The organization of something in order to prepare for or facilitate working with it.
- The classification of a case of a disease, usually a cancer, into its anatomic or prognostic stage, which is a category of severity.
- The act of journeying in stagecoaches.
- (by extension) The arrangement or layout of something in order to create an impression.
- The act or process of putting on an event.
- The scenery or organization of the movements of actors onstage.
verb
noun
- an act of narration
- The act of relating a story.
- sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
- (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
- a person related by blood or marriage
- an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
- (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups
- (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
- The manner in which two things may be associated.
- (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
- (chiefly in the plural) A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.
- (set theory) A set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.
- (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
- (databases) A set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database.
- (often collocated: sexual relation, often in the plural) The act of intercourse.
- A member of one's extended family; a relative.
noun
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To fix (something) back into position.
- (transitive) To get back on (an animal, vehicle) again.
- (transitive, computing) To mount (a drive or volume) again.
- (transitive) To ascend (something) again.
- (intransitive) To go up again; to rise another time.
- (intransitive) To get back on a horse, bicycle etc.
- (transitive) To help (someone) back on a horse.
- provide with fresh horses
- mount again, as after disassembling something
- mount again
noun
- drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- A disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.
- A drama or similar work, in which the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise suffers the extreme consequences of some tragic flaw or weakness of character.
- The genre of such works, and the art of producing them.
verb
- put into dramatic form
- take into one's family
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- take up and practice as one's own
- choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
- take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- To select and take or approve.
- To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
- (chess, slang) To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
- To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
- To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
- To contribute towards the upkeep of (a child or animal), in exchange for occasional stories, pictures, etc.
- To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
noun
noun
- The act of portraying.
- The result of portraying; a representation, description, or portrait.
- acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture
- any likeness of a person, in any medium
- a representation by picture or portraiture
- a word picture of a person's appearance and character
- representation by drawing or painting etc
noun
- a dramatic or musical entertainment
- any recognized accomplishment
- the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment
- the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
- process or manner of functioning or operating
- That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character.
- The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc.
- The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.
- (linguistics) The actual use of language in concrete situations by native speakers of a language, as opposed to the system of linguistic knowledge they possess (competence), cf. linguistic performance.
- (art) A live show or concert.
noun
- a theatrical performance of a drama
- (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds
- a preset plan of action in team sports
- the removal of constraints
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules
- a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill
- movement or space for movement
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)
- the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully
- a weak and tremulous light
- a state in which action is feasible
- gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
- an attempt to get something
- utilization or exercise
- (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
- (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
- (uncountable) Movement (of a pattern of light etc.)
- (countable, uncountable) An instance or instances of causing media to be watched or heard, such as by broadcasting.
- The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely, as for example lash, backlash, or slack.
- (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
- (uncountable, informal) Sexual activity or sexual role-playing.
- (uncountable) Freedom to move.
- (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources.
- (countable) An instance of watching or listening to media.
- (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
- (uncountable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
- (uncountable) The conduct, or course, of a game.
- (countable) A short sequence of action within a game.
- (countable) An instance of wordplay.
- (uncountable) Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
- (countable) An attempt to move forward, as in a plan or strategy, for example by a business, investor, or political party.
- (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.
- (uncountable, sports, with certain prepositions, also figurative) The sphere or circumstance in which a playing implement, such as a ball, is available to be played (see also in play, out of play).
verb
- exhaust by allowing to pull on the line
- engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
- consider not very seriously
- discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream
- cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space
- use to one's advantage
- emit recorded sound
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- behave in a certain way
- play a role or part
- be performed or presented for public viewing
- stake on the outcome of an issue
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game
- make bets
- employ in a game or in a specific position
- play on an instrument
- move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly
- pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity
- act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome
- be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- bet or wager (money)
- be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way
- use or move
- perform on a certain location
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- perform on a stage or theater
- engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
- participate in games or sport
- shoot or hit in a particular manner
- perform music on (a musical instrument)
- replay (as a melody)
- (intransitive, of a musical instrument) To produce music.
- (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish in order to land it.
- (intransitive, of a theatrical performance, film or music) To be performed, reproduced, or shown.
- (transitive, colloquial) To manipulate, deceive, or swindle.
- (transitive) To handle or deal with (something) in a calculating manner intended to achieve profit or gain.
- (transitive) To act as (the indicated role).
- (transitive, intransitive) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
- (intransitive, copulative) To act or behave in a stated way.
- To give a false appearance of being; to pretend to be.
- To move so as to fall upon or sweep across something, or to direct or operate (something) in such a manner.
- (intransitive) To be received or accepted (in a given way); to go down.
- (intransitive) To contend or fight using weapons, both as practice or in real life-or-death combats; to engage in martial games; to joust; to fence
- (transitive) To handle or deal with (a matter or situation) in a stated way.
- (transitive) To bring into action or motion; to exhibit in action; to execute or deploy.
- To portray (a character) in (a film or theatre).
- (transitive) To compete against, in a game.
- To gamble.
- To move in a light or brisk manner.
- (African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To kid; to joke; to say something for amusement; to act, or to treat something, unseriously.
- (transitive) To act or perform (a play).
- For additional senses in various idiomatic phrases, see the individual entries, such as play along, play at, play down, play off, play on, play out, play to, play up, etc.
- (transitive, intransitive, of a device, media, broadcast, etc.) To emit or relay sound (especially music) or moving pictures; (of a device) to operate media.
- (transitive, of a person) To operate (a device or media) so as to cause sound (especially music) or moving pictures to be produced.
- (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love; see also play around.
- To move in an alternating or reciprocal manner; to move to and fro.
- (transitive, of a theatrical company or band, etc.) To perform or give performances in or at (a venue or location).
- (intransitive, especially with 'with'; see also play with) To toy or trifle; to act with levity or thoughtlessness; to be careless.
- (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
- Specifying a particular sporting role or position.
- (transitive, intransitive, especially of a person) To produce music using a musical instrument.
- (transitive, usually of a person) To render (a musical title, compositional style, film title, etc.) using a musical instrument or device.
- (transitive, in the scoring of games and sports) To be the opposing score to.
noun
verb
noun
- a serious (or tragic) role in a play
- an actor who plays villainous roles
- (journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.
- (aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
- (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
- (slang) A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
- (military, historical) A member of the heavy cavalry.
- A prominent figure; a "major player".
adj
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- unusually great in degree or quantity or number
- slow and laborious because of weight
- prodigious
- of relatively large extent and density
- full and loud and deep
- usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
- of comparatively great physical weight or density
- darkened by clouds
- full of; bearing great weight
- (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- sharply inclined
- dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
- (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
- marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
- (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
- requiring or showing effort
- made of fabric having considerable thickness
- large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
- lacking lightness or liveliness
- of great intensity or power or force
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- (of a person) Heavyset: overweight.
- Not raised or leavened.
- (of weather) Hot and humid.
- Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
- (of any physical thing) Having great weight.
- (oil industry) Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
- (of a topic) Serious, somber.
- (nautical, military) Heavily-armed.
- (of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.
- (of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
- (physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
- (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
- Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
- (of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
- Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
- Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
- (slang) Armed.
- (finance) Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
- Having the heaves.
- Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
- Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
- (of a rate of flow) High, great.
- Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
adv
verb
noun
- the production of a drama on the stage
- (theater) A performance of a play
- travel by stagecoach
- getting rid of a stage of a multistage rocket
- a system of scaffolds
- (programming, uncountable) An environment for testing that exactly resembles a production environment.
- The business of running stagecoaches.
- (logistics) The process of loading and unloading commercial vehicles.
- A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.
- The organization of something in order to prepare for or facilitate working with it.
- The classification of a case of a disease, usually a cancer, into its anatomic or prognostic stage, which is a category of severity.
- The act of journeying in stagecoaches.
- (by extension) The arrangement or layout of something in order to create an impression.
- The act or process of putting on an event.
- The scenery or organization of the movements of actors onstage.
verb
noun
- an act of narration
- The act of relating a story.
- sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
- (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
- a person related by blood or marriage
- an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
- (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups
- (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
- The manner in which two things may be associated.
- (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
- (chiefly in the plural) A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.
- (set theory) A set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.
- (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
- (databases) A set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database.
- (often collocated: sexual relation, often in the plural) The act of intercourse.
- A member of one's extended family; a relative.
noun
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To fix (something) back into position.
- (transitive) To get back on (an animal, vehicle) again.
- (transitive, computing) To mount (a drive or volume) again.
- (transitive) To ascend (something) again.
- (intransitive) To go up again; to rise another time.
- (intransitive) To get back on a horse, bicycle etc.
- (transitive) To help (someone) back on a horse.
- provide with fresh horses
- mount again, as after disassembling something
- mount again
noun
- drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- A disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.
- A drama or similar work, in which the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise suffers the extreme consequences of some tragic flaw or weakness of character.
- The genre of such works, and the art of producing them.
verb
- put into dramatic form
- take into one's family
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- take up and practice as one's own
- choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
- take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- To select and take or approve.
- To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
- (chess, slang) To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
- To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
- To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
- To contribute towards the upkeep of (a child or animal), in exchange for occasional stories, pictures, etc.
- To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
noun
adj
- Of or relating to the drama.
- pertaining to or characteristic of drama
- suitable to or characteristic of drama
- (informal) Tending to exaggerate in order to get attention.
- Striking in appearance or effect.
- Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.
- sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect
- used of a singer or singing voice that is marked by power and expressiveness and a histrionic or theatrical style