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metaplay
shoot 'em up
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plot
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first night
bell ringer
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game
serious
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preconference
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subintroductory
literary argument
preview
performance
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festival
Harold
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fete
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X's and O's
playception
outset
lively
kick-off
domain
bit
playthrough
end
icebreaker
scenario
action
bingo
dramatis personae
preactivity
KO
acting
strike up
preliminary
playacting
get to the fireworks factory
protactic
actionfest
early innings
first session
theatrical prop
sound off
stage
performing
beginning
playing
set
set up
set out
how-to
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call to order
script
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time
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half
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playspace
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metaplay
shoot 'em up
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first night
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game
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dramatic composition
literary argument
performance
festival
argument
fete
X's and O's
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domain
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dramatis personae
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KO
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verb
adj
- Pertaining to the start or beginning of a series of events.
- describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing a batsman who opens the innings or a bowler who opens the attack
noun
- The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
- The first few measures of a musical composition.
- A gap permitting passage through.
- The initial period when a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening.
- A vacant position, especially in an array.
- An unoccupied employment position.
- In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
- An act or instance of making or becoming open.
- A time available in a schedule.
- An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
- An act or instance of beginning.
- The first few moves in a game.
noun
- an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- properties attributable to your ancestry
- the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
- the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
noun
- A pre-prepared adventure scenario with related materials for a role-playing game.
- A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines.
- A contrivance for regulating the supply of water from an irrigation channel.
- An independent self-contained unit of a spacecraft.
- A unit of education covering a single topic.
- An abelian group equipped with the operation of multiplication by an element of a ring (or another of certain algebraic objects), representing a generalisation of the concept of vector space with scalar multiplication.
- A fractal element.
- A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components.
- A file containing a music sequence that can be played in a tracker (called also mod or music module).
- A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building.
noun
- any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie
- something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone
- a basic or essential property shared by all members of a class
- any area set aside for a particular purpose
- a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished
noun
- A play, dance, or other entertainment.
- An exhibition of items.
- A broadcast program, especially a light entertainment program.
- A project or presentation.
- Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)
- A battle; local conflict.
- The major leagues.
- A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.
- Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.
- A demonstration.
- An agricultural show.
- A movie.
verb
- To guide or escort.
- To put in an appearance; show up.
- To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
- To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
- To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
- To reveal one's hand of cards.
- To bestow; to confer.
- To display, to have somebody see (something).
- To be visible; to be seen; to appear.
verb
noun
- Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion.
- A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
- A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
- The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.
noun
- The beginning of an activity.
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- A handle, especially that of a plough.
- A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- An instance of starting.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
verb
- To begin an activity.
- To begin.
- To flinch or draw back.
- To awaken suddenly.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
- To break away, to come loose.
- To put into play.
- To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- To set in motion.
- To have its origin (at), begin.
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- To start one's periods (menstruation).
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
noun
- The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up
- A youth subculture that was popular in Canada and the United States in the 2000s and early 2010s.
- The decorations; furnishings and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set
- A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
- A part of a dramatic work that is set in the same place or time. In the theatre, generally a number of scenes constitute an act.
- The location of an event that attracts attention.
- An element of fiction writing.
- An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others, creating embarrassment or disruption; often, an artificial or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display
- A combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place.
- A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.
verb
verb
- To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.
- To introduce something, as a prelude.
noun
- An introductory or preliminary performance or event.
- A forerunner to anything.
- A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program.
- A short, free-form piece of music, originally one serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece; later, starting with the Romantic period, generally a stand-alone piece.
noun
- half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play
- A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
- An intermission.
- A period of time.
- The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
- Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play
- A distance in space.
noun
- A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
- A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
- One who delivers a prologue.
- An individual time trial before a stage race, used to determine which rider wears the leader's jersey on the first stage.
verb
noun
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
- The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
- Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- A school subject during which sports are practised.
- A particular instance of playing a game.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- wild animals hunted for food.
adj
- Willing and able to participate.
- Injured, lame (of a limb).
- That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
- Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
verb
verb
- appear to begin an activity
- engage in
- give certain properties to something
- make or cause to be or to become
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- create or manufacture a man-made product
- make, formulate, or derive in the mind
- compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way
- create by artistic means
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- create or design, often in a certain way
- to compose or represent
- reach a goal
- be or be capable of being changed or made into
- make by shaping or bringing together constituents
- perform, produce, or carry out
- make by combining materials and parts
- change from one form into another
- act in a certain way so as to acquire
- charge with a function; charge to be
- achieve a point or goal
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- institute, enact, or establish
- carry out or commit
- form by assembling individuals or constituents
- organize or be responsible for
- put in order or neaten
- head into a specified direction
- have a bowel movement
- undergo fabrication or creation
- be suitable for
- add up to
- amount to
- constitute the essence of
- proceed along a path
- reach in time
- gather and light the materials for
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- induce to have sex
- assure the success of
- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
- consider as being
- calculate as being
- cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable
- favor the development of
- develop into
- behave in a certain manner
- eliminate urine
noun
noun
noun
- a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie
- a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
- a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
- a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal
- (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
- a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
noun
- A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
- A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.
- The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.
- A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.
- A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.
- The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.
- The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.
- A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.
- A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome
- A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.
- An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
- Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.
- A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.
- A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.
- The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.
- Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.
noun
- An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
- A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
- A small amount of something.
- The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- A gun.
- The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- A portion of something.
- A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents.
- The cutting iron of a plane.
- Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
- A unit of measure for information entropy.
- A prison sentence, especially a short one.
- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
- A unit of currency or coin in the Americas worth a fraction of a Spanish dollar; now specifically, an eighth of a US dollar.
- A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
- Fractions of a second.
- Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
- The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
- Specifically, a small amount of time.
verb
adj
noun
- the part you are expected to play
- either extremity of something that has length
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- a final part or section
- a final state
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
verb
noun
- The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
- Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
- A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
- The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
- The effort of performing or doing something.
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
- A way of motion or functioning.
- The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
- Fast-paced activity.
- The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on a guitar or other string instrument.
- A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual structures. The pairing is typically a Cartesian product or a tensor product. The object that is not part of the output is said to act on the other object. In any given context, action is used as an abbreviation for a more fully named notion, like group action or left group action.
- The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
- Sexual intercourse.
- Combat.
- spin put on the bowling ball.
- The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
- The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
verb
intj
adj
noun
- A similar game or amusement in which participants tick off themed words, phrases or pictures as these are called out, or as they are mentioned, for example during a speech or performance
- A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.
- A play where all seven of a player's letter tiles are played, awarding a score bonus.
- A win in such a game.
intj
- Used by players of bingo to claim a win.
- Used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall, or on successful completion of a task.
- Used to declare "You've just made my point!" or "My point exactly!"
adj
verb
verb
noun
- any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something
- any distinct time period in a sequence of events
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience
- the theater as a profession (usually `the stage')
- a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns
- a section or portion of a journey or course
- a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
verb
verb
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- fix conclusively or authoritatively
- decide upon or fix definitely
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state
- fix in a border
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly
- locate
- disappear beyond the horizon
- adapt for performance in a different way
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- apply or start
- become gelatinous
- set in type
- put into a position that will restore a normal state
- insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink)
- give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor
- urge to attack someone
- estimate
- equip with sails or masts
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- produce fruit
- arrange attractively
noun
- a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
- several exercises intended to be done in series
- representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- the act of putting something in position
- a unit of play in tennis or squash
- the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
- the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon
- (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way
- any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals
adj
verb
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- set up or found
- create by putting components or members together
- construct, build, or erect
- put into a proper or systematic order
- begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.
- take or catch as if in a snare or trap
- produce
- set up for use
- place
- arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
- erect and fasten
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- equip with sails or masts
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
noun
- a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
- a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)
- physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
- a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone
- a record in which commercial accounts are recorded
- a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game
- a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made
- a major division of a long written composition
- a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge
verb
verb
- assign a time for an activity or event
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
- set the speed, duration, or execution of
- regulate or set the time of
- adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time
noun
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
- a suitable moment
- the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
- a person's experience on a particular occasion
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
noun
- One of the two opposite parts of the playing field of various sports, in which each starts the game.
- abbreviated form for half marathon.
- Half of a standard measure, chiefly: (Britain) half a pint of beer or cider.
- One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.
- The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2.
- Any of the three terms at Eton College, for Michaelmas, Lent, and summer.
- A half sibling.
intj
prep
adv
- Partially; imperfectly.
- In some part approximating a half.
- In two equal parts or to an equal degree.
- Practically, nearly.
adj
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