English words for 'Befitting a showman.'
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noun
- One who shows.
- (slang) A person whose penis is close to its erect size when flaccid; the penis itself.
- (chiefly Ireland, UK, Australia, derogatory) A shower of shit.
- A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
- A baby shower.
- An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
- A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
- A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
- (British, informal, in the singular) A group of people perceived as incompetent or worthless.
- A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation.
- An object or activity that is shown in a contest.
- (juggling) A pattern where the juggler passes objects horizontally from one hand to the other around chest height, and upward over the juggler's head to return to the first hand.
- (chiefly Ireland, euphemistic, derogatory, with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
- A bridal shower.
- washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle
- a brief period of precipitation
- a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc.) likened to a rain shower
- a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you
- a party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person
- someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see
verb
- To bathe using a shower.
- (intransitive) To rain in a shower; to cascade down.
- To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance.
- To spray with (a specified liquid) (followed by with).
- provide abundantly with
- take a shower; wash one's body in the shower
- spray or sprinkle with
- expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns
- rain abundantly
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noun
- A pantomime actor.
- A performer of such a farce.
- A unit of imitation in the theory of symbiosism.
- Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Chilasa or Papilio, that mimic other species in appearance.
- A form of acting without words; pantomime.
- A person who mimics others in a comical manner.
- A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce.
- a performance using gestures and body movements without words
- an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression
verb
noun
- One skilled in dramatic or entertaining presentation, performance, or publicity.
- One who produces or presents shows as a profession, especially the proprietor, manager, or MC of a circus or variety show.
- A person (usually a man) involved in putting on shows (of various types); especially, one who plays a central role in doing so.
- a male person skilled at making effective presentations
- a male sponsor who books and stages public entertainments
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noun
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- an entertainer who has a sensational effect
- an explosive bomb or artillery shell
- a shocking surprise
- (historical) Any grenade, mortar shell, or artillery shell (hollow metal object) containing a charge that can explode.
- (figurative) Something that is very surprising, shocking, amazing or sensational.
- (by extension) Someone who is very attractive; a sex symbol.
verb
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To flash back.
- (transitive) To send by some startling or sudden means.
- (transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- (intransitive) To burst out into violence.
- (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- (ambitransitive, informal) To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)
- (transitive, glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- (transitive, glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- (figurative) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- (intransitive) To be visible briefly.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To communicate quickly.
- (transitive) To make visible briefly.
- (juggling) To perform a flash.
- (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- gleam or glow intermittently
- appear briefly
- emit a brief burst of light
- make known or cause to appear with great speed
- protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- expose or show briefly
adj
noun
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- (computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory.
- (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- Synonym of flashback (“recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug”).
- (military) A form of military insignia.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- (figurative, uncountable) Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).
- (British, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- (telecommunications) Ellipsis of hook flash.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
- (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A pool of water, in some areas especially one that is marshy, and/or one formed by subsidence of the ground due to mining. (Compare flush (“marsh; pool”).)
- A very short amount of time.
- (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
- a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification
- a sudden brilliant understanding
- a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- a short vivid experience
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
- a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
- a momentary brightness
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a gaudy outward display
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- A male attendant on a great personage.
- A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
- An Australian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus), a food fish also found in eastern Asia.
- A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
- A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
- (UK, colloquial) A term of address to a male equal.
- A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
- A grass emperor (Lethrinus laticaudis), of coral reefs of the western Pacific.
- (historical) A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.
- a man who attends or escorts a woman
- an English country landowner
- young nobleman attendant on a knight
verb
noun
- a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
- a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
- garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia)
- An annual garden plant (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata), having showy red clusters of flowers
- A red cap once worn by court jesters
- (nautical) A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed
- A fleshy red crest of a rooster
noun
- a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
- a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- (by extension) A foolish or conceited person; a dandy.
- The fleshy red pate of a rooster.
- (historical) The cap of a court jester, adorned with a red stripe.
noun
name
- (astronomy) A crater in the first quadrant on the moon.
- (Roman mythology) The Roman name for the Greek divine hero Heracles, who was the son of Jupiter and Alcmene, a celebrated hero who possessed exceptional strength. Most famous for his twelve labours performed to redeem himself after killing his family.
- (astronomy) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the mythical hero, lying between the constellations Lyra and Corona Borealis.
- A city in Contra Costa County, California, United States.
- (rare, countable) A male given name from Ancient Greek.
noun
- a performer in a minstrel show
- a singer of folk songs
- (US, historical) One of a troupe of entertainers, often a white person who wore black makeup (blackface), to present a so-called minstrel show, being a variety show of banjo music, dance, and song (now sometimes regarded as racist).
- (chiefly poetic) Any lyric poet, musician, or singer.
- (by extension, slang) An amphetamine tablet, typically black, or black and white, in colour.
- (historical) Originally, an entertainer employed to juggle, play music, sing, tell stories, etc.; a buffoon, a fool, a jester; later, a medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment.
verb
noun
- a theatrical performer
- a person who acts and gets things done
- A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer.
- (software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).
- (grammar) The subject performing the action of a verb.
- Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent.
noun
- a theatrical performer
- a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously
- someone who takes part in an activity
- a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
- someone who plays a music as a profession
- (electronics) An electronic device that plays audio or video media.
- (gaming, video games) A gamer; a person of video games or similar.
- (informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.
- A participant; one involved in something.
- One who participates in a particular type of sexual play.
- (gambling) A gambler.
- (computing) A software application that plays audio or video media, such as a media player.
- One that plays.
- (theater) An actor in a dramatic play.
- One who plays any game or sport.
- (music) One who plays on a musical instrument.
- One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
- (historical) A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
noun
- a theatrical performer
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- (psychiatry) One of the ten classifications of necrophilia based on the increasing severity of the disorder as defined by the American forensic psychologist Anil Aggrawal (Class I).
- Alternative form of roleplayer.
- (basketball) A player who is not one of the best players on the team, but still makes a meaningful contribution.
noun
- A performer more or less skilful.
- A round of a card game.
- A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
- Promise, word; especially of a betrothal.
- (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
- Personal possession; ownership.
- (chiefly in the plural) Management, domain, control.
- An instance of helping.
- Handwriting; style of penmanship.
- (card games) The set of cards held by a player.
- The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
- (colloquial, chiefly in the negative plural) A hand which is free to assist; especially due to having one's hands full or otherwise fully preoccupied.
- Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
- (especially in compounds) An agent; a servant, or manual laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty.
- Applause.
- (collective) A bunch of bananas, a typical retail amount, where individual fruits are fingers.
- (chiefly in measuring the height of horses) Four inches, a hand's breadth.
- A person's autograph or signature.
- A whole rhizome of ginger.
- The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
- A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
- (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
- (tobacco manufacturing) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
- An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
- a member of the crew of a ship
- a unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses
- a rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece
- one of two sides of an issue
- the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
- a hired laborer on a farm or ranch
- terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos)
- a round of applause to signify approval
- ability
- physical assistance
- a position given by its location to the side of an object
- something written by hand
- the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
- a card player in a game of bridge
verb
- (transitive, nautical) To furl (a sail).
- (ditransitive) To give, pass or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
- (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
- (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
- guide or conduct or usher somewhere
- place into the hands or custody of
noun
- One who stages a theatrical performance.
- A horse used in drawing a stagecoach.
- One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.
- An actor on the stage.
- an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service
- someone who supervises the physical aspects in the production of a show and who is in charge of the stage when the show is being performed
noun
- A jester.
- (slang) A funny person.
- A loser.
- An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
- (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
- (military) A friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.
- A person who makes jokes.
- A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
- A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
- (figurative) Something kept in reserve that can be used to gain an advantage; a trump card.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that moves like the last piece that was moved by the opponent.
- The option, in a pub quiz, of selecting one particular round in which one's team will score double points.
- a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes
- a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
- a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester
- an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent
verb
- be the star in a performance
- mark with an asterisk
- feature as the star
- (transitive) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle.
- (intransitive) To appear as a featured performer or headliner, especially in an entertainment program.
- (intransitive) To shine like a star.
- (transitive) To feature (a performer or a headliner), especially in a movie or an entertainment program.
- (transitive) To mark with a star or asterisk.
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- any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night
- a star-shaped character * used in printing
- an actor who plays a principal role
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem
- the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub
- a performer who receives prominent billing
- (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
- (astronomy) A very massive ball of plasma with strong enough gravity to have ongoing fusion of hydrogen or heavier elements in its core. In strict technical usage, the Sun is included.
- A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.
- Any small, natural and bright dot in the sky, most visible in the night or twilight sky. This sense includes the planets, but it is now sometimes used in exclusion of them due to influence from the technical astronomical sense.
- (networking, figurative in origin) A network topology with multiple computers individually merging to one central switch, thus free of risk of collisions. A single point of failure can occur if the switch experiences corruption.
- (Jamaica, MLE, African-American Vernacular, by extension) A friend, a mate, a pal.
- A symbol used to rate hotels, films, etc. with a higher number of stars denoting better quality.
- An exceptionally talented or famous person, often in a specific field; a celebrity.
- (acting) An actor in a leading role.
- (figurative) (Someone's) success or fame.
- A simple dance, or part of a dance, where a group of four dancers each put their right or left hand in the middle and turn around in a circle. You call them right-hand stars or left-hand stars, depending on the hand which is in the middle.
- (astrology, typically in the plural) A planet thought to influence one's fate; (figuratively) fate or luck.
- (printing) An asterisk (*) or comparable symbol (e.g., ★, ☆, ✶, ✦, ✧, ✷, ✪, ⭐) inspired by a celestial star.
- A star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour in a military. Now often used metonymically for military rankings.
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- One who shines; a luminary.
- (slang) A moonshiner.
- A common silverfish (Lepisma saccharinum, or any member of genus Lepisma.
- One who causes things to shine; a polisher.
- A small reflective surface used for cheating at card games.
- Any silvery fish, such as the horsefish, menhaden, or moonfish.
- (colloquial) Raccoon eyes.
- Any of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes of Notropis, Lythrurus, and allied genera, such as the redfin.
- A brick that is laid on its tallest, thinnest side, with its largest face facing the outside of the wall (oriented so that this face is wider than it is tall).
- (wine) A bottle of finished wine, without a label.
- (colloquial) A black eye.
- something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)
- any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis
- a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
- important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
noun
- a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a person who lacks good judgment
- (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
- (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
- (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, Hispanic) An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
- Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
- (derogatory, slang) A tankie.
- (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
- (literature) A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
- (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
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- A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the endmen and acts as leader.
- (law) An interlocutory judgement or sentence.
- A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation: a locutive partner.
- (Scots law) A decree of a court.
- a person who takes part in a conversation
- a performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
noun
verb
- dress up showily
- dress or decorate showily or gaudily
- (transitive) To perform a practical joke on; to trick and make a fool of someone.
- (transitive) To make a prank call to (someone).
- (intransitive) To make an ostentatious show.
- (transitive, slang) To call someone's phone and hang up before they answer, so as to send them a notification (of a missed call) without incurring fees.
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- One who shows.
- (slang) A person whose penis is close to its erect size when flaccid; the penis itself.
- (chiefly Ireland, UK, Australia, derogatory) A shower of shit.
- A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
- A baby shower.
- An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
- A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
- A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
- (British, informal, in the singular) A group of people perceived as incompetent or worthless.
- A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation.
- An object or activity that is shown in a contest.
- (juggling) A pattern where the juggler passes objects horizontally from one hand to the other around chest height, and upward over the juggler's head to return to the first hand.
- (chiefly Ireland, euphemistic, derogatory, with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
- A bridal shower.
- washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle
- a brief period of precipitation
- a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc.) likened to a rain shower
- a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you
- a party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person
- someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see
verb
- To bathe using a shower.
- (intransitive) To rain in a shower; to cascade down.
- To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance.
- To spray with (a specified liquid) (followed by with).
- provide abundantly with
- take a shower; wash one's body in the shower
- spray or sprinkle with
- expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns
- rain abundantly
noun
noun
- A pantomime actor.
- A performer of such a farce.
- A unit of imitation in the theory of symbiosism.
- Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Chilasa or Papilio, that mimic other species in appearance.
- A form of acting without words; pantomime.
- A person who mimics others in a comical manner.
- A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce.
- a performance using gestures and body movements without words
- an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression
verb
noun
- One skilled in dramatic or entertaining presentation, performance, or publicity.
- One who produces or presents shows as a profession, especially the proprietor, manager, or MC of a circus or variety show.
- A person (usually a man) involved in putting on shows (of various types); especially, one who plays a central role in doing so.
- a male person skilled at making effective presentations
- a male sponsor who books and stages public entertainments
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- an entertainer who has a sensational effect
- an explosive bomb or artillery shell
- a shocking surprise
- (historical) Any grenade, mortar shell, or artillery shell (hollow metal object) containing a charge that can explode.
- (figurative) Something that is very surprising, shocking, amazing or sensational.
- (by extension) Someone who is very attractive; a sex symbol.
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adj
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- A male attendant on a great personage.
- A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
- An Australian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus), a food fish also found in eastern Asia.
- A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
- A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
- (UK, colloquial) A term of address to a male equal.
- A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
- A grass emperor (Lethrinus laticaudis), of coral reefs of the western Pacific.
- (historical) A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.
- a man who attends or escorts a woman
- an English country landowner
- young nobleman attendant on a knight
verb
noun
- a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
- a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
- garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia)
- An annual garden plant (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata), having showy red clusters of flowers
- A red cap once worn by court jesters
- (nautical) A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed
- A fleshy red crest of a rooster
noun
- a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
- a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- (by extension) A foolish or conceited person; a dandy.
- The fleshy red pate of a rooster.
- (historical) The cap of a court jester, adorned with a red stripe.
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name
- (astronomy) A crater in the first quadrant on the moon.
- (Roman mythology) The Roman name for the Greek divine hero Heracles, who was the son of Jupiter and Alcmene, a celebrated hero who possessed exceptional strength. Most famous for his twelve labours performed to redeem himself after killing his family.
- (astronomy) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the mythical hero, lying between the constellations Lyra and Corona Borealis.
- A city in Contra Costa County, California, United States.
- (rare, countable) A male given name from Ancient Greek.
noun
- a performer in a minstrel show
- a singer of folk songs
- (US, historical) One of a troupe of entertainers, often a white person who wore black makeup (blackface), to present a so-called minstrel show, being a variety show of banjo music, dance, and song (now sometimes regarded as racist).
- (chiefly poetic) Any lyric poet, musician, or singer.
- (by extension, slang) An amphetamine tablet, typically black, or black and white, in colour.
- (historical) Originally, an entertainer employed to juggle, play music, sing, tell stories, etc.; a buffoon, a fool, a jester; later, a medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment.
verb
noun
- a theatrical performer
- a person who acts and gets things done
- A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer.
- (software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).
- (grammar) The subject performing the action of a verb.
- Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent.
noun
- a theatrical performer
- a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously
- someone who takes part in an activity
- a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
- someone who plays a music as a profession
- (electronics) An electronic device that plays audio or video media.
- (gaming, video games) A gamer; a person of video games or similar.
- (informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.
- A participant; one involved in something.
- One who participates in a particular type of sexual play.
- (gambling) A gambler.
- (computing) A software application that plays audio or video media, such as a media player.
- One that plays.
- (theater) An actor in a dramatic play.
- One who plays any game or sport.
- (music) One who plays on a musical instrument.
- One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
- (historical) A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
noun
- a theatrical performer
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- (psychiatry) One of the ten classifications of necrophilia based on the increasing severity of the disorder as defined by the American forensic psychologist Anil Aggrawal (Class I).
- Alternative form of roleplayer.
- (basketball) A player who is not one of the best players on the team, but still makes a meaningful contribution.
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- A performer more or less skilful.
- A round of a card game.
- A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
- Promise, word; especially of a betrothal.
- (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
- Personal possession; ownership.
- (chiefly in the plural) Management, domain, control.
- An instance of helping.
- Handwriting; style of penmanship.
- (card games) The set of cards held by a player.
- The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
- (colloquial, chiefly in the negative plural) A hand which is free to assist; especially due to having one's hands full or otherwise fully preoccupied.
- Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
- (especially in compounds) An agent; a servant, or manual laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty.
- Applause.
- (collective) A bunch of bananas, a typical retail amount, where individual fruits are fingers.
- (chiefly in measuring the height of horses) Four inches, a hand's breadth.
- A person's autograph or signature.
- A whole rhizome of ginger.
- The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
- A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
- (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
- (tobacco manufacturing) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
- An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
- a member of the crew of a ship
- a unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses
- a rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece
- one of two sides of an issue
- the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
- a hired laborer on a farm or ranch
- terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos)
- a round of applause to signify approval
- ability
- physical assistance
- a position given by its location to the side of an object
- something written by hand
- the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
- a card player in a game of bridge
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- (transitive, nautical) To furl (a sail).
- (ditransitive) To give, pass or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
- (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
- (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
- guide or conduct or usher somewhere
- place into the hands or custody of
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- One who stages a theatrical performance.
- A horse used in drawing a stagecoach.
- One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.
- An actor on the stage.
- an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service
- someone who supervises the physical aspects in the production of a show and who is in charge of the stage when the show is being performed
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- A jester.
- (slang) A funny person.
- A loser.
- An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
- (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
- (military) A friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.
- A person who makes jokes.
- A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
- A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
- (figurative) Something kept in reserve that can be used to gain an advantage; a trump card.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that moves like the last piece that was moved by the opponent.
- The option, in a pub quiz, of selecting one particular round in which one's team will score double points.
- a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes
- a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
- a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester
- an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent
noun
- One who shines; a luminary.
- (slang) A moonshiner.
- A common silverfish (Lepisma saccharinum, or any member of genus Lepisma.
- One who causes things to shine; a polisher.
- A small reflective surface used for cheating at card games.
- Any silvery fish, such as the horsefish, menhaden, or moonfish.
- (colloquial) Raccoon eyes.
- Any of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes of Notropis, Lythrurus, and allied genera, such as the redfin.
- A brick that is laid on its tallest, thinnest side, with its largest face facing the outside of the wall (oriented so that this face is wider than it is tall).
- (wine) A bottle of finished wine, without a label.
- (colloquial) A black eye.
- something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)
- any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis
- a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
- important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
noun
- a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a person who lacks good judgment
- (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
- (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
- (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, Hispanic) An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
- Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
- (derogatory, slang) A tankie.
- (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
- (literature) A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
- (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
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- A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the endmen and acts as leader.
- (law) An interlocutory judgement or sentence.
- A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation: a locutive partner.
- (Scots law) A decree of a court.
- a person who takes part in a conversation
- a performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
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- dress up showily
- dress or decorate showily or gaudily
- (transitive) To perform a practical joke on; to trick and make a fool of someone.
- (transitive) To make a prank call to (someone).
- (intransitive) To make an ostentatious show.
- (transitive, slang) To call someone's phone and hang up before they answer, so as to send them a notification (of a missed call) without incurring fees.
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- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To flash back.
- (transitive) To send by some startling or sudden means.
- (transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- (intransitive) To burst out into violence.
- (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- (ambitransitive, informal) To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)
- (transitive, glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- (transitive, glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- (figurative) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- (intransitive) To be visible briefly.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To communicate quickly.
- (transitive) To make visible briefly.
- (juggling) To perform a flash.
- (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- gleam or glow intermittently
- appear briefly
- emit a brief burst of light
- make known or cause to appear with great speed
- protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- expose or show briefly
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- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- (computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory.
- (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- Synonym of flashback (“recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug”).
- (military) A form of military insignia.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- (figurative, uncountable) Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).
- (British, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- (telecommunications) Ellipsis of hook flash.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
- (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A pool of water, in some areas especially one that is marshy, and/or one formed by subsidence of the ground due to mining. (Compare flush (“marsh; pool”).)
- A very short amount of time.
- (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
- a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification
- a sudden brilliant understanding
- a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- a short vivid experience
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
- a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
- a momentary brightness
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a gaudy outward display
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- be the star in a performance
- mark with an asterisk
- feature as the star
- (transitive) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle.
- (intransitive) To appear as a featured performer or headliner, especially in an entertainment program.
- (intransitive) To shine like a star.
- (transitive) To feature (a performer or a headliner), especially in a movie or an entertainment program.
- (transitive) To mark with a star or asterisk.
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- any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night
- a star-shaped character * used in printing
- an actor who plays a principal role
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem
- the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub
- a performer who receives prominent billing
- (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
- (astronomy) A very massive ball of plasma with strong enough gravity to have ongoing fusion of hydrogen or heavier elements in its core. In strict technical usage, the Sun is included.
- A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.
- Any small, natural and bright dot in the sky, most visible in the night or twilight sky. This sense includes the planets, but it is now sometimes used in exclusion of them due to influence from the technical astronomical sense.
- (networking, figurative in origin) A network topology with multiple computers individually merging to one central switch, thus free of risk of collisions. A single point of failure can occur if the switch experiences corruption.
- (Jamaica, MLE, African-American Vernacular, by extension) A friend, a mate, a pal.
- A symbol used to rate hotels, films, etc. with a higher number of stars denoting better quality.
- An exceptionally talented or famous person, often in a specific field; a celebrity.
- (acting) An actor in a leading role.
- (figurative) (Someone's) success or fame.
- A simple dance, or part of a dance, where a group of four dancers each put their right or left hand in the middle and turn around in a circle. You call them right-hand stars or left-hand stars, depending on the hand which is in the middle.
- (astrology, typically in the plural) A planet thought to influence one's fate; (figuratively) fate or luck.
- (printing) An asterisk (*) or comparable symbol (e.g., ★, ☆, ✶, ✦, ✧, ✷, ✪, ⭐) inspired by a celestial star.
- A star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour in a military. Now often used metonymically for military rankings.