midfield
power play
ruckwork
paddock
playfield
at work
out of bounds
sideline
in
close of play
playathon
at play
berth
center fielder
playing field
centerfielder
inning
lobby
bully
rinforzando
scene of action
arena
facemask
sidelines
boundary
position
X's and O's
courtside
midplay
playscape
stumps
play-action pass
midgame
gameboard
scoop
center
sportsfield
baseball field
time-out
old cat
smallball
playspace
ludophilia
in touch
out
left fielder
line up
corner flag
process
playstow
sinkhole
foul line
play
field game
underworld
diviso
showfield
recess
representation
theatrical
ballpark
on deck circle
staging
game
flood the zone
histrionics
theatrical performance
third man
tackle
ballgame
athletic field
uppies and downies
playing area
field
ball game
outfield
drain
play out
badminton court
play to the whistle
onfield
throw-in
speel
diamond
serve
buttonhook
sportsground
fielding position
playstyle
head-up display
baseball play
singles
baggataway
spraff
refait
in
midgame
out
diviso
onfield
courtside
midplay
midgame
diviso
midfield
power play
ruckwork
paddock
playfield
out of bounds
sideline
close of play
playathon
berth
center fielder
playing field
centerfielder
inning
lobby
bully
rinforzando
scene of action
arena
facemask
sidelines
boundary
position
X's and O's
playscape
stumps
play-action pass
gameboard
scoop
center
sportsfield
baseball field
time-out
old cat
smallball
playspace
ludophilia
left fielder
corner flag
process
playstow
sinkhole
foul line
play
field game
underworld
showfield
recess
representation
theatrical
ballpark
on deck circle
staging
game
histrionics
theatrical performance
third man
tackle
ballgame
athletic field
uppies and downies
playing area
field
ball game
outfield
badminton court
throw-in
speel
diamond
serve
buttonhook
sportsground
fielding position
playstyle
head-up display
baseball play
singles
baggataway
spraff
refait
line up
flood the zone
drain
play out
play to the whistle
noun
- A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
- An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
- A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
- A field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries, especially a large area for keeping cattle or sheep.
- A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.
- A toad.
- An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
- A frog.
- A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.
- A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person.
verb
adj
- Falling or remaining within the bounds of the playing area.
- In fashion; popular.
- (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Burning; ablaze.
- Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.
- Inserted or fitted into something.
- With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin
- Incoming.
- Located indoors, especially at home or at one's office or place of work.
- Having been collected or received.
- Of the tide, at or near its highest level.
- Currently batting.
- He is very in with the Joneses.
- Having a favourable position, such as a position of influence or expected gain, in relation to another person.
- Furled or stowed.
- Located inside something.
noun
- One who, or that which, is in; especially, one who is in office.
- A position of power or influence, or a way to get it.
- A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
- The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting; see innings.
prep
- Within the bounds or limits of.
- During (a period of time).
- Into.
- Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
- Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
- Characterized by.
- In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
- Surrounded by; among; amidst.
- Denoting a state of the subject.
- Less water gets in your boots this way.
- In the form of, in the denomination of.
- Indicating an order or arrangement.
- Contained by.
- Part of; a member of; out of; from among.
- Within (a certain elapsed time); by the end of.
- At the end of (a period of time).
- Wearing (an item of clothing).
- Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
- Pertaining to; with regard to.
adv
- After the beginning of something.
- The show still didn't become interesting 20 minutes in.
- Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.
- Towards the speaker or other reference point.
- At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
- So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something.
prep_phrase
noun
- position on the field of play
- A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
- Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.)
- A job or position, especially on a ship.
- Position or seed in a tournament bracket.
- A fixed bunk for sleeping (in caravans, trains, etc).
- A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park.
verb
noun
- A similar period of play.
- A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.
- A chance or opportunity to perform some deed or act.
- A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the visiting team's pitching. There are nine or more innings in a regulation baseball game.
noun
- A margin along either side of the playing field in the sport of kabaddi.
- That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly.
- A waiting area in front of a bank of elevators.
- A class or group of interested people who try to influence public officials; collectively, lobbyists.
- lobscouse
- An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
- A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges, trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
- An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.
- A virtual area where players can chat and find opponents for a game.
verb
noun
- The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
- A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
- A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances. Also called bully-off.
- A hired thug.
- A miner's hammer.
- A sex worker’s minder.
- A companion; mate (male or female).
- A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege.
- Bully beef.
- Any of various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper gobies. , Gobiomorphus cotidianus]]
adj
verb
intj
noun
- The foul of grasping it during play.
- A respirator.
- A full-face diving mask.
- The part of the helmet that directly covers the face, made of one or more plastic-coated metal bars.
- A dust mask.
- A surgical mask.
- A mask made of common textiles worn over the mouth and nose, such as a bandana, handkerchief, or scarf.
- A facial mask (cosmetic application).
noun
- An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
- The bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things (such as one’s comfort zone, privacy, or professional sphere and the realm beyond).
- The dividing line or location between two areas.
- An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without bouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (four) or 6 (six) runs respectively for the batting team.
- (of a set) The set of points in the closure of a set S, not belonging to the interior of that set.
noun
- A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- A situation suitable to perform some action.
- The order in which players are seated around the table.
- A status or rank.
- A place or location.
- A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A posture.
- A post of employment; a job.
- An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
adv
noun
- A designed landscape for play
- A designed landscape for play that includes settings and features beyond traditional playground equipment (e.g. logs, planted play settings, sand or mud play, paths for wheeled toy use, etc.)
- A playground where the playground equipment is cohesively integrated with topography, plantings, and circulation systems.
noun
- A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- The raised end of a surfboard.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- The peak of a cap.
- A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
verb
- To pick (someone) up
- To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- To make hollow; to dig out.
- To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
noun
- A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
- A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
- The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
- One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
- The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates.
- The subgroup (respectively, subring), denoted Z(G), of those elements of a given group (respectively, ring) G that commute with every element of G.
- The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
- The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
- The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
- A topic that is particularly important in a given context, the element in a subject of cognition, volition or discussion that is perceived as decisive.
- A place, especially a building or complex, set aside for some specified function or activity.
- The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
- A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
- The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).
- The venue in which the head of government in a centralized state is situated.
- The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the faceoffs.
- The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
- The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
- One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside centre.
- A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
verb
- To give (something) a central basis.
- To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
- To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
- To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
- To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway between the extremes.
adj
noun
adj
- Of the ball or other playing implement, falling or passing or being situated outside the bounds of the playing area.
- In bloom.
- Released, available for purchase, download or other use.
- Without; no longer in possession of; not having more
- Visible in the sky; not obscured by clouds.
- No longer popular or in fashion.
- Of the tide, at or near its lowest level.
- Containing errors or discrepancies; in error by a stated amount.
- Not at home, or not at one's office or place of employment.
- Discarded; no longer a possibility.
- Open, public; public about or openly acknowledging some (usually specified) identity.
- Freed from from secrecy.
- Not inside or within something.
- Not available; out of service.
- Not having availability of a service, such as power or communications.
- Openly acknowledging that one is LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc).
- Dismissed from play under the rules of the game.
- Not in jail, prison, or captivity; freed from confinement
- Not fitted or inserted into something.
- school is out tomorrow due to snow; when college is out for the summer, I'll head back to my home state
- Temporarily not in operation, or not being attended as usual.
- acceptable, permissible
- Not shining or burning.
verb
- To reveal (a person) as LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc).
- To kill; to snuff out.
- To eject; to expel.
- To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
- To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public, revealed, or apparent.
- To reveal (a secret).
noun
- A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc.
- A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
- A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicket with the ball.
- A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
- A card which can make a hand a winner.
- One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
intj
- A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response.
- Get out; begone; away!
adv
- Away from home or one's usual place.
- Away from; at a distance.
- Away from the inside, centre or other point of reference.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- So as to be visible in the sky, and not covered by clouds, fog, etc.
- Of a player, so as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).
- To the end; completely.
- Outside; not indoors.
- Used to intensify or emphasize.
prep
noun
- The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.
- Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
- A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
- A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
- A series of events which produce a result (the product).
- An executable task or program.
- Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
- A structure that arises above a surface.
- An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
verb
- To perform a particular process on a thing.
- To develop photographic film.
- To take legal proceedings against.
- To walk in a procession
- To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
- To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
noun
- A hole in the playfield that rewards the player when the ball is guided into it.
- A domain name server that has been configured to hand out non-routeable addresses for all domains, so that every computer that uses it will fail to get access to the real website.
- An attack which redirects requests - be it network or memory accesses - to a new location defined by the attacker.
- A depressed area in which waste or drainage collects.
- A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.
verb
noun
- One of the two lines on the edge of a field marking the area inside which a fair ball may be hit.
- A line from which a player takes a free throw
- In long jump, a line before which the jumper must start their jump with no part of the foot touching the line.
- A line between the lane and the approach, which the bowler must not cross.
noun
- An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
- A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources.
- An instance of watching or listening to digital media.
- The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely, as for example lash, backlash, or slack.
- Movement (of a pattern of light etc.)
- An individual's performance in a sport or game.
- A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
- A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.
- Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
- Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
- An attempt to move forward, as in a plan or strategy, for example by a business, investor, or political party.
- Sexual activity or sexual role-playing.
- The conduct, or course, of a game.
- A short sequence of action within a game.
- A theatrical performance featuring actors.
verb
- To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
- Contrary to fact, to give an appearance of being.
- To be performed; (or of a film) to be shown.
- To manipulate, deceive, or swindle someone.
- To move to and fro.
- To produce music (or a specified song or musical style) using (a specified musical instrument).
- To compete against, in a game.
- To act; to behave; to practice deception.
- To perform in or at; to give performances in or at.
- To produce music using a musical instrument.
- To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate.
- To take part in amorous activity; to make love.
- To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
- To kid; to joke; say something for amusement.
- (in the scoring of games and sports) To be the opposing score to.
- To gamble.
- To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
- To produce music.
- To act or perform (a play).
- To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute.
- To put in action or motion.
- To keep in play, as a hooked fish in order to land it.
- To use a device to watch or listen to the indicated recording.
- To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
adj
adv
noun
noun
- A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground.
- A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest.
- A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
- An inset, hole, hollow space or opening.
- A remote, secret or abstruse place.
- A break, pause or vacation.
- A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
- A period of time when the proceedings of a parliament, committee, court of law, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
verb
noun
- a performance of a play
- a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
- a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
- the act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority in their behalf
- the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent
- a body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency
- a factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract
- a statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protesting
- the right of being represented by delegates who have a voice in some legislative body
- an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent
noun
- A performance of a play
- The classification of a case of a disease, usually a cancer, into its anatomic or prognostic stage, which is a category of severity.
- An environment for testing that exactly resembles a production environment.
- A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.
- The act or process of putting on an event.
- The act of journeying in stagecoaches.
- The business of running stagecoaches.
- The organization of something in order to prepare for or facilitate working with it.
- The scenery and/or organization of actors' movements on stage.
- The arrangement or layout of something in order to create an impression.
noun
- A particular instance of playing a game.
- 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.
- 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.
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
verb
- To gamble.
- To play card games, board games, or video games.
- To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
- To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
adj
noun
- A play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground.
- Any instance in which one person intercepts another and forces them to the ground.
- A device for grasping an object and an attached means of moving it, as a rope and hook.
- A block and tackle.
- A man's genitalia.
- Equipment, gear, gadgetry.
- A play where a player attempts to take control over the ball from an opponent, as in rugby or football.
- Equipment (rod, reel, line, lure, etc.) used when angling.
- An offensive line position between a guard and an end: offensive tackle; a person playing that position.
- Clothing.
- A defensive position between two defensive ends: defensive tackle; a person playing that position.
verb
- To "hit on" or pursue a person that one is interested in.
- To face or deal with, attempting to overcome or fight down.
- To bring a ball carrier to the ground.
- To attempt to take away a ball.
- To force a person to the ground with the weight of one's own body, usually by jumping on top or slamming one's weight into them.
noun
- a piece of land prepared for playing a game
- a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
- a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
- somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
- a branch of knowledge
- the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
- a particular kind of commercial enterprise
- a particular environment or walk of life
- extensive tract of level open land
- (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1
- a region in which active military operations are in progress
- all of the horses in a particular horse race
- all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
- a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
- (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
- the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
- a place where planes take off and land
verb
verb
- To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
- To flow gradually.
- To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
- To deplete of energy or resources.
- To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
- To cause liquid to flow out of.
- To lose liquid.
noun
- Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
- One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
- An outhole.
- A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
- An act of urination.
noun
- A set-piece where the ball is thrown back into play
- A throw of the ball back into play by the boundary umpire. The umpire faces away from the players and throws it in over his or her shoulder (so as to clearly not favour either side by where exactly it's thrown).
- An extra item added free of charge; a product that is thrown in with another.
- the start time of a Gaelic football match, comparable to kick off in other games.
noun
- The entire field of play used in the game.
- The polyiamond made up of two triangles.
- A card of the diamonds suit.
- A gemstone made from this mineral.
- Something that resembles a diamond.
- A rhombus, especially when oriented so that its longer axis is vertical.
- A ring containing a diamond.
- A very pale blue color.
- The infield of a baseball field.
- A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron.
verb
adj
noun
- An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
- An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance).
- A portion of food or drink, a serving.
verb
- To be useful to; to meet the needs of.
- To be a servant or worker; to perform the duties of a servant or employee; to render service.
- To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).
- To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.
- To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity.
- To attractively display something (especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.
- To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
- To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.
- To perform (a public obligation).
- To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.
- To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
- To present an attractive personal appearance.
- To usefully take the place as, instead of something else.
- To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
- To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something.
- To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
- To evoke something (especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
- To be in military service.
- To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)
- To work, to operate (a weapon).
- To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.
noun
- A display of score, status, etc. superimposed over the playfield.
- A semitransparent graphical and textual display of information projected upon the field of view of a pilot of an aircraft. Abbreviation: HUD
- A type of radar or electronic chart display where the top of the display always represents the direction the vessel is heading.
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To progress
extreme heat.
Upanishad (sacred Hindu treatises)
semi-transparent
floral pattern
medical license
endurable.
person with a criminal record
slaver.
endow.
reconfirmation
irregular employment
logic programming
sparsely
cosmetology
mischance.
Nervous
Of the same kind
a bookworm.
clothoid
to read
a barrow.
easy to see
safely
ambassador
howling
Wei
granny knot
police force
scum
scram
lackey
To improve
sunshade
eloquent
to chafe
discordant.
listen
unaffected
disease
all at once
retreat
subordinate
promotion