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player

/pley-er/US // ˈpleɪ ər //UK // (ˈpleɪə) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that plays.
    • : a person who takes part or is skilled in some game or sport.
    • : a person who plays parts on the stage; an actor.
    • : a performer on a musical instrument.
    • : Informal. a participant, as in a conference or business deal.
    • : a machine or piece of software that reproduces sound or images: a record player; a videodisc player; a digital media player.
    • : a gambler.
    • : Slang. a person engaged in illicit or illegal activity, especially a pimp.
    • : a mechanical device by which a musical instrument, as a player piano, is played automatically.

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Examples

  • In every turn of the game, both players flip over and reveal the top card of their deck.

  • His players considered boycotting a playoff game in 2014 after audio tapes featuring former owner Donald Sterling were revealed.

  • Breanna Stewart has been, by a pretty clear measure, the most valuable player in the league as a whole so far.

  • If players have gotten sick of one another, expect it to only get worse in the coming weeks.

  • In the first, a player takes actions, such as moving animals to let them mate or obtaining money.

  • Dora is seen getting dressed as a mermaid by a cursor being manned by some omniscient game player.

  • By setting no goals, the player must find their own purpose.

  • And that gets to the heart of what makes the game so incredible: By staying silent, it turns the player into the game master.

  • When he is awarded Player of the Match while competing for India in England, he is given champagne at the ceremony.

  • His accuser was smeared and demeaned, and a star football player was allowed to keep on playing.

  • The player to his right holds eight, the player to his left has only six—the right side wins, the left side loses.

  • The croupier pushes the seven hundred and forty pounds of the unlucky player a foot nearer to the bank.

  • But "the cards never forgive," and as a rule Dame Fortune is relentless to the reckless player.

  • However, I have felt some comfort in knowing that it is not Liszt's genius alone that makes him such a player.

  • In the conservatory he seemed to be a very passionate player; but, somehow, in public that was not the case.