play

v. engage in a game; perform a role, act. portray; make music with a musical instrument

n. dramatic performance; game; entertainment; laughter; bet, wager

A play or stageplay, written by a playwright, or dramatist, is a form of literature, almost always consisting of dialogue between characters, intended for performance rather than reading. However, many people and especially scholars simply read and study plays in an academic manner. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference whether their plays were performed or read. So, the term play refers both to the written works of playwrights and to their complete theatrical performance.
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(n.)
A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action.
  

(n.)
Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit.
  

(n.)
Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.
  

(n.)
Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or diversion; a game.
  

(n.)
Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth.
  

(n.)
Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action.
  

(n.)
Performance on an instrument of music.
  

(n.)
The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune in play.
  

(n.)
The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, he attends ever play.
  

(n.)
To act on the stage; to personate a character.
  

(n.)
To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
  

(n.)
To act; to behave; to practice deception.
  

(n.)
To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.
  

(n.)
To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
  

(n.)
To move gayly; to wanton; to disport.
  

(n.)
To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays.
  

(n.)
To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute.
  

(v. t.)
To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action; as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the woman.
  

(v. t.)
To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute; as, to play tricks.
  

(v. t.)
To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.
  

(v. t.)
To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
  

(v. t.)
To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ.
  

(v. t.)
To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin.
  

(v. t.)
To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump.
  

On p.289 of Structure, Sign and Play, Derrida says that "play" is the infinite substitute of meanings. Every term, every phrase,has a certain range of meanings and these substitute for each other indifferent contexts. That is the "play" of language.

<language, music> A language for real-time music synthesis. 1977.
["An Introduction to the Play Program", J. Chadabe ete al, Computer Music J 2,1 (1978)].
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