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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun playing has 3 senses

• playing(n = noun.act) Array - the act of playing a musical instrument; Array
is a kind of musical performance
has particulars: bowing, piping, stopping, transposition
Derived forms verb play₆, verb play₃, verb play₇

• playing(n = noun.act) Array - the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation; Array
is a kind of action
has particulars: bowling, catching, golfing, pitching
Derived forms verb play₁₆, verb play₁, verb play₃₄, verb play₁₁, verb play₅

• playing(n = noun.act) acting, performing, playacting - the performance of a part or role in a drama; Array
is a kind of activity, performing arts
has particulars: characterization, enactment, personation, portrayal, impersonation, personation, method, method acting, dumb show, mime, pantomime, business, byplay, stage business, skit, hamming, overacting, heroics, reenactment, roleplaying
is a part of performance
Derived forms verb play₄, verb play₂₅

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THESAURUS

playing

acting, aflicker, aping, betting, bickering, blinking, buffoonery, business, cardsharping, casting lots, characterization, coquetry, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, dancing, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, fiddling, flashing, flickering, flickery, flicky, flirtation, fluttering, fluttery, fooling, fooling around, gag, gambling, gaming, ham, hammy acting, hazarding, hoke, hokum, idling, imitation, impersonation, incarnation, jerking off, kidding around, lambent, loitering, masquerade, messing around, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, monkeying, monkeying around, mummery, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, personification, piddling, play, playacting, playing around, portrayal, posing, pottering, projection, puttering, quivering, quivery, representation, risking, slapstick, smattering, sortition, speculation, sporting, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, staking, stroboscopic, stunt, taking a role, tinkering, toying, trifling, wagering, wavering, wavery

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playing

Musician

N musician, artiste, performer, player, minstrel, bard, accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist, harper, fiddler, fifer, trumpeter, piper, drummer, catgut scraper, band, orchestral waits, vocalist, melodist, singer, warbler, songster, chaunter, chauntress, songstress, cantatrice, choir, quire, chorister, chorus, chorus singer, liedertafel, nightingale, philomel, thrush, siren, bulbul, mavis, Pierides, sacred nine, Orpheus, Apollo, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore, tuneful nine, tuneful quire, composer, performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization, playing, musical, adagio, andante.

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