play

/pleɪ/

US pronunciation

American sound/pleɪ/

play

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final y vowel sound

US voice -> play

Myanmar meaning

(n) ပြဇာတ် (v) ကစား

Full entry

play /pleÇ/ v ကစားခြင်းအနက်။

၁။ (က) ~ (with sb/sth) ကစားသည်။ ဆော့သည်။ play with a ball/ toy/ dog ❍ children playing in the park ❍ You'll have to play inside today. ❍ There's a time to work and a time to play.
(ခ) ~ (at) sth (တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ လုပ်တမ်း) ကစားသည်။ Let's play (at) pirates.
၂။ ~ sth (on sb) နောက်ပြောင်သည်။ ကျီစယ်သည်။ လှည့်စားသည်။ play a joke/ trick (on sb).
ကစားရာတွင်ပါဝင်ခြင်းအနက်
၃။ ~ (sth) (with/ against sb); ~ sb (at sth) ပါဝင် ကစားသည်။ ယှဉ်ပြိုင်ကစားသည်။ play football/ chess/ cards ❍ Have you played her (at squash) yet? ❍ play (darts) with one's friends ❍ He plays (hockey) for Cleveland. ❍ On Saturday France play(s) against Wales. ❍ Do footballers hear the crowd when they're playing?
၄။ လောင်းကစားသည်။ play at the roulette table ❍ play the stock market (ie buy and sell shares, etc to make money).
၅။ (က) (အနေဖြင့်) ကစားသည်။ Who's playing in goal? ❍ I've never played centre-forward before. (ခ) ~ sb (as sth) (အနေဖြင့်) ကစားစေသည်။ play Collins as centre-forward ❍ I think we should play Bill (on the wing) in the next match.
၆။ (အားကစားတွင် ဘောလုံးစသည်ကို) ကန်သည်၊ ပစ်သည်၊ ရိုက်သည်၊ ပုတ်သည် စသည်။ She played (at the ball) and missed. ❍ In soccer, only the goal-keeper may play the ball with his hands. ❍ play a fast backhand volley.
၇။ (ကစားကွင်း စသည်) အခြေအနေတစ်ရပ်တွင် ရှိသည်။ a pitch that plays well/ poorly (ie allows the ball to move easily, slowly, etc).
၈။ (က) (စစ်တုရင်၊ ကျား စသည်တို့ကို) ရွှေ့သည်။ She played her bishop. (ခ) (ဖဲ) ပစ်သည်၊ ဘေသည်၊ လှန်သည်။ play one's ace/a trump ❍ She played out of turn!
တီးမှုတ်ခြင်းအနက်
၉။ (က) ~ (sth) (on sth); ~ sth (to sb) တီးသည်။ တီးမှုတ် သည်။ တီးပြသည်။ တီးမှုတ်ပြသည်။ play the piano/ violin/flute (well) ❍ play to an audience ❍ play a tune on the guitar ❍ play sb a piece by Chopin/ a Beethoven sonata ❍ In the distance a band was playing. (ခ) သီဆိုသည်။ တီးမှုတ်သည်။ တေးသံထွက်ပေါ်သည်။ I could hear music playing on the radio.
၁၀။ (က) ~ sth (for sb) (သီချင်း) ဖွင့်ပြသည်။ Can you play (me) her latest recording? ❍ play that jazz tape for me, please. (ခ) (ဓာတ်ပြား၊ ကက်ဆက် စသည်) ဖွင့်သံကြားရသည်။ There was an old blues record playing in the next room.
သရုပ်ဆောင်ခြင်းအနက်
၁၁။ (က) ကပြ၊ သရုပ်ဆောင်သည်။ play (the part of) Ophelia ❍ Lilia was played by Helen Mirren. (ခ) ~ (to sb) (ဇာတ်သဘင်) တင်ဆက်သည်။ ကပြဖျော်ဖြေသည်။ a production of Carmen playing to packed houses.
၁၂။ ဟန်ဆောင်သည်။ ပုံဖမ်းသည်။ (အရူး) ထသည်။ play dead (ie pretend to be dead in order to trick sb) ❍ play the politician/ the diplomat/ the wronged wife ❍ Stop playing the fool (ie acting foolishly).
အခြားအနက်များ
၁၃။ (က) (အလင်းရောင်/ အရိပ်) ပြေးနေသည်၊ သန်းနေသည်။ sunlight playing on/ over the surface of the lake ❍ a smile played on/ about her lips. (ခ) (မီးမောင်း၊ ရေပိုက် စသည်) ထိုးသည်။ play the torch beam over the walls ❍ The firemen played their hoses on the burning building. (ဂ) (ရေပန်း) ပန်းထွက်သည်၊ ဖြာသည်။ Fountains were playing in the park.
၁၄။ (ငါးမျှားချိတ်တွင် ငြိနေသော ငါးကိုမောအောင်) ငါးမျှားကြိုး လျှော့ချည်၊ တင်းချည်ကစားသည်။
n
၁။ မြူးထူးကစားခြင်း။ the happy sounds of children at play ❍ the advantages of learning through play ❍ a play area.
၂။ (sport ) (က) [U] (ကစား)ပွဲ။ Rain prevented any further play in the match. ❍ Tennis players need total concentration during play. (ခ) [U] ကစားပုံ။ There was some excellent play in yesterday's match. ❍ They were penalized for too much rough play. See also FAIR PLAY, FOUL PLAY (ဂ) [C] (esp US ) ကစားကွက်။ a fine defensive/ passing play. (ဃ) [U] (ကစားကွင်း အတွင်း အပြင်) ဘောလုံး၏ အနေအထား။ The ball went out of play. ဘောလုံး ဘေးထွက်သွားသည်။ ❍ He just managed to keep the ball in play.
၃။ [C] ပြဇာတ်။ ဇာတ်လမ်း။ a radio play ❍ act/ take part in a play ❍ She has just written a new play. ❍ We went to see her new play at the Playhouse last night. See also MIRACLE PLAY, MYSTERY PLAY, PASSION-PLAY
၄။ [U] လှုပ်ရှားကစားနိုင် သည့် အတိုင်းအတာ။ We need more play on the rope. ❍ There shouldn't be so much play in the steering-wheel.
၅။ [U] လုပ်ဆောင်မှု။ စိုးမိုးမှု။ the free play of market forces ❍ The financial crisis has brought new factors into play. ❍ Personal feelings should not come into play when one makes business decisions.
၆။ [U] တလျှပ်လျှပ် ပြေးခြင်း။ the play of sunlight on water.
❏ have money, time, etc to play with [IDM ] (infml ) (ငွေ၊ အချိန်) ဖြုန်းနိုင်သည်။
❏ make a play for sb/ sth [IDM ] (esp US ) သည်ယုန်မြင်၍ သည်ချုံထွင်သည်။ She was making a play for the leadership of the party.
❏ play about/ around (with sb/ sth) [PHRV ]
၁။ ပြက်တီးပြက်ချော် လုပ်သည်။ ကရော်ကမည် လုပ်သည်။ Stop playing about and get on with the job. ❍ Don't play around with my expensive tools!
၂။ ကမြင်းကြောထသည်။ Her husband is always playing around. ❍ She's playing around with her sister's boy friend.
❏ play-acting n [U] ဟန်ဆောင်ခြင်း။
❏ play along (with sb/ sth) [PHRV ] (infml ) လိုက်လျော ဟန်ပြုသည်။ ရေလိုက်ငါးလိုက်လုပ်သည်။ I decided to play along with her idea.
❏ play at sth/ being sth [PHRV ] ဟန်ဆောင်ပန်ဆောင် လုပ်သည်။ He's only playing at his job in the city: he's much more interested in being a racing driver.
❏ play sth back (to sb) [PHRV ] ပြန်ဖွင့်ပြသည်။ I rewound the cassette and played her voice back to her. See also PLAY-BACK
❏ play- back n (က) [U] ရုပ်သံဖမ်းပြီးသား ပြန်ဖွင့်ခြင်း အလုပ်။ (ခ) [C] ယင်းသို့ ပြန်ဖွင့်ပြခြင်း။ a television play-back of the finish of the race.
❏ play sth down [PHRV ] ယီးတီးယားတားလုပ်သည်။ လျှောချသည်။ The government is trying to play down its involvement in the affair. See also DOWNPLAY
❏ played out adj (infml ) ကုန်ခန်း[သော]။ အသုံးမကျ တော့[သော]။ Is this theory played out (ie no longer worth considering)?
❏ play sb in, out, etc [PHRV ] အဝင်၊ အထွက် တီးမှုတ် ပေးသည်။ The band played the performers onto the stage.
❏ play oneself in [PHRV ] ပွဲအစ၌ သတိနှင့်ကစားသည်။
❏ playlet /'pleÇlǝt/ n ပြဇာတ်တို။
❏ play-off n သရေကျနေသည်ကို အဆုံးအဖြတ်ပေးမည့် ပွဲ။ a European cup play-off.
❏ play A off against B (Brit ); (US ) play A off B [PHRV ] နှစ်ယောက်ဆိုင်ပေးသည်။ တစ်ယောက်နှင့် တစ်ယောက် တေ့ပေးသည်၊ တိုက်ပေးသည်။ She played her two rivals off against each other and got the job herself.
❏ play on [PHRV ] (sport ) ဆက်ကစားသည်။ Some of the players claimed a penalty but the referee told them to play on.
❏ play on/ upon sth [PHRV ] အမြတ်ထုတ်သည်။ Her speech played heavily on the angry mood of her audience.
❏ a play on words [IDM ] အဓိပ္ပာယ်နှစ်ခွ ထွက်သော စကားဖြင့် ထိထိမိမိ ဆိုသည်။ စကားဖန်သည်။ The advertising slogan was a play on words.
❏ play sth out [PHRV ] ဆင်နွှဲသွားသည်။ a power struggle being played out by the rival factions ❍ Their love affair was played out against the backdrop of war.
❏ play oneself/ itself out [PHRV ] အရှိန်ကုန်သွားသည်။ The revolution's fervour had played itself out.
❏ play-pen n ကလေးထိန်း ဝက်ခြံ။
❏ play-room n (အိမ်တစ်အိမ်တွင်) ကလေးကစားခန်း။
❏ play (sb) up [PHRV ] (infml ) ဒုက္ခပေးသည်။ My shoulder is playing (me) up today. ❍ The children have been playing up all day (eg by being noisy).
❏ play sth up [PHRV ] ပုံကြီးချဲ့သည်။ She played up her past achievements just to impress us.
❏ play with oneself [PHRV ] ကာမစိတ်ဖြင့် မိမိလိင် တန်ဆာကို မိမိသုံးသပ်သည်။ MASTURBATE
❏ play with sth [PHRV ] စိတ်မပါ့တပါ စဉ်းစားကြည့် သည်။ She's playing with the idea of starting her own business.
❏ what sb is playing at [IDM ] ဘာလုပ်နေတယ်။ ဘာလုပ်နေမှန်း။ I don't know what he thinks he's playing at. သူ့ဟာသူ ဘာလုပ်နေမှန်း သူသိရဲ့လား ငါမသိဘူး။

More examples

The children were playing football in the park.
Shall we play cards or chess?
He played well, though his team lost.
[play for] : He played for AC Milan before he transferred to Arsenal.
She plays the winner of tomorrow’s match.
Bayern Munich will play Real Madrid tomorrow evening.
[play against] : England will be playing against Brazil in the next round.
The coach has to decide today whether or not to play him.
She plays in defence.
The ball was going out so he was right not to play it.
He played several organ pieces by Bach.
Gloria plays the violin in the London Philharmonic.
The orchestra played beautifully tonight.
They played the CD at full volume.
A tape was played in court in which he confessed to the crime.
I could hear a radio playing in the flat above.
She played Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire.
The role of the mother was played by one of Australia’s finest actresses.
I was asked to play in a new version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
What’s playing at the local cinema?
The children were out playing in the garden.
Molly and Lilly were playing happily together.
[play by yourself] : Tom’s very good at playing by himself.
[play with] : She watched some children playing with a ball in the street.

Synonyms

engage in recreation, occupy yourself, amuse yourself, have fun, fool around, act, act the part of, action, activity, amuse oneself, amusement, be, be life of party, be on a team, bet, blow, bow, caper, carouse, carry on, cavort, challenge, chance, clown, comedy, compete, composition, contend, contest, cooperate, curtain-raiser, cut capers, cut up, dalliance, dally, dance, delight, discourse, disport, diversion, divert, do, drama, drum, elbowroom, enact, engage in, enjoy yourself, entertain oneself, entertainment, execute, exercise, exploit, farce, fiddle, fidget, finesse, finger, flop, foolery, frisk, frolic, fun, gamble, gambol, game, games, gaming, give, go on a spree, ham, ham it up, happiness, hazard, hit, horse around, humor, idle away, impersonate, jest, jockey, join in, joke, joking, jump, kibitz, kick up heels, kid, lark, latitude, lay an egg, lay money on, leeway, let go, let loose, let one's hair down, make merry, maneuver, manipulate, margin, mask, match, mess around, motion, movement, musical, one-act, opera, operate, operation, participate, pastime, pedal, perform, performance, personate, piece, play a gig, play-act, playact, pleasure, portray, potboiler, prank, present, produce music, production, put, range, read a part, recreate, recreation, rejoice, relaxation, render, represent, revel, risk, rival, romp, room, scope, set, show, show off, skip, smash, smash hit, space, speculate, sport, sportiveness, sports, stage show, stake, star as, sweep, swing, take, take on

Antonyms

be sad, depression, direct, displace, extreme, face, fail, failure, give up, gloom, idleness, ignore, immobility, inaction, inactivity, labor, leave alone, listen, melancholy, misery, neglect, pain, profession, remove, sadness, seriousness, sorrow, success, task, trouble, unhappiness, watch, work