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Plaudits
- noun - enthusiastic approval; "the book met with modest acclaim"; "he acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd"; "they gave him more eclat than he really deserved"
Plausive
- adjective - expressing or manifesting praise or approval; "approbative criticism"; "an affirmative nod"
Play Off
- verb - set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other"
Play Out
- verb - become spent or exhausted; "The champion''s strength played out fast"
- become spent or exhausted; "The champion's strength played out fast"
- deplete; "exhaust one''s savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
- deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
- perform or be performed to the end; "How will the election drama be played out?"
- play to a finish; "We have got to play this game out, even thought it is clear that we have last"
Play-Box
- noun - a box for a child's toys and personal things (especially at a boarding school)
Playable
- adjective - capable of or suitable for being played or played on; "a playable lie in golf"; "the baseball fan reached out and caught a foul that was judged playable"; "the ball field was playable"; "harpsichord music is readily playable"- P.H.Lang
Playacts
- verb - perform on a stage or theater; "She acts in this play"; "He acted in `Julius Caesar'"; "I played in `A Christmas Carol'"
Playback
- noun - electronic equipment comprising the part of a tape recorder that reproduces the recorded material
- the act of reproducing recorded sound; "he was allowed to hear the playback of his testimony"
Playbill
- noun - a theatrical program; "he couldn't find her name on the playbill"
Playbook
- noun - a book containing the scripts of one or more dramatic plays; "the 1963 playbook leaves out the whole first scene"
- a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team)
- a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign; "they borrowed a page from the playbook of the opposition"