player

名词 n.
/ˈpleɪ.ə(ɹ)/    /ˈpleɪ.ɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One that plays.; One who plays any game or sport.
    — He is a player for the Australian team.
  2. One that plays.; An actor in a dramatic play.
    — All the world's a ſtage, / And all the men and women, merely Players
  3. One that plays.; One who plays on a musical instrument.
  4. One that plays.; A gamer; a person of video games or similar.
    — He is an avid Minecraft player.
  5. One that plays.; A gambler.
  6. One that plays.; A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument. historical
    — But up to this time the application of the player mechanism had been confined to reed instruments, the piano manufacturers having successfully resisted the introduction of the player mechanism into the piano; but, in the meantime, the manufacturers of players had grown strong and the manufacturers were beginning to properly interpret the handwriting on the wall
  7. One that plays.; An electronic device that plays audio or video media.
    — Is your CD player broken, or is this one disc damaged?
  8. One that plays.; A software application that plays audio or video media, such as a media player.
  9. One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
  10. A participant; one involved in something.
    — He thought he could become a player, at least at the state level.
  11. A participant; one involved in something.; One who participates in a particular type of sexual play.
    — In this space we explored lesbian sadomasochism, met other S/M women who were serious players, had access to safe equipment and, through watching other women, learned new techniques.
  12. A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship. informal
    — Thunder only happens when it’s rainin’ / Players only love you when they’re playin’ / Say women, they will come and they will go / When the rain washes you clean, you’ll know

词形变化

players plural

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词源

From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English pleġere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), from Proto-West Germanic *plegārī. Equivalent to play + -er.
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