"play" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

play verbo

play + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 709
play football • play guitar • play music • play basketball • play cricket • play baseball • play host • play cards • play instruments • ...
verbo + play
Kolokacji: 201
start playing • stop playing • enjoy playing • love playing • continue playing • begin playing • keep playing • like playing • seen playing • ...
play + preposición
Kolokacji: 89
play out • play against • play alongside • play back • play down • play off • play up • ...
play + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 261
play together • play professionally • play hard • play collegiately • play poorly • play live • play fair • play dead • play good • play low • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 61
(2) hard, heavily
Kolokacji: 2
(3) poorly, badly, miserably
Kolokacji: 3
(5) fair, fairly, reasonably
Kolokacji: 3
1. play dumb = zgrywać głupa, zachowywać się głupio, udawać głupiego play dumb
2. play smart = gra bystry play smart
3. play stupid = grać głupi play stupid
4. cleverly play = inteligentnie zagraj cleverly play
5. suddenly play = nagle zagraj suddenly play
6. cannily play = oszczędnie grać cannily play
7. play sluggishly = zagraj ospale play sluggishly
8. shrewdly play = sprytnie grać shrewdly play
  • "The Crucible" also features a rare and welcome screen appearance by Paul Scofield, who shrewdly plays the distinguished jurist named Danforth as the model of moral rectitude gone wrong.
  • And he played shrewdly and well.
  • She had chosen to thwart her mother by shrewdly playing along with this demented game.
  • However, some art historians suggest that she was shrewdly playing on her fame from the rape trial to cater to a niche market in sexually-charged, female-dominant art for male patrons.
  • A Greek player attempted the same line of play, but an L.G.M. named Shobote, sitting West, shrewdly played the diamond ten on South's deuce.
  • "He and Carl are shrewdly playing the hands they're dealt," said Mark Green, last year's unsuccessful Democratic candidate for mayor.
  • All attempts were rebuffed, Zia shrewdly played his cards knowing that Carter was on his way out and he may get a better deal from the incoming Reagan.
  • Pitched principally at impressionable teenagers, who are by nature narcissists, Hell Houses shrewdly play to the selfishness of their visitors.
  • The boy shrewdly plays dumb, at least until "Sir" John tips him.
  • He shrewdly plays Alan, making him believe Meenakhsi likes him romantically - and sends him to convince her to come back.
(9) regularly, officially
Kolokacji: 2
(12) formerly, once
Kolokacji: 2
(13) actually, away, innocent
Kolokacji: 3
(18) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(19) eventually, finally
Kolokacji: 2
(20) right, correctly
Kolokacji: 2
(21) annually, sporadically, daily
Kolokacji: 3
(23) forward, backwards, backward
Kolokacji: 3
(24) sparingly, hardly, barely
Kolokacji: 3
(29) abroad, overseas
Kolokacji: 2
(32) nice, nicely
Kolokacji: 2
(35) directly, immediately
Kolokacji: 2
(40) most, about
Kolokacji: 2
(42) perfectly, flawlessly
Kolokacji: 2
(45) actively, passively
Kolokacji: 2
(48) exactly, strictly
Kolokacji: 2
(49) solidly, solid, strong
Kolokacji: 3
(51) similarly, similar, naturally
Kolokacji: 3
(53) properly, decently
Kolokacji: 2
(54) solo, mixed, unaccompanied
Kolokacji: 3
(55) unselfishly, selfishly
Kolokacji: 2
(57) absently, recklessly
Kolokacji: 2
(58) gamely, valiantly
Kolokacji: 2
(59) successively, sequentially
Kolokacji: 2
(60) respectably, admirably
Kolokacji: 2
(61) passionately, enthusiastically
Kolokacji: 2

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