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jugar

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[ple?]

sustantivo

1 obra (f) (de teatro) (drama)

2 juego (m) (of children)

at play -> jugando
to make great play of something -> sacarle mucho jugo a algo
play on words -> juego de palabras

3 juego (m) (in sport)

play began at one o'clock -> el juego comenzó a la una
in play -> en juego
out of play -> fuera del campo
to come into play (sentido figurado) -> entrar en juego
to make a play for something (sentido figurado) -> tratar de conseguir algo

4 juego (m) (Tech)

verbo transitivo

5 jugar a (game, sport) ; jugar contra (opponent)

to play center forward -> jugar de delantero centro
to play soccer/chess -> jugar al fútbol/ajedrez
to play somebody at something -> jugar contra alguien a algo
he decided not to play Sanders -> decidió no sacar a Sanders
to play a shot -> dar un golpe, hacer un tiro (in snooker, pool)
to play a card -> jugar una carta
stop playing games! (sentido figurado) -> ¡basta ya de juegos!
to play ball (sentido figurado) -> cooperar (co-operate)
to play the Stock Exchange -> jugar a la bolsa
to play a joke or a trick on somebody -> gastarle una broma a alguien

6 interpretar (in play, film)

to play Macbeth -> interpretar a Macbeth
to play an important part (in something) (sentido figurado) -> desempeñar un papel importante (en algo)
to play no part in something (sentido figurado) -> no tomar parte en algo; (person) no tener nada que ver con algo (thing, feeling)
to play the fool (sentido figurado) -> hacer el tonto

7 tocar (musical instrument, piece) ;

poner

verbo intransitivo

8 jugar (children) ; retozar (animals)

to play with something -> juguetear con algo (pen, hair)
to play with an idea (sentido figurado) -> darle vueltas a una idea
to play with fire (sentido figurado) -> jugar con fuego
what's she playing at? (familiar sentido figurado) -> ¿a qué juega?

9 jugar (sportsperson)

to play fair/dirty -> jugar limpio/sucio
to play for money -> jugar por or con dinero
to play for time (sentido figurado) -> intentar ganar tiempo
to play into somebody's hands (sentido figurado) -> hacerle el juego a alguien, facilitarle las cosas a alguien
to play safe (sentido figurado) -> ir a lo seguro, no arriesgarse

10 sonar (musical instrument) ; tocar (musician)

11 actuar (actor) ; exhibirse (film) ; representarse (play)

play [plei]

verbo neutro (intransitivo)

1 Jugar, entretenerse, divertirse, recrearse (enjoy). (n)

2 Jugar, juguetear, travesear, enredar, retozar. (n)

3 Jugar, burlarse unos con otros o unos de otros. (n)

4 Jugar, competir con otro en algún juego (compete). (n)

To play at cards -> jugar a los naipes

5 Tocar, tañer, hablando de instrumentos músicos o de alguna orquesta (music instrument). (n)

6 Jugar, ponerse alguna cosa compuesta de varias piezas en movimiento y ejercicio; estar corriente o franco, hablando de los muelles, llaves o piezas que juegan en las máquina (n)

sustantivo

7 Flotar, ondular, ondear.

8 Representar en público.

9 Disparar, tirar.

10 Hacer andar una máquina o ponerla en movimiento.

11 Remedar, hacer el papel de.

12 Representar una comedia, un papel.

13 Tocar un instrumento músico, una pieza, etc. 6.

14 Burlar o chasquear a alguno.

va. Jugar una partida de cualquier juego.

sustantivo

1 Juego; divertimiento y ejercicio de recreación.

2 Representación de una pieza dramática y la misma pieza dramática.

3 Juego, la acción de jugar a un juego sujeto a regla

sustantivo

4 Juego, la disposición en que se hallan unidas algunas cosas entre sí, de modo que sin desunirse o separarse puedan ponerse en acción y movimiento, ya a la vez, ya de por sí.

To come in entrar en juego -> hacer uno su parte en una cosa ejecutada entre muchos

5 Juego.

6 El modo de tocar un instrumento o de representar una pieza dramática.

7 Libertad para obrar; vuelo, remonte, hablando de las pasiones de la imaginación, etc. 8.

A child full of un muchacho travieso o enredador. To play fair lay -> jugar limpio, obrar con sinceridad, sin trastienda, de veras
To play foul entrampar en el juego; engañar -> By fair sinceramente, con pureza
In en chanza, de burlas. A play upon words -> equívoco de vocablos
Foul mala jugada, perfidia. Play actor -> actor, cómico

V. GAMBLING. Movimiento ligero y rápido; reflejo de colores o de luces.

play [pleɪ]

noun

1 (recreation) juego; (m)

Children learn through play

to be at playat estar jugando

to do/say sth in playin hacer/decir algo en broma

2 (Dep) juego; (m) (move, manoeuvre) jugada; (f) movida; (f)

There was some good play in the second half

neat play una bonita jugada; a clever piece of play una hábil jugada; play began at three o'clock el partido empezó a las tres; to be in play [+ball] estar en juego; to be out of play [+ball] estar fuera de juego

fair foul

3 (Teat) obra (de teatro); (f) pieza; (f)plays teatro; (m)

the plays of Lope las obras dramáticas de Lope; el teatro de Lope; radio/television play obra para radio/televisión; (f) to be in a play [+actor] actuar en una obra

He was recently in a play at the Royal Court

radio

4 (Téc) etc juego; (m)

there's not enough play in the rope la cuerda no da lo suficiente; there's too much play in the clutch el embrague tiene demasiada holgura va demasiado suelto;or

5 (interaction)

the play of light on the water el rielar de la luz sobre el agua; the play of light and dark in this picture el efecto de luz y sombra en este cuadro; the free play of market forces la libre interacción de los mercados; the play of ideas in the film is fascinating el abanico de ideas en la película es fascinante

6 (figurative phrases)

to bring call into playbringorcall poner en juego

to come into playcome into entrar en juego

to give full free play to one's imagination

to make a play for sth/sbmake intentar conseguir algo/conquistar a algn

to make (a) great play of sth insistir en algo; hacer hincapié en algo

a play on wordswords un juego de palabras

verb:transitive

1 [+football, tennis, chess, bridge, cards, board game etc] jugar a; [+game, match] jugar; disputar

to play a match against sb The match will be played on Saturday

do you play football? ¿juegas al fútbol?; what position does he play? ¿de qué juega?; to play centre-forward/centre-half etcetc jugar de delantero centro/medio centro etc;etc they played him in goal lo pusieron en la portería

to play a game of tennisgame jugar un partido de tenis

to play a game of cards (with sb) echar una partida de cartas (con algn); the children were playing a game in the garden los niños estaban jugando (a un juego) en el jardín; don't play games with me! ¡no me vengas con jueguecitos!; ¡no trates de engañarme!

Don't play games with me! Just give me a straight answer.

to play the field (informal) (have many girlfriends, boyfriends) darse al ligue; (informal)

He gave up playing the field and married a year ago

to play the game (get involved) tomar parte; mojarse; (informal) (play fair) acatar las normas

If you want to meet women, you have to approach them — you can't just sit back, you have to play the game He'd begun to like this guy. Ramon, as far as Grady could tell, was playing the game. He was doing the right thing without being prodded or pushed

2 [+team, opponent] jugar contra

I played him twice jugué contra él dos veces; last time we played Sunderland ... la última vez que jugamos contra Sunderland ...

to play sb at chessat jugar contra algn al ajedrez

I'll play you for the drinks quien pierde paga

3 [+card] jugar; [+ball] golpear

A player can only be penalized if he has made no attempt to play the ball

[+chess piece etc] mover; [+fish] dejar que se canse; agotar

he played the ball into the netball (Tennis) estrelló golpeó la pelota contra la red;or

to play the marketmarket (St Ex) jugar a la bolsa

to play one's cards right wellor jugar bien sus cartas

Soon, if she played her cards right, she would be head of the London office

he played his ace sacó el as que llevaba escondido en la manga

And then she played her ace — she told him he couldn't have been at home that night because she phoned him and there was no answer

to play ball (with sb) (cooperate) colaborar (con algn)

The question is, will he play ball with us or will he choose to go it alone? If he won't play ball we'll just have to get tough with him

4 (perform) [+role, part] hacer; interpretar

In his new movie he again plays the part of a villain

[+work] representar; (perform in) [+town] actuar en

what part did you play? ¿qué papel tuviste?; when we played "Hamlet" cuando representamos "Hamlet"; when I played Hamlet cuando hice el papel de Hamlet; we shall be playing the West End pondremos la obra en el West End; when we last played Blackpool cuando actuamos la última vez en Blackpool; let's play it for laughs hagámoslo de manera burlesca

to play one's part well He played his part well — no one suspected he wasn't her husband he was only playing a part It was clear that he didn't really believe what he was telling her — he was only playing a part to play a part (in) Relatives and friends can play a part in letting the person believe that he or she is worth helping He was executed for playing a part in the plot to kill Hitler Unfortunately, Hartson played no part in their success — he was injured at the time Stress seems to play a part in some cases of unexplained infertility But many other factors also seem to play a part

to play the peacemaker/the devoted husband hacer el papel de pacificador/de marido amantísimo

Whenever the boys started arguing, it was always their father who played the peacemaker

we could have played it differently podríamos haber actuado de otra forma

We could have played it differently — we could have used bribery instead of threats

to play it cool (informal) mantener el tipo; actuar como si nada

Needless to say, I was mortified by the development, but felt that publicly I must play it cool

to play (it) safe obrar con cautela; ser prudente

book fool trick

5 (Mús) etc [+instrument, note] tocar; [+tune, concerto] tocar; interpretar; (formal)

After dinner we asked him to play a tune on the fiddle

[+tape, CD] poner; tocar

to play the piano/violin tocar el piano/el violín; they played the 5th Symphony tocaron interpretaron la Quinta Sinfonía;or (formal) they were playing Beethoven tocaban interpretaban algo de Beethoven;or (formal) I can't play a note no tengo ni idea de música

None of us could play a note but we all fought to carry the guitar as we walked down the street to play a joke trick on sb to play a dirty trick on sb

6 (direct) [+light, hose] dirigir

to play hoses on a fire dirigir mangueras sobre un incendio; to play a searchlight on an aircraft dirigir un reflector hacia un avión; hacer de un avión el blanco de un reflector

to play sb false

verb:intransitive

1 (amuse o.s.) [+child] jugar; [+puppy, kitten etc] jugar; juguetear

to go out to play salir a jugar; to play with a stick juguetear con un palo; to play with an idea dar vueltas a una idea; barajar una idea; to play with one's food comiscar; to play with fire jugar con fuego; he's got money to play with tiene dinero de sobra; how much time/money do we have to play with? ¿con cuánto tiempo/dinero contamos?; ¿de cuánto tiempo/dinero disponemos?; he's just playing with you se está burlando de ti; to play with o.s. (informal) (euphemistic) tocarse; masturbarse

2 (Dep) (at game, gamble) jugar

play! ¡listo!; who plays first? ¿quién juega primero?; are you playing today? ¿tu juegas hoy?; I've not played for a long time hace mucho tiempo que no juego

England are playing against Scotland in the finalagainst Inglaterra jugará contra se enfrentará a Escocia en la final;or

to play at chessat jugar al ajedrez

they're playing at soldiers están jugando a (los) soldados; he's just playing at it lo hace para pasar el tiempo nada más; the little girl plays at being a woman la niña juega a ser mujer; what are you playing at? (informal) pero ¿qué haces?; ¿qué te pasa?

to play by the rulesby acatar las normas

Politicians, of all people, must play by the rules She played by the rules. She worked hard, saved money, put herself through school, became a teacher, got married, and looked forward to living the American dream

to play fairfair jugar limpio

he plays for Liverpoolfor juega en el Liverpool

to play for money jugar por dinero; to play for high stakes apostar muy alto; poner mucho en juego

The minster knew he was playing for high stakes. If the plan didn't succeed, he would have no choice but to resign

to play in defence/goalin (Dep) jugar de defensa/de portero

he played into the treesinto (Golf) mandó la bola a la zona de árboles

to play for time tratar de ganar tiempo

to play into sb's hands hacer el juego a algn

to play to one's strengths sacar partido a sus cualidades

We played to our strengths. We pressurized everyone and made them run There are many ways to succeed in this business, but you must learn what you are good at in order to play to those strengths

3 (Mús) [+person] tocar; [+instrument, record etc] sonar

do you play? ¿sabes tocar?; a record was playing in the background de fondo sonaba un disco; when the organ plays cuando suena el órgano

will you play for us?for ¿nos tocas algo?

to play on the pianoon tocar el piano

to play to sbto tocar para algn

4 (Teat) (Cine) (act) actuar

to play in a film trabajar en una película; we have played all over the South hemos representado en todas partes del Sur; the film now playing at the Odeon la película que se exhibe proyecta en el Odeon;or

to play hard to get hacerse de rogar; [+woman] hacerse la difícil

to play dead hacerse el muerto

Sometimes when we chase them, they are so scared that they roll themselves into a ball and play dead

gallery

5 (move about, form patterns) correr

the sun was playing on the water rielaba el sol sobre el agua; a smile played on his lips una sonrisa le bailaba en los labios

6 [+fountain] correr; funcionar

...a marble court in the middle of which a fountain is playing There was a fountain playing in the middle of the hall

modifier

play clothes (n) ropa para jugar; (f)

play reading (n) lectura (de una obra dramática); (f)

Verb Conjugation for "play"

Imperative

play
you play
he/she plays
we play
you play
they play

Preterite

I played
you played
he/she played
we played
you played
they played

Present Continuous

I am playing
you are playing
he/she is playing
we are playing
you are playing
they are playing

Present Perfect

I have played
you have played
he/she has played
we have played
you have played
they have played

Past Continuous

I was playing
you were playing
he/she was playing
we were playing
you were playing
they were playing

Past Perfect

I had played
you had played
he/she had played
we had played
you had played
they had played

Future

I will play
you will play
he/she will play
we will play
you will play
they will play

Future Perfect

I will have played
you will have played
he/she will have played
we will have played
you will have played
they will have played

Future Continuous

I will be playing
you will be playing
he/she will be playing
we will be playing
you will be playing
they will be playing

Present Perfect Continuous

I have been playing
you have been playing
he/she has been playing
we have been playing
you have been playing
they have been playing

Future Perfect Continuous

I will have been playing
you will have been playing
he/she will have been playing
we will have been playing
you will have been playing
they will have been playing

Past Perfect Continuous

I had been playing
you had been playing
he/she had been playing
we had been playing
you had been playing
they had been playing

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