(n.) One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
(n.) One who plays any game.
(n.) A dramatic actor.
(n.) One who plays on an instrument of music.
(n.) A gamester; a gambler.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(2) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
(3) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
(4) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
(5) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
(6) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
(7) Of course they should play if the players still want to.
(8) The others were two Britons, Mark Cox and John Barrett (now both BBC commentators) and the US player Jim McManus.
(9) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
(10) Huth, a Stoke player for more than five years, has made only one Premier League appearance since suffering a knee injury in November 2013.
(11) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
(12) Uruguay's coach, Oscar Tabárez, had insisted yesterday that his player should face only a one-match ban.
(13) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
(14) He said he was appalled by the player's accusations and plans to meet with Martin on Wednesday at an undisclosed location.
(15) This may have been a pointed substitute programme, management perhaps imagining a future where electronic presenters will simply download their minds to MP3-players.
(16) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
(17) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
(18) "I have to say that I have been a Chelsea player since 2004 and I have never had six minutes in my favour when I was losing.
(19) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
(20) It’s not just that Lester was one of the first signs that the Red Sox’s commitment to players from their own system was starting to pay off.
Sinkhole
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The new trend, of course, is for bedsits to be rebranded as studio flats, but there are still these genuine 60s sinkholes dotted about, idly refusing to update, reminding us of a time when to move into this box of self-sufficiency was a truly liberating opportunity, especially for women.
(2) The beautiful ride leaves you happy you didn't fall into any sinkhole, happy the lion no one told you about was busy on a gazelle and you didn't get caught on the way back by a friendly act of spontaneous local taxation on the road back.
(3) Coming from the dense urban context of Italy, where he grew up in Turin, Soleri found American cities to be anathema, their auto-centric planning “a fathomless sinkhole for immense waste”.
(4) Dramatic sinkholes , such as the recent one in Japan , are not always caused by underground mining – but Paris’s subterranean history certainly makes it more vulnerable to such events.
(5) If Trump could win points there, just imagine what happened among the people who have no fealty to movement conservatism, who have nurtured a sustained rage at being betrayed or ignored by its bromides , who have been told that conservatism is good for them even as they have seen the middle class begin to crater around them like a suburban Florida neighborhood pockmarking with sinkholes during a long drought.
(6) The saga has also turned into a domestic political sinkhole.
(7) An intriguing hint is floated in Downloaded that Napster was not only a sinkhole for investors' cash; it only ever generated proper revenue by selling T-shirts.
(8) His verdict on Microsoft's Bing search engine was clearer: it was "a sinkhole", he said.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sinkholes and landslides follow flooding in France and Germany.
(10) Paul Flynn MP tweeted: “Treasury confirm likely Brexit yawning financial sinkhole ahead in which UK economy could fall in a tailspin of slump.” George Osborne, the former chancellor who oversaw the preparation of the April figures, made the case for the UK to maintain the “closest possible economic relationship” with its former EU partners after Brexit.
(11) A 20-yr-old trained sports diver developed severe chest pain shortly after decompressing from a 40 m repetitive freshwater sinkhole dive, and died 6 h later.
(12) A large sinkhole opens up under the tracks at Forest Hill causing cancellation of all trains from London Bridge.
(13) While the last cataclysm dates back to 1961, when 22 people died in the collapse of a whole neighbourhood on Paris’s outskirts, the IGC still makes more than 70 interventions each year on incidents such as collapsing houses, or roads disappearing into sinkholes.
(14) Oerting told The Guardian the entire GOZ's operations infrastructure had been sinkholed, meaning the malware should “not reappear for … considerable time”.
(15) Random events such as breakdowns, flooding and sinkholes have also struck the luckless Southern , and with resources stretched to the limit and staff goodwill broken down, the knock-on effects of such incidents can be more extreme.
(16) Today’s board of reasons for delays are overrunning engineering works, amended timetable, sinkhole, and issues at Lewisham.
(17) Greater Manchester police have been given extra funding from the Home Office to police Sunday’s event, which is expected to bring the city – already gridlocked due to tram works, a sinkhole on the Mancunian Way flyover and many conference-related road closures – to a standstill.
(18) Behind the scenes, the law enforcement groups have been taking over points of control in GOZ's peer-to-peer network: an action known as "sinkholing" in the security world.
(19) Would our Congress be less of a sinkhole and more of a patchwork?
(20) Slow to get us out of the sinkhole of Afghanistan, at least Obama hasn’t involved the country in yet another all‑out war, whatever you may think of inaction in the sinkhole of Syria – and sometimes what’s most important is what a president didn’t do.