(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.
Slayer
Definition:
(n.) One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.
Example Sentences:
(1) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(2) The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator's bosses at Marvel are also bringing sequels to Thor and Captain America to the big screen over the next year, a fact which would also appear to clash with Whedon's clarion call for originality.
(3) Pauline has seen an actual human eat two Slayer burgers in a row.
(4) Beyond the strangers in internet chatrooms, where I discussed the subtextual relationship between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and evil slayer Faith, no one said I was allowed to feel like this.
(5) But I’m no longer obsessed.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Instead, Hoult speaks knowledgeably about daytime TV – in particular Homes Under the Hammer , Wanted Down Under and Come Dine With Me – and with studenty enthusiasm about food: “When I fall asleep I’m thinking about breakfast and then after breakfast it’s lunch and then it’s dinnertime with snacks in between.” At 25, then, he remains appealingly suburban despite the glam location (beach cabana at the Hotel du Cap , Cannes’s most exclusive) and rising star status ( X-Men , Clash of the Titans , Jack the Giant Slayer , Jennifer Lawrence ’s ex).
(6) The King Slayer, having thrown a child, Bran, from a tower without the slightest show of emotion, amazingly managed to become the subject of our sympathy in the last season.
(7) Kerber arrived on No1 Court as the slayer of Maria Sharapova, but perhaps the exertion of that famous victory took its toll.
(8) Even the introduction of Shola Ameobi, dubbed the "Mackem Slayer" in these parts because of his potent scoring record against Sunderland, could not change the sway of this match.
(9) Willow (Alyson Hannigan), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (WB) 1997-2003 Buffy's helper who discovered her witch powers and Sapphic nature in the course of the series.
(10) Photograph: Rex Features In recent years McShane has been busy with a run of time-consuming, XL-sized special-effects blockbusters: Jack The Giant Slayer is only the latest after Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides , Snow White And The Huntsman and The Golden Compass .
(11) He's also running us though the menu, recommending the "Slayer" : 10oz of beef, chili, caremalized onions, andouille (what's that?!
(12) But this year they’re playing the Free Fringe and Bob Slayer’s Heroes venues, at ticket prices of zero pence and £6, respectively.
(13) UC Sunnydale (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 1997 to 2003) Facebook Twitter Pinterest History revision was the least of Buffy’s worries.
(14) Lately, though, she's been joined by other chart femme fatales keen to address death with all the gusto of a Slayer album.
(15) Zlatan, the slayer of the English, zips clear of Vermaelen down the inside-right channel and into the area - and wastes no time in hammering the ball into the top-right corner.
(16) When the Duke and Duchess visited Australia and New Zealand two years ago, the toddler Prince George was dubbed “the Republican Slayer”, and credited with an upswing in support for the monarchy.
(17) Four bands might come to mind: Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer and, of course, Metallica .
(18) Jack The Giant Slayer is an attempt by the director Bryan Singer to bring some Lord Of The Rings-style rustic grime to the world of fairytales.
(19) Slayer’s Angel of Death – a song about the Auschwitz torture-doctor Josef Mengele – is not a pro-Nazi song, but the dividing line between it and neo-Nazi rock is uncomfortably porous.
(20) Marcel is the oldest daughter of the film director Terry Marcel, best known for the 1981 fantasy romp Hawk the Slayer.