player (redirected from Market Players)

play·er  (plr)

n.

1. One that plays, especially:

a. One who participates in a game or sport.

b. A gambler.

c. One who performs in theatrical roles.

d. One who plays a musical instrument.

2. An active participant: a major player in world affairs.

3. The mechanism actuating a player piano.

4. A machine that reproduces recorded audio or audio-visual material.

5. Slang One who actively seeks out sexual partners and carries on a number of sexual affairs at the same time.

---

player [ˈpleɪə]

n

1. (General Sporting Terms) a person who participates in or is skilled at some game or sport

2. (General Sporting Terms) a person who plays a game or sport professionally

3. (Music, other) a person who plays a musical instrument

4. (Performing Arts) an actor

5. Informal a participant, esp a powerful one, in a particular field of activity a leading city player

6. (Electronics) See record player

7. (Music / Instruments) the playing mechanism in a Pianola

---

Player [ˈpleɪə]

n

(Biographies / Player, Gary (1935 M, South African, SPORT AND GAMES: golfer) Gary (ˈgærɪ). born 1935, South African professional golfer: won the British Open Championship (1959; 1968; 1974) and the US Open Championship (1965)

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	player - a person who participates in or is skilled at some game participant contestant - a person who participates in competitions ballplayer, baseball player - an athlete who plays baseball billiard player - someone who plays billiards bowler - a player who rolls balls down an alley at pins card player - someone who plays (or knows how to play) card games chess player - someone who plays the game of chess dart player - someone who plays the game of darts football player, footballer - an athlete who plays American football golf player, golfer, linksman - someone who plays the game of golf grandmaster - a player of exceptional or world class skill in chess or bridge hockey player, ice-hockey player - an athlete who plays hockey lacrosse player - an athlete who plays lacrosse most valuable player, MVP - the player judged to be the most important to the sport playmaker - a player in a team sport who leads attacks or maneuvers in such a way that a teammate can score pool player - someone who shoots pool scorer - a player who makes a score in a game or contest seeded player, seed - one of the outstanding players in a tournament server - (court games) the player who serves to start a point shooter - (sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket) soccer player - an athlete who plays soccer stringer - a member of a squad on a team; "a first stringer"; "a second stringer" tennis player - an athlete who plays tennis volleyball player - someone who plays the game of volleyball
	2.	player - someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession) instrumentalist, musician musical group, musical organisation, musical organization - an organization of musicians who perform together accompanist, accompanyist - a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) accordionist - a musician who plays the accordion bandsman - a player in a band (especially a military band) bassist - a musician who play the bass viol bassoonist - a musician who plays the bassoon bell ringer - someone who plays musical handbells carillonneur - a musician who plays a carillon cellist, violoncellist - someone who plays a violoncello clarinetist, clarinettist - a musician who plays the clarinet flautist, flute player, flutist - someone who plays the flute gambist - a musician who performs upon the viola da gamba guitar player, guitarist - a musician who plays the guitar harmoniser, harmonizer - a musician who sings or plays in harmony harper, harpist - someone who plays the harp harpsichordist - someone who plays the harpsichord hornist - a musician who plays a horn (especially a French horn) jazz musician, jazzman - a musician who plays or composes jazz music keyboardist - a musician who plays a keyboard instrument koto player - a musician who plays the koto lutanist, lutenist, lutist - a musician who plays the lute oboist - a musician who plays the oboe organist - a person who plays an organ percussionist - a musician who plays percussion instruments performer, performing artist - an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience pianist, piano player - a person who plays the piano bagpiper, piper - someone who plays the bagpipe recorder player - someone who plays the recorder rhythm and blues musician - a performer (and sometimes composer) of rhythm and blues music rock 'n' roll musician, rocker - a performer or composer or fan of rock music saxist, saxophonist - a musician who plays the saxophone singer, vocalist, vocalizer, vocaliser - a person who sings sitar player - a musician who plays the sitar soloist - a musician who performs a solo trombone player, trombonist - a musician who plays the trombone cornetist, trumpeter - a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet vibist, vibraphonist - a musician who plays the vibraphone fiddler, violinist - a musician who plays the violin violist - a musician who plays the viola
	3.	player - a theatrical performer               actor, histrion, thespian, role player actress - a female actor barnstormer, play-actor, playactor, trouper - an actor who travels around the country presenting plays character actor - an actor who specializes in playing supporting roles comedian - an actor in a comedy ham actor, ham - an unskilled actor who overacts heavy - an actor who plays villainous roles ingenue - an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl leading man - actor who plays the leading male role mime, mimer, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist - an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression performer, performing artist - an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience plant - an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience reenactor - a person who enacts a role in an event that occurred earlier scene-stealer - an actor who draws more attention than other actors in the same scene; "babies are natural scene-stealers" movie actor, screen actor - an actor who plays a role in a film principal, star, lead - an actor who plays a principal role extra, spear carrier, supernumerary - a minor actor in crowd scenes tragedian - an actor who specializes in tragic roles understudy, standby - an actor able to replace a regular performer when required upstager - a selfish actor who upstages the other actors walk-on - plays a small part in a dramatic production
	4.	player - a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
	5.	player - an important participant (as in a business deal); "he was a major player in setting up the corporation" business enterprise, commercial enterprise, business - the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business" participant - someone who takes part in an activity

---

player

noun

1. sportsman or sportswoman, competitor, participant, contestant, team member top chess players

2. musician, artist, performer, virtuoso, instrumentalist, music maker a professional trumpet player

3. performer, entertainer, Thespian, trouper, actor or actress Oscar nominations went to all five leading players

Translations

player [ˈpleɪəʳ] N

1. (Sport) → jugador(a) m/f
football player → jugador(a) m/f de fútbol, futbolista mf

2. (Theat) → actor m, actriz f

3. (Mus) → músico/a m/f
violin/piano player → violinista mf/pianista mf

---

player [ˈpleɪə^r] n

[sport, game] → joueur/euse m/f
a football player → un joueur de football

(THEATRE) → acteur/trice m/f

(MUSIC) → joueur/euse m/f
a piano player → un joueur de piano
a saxophone player → un joueur de saxophone
a trumpet player → un joueur de trompette

(fig) (= protagonist) → acteur m
a key player → un acteur clé
America is a key player in the negotiations → L'Amérique est un acteur clé dans les négociations.
player-manager [ˈpleɪə^rˈmænɪdʒə^r] n → joueur-entraîneur m

---

player

n

(Sport, Mus) → Spieler(in) m(f); (Theat) → Schauspieler(in) m(f); one of the main or major players in … (fig) → einer der Hauptakteure in … (+dat)

(inf: = ladies’ man) → Aufreißer(typ) m (inf)

---

player [ˈpleɪəʳ] n (Sport) → giocatore/trice (Mus) → musicista m/f (Theatre) → attore/trice
players of musical instruments → suonatori di strumenti musicali
football player → calciatore/trice
piano player → pianista m/f

---

player → آلة عَزْف, لاعب hráč musiker, spiller Spieler οργανοπαίχτης, παίκτης instrumentista, jugador pelaaja, soittaja joueur igrač, svirač giocatore, musicista 演奏者, 選手 선수, 연주자 speler musiker, spiller gracz, zawodnik jogador, músico игрок, исполнитель musiker, spelare นักกีฬา, นักดนตรี müzisyen, oyuncu cầu thủ, người chơi nhạc 演奏者, 运动员