Idea and Play

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Idea noun - Something imagined or pictured in the mind.

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Play and idea are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Play" with "Idea", this nouns are similar.

Nearby Words: ideal, ideation

Play noun - Activity engaged in to amuse oneself.

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Idea and play are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Idea" instead a noun "Play".

Nearby Words: played, playful, player, playfulness, playing

old	old idea	old play
good	good idea	good play
original	original idea	original play
fair	fair idea	fair play
Other adjectives: single, rough, popular, actual, entire, real, big, great, little, bad, excellent, main, interesting, new, general, next, basic, different.

Apparently Shanley wrote the play with a very specific idea of whether or not Father Flynn is guilty, but refuses to tell anyone except the actors who play him.

Source: Theatre / Doubt
However they do play with the idea of who would play their characters if the show was real, ironically using their actual actors' names.

Source: Who Would Want to Watch Us?
The idea is that instead of connecting to the Internet, you instead meet up physically with other players to play.

Source: Scrappy Mechanic / Role-Playing Games

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