Play and Setting

Play

Play noun - Activity engaged in to amuse oneself.

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Setting and play are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Setting" instead a noun "Play".

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

Setting noun - The circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded.

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Play and setting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Play" instead a noun "Setting".

Nearby Words: set, settling, setter

old	old play	old setting
good	good play	good setting
full	full play	full setting
normal	normal play	normal setting
Other adjectives: regular, standard, original, single, popular, actual, entire, real, serious, dark, main, interesting, new, major, traditional, general, fictional, classic, titular, basic, different.

Camp: While the first season was a standard haunted house story with several homages, Asylum revels in the number of Horror stories it can cram into one setting and play them without irony.

Source: Series / American Horror Story: Asylum
Not only it features gunfights in a modern setting, but the modder strongly advices to play with a TPS-style camera (instead of the three-quarter from top default camera) and to install another unofficial mod which totally unlocks the game camera, even allowing to play in first-person view.

Source: Videogame / July Anarchy
All the warrior had to do was stall the game until they could play Gorehowl on one turn, then play Alexstrasza on the next turn by setting the opponent's health to 15, then give her Charge.

Source: Game Breaker / Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

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