Play and Target

Play

Play noun - Activity engaged in to amuse oneself.

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

Target

Target noun - A person or thing that is the object of abuse, criticism, or ridicule.

Play and target are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Play" instead a noun "Target".

Nearby Words: targeted, targe, targeting

How words are described

good good play good target
nice nice play nice target
perfect perfect play perfect target
regular regular play regular target
Other adjectives: original, single, obvious, popular, actual, real, constant, big, main, new, major, final, next, last, latest, different, said.

Common collocations

hero play hero target hero
part play part target part
parts play parts target parts
way play way target way
Other words: characters.

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Pokémon Trading Card Game Zapdos's Pokemon Power deals 30 damage when it is put into play and Big Thunder deals 70 damage — except it can target your Pokémon as well and the target is chosen strictly at random.
  • Video Game / Super Robot Wars Second Person Attack: Quite a few attacks do this, probably so the animations can play fine regardless of how the target looks.
  • Sharon Kulikov, similarly to Julie, originally decides to play indiscriminately, but upon realizing that she can't bring herself to do that she resolves to only target other players.
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