Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Reciprocal action and reaction; interaction.
- intransitive verb To act or react on each other; interact.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Reciprocal action or influence; interchange of action and reaction, as between the parts of a machine; concurrent operation or procedure; interaction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Mutual action or influence; interaction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
interaction - verb to
interact
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun reciprocal action and reaction
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Examples
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Brilliant one-touch interplay is thrown into higher relief when confronted by opponents favouring a straightforward, even rugged approach.
Football has a duty to disarm its human missiles Richard Williams 2010
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The swaggering physicality, in interplay with the vaguely skinhead-like attire, helps ratchet up the tension.
Theater review: Taffety Punk's all-female 'Julius Caesar' Celia Wren 2010
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"I'm interested to find out what the interplay is between them," Saluti said, declining to comment on whether Welch was at the party.
Nicholas Welch, Suspect In Seton Hall Shooting, Pleads Guilty; Second Suspect Arrested In Pa. AP 2010
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"I'm interested to find out what the interplay is between them," Mr. Saluti said, declining to comment on whether Mr. Welch was at the party.
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The character interplay is a large part of the appeal for me, as the different personalities in various combinations raise different moods.
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"I'm interested to find out what the interplay is between them," Saluti said, declining to comment on whether Welch was at the party.
Nicholas Welch, Suspect In Seton Hall Shooting, Pleads Guilty; Second Suspect Arrested In Pa. AP 2010
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But because the performers are so adept and their interplay is so natural, the resonance of the writing is fully realized.
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Extended Caption 13Another telling example of this interplay is found in the northeast corner of the Gubbio studiolo, in the cabinet of measuring devices surmounted by the word INGENIOQ.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Ying sticks with video, but his sense of formal interplay is conceptually rich, marking him as one of the more auspicious Chinese talents since Jia Zhangke.
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But the nature of that interplay is infinitely more complex in an art form like Blake's in which verbal and visual texts make simultaneous and often quite different demands upon the reader.
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