Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Time for playing; time devoted to or set aside for amusement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Time for play or diversion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Time for
play ordiversion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun time for play or diversion
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Examples
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Video game console makers (Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony) also earned an "A" for including parental controls, built-in playtime timers and parental education.
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The saved game had a running counter on the amount of time played and i believe it was 32hr at the last count (i need to double check). but my actual playtime is definitely much much higher since there are quite a few instances where i screwed up and forgot to save or died and had to redo. i bought the game last tuesday, so it's safe to say that 6 days is pretty close. but i also had help from gamebanshee. com on some of the more tedious puzzles also. looking back, i think i got most of the early side quests, but i missed a lot of the side quests in the later part of the game -- especially those that depended on your travelling to some planets before others to get the quests ...
SW KotOR: Whew, what a ride! Peter 2003
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I think there are a lot of people in the DoJ and the military that have forgotten that Bush isn’t President anymore and that playtime is over ….
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I think there are a lot of people in the DoJ and the military that have forgotten that Bush isn’t President anymore and that playtime is over ….
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They are superlative versions of the kids we once were, and the choreography recalls playtime from long ago.
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The playtime is a distraction from what happened upstairs a few minutes earlier.
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They are superlative versions of the kids we once were, and the choreography recalls playtime from long ago.
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His father taught him acting, but as a kid he remembers it as a kind of playtime with the old man.
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I know there are those like He-Man which are designed for active use, but often when one thinks "action figure", one doesn't necessarily associate it with "playtime".
Dolls - Action Figures fantasyecho 2008
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If it's true that the SNP have now included 'playtime' in the promised 2 hours of P.E. at school then I'm afraid that has to go down as a big fail and a few more laps around the block are required while they think about what they have done and what they intend to do.
Anyone for Tennis? Jeff 2009
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