Court vs Playfield - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between court and playfield

is that court is an enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley while playfield is a playing field.

As a verb court

is to seek to achieve or win.

As a proper noun Court

is an abbreviated term of respect for any court ("the Court").

court

English

Noun

(en noun)

An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.

* (1809-1892)

And round the cool green courts there ran a row / Of cloisters.

* (1800-1859)

Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court .

# A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.

(label) Royal society.

# The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

This our court , infected with their manners, / Shows like a riotous inn.

# The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you.

#* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

Love rules the court , the camp, the grove.

# Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.

#* (1800-1859)

The princesses held their court within the fortress.

Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

No solace could her paramour entreat / Her once to show, ne court , nor dalliance.

* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)

I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle.

(label) The administration of law.

# The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.

# The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.

#* {{quote-news, date=21 August 2012, first=Ed, last=Pilkington, newspaper=The Guardian

, title= Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , passage=Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?}}

# A tribunal established for the administration of justice.

# The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.

# The session of a judicial assembly.

# Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.

(label) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, squash, badminton, volleyball and some other games; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts' and the subsidiary ' courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}

Derived terms

* contempt of court * court case * court fight * court jester * courtroom * hold court * in court * out-of-court

Verb

(en verb)

To seek to achieve or win.

He was courting big new accounts that previous salesman had not attempted.

* Prescott

They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom.

* De Quincey

Guilt and misery court privacy and solitude.

To risk (a consequence, usually negative).

He courted controversy with his frank speeches.

To try to win a commitment to marry from.

* Shakespeare

If either of you both love Katharina / Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.

To engage in behavior leading to mating.

The bird was courting by making an elaborate dance.

To attempt to attract.

* Macaulay

By one person, hovever, Portland was still assiduously courted .

To attempt to gain alliance with.

To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.

She's had a few beaus come courting .

To engage in courtship behavior.

In this season, you can see many animals courting .

To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

* Tennyson

A well-worn pathway courted us / To one green wicket in a privet hedge.

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playfield

English

Noun

(en noun)

A playing field.

* 1884 , Alexander Maxwell, The History of Old Dundee

The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west...

* 1974 , Comprehensive Plan for Covington, Kentucky, and Environs

It has been recommended by some recreational specialists that there should be one such playfield for each 500 children of high school age.

The area within which a game (especially a video game) is played.

* 1977 , Popular Science magazine

The game has a tilt feature — tilt Fireball and a tilt sign glows and the scoring stops. The full-sized, full-color commercial playfield even has a special friction silk-screened surface so the ball will roll and not slide.

* 2007 , Friedrich von Borries et al'', ''Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism

In this case, the playfield is more disorienting and feels more like the maze that it is.