Player vs Tease - What's the difference?
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One that plays
# One who plays any game or sport.
# (theater) An actor in a dramatic play.
# (music) One who plays on a musical instrument.
# (gaming, video games) A gamer; a gamester.
# (gambling) A gambler.
# (historical) A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
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# (electronics) An electronic device or software application that plays audio and/or video media, such as CD player.
One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
A significant participant.
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(informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.
To separate the fibres of a fibrous material.
To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
To back-comb.
To poke fun at.
To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
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*:Hesuffered them to tease him into acts directly opposed to his strongest inclinations.
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*:Not by the force of carnal reason, / But indefatigable teasing .
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
To entice, to tempt.
As nouns the difference between player and tease
is that player is one that plays while tease is one who teases.As a verb tease is
to separate the fibres of a fibrous material.player
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Noun
(en noun)- He thought he could become a player , at least at the state level.
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