Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A player in a sport with goals, such as a guard in basketball, who initiates offensive plays.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A writer of plays.
Wiktionary
- n. dated A playwright.
- n. US, sports A sportsman who leads attacks for his team and creates chances to score.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare A playwright.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a player in a team sport who leads attacks or maneuvers in such a way that a teammate can score
Examples
“But the 6-4 junior was the one consistent threat the Cougars had throughout and emerged as the likely main playmaker for this fall.”
“Although Landesberg is great with the ball, I see his strength as being a scorer — and then secondarily a playmaker from the wing position.”
“Unlike last summer, when training camp was a hectic crash course after McNair arrived in mid-June following an acrimonious divorce from the Titans, Baltimore's most important playmaker is rested and acclimated.”
“This 6-foot playmaker is little only on conventional scales.”
“In fact, the young and restless Nets might be the conference's only consistent contender for the immediate future — as long as a certain playmaker doesn't pick up his dribble and head for the door.”
“' They work hard, '' McNabb said of the often-maligned receiving group that's lacked a big-name playmaker since Terrell Owens was kicked off the team in 2005.”
“Although the newcomers do not include a striker, they do include a new goalkeeper, David De Gea from Atletico Madrid, and Ferguson might still reel in Dutch playmaker Wesley Sneijder from Inter Milan.”
“Say what you want but that to me spells out playmaker, which is what you want in the NFL.”
“A gifted player previously known as a playmaker first and a scorer second tied for his first”
“Their playmaker has been a key figure in this, as authoritative from open play as he is from set-pieces.”
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Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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