different between player vs claret

English

Etymology

From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English ple?ere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), equivalent to play +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ple??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ple??(?)/
• Rhymes: -e??(?)
• Hyphenation: play?er

Noun

player (plural players)

1. One that plays
   1. One who plays any game or sport.
   2. (theater) An actor in a dramatic play.
   3. (music) One who plays on a musical instrument.
   4. (gaming, video games) A gamer; a gamester.
   5. (gambling) A gambler.
   6. (historical) A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
   7. (electronics) An electronic device that plays audio and/or video media, such as CD player.
   8. (computing) A software application that plays audio and/or video media, such as media player.
2. One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
3. A participant; one involved in something.

   He thought he could become a player, at least at the state level.
4. (informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.
   • 1977 March 24, Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, “Dreams”, Warner Bros.:

     Thunder only happens when it’s rainin’ / Players only love you when they’re playin’ / Say women, they will come and they will go / When the rain washes you clean, you’ll know

Synonyms

• (one who plays; (game) participant; athlete): laker
• (one who plays the field): See Thesaurus:libertine

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• baller

Anagrams

• Rapley, parley, pearly, prelay, replay

Middle English

Noun

player

1. Alternative form of pleyer

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English player.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?plej.e?/

Noun

player m (plural players)

1. (Brazil) (electronics) player (electronic device or software application that plays media)

   Synonyms: tocador, leitor

2. (video games) player (a person or artificial intelligence that competes in a video game)

   Synonym: jogador

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:player.

English

Etymology

From Middle English claret, from Middle French claret, from Medieval Latin claratum vinum, from Latin clarus.

Compare tent (“Spanish red wine”), also from color

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klæ??t/, /?klæ??t/ IPA^(key): /kl????t/
• (hyperforeign) IPA^(key): /?klæ??/, /?klæ??/, /kl????/

Noun

claret (countable and uncountable, plural clarets)

1. (chiefly Britain) A dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, or a similar wine made elsewhere.
   • The New Sporting Magazine (volume 15, page 23)

     The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.
2. A deep purplish-red colour, like that of the wine.

3. (Britain, colloquial) Blood.

Synonyms

• (wine): traditional dry red (Australia)

Translations

See also

• (regional wine): hock, sack, tent

Adjective

claret (comparative more claret, superlative most claret)

1. Of a deep purplish-red colour, like that of claret.

Derived terms

• claret cup
• claret-coloured

Verb

claret (third-person singular simple present clarets, present participle clareting, simple past and past participle clareted)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To drink claret.
   • 1814, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron

     We clareted and champagned till two—then supped, and finished with a kind of regency punch composed of madeira, brandy, and green tea, no real water being admitted therein. There was a night for you!

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

References

• Paper from the Winemakers’ Federation of Australia on generic wine terminology
• Oxford Companion to Wine – Claret

References

Anagrams

• arclet, cartel, lacert, rectal

Latin

Verb

cl?ret

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of cl?r?

Middle English

Alternative forms

• clerat, clerote, cleret

Etymology

Old French claret, from Medieval Latin claratum (vinum).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klar?t/

Noun

claret (plural clarets)

1. clary (Salvia sclarea)
2. clary water

References

• “claret, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

Adjective

claret

1. (referring to wine) pink, pink-purple, light

Descendants

• English: claret

References

• “claret, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also