different between player vs matchmaking

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

Alternative forms

• match-making

Etymology

match +? making

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?mæt??me?k??/

Noun

matchmaking (countable and uncountable, plural matchmakings)

1. An attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage.
   • 1851: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

     The marriage was highly approved of by Mrs. Shelby, who, with a little womanly complacency in match-making, felt pleased to unite her handsome favorite with one of her own class who seemed in every way suited to her;

   • 2001: The Gilmore Girls (TV, episode 1.18)

     Patty, your timing is excellent. There's Claude over there. Want me to do some matchmaking?

   • 1815: Jane Austen, Emma

     I planned the match from that hour; and when such success has blessed me in this instance, dear papa, you cannot think that I shall leave off match-making.

2. (business) A service aiming to bring together sellers and buyers or potential partners.
   • 1971: Eunice L. Watson and Arthur Cope Emlem, Matchmaking in Neighborhood Day Care: A Descriptive Study of the Day Care Neighbor Service [1]

     ... there was evidence that they did provide information for day care matchmaking to the potential users and givers of care.

3. (video games) The act or process of locating suitable players to take part in a multiplayer game session.
4. The manufacture of matches for kindling or burning.

Related terms

• matchmake
• matchmaker

Translations

Verb

matchmaking

1. present participle of matchmake