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Yes, play is playable

...and is worth 10 points.

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OTCWL2014 (NASPA Word List 2014)
TWL06 (NASPA List 2006)

"Play" Definition

noun

A literary work written for performance on the stage; a drama.
Action, motion, or use: the play of the imagination.
Activity engaged in for enjoyment or recreation.
An attempt to obtain something; a bid: a play for sympathy.
Fun or jesting: It was all done in play.

verb-intransitive

Music To emit sound or be sounded in performance: The band is playing.
Music To perform on an instrument: play on an accordion.
To act or conduct oneself in a specified way: play fair; an investor who plays cautiously.
To act, especially in a dramatic production.
To be performed, as in a theater or on television: A good movie is playing tonight.

verb-transitive

Music To perform (a piece) on instruments or an instrument.
Music To perform on (an instrument): play the guitar.
To assume the role of; act as: played the peacemaker at the meeting.
To attempt to keep or gain possession or control of: No foul was called because he was playing the ball.
To bet; wager: played ten dollars on the horse.

phrasal-verb

Play along Informal To cooperate or pretend to cooperate: decided to play along with the robbers for a while.
Play around To philander.
Play at To do or take part in halfheartedly.
Play at To participate in; engage in.
Play back To replay (a recently recorded tape, for example).

verb

To cause the recorded sound or image of (as a record or a magnetic tape) to be reproduced.
To discharge, fire, or set off with continuous effect .
To cause to move or operate lightly and irregularly or intermittently.
To keep (a hooked fish) in action.
To cause (as a radio or phonograph) to emit sounds.

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