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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
interplay
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
complex
▪ Street pickups were delicate courting dances, comprising a complex interplay of attraction and feared rejection.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ There's a lot of wonderful interplay between the writer and his characters.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interplay

Interplay \In`ter*play`\, n. Mutual action or influence; interaction; as, the interplay of affection.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
interplay

1862, from inter- + play. "Reciprocal play," thus "free interaction."

Wiktionary
interplay

n. interaction vb. to interact

WordNet
interplay

n. reciprocal action and reaction

Wikipedia
Interplay

To interplay is to interact.

Interplay may refer to:

  • Interplay (John Coltrane album), a 1957 album by jazz musician John Coltrane
  • Interplay (ballet), Jerome Robbins, 1945
  • Interplay (Bill Evans album), a 1962 album by jazz musician Bill Evans
  • Interplay Records, label associated with Horace Tapscott
  • Interplay Entertainment, video game publisher
  • World Interplay, an Australian young playwrights festival
  • Interplay Europe, a festival for young playwrights in Europe
Interplay (ballet)

Interplay is a ballet in one act made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently ballet master of New York City Ballet, for Billy Rose's Concert Varieties to Morton Gould's 1945 American Concertette. The premiere took place on Friday, 1 June 1945 at the Ziegfeld Theatre, New York. It was taken into the repertory of the American Ballet Theatre and presented on Wednesday, 17 October that year with costumes by Irene Sharaff. It has been revived for the City Ballet on Tuesday, 23 December 1952 at City Center of Music and Drama.

Interplay (Bill Evans album)

Interplay is a 1963 album by jazz musician Bill Evans. It was recorded in July and August 1962 in NYC for Riverside Records. The Interplay Sessions is a 1982 album that includes this album as well as some sessions recorded on August 21-22 of the same year for Milestone Records (also with Philly Joe Jones and Jim Hall, but with Zoot Sims [tenor saxophone] and Ron Carter replacing Percy Heath on bass).

The Interplay Sessions peaked at #26 on the Billboard Jazz Albums charts in 1983. The CD reissue Interplay adds another take of "I'll Never Smile Again" as a bonus track. At the Grammy Awards of 1984, Orrin Keepnews won the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for the reissue.

Usage examples of "interplay".

This interplay of hues begins with the appearance of a tenuous brushstroke of lavender on the horizon.

I was now merely a spectator, and from my couch in the big room I could lie and watch the human interplay with that detached, impassive, impersonal feeling which French writers tell us is so valuable to the litterateur, and American writers to the faro-dealer.

But the younger Wiener, though still years shy of his fellow postdoctoral students, enjoyed the spirited discussions, held his own in them, and the interplay helped greatly to improve his social skills.

The movie always keeps our interest because of the interplay between Powell and prot, as the Doctor alternates between belief in alien visitation, and his professional hunch that Prot is simply a human repressing a past trauma.

The most effective strategy for rechanneling that energy consists of six elements that interplay with one another.

Nature, like the interplay of signs and resemblances, is closed in upon itself in conformity with the duplicated form of the cosmos.

You have missionaries, native schoolmasters, employers of coolies, traders, simple downright men, who scarcely suspect the existence of any sources of error in their verdicts, who are incapable of understanding the difference between what is innate and what is acquired, much less of distinguishing them in their interplay.

The lack of ordinary consensus for the component elements was brought forth dramatically by an interplay of positive and negative emphasis placed on the views of onlookers who observed my behaviour during the course of that first state of nonordinary reality.

Nature outside man had taught him that life on all levels takes it course in a perpetual interplay of opposites, manifested externally in an interplay of diastole and systole comparable to the process of breathing.

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life, and all our Utopias no more than schemes for bettering that interplay.

What we call 'seeing' is far more the result of an interplay between the retina carrying the nerves, and the choroid carrying the blood-vessels.

CONADOTROPHINS As with the corticoids and with thyroxine, there is an interplay between the various sex hormones and the pituitary.

The epigenetic interplay of DNA and culture was now changing people so fast that even a century was enough to make a measurable difference.

The interplay between the estrogens (or androgens) and the various pituitary gonadotrophins is exceedingly complex.

The foyer was spacious and striking, with light and free-flowing modern designs interplaying in a harmony of colors and motion.