play up
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent
The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics
Types & categories
- set off hypernym
Related & opposite
- background antonym
- highlighter derivation
- highlighter derivation
- highlighting derivation
- foreground derivation
- highlight derivation
- limelight derivation
Sense 2 verb
ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior
She is playing up to the chairman
Types & categories
- ingratiate hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | background |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | highlighter |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | highlighter |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | highlighting |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | foreground |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | highlight |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | limelight |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | set off |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | ingratiate |