You can picture player as 'play' plus '-er': the one that plays. Whatever 'play' means in the moment — taking part in a game, performing music, acting on a stage, even a machine running back a recording — a player is simply the of that playing. Hold that one frame ('the one who plays') and all the senses fall into place.
From the word’s history
Player is 'play' + the agent suffix '-er' (the one who does X), the same pattern as teach→teacher, sing→singer. So every sense is literally 'a player = one who plays', the meaning of 'play' shifting from games to music to performance to a machine playing a recording.
player 就是 play 加上表示「做某事的人／物」的字尾 -er，和 teach→teacher、sing→singer 是同一套構詞法。所以每個義項字面上都是「進行 play 的那一方」，差別只在 play 當下指的是比賽、音樂、演出、還是機器替你播放錄音。
Etymonline (etymonline.com/word/player) / Merriam-Webster
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原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Playername
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A surname originating as an occupation for a sportsman.
playernoun/ˈpleɪ.ə(ɹ)/
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One that plays.
- He is a player for the Australian team.
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entertainmentlifestyletheaterOne that plays.
- All the world's a ſtage, / And all the men and women, merely Players
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entertainmentlifestylemusicOne that plays.
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gamesgamingvideo-gamesOne that plays.
- He is an avid Minecraft player.
- The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.
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gamblinggamesOne that plays.
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historicalOne that plays.
- But up to this time the application of the player mechanism had been confined to reed instruments, the piano manufacturers having successfully resisted the introduction of the player mechanism into the piano; but, in the meantime, the manufacturers of players had grown strong and the manufacturers were beginning to properly interpret the handwriting on the wall
- A Technical Treatise on Piano Player Mechanism" contains detailed description of the various types of interior and exterior players, embracing manual, pneumatic, automatic, mechanical and electric
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businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityOne that plays.
- Is your CD player broken, or is this one disc damaged?
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computingengineeringmathematicsOne that plays.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
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One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
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A participant; one involved in something.
- He thought he could become a player, at least at the state level.
- a major player in the direct banking sector
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A participant; one involved in something.
- In this space we explored lesbian sadomasochism, met other S/M women who were serious players, had access to safe equipment and, through watching other women, learned new techniques.
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informalA person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.
- 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
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。