playground
- noun
- /ˈpleɪˌɡraʊnd/
- Specialized
- The project should aim to depend on the already componentized Plone packages yet still provide the playground for reinvention.
We have the Circuit Playground Express from Adafruit.
- We have the Circuit Playground Express from Adafruit.
- Another little game we tried is called Quantum Playground, which also runs in your browser.
- So you can have the science, the the the playground to test your ideas and you can have the synthetic scientist.
- Are the experimental playground of your culinary exploits.
- OK, do I have to take, do I have to take this Petri dish to the playground and give it snacks all day?
- And then from there he put them on and he let Jim buck wild and Living Color was a playground.
Examples
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The software developers used a playground to test their new application without risks to the live environment.
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Since first being produced four years ago, Bose-Einstein condensates of dilute gases have provided a rich playground for exploring atomic, quantum, and many-body physics.
Academic text (1999) -
Another little game we tried is called Quantum Playground, which also runs in your browser.
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The library media center offers a reasoning playground.
Academic text (2007) -
At launch, Windows 8 feels like a brand-new playground built in an affluent retirement complex.
Blog text (14) -
Three-dimensional worlds such as Teen Second Life provide a creative playground where learners create objects, test ideas, and collaborate with others. L: THE POTENTIAL
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Zynga.com is Zynga's "all-in-one" playground for its Facebook games outside of Facebook.
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In our coding playground, you can explore different programming languages freely and without constraints.
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He created a virtual playground where users can experiment with their code safely.
Synonyms
A safe area on a computer where new or unsafe programs can run
A place where people try new ideas or products to see if they work
A computer environment where developers test code before release
A place set up to try new ideas or products before they are used more widely
A program where you type code and see results right away
A test system that copies the live system for final checks before release
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Etymology
Playground is also used for a safe area to try things, especially in software, keeping the idea of a 'ground for play' where it is okay to experiment without damage. So a coding playground is a place to test code and learn without breaking real systems.