Used in a Sentence

playbook

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for playbook.

Editorial note

Yet, the Blackberry Playbook (running on QNX) totally screamed in performance and responsiveness in the tests against the iPad.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A book containing the text of a play or plays.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of playbook gathered in one view.

noun

A book containing the text of a play or plays.

noun

A book of games and amusements for children.

noun

(US, American football) A book of strategies (plays) for use in American football (and by extension other sports or disciplines).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for playbook.

noun

A book containing the text of a play or plays.

noun

A book of games and amusements for children.

noun

(US, American football) A book of strategies (plays) for use in American football (and by extension other sports or disciplines).

noun

(originally US, figurative) A book or (especially) any set of commonly employed tactics, strategies, and tips.

Example sentences

1

Yet, the Blackberry Playbook (running on QNX) totally screamed in performance and responsiveness in the tests against the iPad.

2

For example, in (say) an Ansible playbook, instead of (in the Dockerfile): RUN mkdir -p /path/to/some/dir...

3

Just goes to show the playbook doesn't really differ between governments, even Russian government propaganda employs the exact same techniques.

4

Now that Google's got the playbook for that rebrand down, hopefully they'll apply it to some more of their overlooked products.

5

The playbook was refactored to heavily use roles, wherein config template files are dynamically setup using inputs from inventory vars and groupvars.

6

With a single playbook, we have multiple Ansible inventory / hosts file for each environment: QA, prod.

7

You don't have to worry about the uptime of an rsync playbook.

8

Following needless violence against civilians was never in his playbook.

9

They have their playbook and cannot see outside of it to the point they are no longer able to see the world for what it is.

10

To rollback, I can just revert to the right commit and re-run ansible-playbook.

11

We have a single playbook to deploy everything, i.e.

12

Greenwald just printed the US gov propaganda playbook.

Quote examples

1

M&A is a very popular way to be seen to "do something"; it's a standard act in the CEO's keeping-your-job-for-a-while-longer playbook.

2

Lastly as more of a straight up playbook we read one of those French parenting books, "Bringing up Bebe" -- totally helped with toddler eating.

3

They sure do take a playbook from the innovation they try to foster and do new things (although it isn't necessarily "new" in the sense that other funds like this don't exist).

4

No, the way to get Apple's attention over Safari is to pull a page out of Apple's own playbook and that page should be "iOS Strategy for Flash." These days Apple doesn't negotiate with developers.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use playbook in a sentence?

Yet, the Blackberry Playbook (running on QNX) totally screamed in performance and responsiveness in the tests against the iPad.

What does playbook mean?

A book containing the text of a play or plays.

What part of speech is playbook?

playbook is commonly used as noun.