Associations to the word «Byplay»

Wiktionary

BYPLAY, noun. (theatre) Any action, carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action.

Dictionary definition

BYPLAY, noun. Incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky