PlayStation

Playstation Play Station English thumb|right|A Sony PlayStation console. Etymology From en play station; en Sony Computer Entertainment 1 1. Pronunciation en /ˈpleɪˌsteɪʃən/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-PlayStation.wav UK en eɪʃən 3 Noun en video games trademark A video game console of the PlayStation brand. en His dad bought him a Playstation 5 yesterday. en 2003 Gullible's Travels: The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist Cash Peters 55 Back then, kids didn't have TV or video games, so I guess slaughtering your mom and dad was a bit like the Playstation of its day. en January 31, 2007 Martin Fackler Hobbled by Disappointing Sales and a Loss at the Game Unit, Sony's Profit Drops 5% w:The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/technology/31sony.html While PlayStation 3 surpasses both Wii and Xbox 360 in performance and graphics, the critics say it suffers from the same problem as many other Sony products: it is overengineered, scaring away average shoppers. https://web.archive.org/web/20221126045328/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/technology/31sony.html 26 November 2022 en 2009 One Nation Under Dog Michael Schaffer 150 The Everlasting Treat Ball landed like the PlayStation of the pet products world back in 2004. en 2009 Lonely Planet Morocco Paul Clammer; Alison Bing; Anthony Sattin; Paul Stiles 38 He was obsessed with bullfighting, which was the PlayStation of the day, only considerably more dangerous; he was soon gored to death. en video games trademark The original PlayStation. Synonyms en PS Derived terms en CensorStation GayStation PlayStationer PS PS1 PS2 PS3 PS4 PS5 PSN PSP PSVR PSX Translations series of video game consoles Arabic: Gulf Arabic: afb سوني sōni, afb بليستيشن Czech: cs PlayStation m Dutch: nl PlayStation c Finnish: fi PlayStation, fi pleikkari colloquial, fi pleikka colloquial French: fr PlayStation f German: de PlayStation f Hindi: hi प्लेस्टेशन Italian: it PlayStation Japanese: ja プレイステーション Korean: ko 플레이스테이션 Marathi: mr प्लेस्टेशन Persian: fa پلی استیشن plei esteishân Polish: pl PlayStation n Portuguese: pt PlayStation mf Romanian: ro PlayStation n Russian: ru плэйстэ́йшн m f usually indeclinable, ru ПлейСте́йшен m f Spanish: es playstation Turkish: tr PlayStation Ottoman Turkish: ota پلیاستیشن PlayStation Urdu: ur پلے اسٹیشن ple isṭeśan Verb en intransitive rare To play on the PlayStation video game console. en Coexistence: Twenty-Five Years [London?] Blueprint 1999 119 https://archive.org/details/coexistencetwent0000unse/page/119/mode/1up 1-874235-43-0 Mark Bond, designer “25 years ago I was bouncing around on my Space-hopper, watching Thunderbirds and playing Kerplunk. 25 years later, I have just bought a Sacco bean-bag from Coexistence to sit on whilst Playstationing.” en Cox News Service PlayStation games can run on PC w:Dayton Daily News 123 232 Dayton, Oh. Cox Ohio Publishing 15 May 2000 2E https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/409520121/ 0897-0920 Connectix does not claim to emulate all Sony games and even the ones it does accommodate won’t necessarily run smoothly or accurately, but with a fair-sized library of perfectly compatible games, CVGS does “broaden consumer choice,” as it purports to intend, and allows for PlayStationing at work, during a long commute via one’s laptop, or at home when the TV isn’t available. en Tim Moore Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist London Abacus 2001 296 https://archive.org/details/continentaldrift0000moor/page/296/mode/1up 0 349 11464 1 A boat was moored up at one: the fairy-lit waterline cabins looked impossibly cosy, the pigtailed daughter PlayStationing on the bridge painfully evocative. en w:Chris Stead Mat Hoffman Official NZ PlayStation Magazine 44 Auckland ACP Publishing May 2001 82 https://archive.org/details/Official_NZ_PlayStation_Magazine_Issue_044_2001_05_ACP_Publishing_NZ/page/82/mode/1up 773299993 Do you fit much PlayStationing into your hectic schedule? en w:Tim Worstall Nicemongoose 2005: Blogged; Dispatches from the Blogosphere London Friday Books 2005 52 https://archive.org/details/2005bloggeddispa0000unse/page/52/mode/1up 0 95483183 7 He’ll play outside in the fresh air when he should be inside playstationing and getting asthma. en Vivian Host broken RULES w:XLR8R 88 San Francisco, Calif. Amalgam Media, Inc. June/July 2005 50 https://archive.org/details/XLR8R101/XLR8R_88/page/n26/mode/1up 1 1526-4246 “I moved in to ‘guard’ the place from vagabonds and dossers,” says [Orin] Walters, laughing. “And I turned it into a living, eating, Playstationing, music-making, smoking den for me and my mates. And that’s what we did, 24-7.” en w:Wesley Morris Dancing aside, ‘Step Up 2’ just plods w:The Boston Globe 273 45 Boston, Mass. 14 February 2008 D9 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/444165696/ 3 0743-1791 While she falls asleep studying, the rest of gang is partying and PlayStationing; en Michael Yates John Clarke Life Class [Wakefield] Nettle Books 2009 57 https://books.google.com/books?id=dUE8AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA57 978-0-9561513-0-8 And faceless Jason, Playstationing for 30 hours or more, ratcheted down from Druggie High, to twitch upon the floor. en Joanna Molloy Ring Around the Rosie days in city are long gone Daily News New York, N.Y. 19 May 2010 3 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/572380050/ 1 2692-1251 [Lenore] Skenazy wrote on her May 22 dotcom FreeRangeKids, it would be “a day to get kids outside to meet each other and relearn the lost art of playing! As opposed to PlayStationing.” en J. T. Dock Houk Life’s a Joke Pittsburgh, Pa. Dorrance Publishing Co 2015 348 https://books.google.com/books?id=kM9SCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA348 978-1-4809-1819-1 Dad comes in—Skyler is playstationing. Dad says: “What about your homework?” Skyler says: “Later. All work and no Playstation makes Jack a dull boy.” en Amanda Prowse Another Love London Head of Zeus 2016 100 https://archive.org/details/anotherlove0000prow/page/100/mode/1up 9781784972172 They laughed, thinking of their friend who had swapped his evening run for pizza eating and PlayStationing and had ballooned. Translations play on the PlayStation video game console Dutch: nl playstationen en Video games Polish pl: thumb|PlayStation Etymology pl :ubor en:PlayStation + 1 Pronunciation plejstejszyn Play.Sta.tion Noun n 1 en PlayStation any of the home consoles in Sony's PlayStation product line, especially the original PlayStation Further reading pl trademarks pl Video games Portuguese pt: Etymology pt :ubor en:PlayStation + 1 Pronunciation pleistêishon,pleistêisho<q:usually proscribed> Noun mf #s pt video games en PlayStation a video game console of the "PlayStation" brand pt Play PS pt video games en PlayStation the original PlayStation pt PlayStation 1 Play 1 PS1 Noun f - pt trademark en PlayStation video gaming brand