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My career was exploding at the same time that social media itself was expanding. But when my online videos were taking off, I didn't think, 'Oh, great! I'm going to be able to parlay this into a career!' I just wanted to be a comedian. I just wanted to perform live.
Bo Burnham

Meaning of "parlay" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PARLAY

Variant of paroli, via French from Neapolitan Italian parolo, from paro a pair, from Latin pār equal, par.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PARLAY

parlay  [ˈpɑːlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARLAY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Parlay is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb parlay in English.

WHAT DOES PARLAY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of parlay in the English dictionary

The first definition of parlay in the dictionary is to stake on a subsequent wager Brit equivalent: double up. Other definition of parlay is to exploit to achieve worldly success. Parlay is also a bet in which winnings from one wager are staked on another, or a series of such bets.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PARLAY

PRESENT

Present
I parlay
you parlay
he/she/it parlays
we parlay
you parlay
they parlay
Present continuous
I am parlaying
you are parlaying
he/she/it is parlaying
we are parlaying
you are parlaying
they are parlaying
Present perfect
I have parlayed
you have parlayed
he/she/it has parlayed
we have parlayed
you have parlayed
they have parlayed
Present perfect continuous
I have been parlaying
you have been parlaying
he/she/it has been parlaying
we have been parlaying
you have been parlaying
they have been parlaying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I parlayed
you parlayed
he/she/it parlayed
we parlayed
you parlayed
they parlayed
Past continuous
I was parlaying
you were parlaying
he/she/it was parlaying
we were parlaying
you were parlaying
they were parlaying
Past perfect
I had parlayed
you had parlayed
he/she/it had parlayed
we had parlayed
you had parlayed
they had parlayed
Past perfect continuous
I had been parlaying
you had been parlaying
he/she/it had been parlaying
we had been parlaying
you had been parlaying
they had been parlaying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will parlay
you will parlay
he/she/it will parlay
we will parlay
you will parlay
they will parlay
Future continuous
I will be parlaying
you will be parlaying
he/she/it will be parlaying
we will be parlaying
you will be parlaying
they will be parlaying
Future perfect
I will have parlayed
you will have parlayed
he/she/it will have parlayed
we will have parlayed
you will have parlayed
they will have parlayed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been parlaying
you will have been parlaying
he/she/it will have been parlaying
we will have been parlaying
you will have been parlaying
they will have been parlaying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would parlay
you would parlay
he/she/it would parlay
we would parlay
you would parlay
they would parlay
Conditional continuous
I would be parlaying
you would be parlaying
he/she/it would be parlaying
we would be parlaying
you would be parlaying
they would be parlaying
Conditional perfect
I would have parlay
you would have parlay
he/she/it would have parlay
we would have parlay
you would have parlay
they would have parlay
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been parlaying
you would have been parlaying
he/she/it would have been parlaying
we would have been parlaying
you would have been parlaying
they would have been parlaying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you parlay
we let´s parlay
you parlay
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to parlay
Past participle
parlayed
Present Participle
parlaying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PARLAY


Bali
ˈbɑːlɪ
barley
ˈbɑːlɪ
Charley
ˈtʃɑːlɪ
charlie
ˈtʃɑːlɪ
Dali
ˈdɑːlɪ
Denali
dɪˈnɑːlɪ
Diwali
dɪˈwɑːlɪ
finale
fɪˈnɑːlɪ
Ghazali
ˈɡɑːzˌɑːlɪ
Harley
ˈhɑːlɪ
Mali
ˈmɑːlɪ
Marley
ˈmɑːlɪ
marly
ˈmɑːlɪ
Mexicali
ˌmɛksɪˈkɑːlɪ
Pali
ˈpɑːlɪ
parley
ˈpɑːlɪ
quale
ˈkwɑːlɪ
Somali
səʊˈmɑːlɪ
tamale
təˈmɑːlɪ
wali
ˈwɑːlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARLAY

parlance
parlando
parle
parlement
parley
parleyer
parleyvoo
parliament
parliament building
parliament house
parliamentarian
parliamentarianism
parliamentarily
parliamentarism
parliamentary
parliamentary agent
parliamentary candidate
Parliamentary Commissioner
Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
parliamentary democracy

WORDS THAT END LIKE PARLAY

airplay
Barclay
child´s play
clay
colour separation overlay
cosplay
delay
display
foreplay
gameplay
interlay
lay
Malay
outlay
overlay
play
relay
replay
role-play
underlay

Synonyms and antonyms of parlay in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «parlay» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PARLAY

Find out the translation of parlay to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of parlay from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «parlay» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Parlay的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

parlay
570 millions of speakers

English

parlay
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दाँव
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

استثمارها
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Экспресс
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

parlay
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

parlay
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

réemployer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Parlay
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Parlay
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

増やす
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

팔레
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngguyu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xâu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எதிரியுடன் கலந்து பேசு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

istismar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

parlay
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Parlay
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Експрес
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pariu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παρολί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

parlay
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Parlay
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

parlay
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of parlay

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PARLAY»

The term «parlay» is regularly used and occupies the 79.626 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PARLAY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about parlay

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2 QUOTES WITH «PARLAY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word parlay.
1
Bo Burnham
My career was exploding at the same time that social media itself was expanding. But when my online videos were taking off, I didn't think, 'Oh, great! I'm going to be able to parlay this into a career!' I just wanted to be a comedian. I just wanted to perform live.
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Bailey Chase
George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARLAY»

Discover the use of parlay in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to parlay and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Parlay/OSA: From Standards to Reality
" - Chelo Abarca, former 3GPP CN5 (OSA) chair "This book provides the most comprehensive and useful description to date of what Parlay/OSA is and what it can do." - Marc LeClerc, Chairman of the Parlay Marketing Work-Group.
Musa Unmehopa, Kumar Vemuri, Andy Bennett, 2006
2
Parlay Your IRA into a Family Fortune: 3 EASY STEPS for ...
"America 's IRA expert"(Mutual Funds magazine) Ed Slott shows readers how to make the most out of their retirement plans.
Ed Slott, 2005
3
Programming converged networks: call control in Java, XML, ...
Examines next generation APIs in detail Provides broad coverage of several different call models and APIs, including JAIN, JTAPI, JCC, and Parlay Discusses technical trade-offs involved in call control modeling and services Sample call ...
Ravi Jain, John-Luc Bakker, Farooq Anjum, 2005
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Mobile and Wireless Communications: Key Technologies and ...
Parlay X Web Services are application interfaces and do not provide an implementation of AAA (authentication, authorisation and accounting), service level agreements, or other environment-specific capabilities — rather, they rely on proven ...
Peter Smyth, 2004
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The Passions of Fortune, The Fairy Tales of Ambassador Parlay
Ambassador Parlay. white coat, causing snow men to rise from their cold graves. The love between Heather and Patrick deepened, like layers upon the earth, and Troy's desire to be an explorer increased as he grew into a tall, muscular body ...
Ambassador Parlay
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Networking - ICN 2001: First International Conference on ...
This can be further enhanced by adding a Parlay-API [18] to the SIP server in order to execute servlets via a Corba interface on a web server. A web browser can be used for customer control of the services — in what can be regarded as a  ...
Pascal Lorenz, 2001
7
Betting the Line: Sports Wagering in American Life
Teasers can also be played on special teaser parlay cards in the same way that off-the-board straight bets can be played on regular parlay cards. Teaser parlay cards come in two forms: the regular teaser, with the point spread moved 6 points  ...
Richard O. Davies, Richard G. Abram, 2001
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Services Computing
the Parlay group, Parlay X is an open architecture that abstracts and simplifies the Parlay specifications oriented to the Web services technologies. In detail, Parlay X [49] abstracts telecom network capabilities and masks the telecom- specific ...
Liang-Jie Zhang, Jia Zhang, Hong Cai, 2008
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Service Provision: Technologies for Next Generation ...
Parlay Application Server Applications 3 4 Services Framework Admin Service 2 Admin Parlay Gateway 5 1 Telecom Voice Infrastructure Telecom Data Infrastructure which subscribers can handle high-quality voice and video streams .
Kenneth J. Turner, Evan H. Magill, David J. Marples, 2005
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The Open Mobile Alliance: Delivering Service Enablers for ...
architectural concepts, rather than details of the individual Parlay interfaces. For an in-depth study of the Parlay architecture, the reader is referred to [Unmehopa 2006]. There are many aspects to Parlay, but on the highest level, Parlay is ...
Michael Brenner, Musa Unmehopa, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARLAY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term parlay is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Police say suspect's bounced check led to a woman's fatal shooting …
Those who worked with Obioha say he came off as eager and professional but seemed to have questionable motives, trying to parlay his ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
2
BYU football: Here is No. 14 on Jared Lloyd's Countdown to Camp
Lapuaho started eight games up front as a freshman and should be able to parlay that experience into a much greater role in 2015. If he can be ... «Daily Herald, Jul 15»
3
Leesburg native Mary Katherine Fechtel prepares for Miss America
Fechtel hopes to parlay her interest in law and politics into a career as an international human rights lawyer. For now, her attention is on Atlantic ... «Daily Commercial, Jul 15»
4
Strauss: Miller comes up on short end of matchup
Saturday became the ultimate desertion. The Braves failed to parlay six hits and an intentional walk into a run during Martinez's eight innings. «STLtoday.com, Jul 15»
5
Miller: Colorado in the lens
Scott Walker hopes to parlay his war on the middle class into a bid for the White House. Crazy Florida, wacky North Carolina, loony California, ... «The Denver Post, Jul 15»
6
Republican presidential race: Why so many long shots are running
... a point in his life where you give it a try, and when you don't embarrass yourself you can parlay that into other things," O'Connell said. «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
7
'19KAC' Jim Bob & Michelle Duggar New TV Show Planned after …
According to the latest gossip news updates, the uber-religious reality stars are hoping to parlay the network's upcoming abuse special into a ... «Classicalite, Jul 15»
8
Share this Article
... Iran's “supreme leader” in every respect — would not have allowed his puppets to parlay with American and European representatives in the ... «Algemeiner, Jul 15»
9
Planned Parenthood
These atrocities are occurring: a sophisticated and highly practiced system of “harvesting” babies' body parts and organs; a retail money parlay ... «Belleville News-Democrat, Jul 15»
10
A Wednesday Night Webcast to Saturday $25K Parlay?
This week, I took a big step in my NHC journey, by taking down the DerbyWars $5,000 Wednesday Night Webcast. The victory has been ... «Horse Racing Nation, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Parlay [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/parlay>. Apr 2024 ».
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