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# playlist

«playlist» in Mova's school dictionary: **a list of songs or videos chosen to be played one after…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a playlist, playlists); verb (playlist, rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A playlist is a list of songs or videos chosen to be played one after another, on a phone, music app or the radio. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playlist/#m1)

2) (radio) A playlist is the list of songs a radio station has chosen to play often. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playlist/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, children make playlists for parties, car journeys, exercise or sleep. In computing lessons, a playlist is an example of a list or sequence, where order matters and items can be added, removed or shuffled. In maths, you can work out how long a playlist lasts by adding song lengths. Phrases: «make a playlist», «add to the playlist», «shuffle the playlist».

### examples

- I made a playlist for our road trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playlist/#x1)
- Add that song to my playlist! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playlist/#x2)
- The party playlist lasted three hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playlist/#x3)
- Shuffle the playlist so the songs come in a random order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playlist/#x4)
- Our teacher has a calm playlist for writing time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playlist/#x5)
- My playlist has twelve songs of about three minutes each, so it lasts about 36 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playlist/#x6)

### note

Countable noun, written as one word. In maths problems, the total time of a playlist = the sum of the song lengths; remember 60 seconds = 1 minute when adding minutes and seconds.

### In the corpora

- [A playlist made only from your old habits rarely brings you something truly new.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «playlist» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playlist/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.