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# playlist

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

«playlist» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playlist/#m2)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playlist/#x1)
- Add that song to my playlist! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playlist/#x2)
- The party playlist lasted three hours. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playlist/#x3)
- Shuffle the playlist so the songs come in a random order. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playlist/#x4)
- Our teacher has a calm playlist for writing time. [tree →](https://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://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «playlist» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playlist/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«playlist» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/playlist.html) on Mova free.