{
  "id": "toys.play",
  "term": "toys",
  "sense": "play",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "toys",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "An item made of physical material that can be used in a playful game.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "items.object",
      "play.game",
      "substance.material",
      "game.playful",
      "make.verb",
      "use.application",
      "material.physical",
      "physical.material",
      "playful.behavioral"
    ],
    "interaction": "Through making, parts come together into a structure that persists as a material object, enabling playful game activity through use.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "persistent material structure",
      "enables unstructured play",
      "artifact for game engagement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Lego bricks snapped together to build a spaceship during a child's Saturday morning play session in Copenhagen.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The MIT Robot Block Project’s programmable cubes interacted with toddlers in a 2003 Cambridge nursery lab trial.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Pokémon cards traded and flicked in schoolyards during recess in Osaka elementary schools, 2019.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "toy",
    "toys"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts material.physical, physical.material, and playful.behavioral to align the record with the definition's implied ontology."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-toys.play"
}