📖 P — The English dictionary · page 10

partition — Everyday, meaning 1: A thin wall or screen that divides a room into parts.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Verb: to divide something into parts.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths) To split a number into parts, often by place value: 345 = 300 + 40 + 5.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The division of a country into separate countries.↗ Example: Partition 563 into hundreds, tens and ones.↗ · 56 can be partitioned into 50 and 6, or 40 and 16.↗ · A glass partition separates the two offices.↗ · They partitioned the attic into two bedrooms.↗ · Partition 24 to work out 24 × 3: 20 × 3 + 4 × 3 = 72.↗ · The partition of the country made new borders.↗ · Our windows looked into the tan-yard, which was divided into two parts by a partition of planks; in one half were many skins and hides, raw and tanned.↗

partitive — Everyday, meaning 1: (grammar) A word or phrase that shows a part of a whole or an amount, such as "some of", "a piece of", "a slice of", "a glass of".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (French) The partitive article "du, de la, des" meaning "some".↗ e.g. "du pain" means "some bread".↗ Example: "A slice of cake" is a partitive phrase.↗ · "Some of the children" uses a partitive.↗ · In French, "de la confiture" means "some jam" (a partitive).↗ · Use a partitive like "a piece of" with uncountable nouns: a piece of information.↗ · "A bar of chocolate" is a partitive phrase.↗ · In partitive division, 12 sweets shared among 3 children gives 4 each.↗

partly — Everyday, meaning 1: Partly means not completely; to some degree, but not all.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Partly also means «in part, as one of the reasons», as in «partly because».↗ Example: It will be partly cloudy tomorrow.↗ · The glass was partly full.↗ · The story is partly true and partly made up.↗ · I was late partly because of the rain.↗ · The shape is partly shaded.↗ · The door was partly open.↗ · He was partly to blame for the broken window.↗ · The road is partly closed for repairs.↗ · The Fable partly agrees with, and partly differs from both of these.↗ · They pronounced it partly aspirated and partly unaspirated.↗ [See Dr. Geiger's Lehr-und Lese-buch der Mischnah, p. 22, and Dr. Graetz's Gnosticismus, p. 117.]↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · The reason why they have remained so long an unsolved problem is partly due to a lack of knowledge of Hebrew orthography, on which the Sefer Yetzirah is based.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

partner — Everyday, meaning 1: A partner is a person who does something together with you, like a work or dance partner.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A partner can be one of the owners of a business.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A partner is a person someone lives with or is married to.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To partner (with) someone is to work or play as their partner.↗ Example: Each student has a partner.↗ · She and her partner picked 30 apples.↗ · Partners share the money equally.↗ · How many partners are there in 12 students?↗ · Find a partner and read together.↗ · 6 and 4 are number partners for 10.↗ · Mum and her partner run a bakery.↗ · The two detectives were partners.↗ · She partnered with Ava for the science project.↗ · With what eagerness she danced! leaning on her partner’s shoulder she swept by like a whirlwind.↗ · Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing.↗ (Writings PRO.29.24, JPS 1917)↗

partnership — Everyday, meaning 1: Working together with someone as partners to do something: «The school works in partnership with the zoo».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A business owned and run by two or more partners.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A pair or team who work or play well together.↗ Example: Our school has a partnership with the local library.↗ · The two friends formed a great partnership in the science fair.↗ · In cricket, their partnership scored fifty runs.↗ · The shop is a partnership between two sisters.↗ · Working in partnership helps us finish faster.↗ · The zoo and the school worked in partnership to save the frogs.↗ · An Ass and a Fox went into partnership and sallied out to forage for food together.↗

partridge — Everyday, meaning 1: A plump brown bird that lives on the ground in fields and is sometimes hunted for food.↗ Example: A partridge ran across the field.↗ · «A partridge in a pear tree!» we sang.↗ · The partridges hid in the long grass.↗ · Partridges lay many eggs.↗ · The farmer saw a flock of partridges.↗ · Partridges are game birds.↗ · One day by chance he found a tame Partridge for sale.↗ · Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD; for the king of Israel is come out to seek a single flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.26.20, JPS 1917)↗

party — Everyday, meaning 1: A party is a time when people meet to eat, play and have fun, like a birthday party.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A party is a group of people doing something together: a search party, a party of tourists.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A political party is a group of people who share ideas about running a country.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To party is to have fun at a party.↗ Example: She invited 12 friends to her party.↗ · Each guest at the party gets 2 balloons.↗ · They bought 4 pizzas for the party.↗ · How many cupcakes are left after the party?↗ · We are planning a surprise party for Dad.↗ · A search party looked for the lost dog.↗ · Every guest took home a party bag.↗ · Remember to thank the host after the party.↗ · It was a merry hunting party.↗ · Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

pas — Everyday, meaning 1: (French) «Pas» means «not» in French, used with «ne»: «je ne sais pas» is «I don't know»; in casual French people often just say «pas».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (French, ballet) «Pas» means «a step» in dance: a «pas de deux» is a dance for two people.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «A faux pas» (from French, meaning «false step») is an embarrassing social mistake, like saying the wrong thing at a party.↗ To an English ear «pas» sounds like «pah».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In some old dialect spellings, "pas" means "past", as in "ran past".↗ Example: «Je ne sais pas» means «I don't know».↗ · «Pas mal!» means «not bad!»↗ · «Pas du tout» means «not at all».↗ · In ballet, a «pas de deux» is a dance for two.↗ · Wearing trainers to the wedding was a bit of a faux pas.↗ · French «pas» sounds like «pah», and the «s» is silent.↗ · «Ce n'est pas grave» means «it doesn't matter».↗ · "Col'!" exclaimed Uncle Remus; "hit got pas' col' on der quarter stretch.↗ · He was with David at Pas-dammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.↗ (Writings 1CH.11.13, JPS 1917)↗

pass — Everyday, meaning 1: To pass something is to give it to the next person.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To pass is to go by or go past something: «We passed the school».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To pass a test is to do well enough in it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Time passes when it goes by.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A pass is a kick or throw of the ball to a teammate, or a ticket that lets you in.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A pass can also be a narrow gap or route through mountains.↗ Example: Sam passes 3 cards to Ben.↗ · Lily passed 2 apples to each of her 4 friends.↗ · Max passes the ball 6 times.↗ · Please pass the salt.↗ · We pass the library on the way to school.↗ · Zoe passed her piano exam.↗ · Two hours passed before the rain stopped.↗ · You need a bus pass to ride for free.↗ · Bravely they stood in the narrow pass.↗ · 'Thou art this day to pass over the border of Moab, even Ar; (Torah DEU.2.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that He made them houses.↗ (Torah EXO.1.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty; (Torah EXO.3.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Whom dost thou pass in beauty?↗ (Prophets EZK.32.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by.↗ (Prophets 1SA.16.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And the idols shall utterly pass away.↗ (Prophets ISA.2.18, JPS 1917)↗

passage — Everyday, meaning 1: A passage is a narrow way, like a corridor or path, that you go along.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A passage is a short part of a book, speech or piece of music.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A passage is a journey, especially by ship.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The passage of time means time going by.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (formal) Passage of a law means it being accepted.↗ Example: Read the passage and answer the questions below.↗ · A dark passage led to the kitchen.↗ · They found a secret passage behind the bookcase.↗ · The passage across the sea took three weeks.↗ · With the passage of time the scar faded.↗ · The teacher read us a passage from the story.↗ · Keep the passage clear in case of fire.↗ · The pianist played a difficult passage beautifully.↗ · However, she heard the king coming along the passage.↗ · Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; wherefore Israel turned away from him.↗ (Torah NUM.20.21, JPS 1917)↗ · This passage is explained by Isaac Satanow in his Hebrew Dictionary entitled Sephath Emeth, p. 44, b: (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · The same passage is mentioned in the Talmud treatise Chagigah, p. 12, a, with the addition of (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

passed — Everyday, meaning 1: (literal) went past; moved by something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (literal) succeeded in a test or exam.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (literal) gave something to someone (passed the salt).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (euphemism, polite, mostly US) died (short for passed away).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (literal) time went by.↗ Example: We passed the school on the way home.↗ · She passed her maths test!↗ · Can you pass the salt, please?↗ · His dad passed when he was little.↗ · Three hours passed before the rain stopped.↗ · Grandma passed peacefully in her sleep.↗ · He passed the ball to his teammate.↗ · Many years passed by after this.↗ · And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.↗ (Torah DEU.2.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the terebinth of Moreh.↗ (Torah GEN.12.6, JPS 1917)↗ · So the present passed over before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.↗ (Torah GEN.32.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Unto whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.↗ (Writings JOB.15.19, JPS 1917)↗ · The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor hath the lion passed thereby.↗ (Writings JOB.28.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And Ehud escaped while they lingered, having passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah.↗ (Prophets JDG.3.26, JPS 1917)↗

passenger — Everyday, meaning 1: A passenger is a person who travels in a bus, train, car, ship or plane but does not drive or fly it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The passenger seat is the seat next to the driver.↗ Example: A bus has 30 passengers.↗ · 8 passengers get off.↗ · 5 passengers get on.↗ · How many passengers are on the bus now?↗ · The plane carries 180 passengers.↗ · All passengers must wear seat belts.↗ · Passengers waited on the platform for the train.↗ · Children under 12 should not sit in the front passenger seat.↗ · "What is it o'clock, watchman?" inquired a passenger.↗

passer — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who passes by, usually in "passer-by" (plural passers-by): someone walking past a place.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (sport) A player who passes the ball, especially a good one.↗ e.g. "a great passer".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Someone who passes a test or exam (rare).↗ Example: A passer-by called an ambulance.↗ · Passers-by stopped to watch the street performer.↗ · She is the best passer in our netball team.↗ · The quarterback is a brilliant passer.↗ · A kind passer-by found my lost glove.↗ · No passers-by noticed the tiny kitten.↗ · ‘What in the world are you doing?’ asked a passer-by.↗

passeth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «passeth» means «passes», a form of «pass».↗ e.g. To pass something is to give it to the next person.↗ Example: Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering of the LORD.↗ (Torah EXO.30.14, JPS 1917) · And all the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.27.32, JPS 1917) · And it shall come to pass, while My glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with My hand until I have passed by.↗ (Torah EXO.33.22, JPS 1917)

passion — Everyday, meaning 1: A very strong feeling, such as love, anger or excitement.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A strong love or enthusiasm for an activity or subject: a passion for football.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (church) The Passion: the suffering and death of Jesus on the cross, remembered by Christians especially at Easter.↗ Example: Her passion is horse riding.↗ · He spoke with passion about saving the rainforest.↗ · Find your passion and practise it every day.↗ · Christians remember the Passion of Jesus on Good Friday.↗ · Our choir sang music from Bach's St Matthew Passion.↗ · Dad has a passion for old cars.↗ · The football fans sang with passion.↗ · Her father flew into a passion.↗