📖 P — The English dictionary · page 11

passionate — Everyday, meaning 1: Having or showing very strong feelings, such as love, anger or excitement.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very keen on or interested in something: «passionate about football».↗ Example: She is passionate about protecting animals.↗ · He gave a passionate speech about saving the rainforest.↗ · Toad was passionate about every new hobby.↗ · The fans were passionate supporters of their team.↗ · My teacher is passionate about poetry.↗ · They had a passionate argument about the rules.↗ · Martin said that Jurgen was certainly passionate, but a good fellow after all.↗

passionately — Everyday, meaning 1: With very strong feeling or enthusiasm.↗ e.g. "She spoke passionately about animals."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very much, deeply.↗ e.g. "He passionately believes in fairness."↗ Everyday, meaning 3: With strong love (in stories and songs).↗ Example: She spoke passionately about saving the rainforest.↗ · He passionately believes that every child should read.↗ · The fans cheered passionately for their team.↗ · Gran passionately loves her garden.↗ · The class argued passionately about school uniforms.↗ · The singer sang passionately, with her eyes closed.↗ · A good man had a beautiful wife, whom he loved passionately, and never left if possible.↗

passive — Everyday, meaning 1: Passive means letting things happen to you without acting, reacting or taking part: «a passive audience».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (grammar) The passive, or passive voice, is a way of making a sentence where the thing that something is done to comes first: «The window was broken by Sam», instead of the active «Sam broke the window».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Passive smoking means breathing in smoke from other people's cigarettes.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (science) Passive means working without extra power or effort, like a «passive house» that stays warm with no heaters.↗ Example: «The cake was eaten by the dog» is in the passive.↗ · Rewrite the sentence in the passive voice.↗ · In science reports we write «The water was heated».↗ · Don't just be passive — join in the discussion!↗ · Passive smoking can harm children's lungs.↗ · She gave a passive-aggressive smile and said «Fine».↗ · Watching TV is passive; building a model is active.↗ · The first is clearly the root שָׁכַב shakhav ‘to lie, lie down’, but שכובה looks like a passive participle, shekhuvah, while shakhav is normally an intransitive verb not amenable to being made passive.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The Three Mothers, Aleph, Mem and Shin, are a great Mystery, very admirable and most recondite, and sealed as with six rings; and from them proceed Air, Fire, and Water, which divide into active and passive forces.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

passover — Everyday, meaning 1: (Judaism) Passover is a Jewish spring festival that remembers how God freed the Israelites from slavery in Egypt; families share a special meal called the Seder.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Bible) The Passover was the night in Exodus when the angel of death "passed over" the Israelites' houses marked with lamb's blood.↗ Example: Rachel's family eats matzah all through Passover.↗ · The youngest child asks, "Why is this night different?" at Passover.↗ · The Israelites marked their doors before the Passover.↗ · Jesus went to Jerusalem for the Passover.↗ · We tasted bitter herbs when we learned about Passover.↗ · Passover lasts seven or eight days.↗ · 'Let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.↗ (Torah NUM.9.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.↗ (Torah NUM.9.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the LORD'S passover.↗ (Torah NUM.28.16, JPS 1917)↗ · In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.↗ (Writings 2CH.35.19, JPS 1917)↗ · but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.↗ (Prophets 2KI.23.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.↗ (Writings EZR.6.19, JPS 1917)↗

passport — Everyday, meaning 1: An official small book from your country's government with your photo, name and date of birth, that you show when you travel to other countries.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something that helps you get or reach something: «a passport to success».↗ Example: You need a passport to fly to another country.↗ · My passport photo looks funny.↗ · We showed our passports at passport control.↗ · Keep your passport in a safe place on holiday.↗ · Babies need passports too.↗ · Hard work is a passport to success.↗ · He has not shown his passport!’↗

password — Everyday, meaning 1: A password is a secret word or set of letters, numbers and symbols you must type to use a computer, app or account.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A password is a secret word you must say to be allowed into a place, like a den or club.↗ Example: Never tell your friends your password.↗ · Type your password to log in.↗ · A strong password has letters, numbers and symbols.↗ · «Password123» is a very weak password.↗ · I forgot my password, so I had to reset it.↗ · To get into our den, you have to say the password.↗ · Change your password if someone might know it.↗ · "Do not let anyone in, unless he gives you this password: 'Down with the Wolf and all his race!'"↗

past — Everyday, meaning 1: The past is time that has gone, before now.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Past (preposition) means going by something: he walked past the shop.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In telling time, past means after the hour: «Half past three» is 3:30.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Past (adjective) means just gone: the past week.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Past also means beyond: past midnight, past the bridge.↗ Example: It is half past 2.↗ · The bus came 20 minutes past 8.↗ · In the past 3 days she read 60 pages.↗ · He walked past 5 houses.↗ · In the past, people wrote with feather pens.↗ · It's past your bedtime!↗ · «Ran» is the past tense of «run».↗ · Quarter past ten is 10:15.↗ · Go past the church and turn left.↗ · Suddenly there rode past another horseman.↗ · And this is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee thither and live: whoso killeth his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in time past; (Torah DEU.19.4, JPS 1917)↗ · that the manslayer might flee thither, that slayeth his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in time past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: (Torah DEU.4.42, JPS 1917)↗ · And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke unto the house of Pharaoh, saying: 'If now I have found favour in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying: (Torah GEN.50.4, JPS 1917)↗ · His discernment is past searching out.↗ (Prophets ISA.40.28, JPS 1917)↗ · Who doeth great things past finding out; yea, marvellous things without number.↗ (Writings JOB.9.10, JPS 1917)↗ · For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; (Writings SNG.2.11, JPS 1917)↗

pasta — Everyday, meaning 1: Pasta is a food made from flour, water and sometimes egg, made into shapes like spaghetti, macaroni or penne and boiled before eating.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A pasta can also mean a dish made with pasta, like a pasta bake.↗ Example: We had pasta with tomato sauce for dinner.↗ · Spaghetti and macaroni are kinds of pasta.↗ · Pasta grows soft when you boil it.↗ · Mum drained the pasta in the sink.↗ · We counted dried pasta shapes in maths.↗ · My favourite is cheesy pasta bake.↗ · Pasta is a good source of energy.↗ · The pasta stuck together because there was too little water.↗

paste — Everyday, meaning 1: Paste is a soft, thick, wet mixture that you can spread, such as glue paste or tomato paste.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Toothpaste is a paste for cleaning teeth.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To paste something is to stick it onto something else with glue.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: On a computer, to paste is to put text or a picture that you copied or cut into a new place.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Paste can also mean the dough that is rolled out to make pies and tarts.↗ Example: We used flour and water to make a paste for our papier-mâché.↗ · Squeeze a pea-sized amount of toothpaste onto your brush.↗ · Paste the picture into your scrapbook.↗ · Select the sentence, copy it, then paste it into your story.↗ · Mum stirred tomato paste into the sauce.↗ · Grind the nuts until they become a smooth paste.↗ · Don't copy and paste work from the internet and call it your own.↗

pasteboard — Everyday, meaning 1: Pasteboard is thick, stiff paper or card, like the card used for boxes.↗ Example: We made a box from pasteboard.↗ · The cover of the book was stiff pasteboard.↗ · The floor was as white and shiny as pasteboard.↗

pasteurisation — Everyday, meaning 1: Pasteurisation is heating milk, juice or other food to a set temperature for a short time to kill harmful germs, then cooling it quickly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is named after the French scientist Louis Pasteur, who showed that tiny microbes make food go bad and cause disease.↗ Example: Pasteurisation kills harmful bacteria in milk.↗ · Most milk in shops has gone through pasteurisation.↗ · Louis Pasteur discovered the idea behind pasteurisation.↗ · Pasteurised juice keeps longer than freshly squeezed juice.↗ · Pregnant women are often told to avoid unpasteurised cheese.↗ · In one common method, milk is heated to about 72 °C for 15 seconds.↗ · Our science poster showed the steps of pasteurisation.↗

pasteurise — Everyday, meaning 1: To heat a drink or food, like milk or juice, to a set temperature for a short time to kill harmful germs, then cool it.↗ Example: Milk is pasteurised to kill harmful bacteria.↗ · Louis Pasteur showed how heating could stop germs.↗ · The factory pasteurises the apple juice before bottling it.↗ · Pregnant women are told to avoid some unpasteurised cheeses.↗ · Pasteurising does not boil the milk.↗ · We learnt how farmers pasteurise milk in science.↗

pasteurised — Everyday, meaning 1: (of milk, juice, cheese or eggs) Heated for a short time to kill harmful germs, then cooled.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Past tense of pasteurise.↗ Example: This carton says «pasteurised whole milk».↗ · The cheese is made with pasteurised milk.↗ · Pasteurised eggs are safer in homemade mayonnaise.↗ · The juice was pasteurised to make it last longer.↗ · Raw milk is milk that has not been pasteurised.↗ · Most milk in shops is pasteurised.↗

pastime — Everyday, meaning 1: Something you enjoy doing in your free time, such as a hobby, game or sport.↗ Example: Reading is my favourite pastime.↗ · Fishing is a popular pastime in Ireland.↗ · Baseball is called America's national pastime.↗ · Victorian children's pastimes included hoops and marbles.↗ · Grandma's pastime is knitting.↗ · Drawing comics is a fun pastime on rainy days.↗ · Another favorite pastime of Kintaro’s was to smash up rocks and stones.↗

pastor — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) A pastor is a Christian minister who leads a church and cares for its people, especially in Protestant churches.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rare) To pastor a church is to be its pastor.↗ Example: The pastor gave a talk about forgiveness.↗ · Pastor Jones visited Grandma in hospital.↗ · Our youth pastor runs the Friday club.↗ · The word «pastor» means shepherd.↗ · Martin Luther King Jr. was a pastor in Alabama.↗ · The pastor baptised the new members.↗ · The pastor said a prayer before the meal.↗ · The son of the village pastor was tutor at the mansion.↗

pastoral — Everyday, meaning 1: Pastoral means about the countryside, farms and shepherds, and the simple life of country people.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (church use) A pastoral staff is a long stick carried by a bishop as a sign of office.↗ Example: The poem described a pastoral scene of sheep on green hills.↗ · The farmers lived a quiet pastoral life.↗ · The bishop carried a pastoral staff.↗

pastry — Everyday, meaning 1: A pastry is a small baked sweet food made with dough, like a croissant, a Danish or a tart.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Pastry is the dough made of flour, fat and water that is used for pies and tarts.↗ Example: The baker made 140 pastries.↗ · He sold 103 pastries.↗ · How many pastries did he have left?↗ · How many more pastries than cakes did he sell?↗ · I had a pastry with my hot chocolate.↗ · Roll the pastry out thin for the pie.↗ · The pastry chef makes cream puffs.↗ · Puff pastry has lots of thin layers.↗ · A sausage roll is wrapped in pastry.↗ · The pastry shop smelled of butter.↗ · But just as the Country Mouse was about to nibble a dainty bit of pastry, she heard a Cat mew loudly and scratch at the door.↗

pasture — Everyday, meaning 1: A pasture is a field of grass where cows, sheep, horses or other animals graze.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To pasture animals is to put them in a field to eat the grass.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (figurative) «Pastures new» or «greener pastures» means a new place or job that might be better.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (Bible) In Psalm 23, «He maketh me to lie down in green pastures» is a picture of God caring for people like a shepherd.↗ Example: The cows are grazing in the pasture.↗ · The farmer moved the sheep to a fresh pasture.↗ · «He makes me lie down in green pastures,» says Psalm 23.↗ · After ten years at the school, our teacher left for pastures new.↗ · The old horse was put out to pasture.↗ · Pasture land covers much of New Zealand.↗ · Soon he found life in the pasture very dull.↗ · And they said unto Pharaoh: 'To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants' flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan.↗ (Torah GEN.47.4, JPS 1917)↗ · For the LORD despoileth their pasture.↗ (Prophets JER.25.36, JPS 1917)↗ · Why doth Thine anger smoke against the flock of Thy pasture?↗ (Writings PSA.74.1, JPS 1917)↗ · The pastures of the wilderness do drop; and the hills are girded with joy.↗ (Writings PSA.65.13, JPS 1917)↗

pasty — Everyday, meaning 1: noun (UK).↗ e.g. A pastry case folded around a filling of meat and vegetables, baked; the Cornish pasty is famous.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: adjective: (of a face or skin) Pale and unhealthy-looking, like dough.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: adjective: Like paste: thick and sticky.↗ Example: We bought a hot Cornish pasty at the beach.↗ · The pasty was filled with beef, potato and onion.↗ · Tin miners used to eat pasties down the mines.↗ · After being ill all week he looked pasty and tired.↗ · The paint looked thick and pasty.↗ · Gran bakes cheese and onion pasties on Saturdays.↗ · I made the pasty according to the best rules; nothing has been left out.↗