📖 P — The English dictionary · page 2

paddler — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who paddles a canoe, kayak or paddleboard.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, Ireland) A person, often a child, walking in shallow water at the seaside or in a paddling pool.↗ Example: The paddlers raced their canoes down the river.↗ · Paddlers must wear life jackets.↗ · Little paddlers splashed in the shallow pool.↗ · The lifeguard warned the paddlers that the tide was coming in.↗ · She is a strong paddler and won the kayak race.↗ · Two paddlers pushed off from the jetty at sunrise.↗ · "Ah! you old water-paddler," said she, "was it you that spoke?↗

paddock — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Ireland) A paddock is a small field where horses or other animals are kept, often near a house or stable.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Australia, NZ) A paddock is any field on a farm, even a very big one.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: At a racecourse or motor race, the paddock is the area where horses or cars are kept and shown before a race.↗ Example: The horses are grazing in the paddock.↗ · We moved the sheep to the back paddock.↗ · The paddock is 40 metres long and 30 metres wide.↗ · How much fencing goes around the paddock?↗ · On the farm in New Zealand, every field is a paddock.↗ · The racehorses walked round the paddock.↗ · Close the paddock gate so the pony doesn't escape.↗ · The cows are in the paddock by the creek.↗

paddy — Everyday, meaning 1: A paddy, or paddy field, is a flooded field where rice is grown.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Paddy is rice that has not yet been husked.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, informal) A paddy is a fit of bad temper: «He's in a paddy».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (offensive, slang) «Paddy» is an old insulting word for an Irish person; do not use it.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Paddy is also a name, a short form of Patrick.↗ Example: Rice grows in a paddy field.↗ · Farmers plant rice in flooded paddies.↗ · The terraced paddies climbed the hill.↗ · (UK) My little brother threw a paddy at the shop.↗ · (UK) Don't get in a paddy, it's only a game.↗ · Paddy is my uncle's name.↗ · Water buffalo work in the paddy fields.↗ · The paddy is dried before the husk is removed.↗

padlock — Everyday, meaning 1: A padlock is a lock you can take off and move, with a curved metal bar (a shackle) that clicks into the body, opened with a key or a combination.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To padlock something is to lock it with a padlock.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A small padlock picture on a website means the connection is secure.↗ Example: I put a padlock on my locker at school.↗ · Dad padlocked the shed so nobody could take the bikes.↗ · My padlock has a three-number code.↗ · A three-digit combination padlock has 1000 possible codes, from 000 to 999.↗ · The rusty padlock would not open.↗ · Look for the padlock in the address bar before typing a password.↗ · The farmer padlocked the gate to keep the cows in.↗ · Prince Ivan dug it up and saw an iron plate with twelve padlocks on it.↗

paediatrician — Everyday, meaning 1: A paediatrician is a doctor who looks after babies, children and teenagers and treats their illnesses.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is also a doctor who checks that a child is growing and developing well, even when the child is not ill.↗ Example: The paediatrician listened to the baby's chest.↗ · My little brother sees a paediatrician every few months.↗ · Our GP sent me to a paediatrician about my asthma.↗ · The paediatrician measured how tall I had grown.↗ · A paediatrician works on the children's ward.↗ · Mum asked the paediatrician whether my rash was serious.↗ · She trained for many years to become a paediatrician.↗ · The paediatrician gave Ellie a sticker after her injection.↗

pagan — Everyday, meaning 1: (history) A pagan was a person who followed an old religion with many gods and goddesses, before Christianity or Islam spread, such as the old religions of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (today) A Pagan is a follower of a modern nature-based religion, such as Wicca or Druidry.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old, often unkind) Christians in the past used «pagan» for anyone who was not Christian, Jewish or Muslim.↗ Example: The Anglo-Saxons were pagans before they became Christian.↗ · Thursday is named after the pagan god Thor.↗ · Stonehenge was built long before Christianity, in pagan times.↗ · Some Christmas customs, like holly and the Yule log, have pagan roots.↗ · Modern Pagans celebrate the summer solstice.↗ · The missionaries tried to turn the pagans to Christianity.↗ · The pagan wielder of the thunderbolt is represented in modern traditions by more than one Christian saint.↗

page — Everyday, meaning 1: A page is one side of a sheet of paper in a book, a magazine or a notebook.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A web page is one screen of a website.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Long ago, a page was a boy who served a knight or a king.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To page someone is to call them, for example over a speaker.↗ Example: The book has 240 pages.↗ · She read 20 pages each day.↗ · How many pages are left?↗ · Each chapter has 12 pages.↗ · Open your books to page 35.↗ · Turn the page to see the picture.↗ · The story was on the front page of the newspaper.↗ · Save the web page to read later.↗ · The page carried the knight's shield.↗ · A sheet of paper has two pages, front and back.↗ · N] = original page markers; [N] = note references (notes are in sy08 section).↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Contains Kalisch's pointed Hebrew text (his base text), English translation, preface, notes, glossary.↗ (sacred-texts site errata page not included; Hare's attribution notice kept as in etext.)↗ Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, https://archive.sacred-texts.com/jud/sy/index.htm (etext by J. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · On page 576 of Cantor's ]'orlesuiigeii iHier GesvhUhte der Mathonatil; (second edition, vol. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

pageant — Everyday, meaning 1: A show or procession where people dress up and act out scenes from history or stories.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A beauty contest (especially USA).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A grand, colourful display.↗ Example: Our school put on a pageant about the Romans.↗ · The nativity pageant had shepherds and kings.↗ · The town pageant marched through the streets.↗ · She entered a beauty pageant.↗ · The pageant of autumn colours was beautiful..↗

pail — Everyday, meaning 1: A pail is a bucket: a round container with a handle for carrying water, milk or sand.↗ Example: Jack and Jill went to fetch a pail of water.↗ · The farmer filled the pail with milk.↗ · We took a pail and shovel to the beach.↗ · Each pail holds 5 litres of water.↗ · The pail was full of shells.↗ · Carry the pail carefully so it doesn't spill.↗ · She emptied the pail into the trough.↗ · A pail of sand was kept near the fire.↗ · He found a pail that was quite full.↗ · His pails are full of milk, and the marrow of his bones is moistened.↗ (Writings JOB.21.24, JPS 1917)↗

pain — Everyday, meaning 1: Pain is the feeling you have when part of your body is hurt or ill.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Pain can be a feeling of great sadness: the pain of losing a pet.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «A pain» (informal) is an annoying person or thing.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Take pains» means try very hard to do something carefully.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To pain someone means to hurt them or make them feel sad.↗ Example: I have a pain in my tummy.↗ · He was in pain after he fell.↗ · Tell an adult if the pain gets worse.↗ · Cool water helps the pain of a burn.↗ · My little brother can be a pain.↗ · She took great pains to make the card neat.↗ · Losing her dog caused her a lot of pain.↗ · Painkillers should only be taken with an adult.↗ · His foot pained him more and more.↗ · And the LORD said: 'I have surely seen the affliction of My people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their pains; (Torah EXO.3.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Unto the woman He said: 'I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy travail; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.'↗ (Torah GEN.3.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Why criest thou for thy hurt, that thy pain is incurable?↗ (Prophets JER.30.15, JPS 1917)↗ · For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.↗ (Writings PSA.38.18, JPS 1917)↗ · He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and all his bones grow stiff; (Writings JOB.33.19, JPS 1917)↗

painful — Everyday, meaning 1: Painful means causing pain or hurting.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Painful means making you feel sad, upset or embarrassed.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Painful can mean very hard or slow to watch or do.↗ Example: My sprained ankle was very painful.↗ · A bee sting can be painful.↗ · Tell the nurse where it is painful.↗ · Saying goodbye to our dog was painful.↗ · It was painful to watch our team lose.↗ · The splinter was small but painful.↗ · The scene of past sufferings revives painful memories.↗

painfully — Everyday, meaning 1: Painfully means in a way that hurts or causes pain.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Painfully means very, so much that it is uncomfortable: painfully slow, painfully shy.↗ Example: He limped painfully off the pitch.↗ · The queue moved painfully slowly.↗ · She was painfully shy on her first day.↗ · It was painfully obvious that he had not done his homework.↗ · My sunburn felt painfully hot.↗ · The old dog climbed the stairs painfully.↗ · So he pretended he was lame, and began to hobble painfully.↗

painkiller — Everyday, meaning 1: A medicine that makes pain less strong or stops it for a while, such as paracetamol or ibuprofen.↗ Example: The doctor gave me a painkiller for my sore tooth.↗ · Never take painkillers without asking an adult.↗ · Mum read the label to check how much painkiller to give.↗ · Paracetamol is a common painkiller.↗ · Keep painkillers locked away from little children.↗ · After the painkiller, my headache went away.↗

painless — Everyday, meaning 1: Not causing any pain: «a painless injection».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Easy and not unpleasant: «a painless way to learn spelling».↗ Example: The injection was quick and painless.↗ · The dentist said the check-up would be painless.↗ · Taking out a baby tooth is often painless.↗ · Learning my times tables with songs was painless.↗ · The vet made sure it was painless for the dog.↗ · Moving house was surprisingly painless.↗

painlessly — Everyday, meaning 1: Painlessly means without causing pain.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Easily, without trouble or difficulty.↗ Example: The nurse gave the injection quickly and painlessly.↗ · The loose tooth came out painlessly.↗ · The move to the new house went painlessly.↗ · The vet checked the cat painlessly.↗ · You can learn your times tables painlessly with a song.↗ · The splinter was removed painlessly.↗

paint — Everyday, meaning 1: Paint is a coloured liquid you put on things to colour them or protect them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To paint is to put paint on something, like a wall.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To paint is also to make a picture with paint.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Paints» are a set of colours for art.↗ Example: One can of paint covers 10 square meters.↗ · She paints 3 pictures a day.↗ · He needs 4 cans of paint.↗ · How long will it take to paint 12 fences?↗ · Mix blue and yellow paint to make green.↗ · Careful, wet paint!↗ · We painted a picture of the sea in art class.↗ · My box of paints has twelve colours.↗ · Oh, if he could only draw and paint!↗ · And thou, that art spoiled, what doest thou, that thou clothest thyself with scarlet, that thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, that thou enlargest thine eyes with paint?↗ (Prophets JER.4.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And furthermore ye have sent for men that come from far; unto whom a messenger was sent, and, lo, they came; for whom thou didst wash thyself, paint thine eyes, and deck thyself with ornaments; (Prophets EZK.23.40, JPS 1917)↗

paintbrush — Everyday, meaning 1: A brush used for putting paint on paper, walls or other surfaces.↗ Example: Rinse your paintbrush before you use a new colour.↗ · Use a thin paintbrush for the eyes.↗ · Dad painted the fence with a big paintbrush.↗ · My paintbrush has soft bristles.↗ · Put the paintbrushes in the jar to dry.↗ · Don't leave your paintbrush standing in the water pot.↗

painted — Everyday, meaning 1: Painted is the past form of paint: colour was put on it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Painted means made as a picture with paint: «She painted a horse».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Painted describes something covered in paint: a painted fence.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Painted can also mean false or pretended, covering up what is really there.↗ Example: She painted 5 of the 12 walls.↗ · He painted 3 pictures yesterday.↗ · How many walls are not painted yet?↗ · The painted fence is 20 meters long.↗ · The children painted the classroom door bright red.↗ · A painted lady is a kind of butterfly.↗ · The big cube is painted on all sides and cut into small cubes.↗ · Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa.↗ · They went home painted victors and loud-voiced singers.↗ · And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.↗ (Prophets 2KI.9.30, JPS 1917)↗ · That saith: 'I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers', and cutteth him out windows, and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.↗ (Prophets JER.22.14, JPS 1917)↗

painter — Everyday, meaning 1: A painter is a person who paints pictures, an artist.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A painter is also a worker who paints walls, houses and buildings.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A painter on a boat is a rope used to tie it up (rare).↗ Example: A painter paints 2 rooms a day.↗ · 3 painters paint a house.↗ · The painter made 12 pictures.↗ · How long for 10 rooms?↗ · Van Gogh was a famous painter.↗ · The painters are coming to paint our fence.↗ · She wants to be a painter when she grows up.↗ · The painter mixed blue and yellow on her palette.↗ · At this moment the painter entered the room.↗