📖 P — The English dictionary · page 20

perfidious — Everyday, meaning 1: Not to be trusted; breaking promises and betraying people who trusted you.↗ Example: Heracles marched against Augeas for his perfidious conduct.↗ · The perfidious pirates were bearing down upon the warriors.↗

perforation — Everyday, meaning 1: A small hole, or one of a line of small holes, made in paper so it can be torn off neatly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hole made through something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (medicine) A hole in a part of the body that should not have one, such as a perforated eardrum.↗ Example: Tear the coupon along the perforation.↗ · Stamps have tiny perforations around their edges.↗ · Toilet paper has perforations so you can tear one sheet.↗ · The doctor said he had a small perforation in his eardrum.↗ · Draw a dotted line to show where the perforation goes.↗ · The metal sheet was full of perforations to let air through.↗

perform — Everyday, meaning 1: To perform is to act, sing, dance or play music for an audience.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To perform a task is to do it, especially a difficult or exact one.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To perform well or badly is to work or do well or badly.↗ Example: Our class will perform a play at assembly.↗ · The band performed three songs.↗ · Perform the calculation carefully.↗ · We performed an experiment with magnets.↗ · The surgeon performed the operation.↗ · She performed well in her test.↗ · The car performs well on snow.↗ · Do not promise more than you can perform.↗ · And He declared unto you His covenant, which He commanded you to perform, even the ten words; and He wrote them upon two tables of stone.↗ (Torah DEU.4.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And Judah said unto Onan: 'Go in unto thy brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her, and raise up seed to thy brother.'↗ (Torah GEN.38.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee; for the thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.↗ (Torah EXO.18.18, JPS 1917)↗ · The zeal of the LORD of hosts doth perform this.↗ (Prophets ISA.9.6, JPS 1917)↗ · I have inclined my heart to perform Thy statutes, for ever, at every step.↗ (Writings PSA.119.112, JPS 1917)↗ · He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands can perform nothing substantial.↗ (Writings JOB.5.12, JPS 1917)↗

performance — Everyday, meaning 1: A performance is a show of acting, music or dance in front of an audience.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Performance is how well someone or something does a job or task.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A performance is the act of doing something.↗ Example: Our school performance was a big success.↗ · Tickets for the evening performance are sold out.↗ · Her performance in the test was excellent.↗ · The team's performance improved after training.↗ · The new computer has better performance.↗ · He gave a brilliant performance as the wolf.↗ · Before starting your performance, salute your audience!”↗

performer — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who entertains an audience by acting, singing, dancing, playing music or doing tricks.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person or thing that does well or badly at something: «a top performer».↗ Example: The street performer juggled flaming torches.↗ · Every performer bowed at the end of the show.↗ · She's a natural performer and loves the stage.↗ · The circus performers did amazing tricks.↗ · Give the performers a big round of applause!↗ · He was the top performer in the maths competition.↗ · Both of the performers appeared on the stage.↗

performest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «performest» means «you perform», a form of «perform».↗ e.g. To perform is to act, sing, dance or play music for an audience.↗ Example: "Who art thou?" he asked, "whose outward appearance is that of an animal, while thou willingly performest acts of mercy?"↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen)

perfume — Everyday, meaning 1: A liquid with a nice strong smell that people put on their skin.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A pleasant smell, like that of flowers.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To give something a nice smell.↗ Example: Mum got a bottle of perfume for her birthday.↗ · The perfume of the roses filled the garden.↗ · The smell of the perfume spread across the room.↗ · Don't spray perfume near your eyes.↗ · Grandma's perfume smells of lavender.↗ · Perfume is made from flowers, spices and other things.↗ · The air was perfumed with honeysuckle.↗ · Too much perfume can give people a headache.↗ · Do you not smell the sweet perfume from flower and bush?↗ · And thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.↗ (Torah EXO.30.35, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.↗ (Torah EXO.30.25, JPS 1917)↗ · I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.↗ (Writings PRO.7.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.↗ (Writings PRO.27.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Who is this that cometh up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?↗ (Writings SNG.3.6, JPS 1917)↗

perfumer — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person whose work is making perfume.↗ Example: And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.↗ (Torah EXO.37.29, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.↗ (Torah EXO.30.35, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.↗ (Torah EXO.30.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.↗ (Prophets 1SA.8.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And next unto him repaired Hananiah one of the perfumers, and they restored Jerusalem even unto the broad wall.↗ (Writings NEH.3.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Dead flies make the ointment of the perfumer fetid and putrid; so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honour.↗ (Writings ECC.10.1, JPS 1917)↗

perhaps — Everyday, meaning 1: Perhaps means maybe; it is possible but not certain.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Used to make a request or idea sound polite.↗ Example: Perhaps it will snow tomorrow.↗ · Perhaps the cat is hiding under the bed.↗ · Perhaps you could close the window, please.↗ · "Will you come?" "↗ Perhaps."↗ · Perhaps the answer is 12, but let me check.↗ · She was perhaps the fastest runner in the school.↗ · Perhaps we should take an umbrella.↗ · “Perhaps he is ill,” Michael said.↗ · The "Sepher Yetzirah," or "Book of Formation," is perhaps the oldest philosophical treatise which is yet extant in the Hebrew language.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The expression בְּלִי[]מָה beli[-]mah can be understood as either one word or two, with both readings being plausible and perhaps intended, and manuscripts commonly varying between the one- and two-word renditions.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The conception of Creation as a network of ontological interdependencies is perhaps apparent in the ‘231 gates’ referred to above in SY 2:4; see also SY 6:2.]↗ How did He combine them?↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

peril — Everyday, meaning 1: Great danger.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something that is dangerous, a risk.↗ Example: The ship was in peril in the storm.↗ · Mole was in great peril in the Wild Wood.↗ · Ignore the lifeguard's warning at your peril.↗ · The book warns of the perils of the sea.↗ · The firefighters saved the family from peril.↗ · Toad learned the perils of fast cars.↗ · But the task is a very difficult one, and full of peril, Jack.↗ · We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.↗ (Writings LAM.5.9, JPS 1917)↗

perilous — Everyday, meaning 1: Full of danger; likely to hurt or kill you.↗ Example: A mere lad is not fit to be trusted on such a perilous journey.↗ · Voyages at sea are perilous, with uncertain winds and waves.↗

perimeter — Everyday, meaning 1: The perimeter is the length all the way around a shape.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The perimeter of a place is its outer edge or border, like the fence around a field.↗ Example: Find the perimeter of a square with 5 cm sides.↗ · The perimeter of the garden is 40 meters.↗ · How much fence is needed for the perimeter?↗ · The rectangle has a perimeter of 30 cm.↗ · We put a ribbon around the perimeter of the card.↗ · The dog ran along the perimeter of the field.↗ · A triangle with sides 3, 4 and 5 cm has a perimeter of 12 cm.↗ · Guards patrolled the perimeter of the camp.↗

period — Everyday, meaning 1: A period is a length of time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: At school, a period is one lesson in the timetable.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In American English, a period is the dot (.) at the end of a sentence; British English calls it a full stop.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A period is the time in history, like the Victorian period.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A period is the time each month when a woman or girl bleeds from her womb (menstruation).↗ Everyday, meaning 6: In science, a period is a row in the periodic table.↗ Example: Maths is in the first period.↗ · Over a period of two weeks, the seed grew ten centimetres.↗ · Put a period at the end of the sentence.↗ · We are studying the Roman period.↗ · Dinosaurs lived in a period called the Mesozoic.↗ · Periods are a normal part of growing up for girls.↗ · Ice hockey has three periods.↗ · Then came a dreadful period, when news from the king ceased entirely.↗ · Dr. Zunz, the Nestor of the Jewish Rabbis in Europe, maintains that we have to look for the genesis of the book "Yezirah" in the Geonic period, (700-1000), and that it was consequently composed in a post-talmudical time.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · f"There was first ot all a period when Nothing existed . . .↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Many writers maintain that only at a later period the principle of position and the zero was discovered.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

periodic — Everyday, meaning 1: Periodic means happening again and again, at regular times or now and then.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) The periodic table is the chart of all the chemical elements in order.↗ Example: The periodic table has more than a hundred elements.↗ · We do periodic fire drills at school.↗ · The doctor gives the baby periodic check-ups.↗ · The tide is periodic: it comes in and goes out.↗ · There were periodic showers all day.↗ · The pattern 1, 2, 1, 2 is periodic.↗ · The car needs periodic servicing.↗ · Find gold on the periodic table.↗

periodical — Everyday, meaning 1: noun.↗ e.g. A magazine or journal that comes out regularly, such as every week, month or three months.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: adjective.↗ e.g. Happening again and again at regular times (usually "periodic").↗ Example: The library keeps science periodicals on the top shelf.↗ · My aunt writes for a gardening periodical.↗ · Children's periodicals like comics come out weekly.↗ · The museum has old periodicals from the 1800s.↗ · The machine needs periodical checks.↗ · She looked up the article in a medical periodical.↗ · Of late years several articles have appeared in some of the German periodicals,[5] giving accounts or translations of some of the Russian Popular Tales.↗ · Magazines and periodicals are respectfully requested to serid copies of their reviews of this thesis to the author, P. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

periodically — Everyday, meaning 1: Periodically means happening again and again, from time to time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It can mean happening at regular times, like every week or every year.↗ Example: Check the smoke alarm periodically.↗ · We measured the plant periodically to see it grow.↗ · The comet returns periodically.↗ · Dad periodically clears out the garage.↗ · The teacher periodically reminded us to save our work.↗ · Water the seeds periodically, not every minute.↗ · The computer updates itself periodically.↗

peripheral — Everyday, meaning 1: Peripheral means at the edge or outside part of something, not in the middle.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Peripheral means less important, not the main part.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A peripheral is an extra device you connect to a computer, like a mouse, keyboard or printer.↗ Example: I saw the ball out of my peripheral vision.↗ · A mouse is a computer peripheral.↗ · Cats have good peripheral vision.↗ · That detail is only peripheral to the story.↗ · Plug the peripherals into the USB ports.↗ · Hoods can block your peripheral vision on the road.↗

periphery — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The outer edge or boundary of something.↗

periscope — Everyday, meaning 1: A long tube with mirrors at each end that lets you see over or around something, used in submarines and in toys.↗ Example: The captain raised the periscope to look at the ships.↗ · We made a periscope from a juice carton and two mirrors.↗ · With a periscope you can see over a wall.↗ · Light bounces off both mirrors in a periscope.↗ · He used his periscope to watch the parade over the crowd.↗ · The periscope rose out of the water.↗

perish — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To die, especially in an accident, disaster or war.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To rot, go bad or be destroyed, like food or rubber getting old.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Perish the thought» means "I hope that never happens".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (UK informal) «Perished» or «perishing» means very cold.↗ e.g. "I'm perished!"↗ Example: Many animals perished in the bushfire.↗ · The rubber band had perished and snapped.↗ · Fresh fruit perishes quickly in the heat.↗ · "Me, late for school?↗ Perish the thought!"↗ · It's perishing cold outside, put your coat on.↗ · Come in, you must be perished!↗ · Thousands of trees perished in the drought.↗ · Keep perishable food in the fridge.↗ · And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.↗ (Torah LEV.26.38, JPS 1917)↗ · And the children of Israel spoke unto Moses, saying: 'Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.↗ (Torah NUM.17.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Every one that cometh near, that cometh near unto the tabernacle of the LORD, is to die; shall we wholly perish?'↗ (Torah NUM.17.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Is counsel perished from the prudent?↗ (Prophets JER.49.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Why did I not perish at birth?↗ (Writings JOB.3.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent?↗ (Writings JOB.4.7, JPS 1917)↗