📖 P — The English dictionary · page 25

pharaoh — Everyday, meaning 1: A pharaoh was a king of ancient Egypt, who ruled the land and was thought by Egyptians to be a god.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Bible) Pharaoh is the king of Egypt in the stories of Joseph and of Moses, who would not let the Israelites go free until the plagues came.↗ Example: The pharaoh was buried inside a huge pyramid.↗ · We made a model of a pharaoh's gold mask in class.↗ · Tutankhamun became pharaoh when he was only a boy.↗ · Moses told Pharaoh, "Let my people go."↗ · Pharaoh had a strange dream about seven fat cows and seven thin cows.↗ · The pharaohs built temples along the river Nile.↗ · In the museum we saw the mummy of a pharaoh's servant.↗ · And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.↗ (Torah GEN.41.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.↗ (Torah EXO.1.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.↗ (Torah EXO.8.30, JPS 1917)↗ · This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.'↗ (Prophets EZK.31.18, JPS 1917)↗ · I have compared thee, O my love, to a steed in Pharaoh's chariots.↗ (Writings SNG.1.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; (Prophets JER.25.19, JPS 1917)↗

pharmacist — Everyday, meaning 1: A trained person who prepares and sells medicines and explains how to take them safely.↗ Example: The pharmacist gave Mum the medicine the doctor ordered.↗ · Ask the pharmacist if you are not sure how much to take.↗ · The pharmacist told me to take one tablet three times a day.↗ · My aunt is a pharmacist at the hospital.↗ · The pharmacist explained that the medicine might make me sleepy.↗ · Pharmacists study for many years.↗

pharmacy — Everyday, meaning 1: A pharmacy is a shop or part of a shop where medicines are sold and prescriptions are given out.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Pharmacy is the study and job of preparing medicines.↗ Example: Mum went to the pharmacy to pick up my medicine.↗ · The pharmacy is next to the supermarket.↗ · Ask at the pharmacy about cough medicine.↗ · She studied pharmacy at university.↗ · The pharmacy is open late on Thursdays.↗ · In the UK we call it the chemist's.↗ · The pharmacist works in the pharmacy.↗ · Take your prescription to any pharmacy.↗

phase — Everyday, meaning 1: A phase is one stage of something that changes over time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The phases of the Moon are the different shapes the Moon seems to have during a month.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A phase can be a short time when someone likes or does something a lot.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To phase something out means to stop using it slowly, step by step.↗ Example: The Moon has different phases every month.↗ · Tonight the Moon is in its full moon phase.↗ · Draw the phases of the Moon in order.↗ · A caterpillar goes through several phases to become a butterfly.↗ · My brother is going through a dinosaur phase.↗ · The building work is in its last phase.↗ · Plastic straws are being phased out.↗ · A crescent is the thinnest phase of the Moon we can see.↗

pheasant — Everyday, meaning 1: A large bird with a long tail; the males have bright copper, green and red feathers, while females are brown.↗ They are often hunted for food.↗ Example: A pheasant ran across the country lane.↗ · The male pheasant has a red face and a long tail.↗ · Hen pheasants are brown so they can hide on their nests.↗ · We heard a pheasant's loud call from the field.↗ · Pheasants were brought to Britain long ago from Asia.↗ · Some people eat pheasant as a special meal.↗ · I am a miserable bird called a pheasant.↗

phenomenon — Everyday, meaning 1: Something that happens or exists, which can be seen or studied, especially in nature or science: a natural phenomenon.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person or thing that is unusual and impressive: a footballing phenomenon.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Something very popular and widespread: a worldwide phenomenon.↗ Example: A rainbow is a natural phenomenon.↗ · Lightning is an electrical phenomenon.↗ · The Northern Lights are a beautiful phenomenon.↗ · The new toy became a worldwide phenomenon.↗ · That young swimmer is a phenomenon!↗ · Scientists study strange weather phenomena.↗ · Fata Morgana, the beautiful aerial phenomenon of the wilderness, appeared with hanging gardens and waving forests, and the wonderful cloud called "Lokeman driving his sheep" also was seen.↗

pheromone — Everyday, meaning 1: A pheromone is a chemical that an animal gives off to send a message to others of its own kind, such as «follow me», «danger» or «I am looking for a mate».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Pheromones are smelled or tasted by the other animals, not seen or heard.↗ Example: Ants follow a pheromone trail from the nest to the crumbs.↗ · When a bee stings, it releases an alarm pheromone that warns other bees.↗ · A male moth can smell a female's pheromone from a long way away.↗ · Farmers hang pheromone traps to catch pests.↗ · Wipe the ants' path with soapy water and the pheromone trail is broken.↗ · Scientists study pheromones to learn how animals talk without words.↗ · Queen bees use pheromones to keep the hive working together.↗

phial — Everyday, meaning 1: A small glass bottle for holding liquid, often medicine.↗ Example: She put the medicine in a small phial.↗ · The phials of blood were kept in his pocket.↗

philippine — Everyday, meaning 1: Philippine means belonging to or coming from the Philippines, a country in Southeast Asia made of more than 7,000 islands.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The Philippines is the name of the country itself.↗ Example: The Philippine eagle is one of the biggest eagles in the world.↗ · Manila is the capital of the Philippines.↗ · The Philippines has more than 7,000 islands.↗ · Typhoons often cross the Philippine Sea.↗ · My friend's family is from the Philippines.↗ · The Philippine flag has a sun and three stars.↗

philistine — Everyday, meaning 1: (Bible) The Philistines were an ancient people who lived along the coast of Canaan and were often at war with the Israelites; Goliath was a Philistine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A philistine is a person who does not care about or understand art, music, books or culture.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As an adjective, philistine means not caring about art and culture.↗ Example: (Bible) David killed Goliath, the Philistine giant, with a sling and a stone.↗ · (Bible) Samson fought against the Philistines.↗ · The Philistines lived on the coast near Gaza.↗ · My uncle calls anyone who doesn't like opera a philistine.↗ · Only a philistine would paint over that beautiful old mural.↗ · "Museums are boring," said Ben. "↗ You philistine!" laughed his sister.↗ · And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.↗ (Prophets 1SA.17.16, JPS 1917)↗ · But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him.↗ (Prophets 2SA.21.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And when Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.↗ (Prophets 1SA.17.11, JPS 1917)↗

philologist — Everyday, meaning 1: A philologist is a person who studies how languages developed and how words changed over time.↗ Example: Some philologists study old words to learn where they came from.↗ · A philologist can tell how a word changed across many years.↗ · My aunt is a philologist who loves old languages.↗

philosopher — Everyday, meaning 1: A philosopher is a person who thinks and writes about big questions, such as what is true, what is right and wrong, and what life means.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person who stays calm and thoughtful about life's troubles: «Grandad is a bit of a philosopher».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A philosopher's stone is a legendary stone said to turn metal into gold.↗ Example: Socrates was a philosopher who asked lots of questions.↗ · Philosophers ask: what makes an action right or wrong?↗ · In P4C our class acted like philosophers.↗ · The philosopher's stone in the story turns metal into gold.↗ · Plato was a student of Socrates and a great philosopher.↗ · Grandma is a philosopher about bad weather: «It'll pass».↗ · Some philosophers think animals have rights.↗ · This jewel was called the philosopher's stone.↗ · 23) The ancient philosophers maintained that if God is the first cause, and He is necessarily, He, the immediate effect of Him, as an absolute unity, (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Be this as it may, it is worth while to know the extravagant hypotheses which ancient Jewish philosophers and theologians framed as soon as they began to contemplate and to reason, endeavoring to combine oriental and Greek theories.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · 61) doubts whether there ever was a Pythagoras, althongh he has no doubt there existed a Pythagorean school of philosophers.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

philosophic — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Philosophic means calm and thoughtful, taking hard things without getting upset.↗ In Jewish tradition, meaning 2: (old use) Philosophic means wise, or about the deep questions of life.↗ Example: He gave a philosophic shrug when he lost the race.↗ · The old man spoke in a philosophic way about death.↗ · Some certainties of men are philosophic ideas that everyone accepts.↗

philosophical — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with philosophy — thinking deeply about big questions like what is true, right or real.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Calm and accepting when something bad happens: «He was philosophical about losing.».↗ Example: «Do animals think?» is a philosophical question.↗ · He was philosophical about missing the bus.↗ · We had a philosophical chat about friendship.↗ · Badger took the news philosophically.↗ · The book has a philosophical feel.↗ · Alice's Cheshire Cat makes philosophical jokes.↗ · He refused to accept his teacher's philosophical tenets on the mere ground of their traditional authority.↗ · 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 Pythagorean philosophy is the greatest enigma of all philosophical systems of antiquity.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · On this point endless dis- cussions arose; and it has even been disputed whether they are designed to express theological, philosophical, or physical mysteries.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

philosophise — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: An old spelling form (here really the Latin word for philosophy) meaning to think about deep questions.↗ Example: In Tomus Primus of ** Artis Cabalisticae hoc est reconditae theologiae et philosophise script orum."↗ Basileae 1587, is found ** Liber de Creatione Cabalistinis, Hebraice Sepher Jezira ; Authore Abrahamo.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

philosophy — Everyday, meaning 1: Philosophy is the study of big questions about life, knowledge, right and wrong, the mind and what is real, by thinking carefully and arguing with reasons.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A philosophy is a particular set of ideas from a thinker or group, like the philosophy of Plato.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A person's philosophy is their way of thinking about how to live or work, as in "My philosophy is to always try my best".↗ Example: In philosophy club we discussed whether animals can think.↗ · Socrates was a famous teacher of philosophy in ancient Greece.↗ · My grandad's philosophy is "never give up".↗ · She is studying philosophy at university.↗ · The coach's philosophy is that every player gets a turn.↗ · Philosophy asks questions like "What makes something fair?"↗ · Different religions and philosophies have different ideas about happiness.↗ · “Then you should certainly lecture on Philosophy,” said the Dragon-fly; and he spread a pair of lovely gauze wings and soared away into the sky.↗ · The classification of the Hebrew letters into a Triad, Heptad and Dodekad, runs through the whole philosophy of the Kabalah.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · History of Greek Philosophy, Dr. E. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Brooks, the Philosophy of Arithmetic, Phila- delphia 1876, II.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

philtre — Everyday, meaning 1: A philtre is a magic drink that is meant to make someone fall in love or act strangely.↗ Example: The witch gave the prince a philtre in a silver cup.↗ · Do not drink anything a stranger offers you; it may be a philtre.↗ · The princesses made them drink a philtre that froze their hearts.↗

phoebe — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) Phoebe is a girl's name, from an old Greek word meaning bright or shining.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A phoebe is a small grey-brown bird of North America that catches flies in the air and wags its tail.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (space) Phoebe is one of the moons of Saturn, a dark, small moon that goes round the planet backwards.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (myths) In Greek myths Phoebe was a Titan, a goddess linked with the Moon and light.↗ Example: Phoebe sat next to me in maths today.↗ · My best friend Phoebe has a dog called Biscuit.↗ · A phoebe built its nest under our porch roof.↗ · The phoebe called "fee-bee, fee-bee" from the fence.↗ · Phoebe is one of more than a hundred moons of Saturn.↗ · Phoebe orbits Saturn in the opposite direction to most of its moons.↗ · In the Greek myth, Phoebe was the grandmother of Apollo and Artemis.↗ · LETO (Latona) was the daughter of Coeus and Phoebe.↗

phoenician — Everyday, meaning 1: Belonging to Phoenicia, an ancient land of trading cities (like Tyre, Sidon and Byblos) on the coast of what is now Lebanon, about 1500–300 BC.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person from Phoenicia.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The Phoenician alphabet was one of the first alphabets, with letters for sounds; Greek, Latin and our ABC came from it.↗ Example: The Phoenicians sailed all over the Mediterranean.↗ · Our alphabet comes from the Phoenician alphabet.↗ · Phoenician traders sold purple dye and cedar wood.↗ · Carthage was a Phoenician city in North Africa.↗ · The Phoenician letter aleph became the Greek alpha and our A.↗ · Tyre was a rich Phoenician port.↗ · Various sources such as Egyptian, Indian, Greek, Phoenician, Hebrew, etc., have been advanced as the origin of the Pythagorean philosophy.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗