📖 P — The English dictionary · page 29

pigsty — Everyday, meaning 1: A pigsty is a pen or small building on a farm where pigs are kept.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A pigsty is a very dirty or untidy room or place.↗ Example: The pigs rolled in the mud in their pigsty.↗ · The farmer cleaned out the pigsty.↗ · «Your bedroom is a pigsty!» said Mum.↗ · We visited the pigsty at the city farm.↗ · After the party, the kitchen looked like a pigsty.↗ · The piglets slept in a corner of the pigsty.↗ · "I wonder what that crowd near the pigsty means!" said the emperor, who had just come out on his balcony.↗

pika — Everyday, meaning 1: A pika is a small, round furry mammal with short ears and no tail, related to rabbits, that lives among rocks on cold mountains in Asia and North America.↗ Example: A pika looks like a tiny hamster but is related to rabbits.↗ · The pika squeaked from the rocks.↗ · Pikas gather grass to eat in winter.↗ · We saw a pika on our trip to the Rocky Mountains.↗ · Pikas cannot survive in very hot weather.↗ · The pika hid between two big stones.↗

pike — Everyday, meaning 1: A large fish with a long body and sharp teeth that lives in rivers and lakes and eats other fish.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A long wooden pole with a sharp metal point, used as a weapon by soldiers long ago.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (US, short for turnpike) A main road where you pay a toll.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (in diving and gymnastics) A position with legs straight and the body bent at the hips.↗ Example: The fisherman caught a huge pike in the lake.↗ · A pike has very sharp teeth.↗ · Soldiers long ago fought with pikes.↗ · In gymnastics, we practised a pike jump.↗ · Dive in the pike position with straight legs.↗ · The pike hides in the weeds and waits for small fish.↗ · A gigantic pike figures also in the Kalevala.↗

pilate — Everyday, meaning 1: (Bible) Pontius Pilate was the Roman governor of Judea who questioned Jesus, found no fault in him, yet allowed him to be crucified, and then washed his hands to show he took no blame.↗ Example: Pilate asked Jesus, "Are you the king of the Jews?"↗ · Pilate said, "I find no fault in this man."↗ · The crowd shouted, and Pilate gave in.↗ · Pilate washed his hands in front of the people.↗ · The Creed says Jesus "suffered under Pontius Pilate."↗ · Mum does Pilates on Tuesdays — that's an exercise, not the governor!↗

pile — Everyday, meaning 1: A pile is a lot of things put one on top of another.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To pile (up) is to put things in a pile, or to grow into a pile.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Piles of» or «a pile of» can mean a lot of: piles of homework.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A pile is also a big post pushed into the ground to hold up a building or bridge.↗ Example: There are 4 piles of 10 books.↗ · She made 3 piles of leaves.↗ · He put the cards into 5 equal piles.↗ · How many are in each pile?↗ · The kids jumped into the pile of leaves.↗ · My clothes are in a pile on the floor.↗ · The snow piled up against the door.↗ · I have a pile of homework tonight.↗ · Sort the coins into piles of ten.↗ · On a pile of cushions, covered with tapestry, sat the boy.↗ · And with the blast of Thy nostrils the waters were piled up — the floods stood upright as a heap; the deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.↗ (Torah EXO.15.8, JPS 1917)↗ · I also will make the pile great, (Prophets EZK.24.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Take the choice of the flock, and pile also the bones under it; make it boil well, that the bones thereof may also be seethed in the midst of it.↗ (Prophets EZK.24.5, JPS 1917)↗ · For a hearth is ordered of old; yea, for the king it is prepared, deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.↗ (Prophets ISA.30.33, JPS 1917)↗

pilgrim — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who travels to a holy place for religious reasons.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history, US) The Pilgrims (Pilgrim Fathers) were English settlers who sailed to America on the Mayflower in 1620.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Anyone on a long journey with a purpose.↗ Example: Pilgrims walked to Canterbury Cathedral.↗ · Muslim pilgrims travel to Mecca for Hajj.↗ · The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620.↗ · A pilgrim carried a staff and a shell.↗ · Christians believe pilgrimage brings them closer to God.↗ · The pilgrims sang as they walked.↗ · The pilgrim was only too glad to do as he was told.↗

pilgrimage — Everyday, meaning 1: A journey to a holy place for religious reasons, such as Christians going to Jerusalem or Muslims going to Mecca.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A trip to a place that is very special to you, such as a famous writer's house or a sports ground.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) A long life journey thought of as a search for something good.↗ Example: Many Christians go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.↗ · In The Canterbury Tales the travellers are on a pilgrimage.↗ · The hajj is the pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims try to make once in their lives.↗ · Dad made a pilgrimage to the old football ground where he watched his first match.↗ · Pilgrims on the pilgrimage walked for many days.↗ · Lourdes in France is a famous place of pilgrimage.↗ · Our class read about a pilgrimage across Spain.↗ · I who have four times made the pilgrimage to Mecca, and have renounced wine for ever."↗ · Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.↗ (Writings PSA.119.54, JPS 1917)↗

pill — Everyday, meaning 1: A pill is a small, round or flat piece of medicine that you swallow whole.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «The pill» can mean a medicine some adults take every day so they do not have a baby (adult topic).↗ Example: The doctor gave me pills for my sore throat.↗ · Take one pill twice a day with water.↗ · Never take pills you find.↗ · Some pills look like sweets, so keep them out of reach.↗ · Grandma keeps her pills in a box with the days of the week.↗ · My dog has to swallow a worm pill.↗ · Losing the match was a bitter pill to swallow.↗ · Vitamin pills are not a replacement for good food.↗

pillar — Everyday, meaning 1: A pillar is a tall, strong post of stone, wood or metal that holds up part of a building or stands as a monument.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A pillar of smoke, fire or cloud is a tall column of it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A pillar of a community or group is an important person or idea that supports it: a pillar of the church.↗ Example: The temple roof stood on tall stone pillars.↗ · A pillar of smoke rose from the bonfire.↗ · God led the Israelites with a pillar of cloud.↗ · Grandpa was a pillar of the community.↗ · The Five Pillars of Islam are the main duties of Muslims.↗ · In the UK, post boxes used to be called pillar boxes.↗ · We were sent from pillar to post.↗ · Around and around the pillar ran the Princess.↗ · And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.↗ (Torah GEN.31.45, JPS 1917)↗ · Neither shalt thou set thee up a pillar, which the LORD thy God hateth.↗ (Torah DEU.16.22, JPS 1917)↗ · But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.↗ (Torah GEN.19.26, JPS 1917)↗ · The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at His rebuke.↗ (Writings JOB.26.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars; (Writings PRO.9.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.↗ (Writings JOB.9.6, JPS 1917)↗

pillow — Everyday, meaning 1: A pillow is a soft bag filled with feathers, foam or cotton that you rest your head on in bed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A pillow can also be any soft thing used like that.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A pillow can also be put under another part of the body, such as the feet, to make it comfortable.↗ Example: I put my head on the pillow and fell asleep.↗ · We had a pillow fight at the sleepover.↗ · Put your tooth under your pillow tonight.↗ · Change the pillowcase every week.↗ · This pillow is too flat.↗ · My dog sleeps on a big pillow by the fire.↗ · She hid her diary under her pillow.↗ · Babies should sleep without pillows.↗ · “Because that feather pillow on my feet bothers me.”↗

pillowcase — Everyday, meaning 1: A pillowcase is a cloth cover that goes over a pillow to keep it clean.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It can be taken off and washed.↗ Example: Put a clean pillowcase on your pillow.↗ · My pillowcase has dinosaurs on it.↗ · We wash the pillowcases every week.↗ · On Halloween he carried his candy in a pillowcase.↗ · At the party we had a pillowcase race, hopping inside them.↗ · The pillowcase was wet from my tears after the sad film.↗ · The ones this size did not eat people, only lettuce, but they always scorched the sheets and pillowcases dreadfully.↗

pilot — Everyday, meaning 1: A pilot is a person who flies a plane or helicopter.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person who guides big ships into a harbour.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To pilot is to fly or steer something.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A pilot test or project is a small first try to see if something works.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: On a long sea voyage, the pilot is the sailor who works out which way the ship should go.↗ Example: The pilot flew the plane over the sea.↗ · She wants to be a pilot when she grows up.↗ · The pilot told us to fasten our seat belts.↗ · A pilot boat guided the ship into the port.↗ · He piloted the helicopter to the hospital.↗ · The school is running a pilot of the new reading app.↗ · I was on autopilot and walked the wrong way.↗ · Jason was appointed commander-in-chief of the expedition, Tiphys acted as steersman, Lynceus as pilot.↗ · At the sound of the cry of thy pilots the waves shall shake.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.28, JPS 1917)↗ · The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers; thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land, (Prophets EZK.27.29, JPS 1917)↗

pim — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: An ancient Hebrew weight, about two thirds of a shekel.↗ Example: And the price of the filing was a pim for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks with three teeth, and for the axes; and to set the goads.↗ (Prophets 1SA.13.21, JPS 1917)↗

pimple — Everyday, meaning 1: A small red spot on the skin, sometimes with yellow pus in the middle.↗ Example: A pimple appeared on his nose.↗ · Teenagers often get pimples.↗ · Don't squeeze your pimples or they get worse.↗ · She had goose pimples in the cold wind.↗ · Washing your face helps keep pimples away.↗ · He worried about a pimple before the school photo.↗

pin — Everyday, meaning 1: A pin is a short, thin, sharp piece of metal with a round head, used to hold cloth or paper together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A pin is a small badge or something with a pin on the back.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A PIN is a secret number used with a bank card or phone.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To pin something is to fasten it with a pin.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To pin someone down is to hold them so they cannot move.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A pin can also be a wooden or metal peg pushed into the ground to tie an animal to, such as a picket-pin.↗ Example: Pin the notice to the board.↗ · Ouch — I pricked my finger on a pin.↗ · Keep your PIN secret.↗ · It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.↗ · I've got pins and needles in my foot.↗ · She wore a flower pin on her coat.↗ · Use a safety pin to fix your costume.↗ · He knocked down all ten pins.↗ · He is smaller than a picket-pin.↗ · the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords; (Torah EXO.35.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.↗ (Torah EXO.38.20, JPS 1917)↗ · and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.↗ (Torah NUM.3.37, JPS 1917)↗ · For I have satiated the weary soul, and every pining soul have I replenished.↗ (Prophets JER.31.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Shall wood be taken thereof to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?↗ (Prophets EZK.15.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Her hand she put to the tent-pin, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head, yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.↗ (Prophets JDG.5.26, JPS 1917)↗

pinafore — Everyday, meaning 1: A pinafore is an apron, worn over a dress to keep it clean.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A pinafore can also be a loose dress with no sleeves, worn over a blouse.↗ Example: She put on a clean white pinafore for school.↗ · The girls filled their pinafores with berries.↗ · Gretel emptied her pinafore of pearls.↗

pinball — Everyday, meaning 1: An arcade game in which you shoot a metal ball up a sloping table and use flippers to keep it bouncing off targets to score points.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb, informal) To bounce quickly from one place to another: «The ball pinballed around the box.».↗ Example: We played pinball at the arcade on the pier.↗ · Press the buttons to move the flippers in pinball.↗ · I got a high score on the pinball machine.↗ · The ball went pinballing between the defenders.↗ · Pinball machines use springs, slopes and magnets.↗ · Gravity pulls the pinball down the table.↗