📖 P — The English dictionary · page 3

painting — Everyday, meaning 1: A painting is a picture made with paint.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Painting is the art or job of making pictures with paint.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Painting is the -ing form of paint: «He is painting the fence».↗ Example: The museum has 40 paintings.↗ · She sold 3 paintings for 25 dollars each.↗ · He is painting the fence.↗ · Each painting takes 2 hours.↗ · My favourite painting shows sunflowers.↗ · Painting is her favourite hobby.↗ · The paintings hang on the gallery walls.↗ · Face painting costs one dollar at the fair.↗ · Inside, in the hall, valuable oil paintings were hanging on the walls.↗

pair — Everyday, meaning 1: A pair is two things of the same kind that go together: a pair of socks.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A pair is one thing made of two parts: a pair of scissors, a pair of trousers.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A pair is two people or animals together.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To pair up is to make groups of two.↗ Example: How many socks are in 6 pairs of socks?↗ · Max has seven pairs of gloves.↗ · Anna buys 3 pairs of shoes.↗ · Work in pairs to check your answers.↗ · I need a new pair of scissors.↗ · 4 and 6 are a pair that makes 10.↗ · A pair of swans swam on the lake.↗ · Pair up with the person next to you.↗ · One day the pair unexpectedly met a Lion.↗ · Thus in combining all together in pairs are produced these two hundred and thirty-one gates of knowledge.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · And, behold, there came a troop of men, horsemen by pairs.↗ (Prophets ISA.21.9, JPS 1917)↗ · That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the corn?'↗ (Prophets AMO.8.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes, which are come up from the washing; whereof all are paired, and none faileth among them.↗ (Writings SNG.6.6, JPS 1917)↗

pairing — Everyday, meaning 1: A pairing is two people or things put together, as a pair or a team.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Pairing is the act of putting things into pairs.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (technology) Pairing is connecting two devices, such as headphones and a phone, by Bluetooth.↗ Example: The teacher announced the pairings for the science project.↗ · Pairing the socks takes ages after washing.↗ · My headphones are pairing with my tablet.↗ · Cheese and apple is a tasty pairing.↗ · The tennis pairing won the doubles final.↗ · Pairing 1 with 9 and 2 with 8 makes adding quick.↗

paisley — Everyday, meaning 1: A pattern of curved, teardrop shapes with patterns inside them, used on fabric, ties and scarves.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Paisley: a town in Scotland near Glasgow, which gave the pattern its name (a name).↗ Example: Dad wore a paisley tie to the wedding.↗ · We drew paisley patterns in art.↗ · The paisley shape looks a bit like a teardrop or a comma.↗ · Grandma has a red paisley scarf.↗ · Paisley in Scotland was famous for weaving shawls.↗ · My bandana has a black and white paisley pattern.↗

pal — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A friend.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Pen pal» or «pen friend»: someone you write letters to, often in another country.↗ Example: He's my best pal.↗ · We have been pals since nursery.↗ · I write letters to my pen pal in Australia.↗ · The dog is my faithful pal.↗ · Come on, pal, let's go home.↗ · The two of them palled up on the first day of camp.↗

palace — Everyday, meaning 1: A very large, grand house where a king, queen, president or bishop lives.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A big, splendid building for public fun: a picture palace, an ice palace.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Any house that is very fine: «Your new house is a palace!».↗ Example: The queen lived in a palace with hundreds of rooms.↗ · We watched the guards change outside Buckingham Palace.↗ · The princess ran through the palace gardens.↗ · The palace has 775 rooms.↗ · Their new house is a palace compared to our flat.↗ · The Palace said the king was well.↗ · He reached the palace at sunrise.↗ · These Seven Double Letters point out seven localities; Above, Below, East, West, North, South, and the Palace of Holiness in the midst of them sustaining all things.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · These Seven Double Letters point out seven localities ; Above, Below, East, West, North, South, and the Palace of HoHness in the midst of them sus- taining all things.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.↗ (Writings PSA.122.7, JPS 1917)↗ · God in her palaces hath made Himself known for a stronghold.↗ (Writings PSA.48.4, JPS 1917)↗ · The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.↗ (Prophets NAM.2.7, JPS 1917)↗

palaeontologist — Everyday, meaning 1: A scientist who studies fossils to learn about plants and animals that lived long ago, like dinosaurs.↗ Example: A palaeontologist found a dinosaur bone near the cliff.↗ · I want to be a palaeontologist when I grow up.↗ · Palaeontologists use brushes to clean fossils gently.↗ · The palaeontologist said the tooth belonged to a T. rex.↗ · Mary Anning was a famous fossil hunter and early palaeontologist.↗ · Palaeontologists study ancient plants too.↗

palaeontology — Everyday, meaning 1: The science that studies life from long ago, mostly through fossils of animals and plants, such as dinosaurs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The study of how living things changed over millions of years.↗ Example: Palaeontology is the study of fossils.↗ · She wants to study palaeontology and dig up dinosaurs.↗ · Mary Anning made great discoveries for palaeontology.↗ · Palaeontology tells us that sharks are older than trees.↗ · The museum has a palaeontology room full of bones.↗ · In palaeontology, a single tooth can tell you what an animal ate.↗

palanquin — Everyday, meaning 1: A covered seat or bed on poles, carried on the shoulders of servants, used in old times to carry a rich lady or prince.↗ Example: They were to dress her and bring her to him in the palanquin.↗ · The prince took his finest palanquin.↗ · The palanquin arrived with the gardener's daughter.↗ · King Solomon made himself a palanquin of the wood of Lebanon.↗ (Writings SNG.3.9, JPS 1917)↗

palatable — Everyday, meaning 1: Nice enough to eat or drink; having a pleasant taste.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Acceptable or easy to agree with.↗ e.g. "a more palatable idea".↗ Example: The medicine was made palatable with strawberry flavour.↗ · Adding honey made the porridge more palatable.↗ · School dinners have become more palatable this year.↗ · The new bedtime rule was more palatable when we got a story too.↗ · The truth was not palatable, but he needed to hear it.↗ · Some leaves are not palatable to caterpillars.↗

palatal — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Having to do with the palate, the roof of the mouth, as with the sounds made there.↗ Example: This is the modern classification of the letters into guttural, palatal, lingual, dental and labial sounds.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Twenty-two letters are formed by the voice, impressed on the air, and audibly uttered in five situations, in the throat, guttural sounds; in the palate, palatals; by the tongue, linguals; through the teeth, dentals; and by the lips, labial sounds.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

palate — Everyday, meaning 1: Your palate is the roof of your mouth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person's palate is their sense of taste and what foods they like.↗ Example: Your tongue touches your palate when you say «t».↗ · The hard palate is at the front of your mouth.↗ · The food was too spicy for my palate.↗ · This dish will please any palate.↗ · Babies are sometimes born with a cleft palate, which doctors can fix.↗ · Chefs train their palate to taste small differences.↗ · I burned my palate on hot pizza.↗ · My palate prefers sweet things.↗ · "I can't say it quite suits my palate.↗ · Twenty-two letters are formed by the voice, impressed on the air, and audibly uttered in five situations, in the throat, guttural sounds; in the palate, palatals; by the tongue, linguals; through the teeth, dentals; and by the lips, labial sounds.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.↗ (Writings JOB.34.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Doth not the ear try words, even as the palate tasteth its food?↗ (Writings JOB.12.11, JPS 1917)↗ · How sweet are Thy words unto my palate! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!↗ (Writings PSA.119.103, JPS 1917)↗

palaver — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, UK) A lot of fuss and bother about something unimportant: what a palaver!↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old) Long talk or chatter.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old) A long meeting or talk between groups of people, especially between traders and local people long ago.↗ Example: What a palaver getting the dog into the car!↗ · Mum said the school concert was a lot of palaver.↗ · Stop all this palaver and get your shoes on!↗ · The chiefs held a long palaver by the river.↗ · There was a great palaver over who sat where.↗ · It's too much palaver to bake bread every day.↗ · "Den, atter some mo' palaver, Brer Fox make a bargain dat Mr. Buzzard wuz ter watch de hole, en keep Brer Rabbit dar wiles Brer Fox went atter his axe.↗

pale — Everyday, meaning 1: Pale describes a face or skin that has less colour than usual, often because someone is ill, scared or shocked.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A pale colour is light and soft, not strong or dark, like pale blue.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Pale light is weak, not bright.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To pale means to become pale, or to seem less important next to something else.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Beyond the pale means very bad or not acceptable.↗ Example: You look pale; are you feeling all right?↗ · He went pale when he saw the spider.↗ · She painted her room pale yellow.↗ · The pale moon rose over the hills.↗ · Add white paint to make the colour paler.↗ · After the illness she was thin and pale.↗ · My drawing pales in comparison to yours.↗ · Kicking the dog was beyond the pale.↗ · ‘Sylvia’s dear face is pale to-day.↗ · Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale; (Prophets ISA.29.22, JPS 1917)↗

paleness — Everyday, meaning 1: The state of being pale: having a light colour or less colour than usual.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Lightness of a person's face when they are ill, tired or frightened.↗ Example: Her paleness worried the school nurse.↗ · The paleness of the sky meant snow was coming.↗ · He noticed the paleness of the ghostly figure.↗ · After the flu, his paleness lasted a week.↗ · The paleness of the wall made the room feel cool.↗ · Fear showed in the sudden paleness of her face.↗ · Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child; wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?↗ (Prophets JER.30.6, JPS 1917)↗

palestinian — Everyday, meaning 1: Palestinian means from or connected with the Palestinian people or the Palestinian territories, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, in the Middle East.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A Palestinian is a person from this people, whether living there or elsewhere in the world.↗ Example: Many Palestinian families live in Gaza and the West Bank.↗ · Our neighbour is Palestinian and makes delicious maqluba.↗ · The news showed Palestinian children in a camp for refugees.↗ · Many countries recognise a State of Palestine, and some do not.↗ · Palestinian embroidery has beautiful red patterns.↗ · Leaders met to talk about peace between Israelis and Palestinians.↗ · Palestinian Christians live in Bethlehem, where Christians believe Jesus was born.↗

palette — Everyday, meaning 1: A flat board or tray that an artist uses to hold and mix paints.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The set of colours used in a painting, a room, a design or a computer program.↗ e.g. "a palette of blues and greens".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A range of things to choose from, such as sounds or flavours.↗ Example: Squeeze some red and white paint onto your palette.↗ · She mixed pink on her palette.↗ · The painting uses a palette of soft greens.↗ · Pick a colour from the palette at the top of the screen.↗ · Wash your palette before the paint dries.↗ · The autumn trees showed a palette of red, orange and gold.↗

palfrey — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use, in fairy tales) A gentle horse ridden by a lady or a knight, not a war horse.↗ Example: He changed the old mare into a brisk piebald palfrey.↗ · She was perched on a magnificent palfrey.↗ · I had my palfrey saddled and rode to the forest.↗

palindrome — Everyday, meaning 1: A palindrome is a word, number or sentence that reads the same backwards as forwards, like «level», «racecar», «12321» or «Was it a car or a cat I saw?».↗ Example: «Level» is a palindrome.↗ · My name, Hannah, is a palindrome.↗ · 12321 is a palindromic number.↗ · «Never odd or even» is a palindrome sentence.↗ · Can you write a palindrome that is a whole sentence?↗ · 47 + 74 = 121, and 121 is a palindrome.↗ · «Kayak» reads the same backwards and forwards.↗ · Madam, in Eden, I'm Adam.↗

paling — Everyday, meaning 1: A pointed wooden stake that is part of a fence.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fence made of such stakes (palings).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Paling» is also the -ing form of «to pale», to become pale or less bright.↗ Example: The cat climbed over the palings.↗ · (Australia) Dad fixed the paling fence.↗ · Her face was paling with fear.↗ · The sky was paling as dawn came.↗ · The Mole squeezed through a gap in the palings.↗ · A paling had fallen in the storm.↗ · Fresh and fragrant roses hung over the little palings.↗