📖 P — The English dictionary · page 34

plan — Everyday, meaning 1: An idea of what you will do and how.↗ e.g. "Our plan is to leave at nine."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A drawing showing the shape of a building or area from above.↗ e.g. "a floor plan".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As a verb, to decide and organise what to do.↗ e.g. "plan a party".↗ Example: What is the plan for today?↗ · We planned a surprise for Mum.↗ · Plan your story before you write it.↗ · Our family has a fire escape plan.↗ · Everything went to plan.↗ · If that fails, we have a plan B.↗ · Draw a plan of your bedroom.↗ · Plan ahead for a long walk.↗

plane — Everyday, meaning 1: A plane is an aeroplane or airplane, a machine with wings that flies.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In maths, a plane is a flat surface that goes on forever in all directions.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A plane is a tool for making wood smooth and flat.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A plane tree is a big tree often planted in city streets.↗ Example: We flew to Spain by plane.↗ · The plane took off on time.↗ · A square is a plane shape.↗ · Look at all the planes at the airport.↗ · Fasten your seat belt on the plane.↗ · The carpenter used a plane to smooth the door.↗ · A plane flew high above the clouds.↗ · Plane trees line the streets of London.↗ · "Ungrateful creatures!" said a voice from the Plane Tree.↗ · And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, making the white appear which was in the rods.↗ (Torah GEN.30.37, JPS 1917)↗ · is '' the voices from nothing."↗ The Ten Sephiruth of the Kabalah are the " Ten Primary Emanations from the Divine Source " which are the primal forces leading to all manifestation upon every plane in succession.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Here follow the permutations of the name I H V, which is the Tetragrammaton — Jehovah, without the second or final Heh : IHV is a Tri-grammaton, and is more suitable to the third or Yetziratic plane.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane-tree, and the larch together; (Prophets ISA.41.19, JPS 1917)↗ · The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the cypress, the plane-tree and the larch together; to beautify the place of My sanctuary, and I will make the place of My feet glorious.↗ (Prophets ISA.60.13, JPS 1917)↗

planet — Everyday, meaning 1: A very large round object in space that moves around a star, such as the Earth moving around the Sun.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The planet: our Earth: «Look after the planet».↗ Example: Earth is the planet we live on.↗ · There are eight planets in our Solar System.↗ · Jupiter is the biggest planet.↗ · Mars is called the Red Planet.↗ · Planets move around the Sun.↗ · Pluto is now called a dwarf planet.↗ · Recycling helps look after the planet.↗ · You can see Venus shining in the evening sky.↗ · The planet names here given are Chaldee words.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The seven planets in the world are: [36] as Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · The Thirty-second Path is the Administrative Intelligence, and it is so called because it directs and associates, in all their operations, the seven planets, even all of them in their own due courses.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

planetarium — Everyday, meaning 1: A planetarium is a building with a round domed ceiling where pictures of the stars, planets and night sky are shown, so people can learn about space.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It can also be the machine that projects the sky onto the dome.↗ Example: Our class went on a trip to the planetarium.↗ · At the planetarium we lay back and looked at the stars.↗ · The planetarium show was about black holes.↗ · The dome of the planetarium went dark.↗ · We saw how the sky changes through the year in the planetarium.↗ · The planetarium is next to the science museum.↗

planetary — Everyday, meaning 1: Planetary means to do with planets.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Planetary can mean to do with the whole Earth, affecting the whole world.↗ Example: Saturn's planetary rings are made of ice and rock.↗ · A planetary scientist studies Mars and other planets.↗ · Our Solar System is one planetary system among many.↗ · The planetary orbits are shaped like stretched circles called ellipses.↗ · Climate change is a problem on a planetary scale.↗ · We built a planetary model with balls and wire.↗ · A planetary nebula is the glowing gas left by a dying star.↗

planetesimal — Everyday, meaning 1: A planetesimal is a small solid lump of rock, dust or ice, from a few metres to a few kilometres across, that moved around a young star; scientists think many of them crashed and stuck together to build planets.↗ Example: Planets formed from millions of planetesimals.↗ · A planetesimal is like a building block of a planet.↗ · Some asteroids may be leftover planetesimals.↗ · The planetesimals bumped and stuck together.↗ · Scientists study planetesimals to learn how Earth formed.↗ · Earth may have grown from planetesimals crashing together.↗

plank — Everyday, meaning 1: A plank is a long, flat piece of wood.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The plank is also an exercise where you hold your body straight like a board, resting on your arms and toes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A plank can be one main idea of a plan, as in a political plan.↗ Example: A plank is 6 meters long.↗ · He cuts the plank into 3 equal pieces.↗ · They need 20 planks for the fence.↗ · Each plank costs 4 dollars.↗ · We laid a plank across the stream to cross it.↗ · Hold the plank for 30 seconds.↗ · In the story, the pirates made him walk the plank.↗ · Dad nailed the planks together to make a treehouse floor.↗ · The lovely Helena steps across the plank.↗ · Hollow with planks shalt thou make it; as it hath been shown thee in the mount, so shall they make it.↗ (Torah EXO.27.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, wherewith to bear it; he made it hollow with planks.↗ (Torah EXO.38.7, JPS 1917)↗ · So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered in the house with planks of cedar over beams.↗ (Prophets 1KI.6.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Of cypress-trees from Senir have they fashioned all thy planks; they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.5, JPS 1917)↗

plankton — Everyday, meaning 1: Plankton are tiny plants and animals that drift in the sea and in lakes, carried by the water; most are too small to see without a microscope.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Plant plankton (phytoplankton) make food from sunlight and produce a large share of the oxygen we breathe; animal plankton (zooplankton) include tiny shrimps and baby fish.↗ Example: Plankton float in the ocean.↗ · Many whales feed on tiny plankton and krill.↗ · Plankton are at the bottom of the ocean food chain.↗ · Phytoplankton make oxygen from sunlight.↗ · We looked at plankton under the microscope.↗ · The sea glowed at night because of special plankton.↗ · Small fish eat plankton, and bigger fish eat the small fish.↗

planned — Everyday, meaning 1: Planned is the past form of «plan»: decided in advance what to do and how.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A planned thing has been arranged before it happens.↗ Example: We planned a surprise party for Mum.↗ · Everything went as planned.↗ · She planned her story with a mind map.↗ · The fire drill was planned for Monday.↗ · They planned the trip carefully.↗ · Our class planned a fair test with seeds.↗ · The picnic was not planned — it just happened.↗ · If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast planned devices, lay thy hand upon thy mouth.↗ (Writings PRO.30.32, JPS 1917)↗

planner — Everyday, meaning 1: A planner is a person who plans things, such as events, holidays or towns.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A planner is a book, diary or app where you write plans and dates for things you need to do.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK) A town planner works for the council deciding where new buildings and roads may go.↗ Example: Write your homework in your planner.↗ · The wedding planner chose the flowers.↗ · My mum is a great planner; she never forgets anything.↗ · Town planners decided where the new park would go.↗ · I use a planner app to track my football practices.↗ · The teacher checks our planners every Friday.↗ · The party planner booked a magician.↗

planning — Everyday, meaning 1: Planning is deciding and arranging what you will do and how, before you do it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Planning can mean a plan or notes made before writing, building or doing something, like story planning.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Planning is also the official process of deciding what can be built in a town (planning permission).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Be planning to do something means to intend to do it.↗ Example: Good planning makes the trip much easier.↗ · Do your story planning before you start writing.↗ · We are planning a surprise party for Mum.↗ · I'm planning to learn to swim this summer.↗ · Planning ahead helps you not forget anything.↗ · They needed planning permission to build the extension.↗ · Our class spent the lesson planning the science experiment.↗ · Fail to plan, plan to fail.↗ · And she set off homewards again, cheerfully planning all the grand things she was going to do with her money.↗

plant — Everyday, meaning 1: A plant is a living thing that grows in soil, like a flower, grass or a tree.↗ Most plants are green and make their own food from sunlight.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To plant is to put seeds or plants in the ground so they grow.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A plant is also a factory or big machine: a power plant.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To plant can mean to put something firmly in place: she planted her feet.↗ Example: She plants 5 rows of 6 flowers.↗ · The plant grows 2 cm each week.↗ · He has 12 plants.↗ · How many plants are in the garden?↗ · Plants need water and sunlight to grow.↗ · The roots hold the plant in the soil.↗ · We planted bean seeds in paper cups.↗ · The power plant makes electricity for the town.↗ · Some plants, like poison ivy, can hurt your skin.↗ · The dwarf stood gazing at the plant.↗ · Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.↗ (Torah DEU.16.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them.↗ (Torah DEU.28.39, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou bringest them in, and plantest them in the mountain of Thine inheritance, the place, O LORD, which Thou hast made for Thee to dwell in, the sanctuary, O Lord, which Thy hands have established.↗ (Torah EXO.15.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And sow fields, and plant vineyards, which yield fruits of increase.↗ (Writings PSA.107.37, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy shoots are a park of pomegranates, with precious fruits; henna with spikenard plants, (Writings SNG.4.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.↗ (Writings JOB.14.9, JPS 1917)↗

plantain — Everyday, meaning 1: A fruit like a big banana that is usually cooked before eating, often fried, boiled or baked; popular in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A common wild plant (weed) with flat leaves close to the ground and thin spikes of tiny flowers; it grows on lawns and paths.↗ Example: Fried plantain is sweet and soft when it is ripe.↗ · Plantains look like bananas but are usually cooked.↗ · My Nigerian friend's mum makes plantain with rice.↗ · Green plantain is hard and starchy.↗ · There is plantain growing all over our lawn.↗ · We played a game knocking the heads off ribwort plantain.↗

plantation — Everyday, meaning 1: A plantation is a large farm, usually in a hot country, where one crop such as cotton, sugar, tea, coffee or rubber is grown.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A plantation is also an area where many trees have been planted in rows, for example for wood.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history) In the past, many plantations in the Americas used enslaved African people who were forced to work without pay.↗ Example: Tea is grown on huge plantations on green hillsides.↗ · Enslaved people were forced to pick cotton on plantations.↗ · The pine plantation had trees in straight rows.↗ · Cutting forests for palm oil plantations harms orangutans.↗ · We read a story about a girl who escaped from a plantation.↗ · Workers on the coffee plantation pick the beans by hand.↗ · When she was gone, no one attended to her plantations, and the garden ran to waste.↗ · These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plantations and hedges; there they dwelt occupied in the king's work.↗ (Writings 1CH.4.23, JPS 1917)↗ · The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow; her rivers ran round about her plantation, and she sent out her conduits unto all the trees of the field.↗ (Prophets EZK.31.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will raise up unto them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more.↗ (Prophets EZK.34.29, JPS 1917)↗

planted — Everyday, meaning 1: Planted is the past form of plant: it was put in the ground to grow.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Planted can mean put firmly in place: he stood with his feet planted.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Planted can mean hidden on purpose: a planted clue.↗ Example: He planted 24 trees.↗ · She planted 3 rows of carrots.↗ · How many seeds are not planted yet?↗ · They planted 8 more flowers.↗ · We planted sunflower seeds in spring.↗ · The school planted a tree for Earth Day.↗ · She stood with her feet planted firmly on the ground.↗ · The thief had planted a false clue.↗ · He planted sharp-pointed sticks around the leaping flames.↗ · And Noah the husbandman began, and planted a vineyard.↗ (Torah GEN.9.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abraham planted a tamarisk-tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.↗ (Torah GEN.21.33, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.↗ (Torah GEN.2.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper?↗ (Prophets EZK.17.10, JPS 1917)↗ · He that planted the ear, shall He not hear?↗ (Writings PSA.94.9, JPS 1917)↗ · I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards; (Writings ECC.2.4, JPS 1917)↗