📖 P — The English dictionary · page 55

presentable — Everyday, meaning 1: Presentable means neat and clean enough to be seen by other people.↗ Example: Brush your hair so you look presentable.↗ · When the children were presentable, they went to the feast.↗ · Wash your hands and face, and you will be presentable.↗

presentation — Everyday, meaning 1: A talk to a group to show or explain something, often with slides or pictures.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Giving something to someone in a ceremony: the presentation of prizes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The way something looks or is set out: neat presentation in your book.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Presentation can also mean formally introducing a young person to important people in society.↗ Example: I gave a presentation about volcanoes.↗ · Our teacher said my presentation was neat.↗ · The presentation of the cups is at three.↗ · She made a slide presentation on the computer.↗ · Good presentation makes your work easy to read.↗ · We clapped after each group's presentation.↗ · A general laugh saluted her on the presentation of her son.↗

presenter — Everyday, meaning 1: A presenter is a person who introduces and hosts a TV or radio programme, or talks to the audience on a show.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A presenter is anyone who gives a talk or presentation to a group.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (awards) The presenter of a prize is the person who hands it over.↗ Example: The TV presenter smiled and said, «Welcome back!»↗ · The weather presenter warned us about snow.↗ · Each group chose a presenter to speak to the class.↗ · A good presenter looks at the audience, not the floor.↗ · The presenter of the award shook my hand.↗ · She wants to be a nature presenter like David Attenborough.↗ · The radio presenter played my song request.↗

presentiment — Everyday, meaning 1: A presentiment is a strong feeling that something is going to happen, often something bad, though you have no proof.↗ Example: I had a presentiment that the storm would come.↗ · He had a strange presentiment that the witch was near.↗ · A presentiment of danger made the boy turn back.↗

presently — Everyday, meaning 1: Soon; in a short time (I'll be with you presently).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (mainly US and formal) Now; at the moment (she is presently living in Toronto).↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: At once; straight away; right then.↗ Example: The doctor will see you presently.↗ · Presently the rain stopped and the sun came out.↗ · She is presently in Year 5.↗ · The museum is presently closed for repairs.↗ · Wait here; I'll be back presently.↗ · Two hundred pupils are presently at the school.↗ · Presently he heard steps coming upstairs.↗ · A fool's vexation is presently known; but a prudent man concealeth shame.↗ (Writings PRO.12.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Presently he heard steps coming upstairs.↗ (More English Fairy Tales) · Presently his brothers came that way.↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) · Presently in rushes the irritated bridegroom.↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore)

preservation — Everyday, meaning 1: Preservation is keeping something safe from harm, damage or decay.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Preservation is keeping food fresh for a long time by drying, salting, freezing, canning or other ways.↗ Example: Freezing is a good method of food preservation.↗ · The society works for the preservation of old buildings.↗ · Salt was used for preservation long ago.↗ · The preservation of rainforests helps the planet.↗ · The mummy was in a good state of preservation.↗ · Self-preservation made the rabbit run.↗ · Jam is a kind of fruit preservation.↗ · Wildlife preservation protects rare animals.↗ · Virgilius spent many days in deep thought, and at length invented a plan which was known to all as the ‘Preservation of Rome.’↗

preserve — Everyday, meaning 1: To keep something safe from harm, damage or change: preserve old buildings, preserve wildlife.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To treat food so it lasts a long time, by drying, salting, freezing, pickling or making jam.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) Jam or fruit cooked with sugar to keep: strawberry preserves.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun) An area kept for wild animals, or something that belongs to only one group: «a game preserve».↗ Example: Salt helps preserve fish.↗ · The insect was preserved in amber for millions of years.↗ · We must preserve the rainforest for future people.↗ · Grandma makes plum preserves every autumn.↗ · The mammoth was preserved in the ice.↗ · A turn preserves the size and shape of a triangle.↗ · The old castle is well preserved.↗ · Freezing preserves food for months.↗ · I should have liked to preserve a specimen.↗ · Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.'↗ (Torah GEN.19.32, JPS 1917)↗ · And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; for God did send me before you to preserve life.↗ (Torah GEN.45.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.'↗ (Torah GEN.19.34, JPS 1917)↗ · Appoint mercy and truth, that they may preserve him.↗ (Writings PSA.61.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for Thee.↗ (Writings PSA.25.21, JPS 1917)↗ · That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.↗ (Writings PRO.5.2, JPS 1917)↗

preserved — Everyday, meaning 1: Kept safe from harm or change.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Food treated (with salt, sugar, vinegar, cold or drying) so it lasts a long time without going bad.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Kept in its old state, like a building, a fossil or a mummy.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (adjective) Well kept, in good condition: well-preserved.↗ Example: The mammoth was preserved in the ice.↗ · Gran preserved the plums in jars.↗ · The old castle has been preserved for visitors.↗ · Salt preserved fish on long sea journeys.↗ · The insect was preserved in amber.↗ · This forest is preserved as a nature reserve.↗ · The old car was beautifully preserved.↗ · Elephants are very strictly preserved by the Indian Government.↗ · And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: 'for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.'↗ (Torah GEN.32.30, JPS 1917)↗ · This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Thou hast granted me life and favour, and Thy providence hath preserved my spirit.↗ (Writings JOB.10.12, JPS 1917)↗ · For the LORD loveth justice, and forsaketh not His saints; they are preserved for ever; but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.↗ (Writings PSA.37.28, JPS 1917)↗ · Then said David: 'Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given unto us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.↗ (Prophets 1SA.30.23, JPS 1917)↗

preserver — Everyday, meaning 1: A preserver is a person or thing that keeps someone safe or saves them from harm.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In religion a Preserver is a god or title for a god who keeps the world safe.↗ Example: You have saved me, my preserver!↗ · The rope was a preserver for the sailor in the storm.↗ · Shiva is called the Preserver in some Hindu stories.↗

preserves — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) Jam, jelly or fruit cooked with sugar and kept in jars.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb, he/she preserves) Keeps something safe, unharmed or from going bad.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) An area kept for one group or use: a nature preserve; «Football was the boys' preserve.».↗ Example: Grandma's strawberry preserves are the best.↗ · Salt preserves fish so it doesn't rot.↗ · The freezer preserves food for months.↗ · Amber preserves tiny insects for millions of years.↗ · The park preserves rare birds.↗ · We bought apricot preserves at the market.↗ · The old man now went into the other room to fetch preserves, apples, and nuts--yes, it was delightful over there in the old house.↗

preside — Everyday, meaning 1: To be in charge of a meeting, ceremony, court or event: «The judge presided over the trial.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To be in control of a situation or period: «He presided over a time of peace.».↗ Example: The judge presided over the trial.↗ · The head teacher presided at the prize-giving.↗ · The King of Hearts presided over the trial in Wonderland.↗ · The mayor presided over the meeting.↗ · The priest presided at the wedding.↗ · Gran presided over the Christmas dinner table.↗ · Terminus was the god who presided over all boundaries and landmarks.↗ · Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and presided over all that did the work in every manner of service; and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.↗ (Writings 2CH.34.13, JPS 1917)↗

presidency — Everyday, meaning 1: The presidency is the job of being president.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A presidency is the time during which a person is president.↗ Example: She won the presidency of the school council.↗ · Lincoln's presidency was during the American Civil War.↗ · He ran for the presidency in the election.↗ · The presidency lasts four years in the USA.↗ · During her presidency, many laws changed.↗ · The presidency of the club passed to Mrs Ahmed.↗

president — Everyday, meaning 1: A president is the leader of a country that has no king or queen, usually chosen by the people in an election.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A president is the person in charge of a club, company, college or organisation.↗ Example: The President gave a speech on television.↗ · Ireland has a president who lives in Dublin.↗ · She was elected president of the school council.↗ · The president of the chess club organised the competition.↗ · The President of the United States lives in the White House.↗ · Who will be the next president?↗ · Then he went to the magistrate, who informed the president of the museum of the discovery, and advised Ib to take the treasures himself to the president.↗ · Lecture before the Hermetic Society of London in the summer of 1886, Dr. Anna Kingsford, President, in the chair.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The substance of this little volume was read as a [p. 13] Lecture before the Hermetic Society of London in the summer of 1886, Dr. Anna Kingsford, President, in the chair.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Then these presidents and satraps came tumultuously to the king, and said thus unto him: 'King Darius, live for ever!↗ (Writings DAN.6.7, JPS 1917)↗ · and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these satraps might give account unto them, and that the king should have no damage.↗ (Writings DAN.6.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the presidents and the satraps, because a surpassing spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.↗ (Writings DAN.6.4, JPS 1917)↗

presidential — Everyday, meaning 1: Presidential means to do with a president, the elected leader of a country such as the USA, France or Ireland, or the head of a club or company («a presidential election»).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Presidential can mean looking or acting serious and important, like a president should.↗ Example: The USA has a presidential election every four years.↗ · The presidential candidates debated on TV.↗ · The presidential palace is guarded day and night.↗ · France has a presidential system.↗ · Ireland held a presidential election.↗ · He looked very presidential in his suit.↗ · The presidential plane is called Air Force One.↗

press — Everyday, meaning 1: To press is to push firmly on something: press a button.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To press clothes is to iron them flat.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To press someone is to try hard to make them do something.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A press is a machine that pushes or squeezes things, or that prints.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: The press means newspapers, TV news and the people who write them.↗ Example: Press the green button to start.↗ · Press firmly on the cut with a clean cloth.↗ · We pressed flowers in a heavy book.↗ · Don't press too hard with your pencil.↗ · Dad pressed his shirt for the wedding.↗ · The news was in the press.↗ · We were pressed for time, so we ran.↗ · Press on — you're nearly finished!↗ · ‘Press your finger on the latch, then push and the door opens.’↗ · Thou shalt not delay to offer of the fulness of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses.↗ (Torah EXO.22.29, JPS 1917)↗ · And the gift which ye set apart shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the wine-press.↗ (Torah NUM.18.27, JPS 1917)↗ · Therefore thou shalt say unto them: When ye set apart the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the wine-press.↗ (Torah NUM.18.30, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and all Thy waves Thou pressest down.↗ (Writings PSA.88.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fish-hook? or press down his tongue with a cord?↗ (Writings JOB.40.25, JPS 1917)↗ · The threshing-floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.↗ (Prophets HOS.9.2, JPS 1917)↗

pressed — Everyday, meaning 1: Pressed means pushed on something, like a button or a key.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Pressed flowers or leaves are flattened between pages to dry and keep.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Pressed clothes are made smooth with an iron.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Pressed for time means having very little time.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Pressed can also mean pushed hard in a fight or contest, so the other side is forced to struggle.↗ Example: She pressed the button 5 times.↗ · He pressed 12 flowers in his book.↗ · Each time the key is pressed, the number goes up by 2.↗ · How many times was the bell pressed?↗ · He pressed the doorbell and waited.↗ · We pressed autumn leaves between heavy books.↗ · Her school shirt was neatly pressed.↗ · The puppy pressed its nose against the window.↗ · I am pressed for time, so let us be quick.↗ · The fight lasted an hour and the dragon pressed her hard.↗ · All the days of his Naziriteship shall he eat nothing that is made of the grape-vine, from the pressed grapes even to the grapestone.↗ (Torah NUM.6.4, JPS 1917)↗ · and Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.'↗ (Torah GEN.40.11, JPS 1917)↗ · But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.↗ (Prophets 2SA.13.27, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death.↗ (Prophets JDG.16.16, JPS 1917)↗ · and they committed harlotries in Egypt; they committed harlotries in their youth; there were their bosoms pressed, and there their virgin breasts were bruised.↗ (Prophets EZK.23.3, JPS 1917)↗