📖 P — The English dictionary · page 6

papermaking — Everyday, meaning 1: Papermaking is the craft or industry of making paper, usually from wood pulp, cotton, rags or recycled paper soaked in water, pressed into thin sheets and dried.↗ Example: Papermaking was invented in ancient China.↗ · In art we tried papermaking with old newspapers and water.↗ · The papermaking mill by the river used water power.↗ · Papermaking uses a lot of trees, so we recycle.↗ · The museum showed papermaking with cotton rags.↗ · Wasps make their nests by a kind of papermaking from chewed wood.↗ · We dried our papermaking sheets on the windowsill.↗

paperwork — Everyday, meaning 1: Forms, letters, reports and other papers that must be filled in or kept, especially for school, work or the government.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The boring work of writing, filling in and sorting such papers, often seen as getting in the way of real work.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Any official record, even on a computer, such as online forms.↗ Example: Dad stayed up late doing the paperwork for our new car.↗ · You must hand in the paperwork before the school trip.↗ · The vet asked us to fill in some paperwork about our dog.↗ · Mrs Lee had a mountain of paperwork on her desk.↗ · The police officer said the paperwork would take an hour.↗ · Each form in the paperwork had 4 pages, and there were 12 forms.↗ · Moving house means lots of paperwork.↗ · "Ugh, more paperwork," groaned the coach.↗

papoose — Everyday, meaning 1: A papoose is a baby carried on its mother's back or in a cradle, wrapped tightly in cloth.↗ The word is old and comes from a North American language.↗ Example: Babies were swaddled tightly, like papooses.↗ · The mother carried her papoose on her back.↗ · Old books used the word papoose for a baby.↗

papua — Everyday, meaning 1: Papua is the name of a large area in the western half of the island of New Guinea, now part of Indonesia.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is part of the name of the country Papua New Guinea, which is on the eastern half of the same island, north of Australia.↗ Example: Papua New Guinea is just north of Australia.↗ · More than 800 languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea.↗ · Birds of paradise live in the forests of Papua.↗ · We found Papua on the map of Indonesia.↗ · Port Moresby is the capital of Papua New Guinea.↗ · Our class read about the mountains of Papua.↗ · Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia in 1975.↗

papyrus — Everyday, meaning 1: A tall water plant like a reed that grows by the River Nile.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A kind of paper made from this plant by the ancient Egyptians.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An ancient document written on this paper.↗ Example: The Egyptians wrote on papyrus.↗ · Papyrus grows along the River Nile.↗ · We made our own papyrus in class from strips of paper.↗ · The scroll was rolled-up papyrus.↗ · The word «paper» comes from papyrus.↗ · Old pieces of the Bible were found on papyri.↗ · A papyrus, which is supposed to be "of the age of the nineteenth dynasty, about B.C.↗ 1300," has preserved an Egyptian tale about two brothers.↗ · That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters!↗ (Prophets ISA.18.2, JPS 1917)↗

par — Everyday, meaning 1: In golf, par is the number of strokes a good player is expected to need for a hole or a whole course.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «On a par with» means equal to or as good as.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Up to par» means as good as it should be; «below par» or «under par» (not golf) means not as good or not as well as usual.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Par for the course» means normal or expected, usually for something annoying.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (money) Par is the normal stated value of something like a share.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: In French, par means "by", so a book title such as "Contes des Fees, par Madame d'Aulnoy" means the tales are by Madame d'Aulnoy.↗ Example: Par for this golf hole is three.↗ · She finished the round two under par.↗ · His homework wasn't up to par this week.↗ · I'm feeling below par, so I'll stay home.↗ · Rain on sports day is par for the course in Wales.↗ · The new film is on a par with the first one.↗ · Our team is now on a par with the best in the league.↗ · [Contes des Fees, par Madame d'Aulnoy.]↗ · Wind is of course the herald of the storm, the Biblical symbol par excellence of the divine theophany, making wind a potent symbol of divine imminence.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Vincent in Jouraal Je Mathematiques Par Joseph Liouville Paris 1839 pp.↗ 261-280 and in Kevue Archaolot'ique 18J5-184f) pp.↗ 601-621.)↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Ctt" mean, not tirst, second, third and fourth, but one, two, three and four, and these numbers them.'selTes are the ten Setiroth from which all letters of the aljdiabet '.par- (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

parable — Everyday, meaning 1: A parable is a short story with a lesson about how to live, especially one told by Jesus in the Bible.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Any simple story used to teach a moral or religious truth can be called a parable.↗ Example: Jesus told a parable about a farmer sowing seeds.↗ · In the parable of the lost sheep, the shepherd leaves ninety-nine to find one.↗ · We acted out the parable of the Good Samaritan.↗ · The meaning of the parable is that everyone is our neighbour.↗ · Our teacher asked us to write a modern parable.↗ · The parable of the lost son ends with a big party.↗ · Read the parable of the intrusted talent!↗ · And he took up his parable, and said: Alas, who shall live after God hath appointed him?↗ (Torah NUM.24.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore they that speak in parables say: Come ye to Heshbon! let the city of Sihon be built and established!↗ (Torah NUM.21.27, JPS 1917)↗ · And he took up his parable, and said: Arise, Balak, and hear; give ear unto me, thou son of Zippor: (Torah NUM.23.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And Job again took up his parable, and said: (Writings JOB.27.1, JPS 1917)↗ · The legs hang limp from the lame; so is a parable in the mouth of fools.↗ (Writings PRO.26.7, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel, (Prophets EZK.17.2, JPS 1917)↗

parachute — Everyday, meaning 1: A parachute is a large piece of cloth fixed to a person or thing by strings, which opens in the air and makes them fall slowly and safely.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To parachute is to jump from a plane and come down with a parachute.↗ Example: The parachute opened and she floated down.↗ · A parachute slows you down because of air resistance.↗ · We made parachutes from plastic bags and string.↗ · The bigger parachute took longer to fall.↗ · Soldiers parachuted from the plane.↗ · In PE we played games with a giant rainbow parachute.↗ · Food was dropped by parachute to the village.↗ · The rabbit was quite excited because he knew that he was to be taken up, and let down again in a parachute.↗

parachutist — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who jumps from an aircraft and floats down using a parachute.↗ Example: The parachutist floated gently down to the field.↗ · Air resistance slows the parachutist down.↗ · The parachutist landed right in the middle of the target.↗ · Our teacher was a parachutist for charity.↗ · We made model parachutists from paper and string.↗ · The parachutists jumped one after another from the plane.↗

parade — Everyday, meaning 1: A procession of people, bands or floats moving through the streets to celebrate something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A line of soldiers standing or marching for inspection.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To walk or march in a parade.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To show something off proudly so people will notice.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (UK) A row of shops: «a shopping parade».↗ Example: We watched the St Patrick's Day parade.↗ · The band marched in the parade.↗ · Floats in the parade were covered in flowers.↗ · Stay with your family in the parade crowd.↗ · He paraded around in his new football kit.↗ · The soldiers stood on parade.↗ · Don't rain on my parade (spoil my fun).↗ · Laughter, shrieks, howls, catcalls, hand-clapping followed this parade.↗ · Tiii) vowels and consonants were made in the form of a "state and arranged like an army in battle array."↗ Isaac Taylor '*i says: "Like soldiers on parade the characters in the alphabetic line have been dressed."↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

paradise — Everyday, meaning 1: Paradise is a perfect, happy place, like a beautiful garden.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In many religions, paradise is heaven, a perfect place after life.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Paradise is also used in the names of places, birds and shops.↗ Example: The garden was a paradise for birds.↗ · They went to Paradise Park.↗ · The island is a paradise with 300 palm trees.↗ · The toy shop was a paradise for my little brother.↗ · A bird of paradise has long, bright feathers.↗ · The beach looked like paradise.↗ · In the story, the travellers searched for a lost paradise.↗ · "We shall soon reach the garden of paradise now."↗ · The Sixteenth Path is the Triumphal or Eternal Intelligence, so called because it is the pleasure of the Glory, beyond which is no other Glory like to it, and it is called also the Paradise prepared for the Righteous.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Sixteenth Path is the Triumphal or Eternal In- telligence, so called because it is the pleasure of the Glory, beyond which is no other Glory like to it, and it is called also the Paradise prepared for the Righteous.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

paradox — Everyday, meaning 1: A statement or idea that seems to contradict itself or seems impossible, but may still be true.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A situation that has two opposite facts that both seem to be true.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (logic) A puzzle where reasoning leads to an impossible answer, such as "This sentence is false.".↗ Example: "This sentence is false" is a famous paradox.↗ · It's a paradox that the busiest people often have the most time to help.↗ · The time machine story had a strange paradox.↗ · "Less is more" sounds like a paradox.↗ · Zeno's paradox says a runner can never catch a tortoise, but in real life he does.↗ · It was a paradox: the more she tried to sleep, the more awake she felt.↗

paragraph — Everyday, meaning 1: A paragraph is a group of sentences about one main idea; it starts on a new line, often indented.↗ Example: Start a new paragraph for each new idea.↗ · The first paragraph should grab the reader's attention.↗ · Read the second paragraph again.↗ · When someone new speaks, start a new paragraph.↗ · My story has five paragraphs.↗ · Underline the topic sentence of the paragraph.↗ · He read the paragraph to them, and added, ‘I wonder, now, whether that could be your bull-calf Peter?’↗ · This idea is then symbolically explained in the next paragraph.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · [paragraph continues] Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagitarius, Capricornus, Aquarius and Pisces.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · 44) This whole paragraph is an interpolation of an unknown hand, as it can be easily proved.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

parakeet — Everyday, meaning 1: A parakeet is a small, often brightly coloured parrot with a long tail.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (USA) In the USA a budgerigar (budgie), kept as a pet in a cage, is often called a parakeet.↗ Example: Our parakeet can say «hello».↗ · A flock of green parakeets flew over the park.↗ · The parakeet cracked a seed with its beak.↗ · My cousin in Ohio has a blue parakeet.↗ · Parakeets need clean water and fresh food every day.↗ · Wild parakeets now live in some British cities.↗ · The parakeet's long tail feathers were bright yellow.↗

parallax — Everyday, meaning 1: The way an object seems to move against a far background when you look at it from two different places, such as with one eye and then the other.↗ Example: Hold up your thumb and close one eye, then the other — that jump is parallax.↗ · Read the measuring cylinder at eye level to avoid parallax error.↗ · Astronomers use parallax to measure distances to stars.↗ · Video games use parallax to make backgrounds look far away.↗ · Parallax helps our two eyes judge depth.↗

parallel — Everyday, meaning 1: Parallel lines are straight lines that always stay the same distance apart and never meet, like train rails.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Parallel can mean happening at the same time or in the same way.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A parallel is a likeness between two things.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A parallel circuit gives the electric current more than one path.↗ Example: A rectangle has 2 pairs of parallel sides.↗ · Two parallel roads are 50 metres apart.↗ · Draw a line parallel to this one.↗ · How many parallel sides does a square have?↗ · Railway tracks are parallel.↗ · In a parallel circuit, each bulb has its own path.↗ · The lines on writing paper are parallel.↗ · There are parallels between the two stories.↗ · It must be noted that the term אמות is vocalized and translated here as אִמּוֹת immot 'Mothers', based on the parallel אָבוֹת avot 'fathers' of SY 3:2 and 6:1.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

parallelism — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A likeness or matching between two things, such as two phrases or ideas placed side by side.↗ Example: There is also a spatial-anatomical parallelism between the terms employed by the SY: the tongue concealed above, the genitals concealed below.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · This enigmatic expression appears only once in the Tanakh, in [Job 26:7], where in a harkening back to [Genesis 1:2] it serves as a parallelism of primarial tohu.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

paralympics — Everyday, meaning 1: A big international sports competition for athletes with disabilities, such as athletes who are blind, use wheelchairs or have lost limbs, held after the Olympic Games every four years.↗ Example: The Paralympics take place in the same city as the Olympics.↗ · She won a gold medal at the Paralympics in swimming.↗ · Wheelchair rugby is one of the fastest Paralympic sports.↗ · We watched the Paralympics on TV at school.↗ · The Paralympics began from games for injured soldiers in England.↗ · My hero is a Paralympian who runs with a blade.↗