📖 P — The English dictionary · page 60

private — Everyday, meaning 1: Private means belonging to or for one person or group only, not for everyone: a private room.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Private means secret or personal, not to be shared with others: private information.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Private means not run by the government: a private school.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A private is a soldier of the lowest rank.↗ Example: Keep your password private.↗ · This is a private beach — no entry.↗ · My diary is private.↗ · Can we talk in private?↗ · Never share private photos online.↗ · Your private parts belong to you.↗ · She goes to a private school.↗ · Set your account to private.↗ · The next day the steward asked to speak to me in private.↗ · Private Hermetic MSS. have alone the correct names and spelling.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · He produced Lamed, predominant in Sexual desire, crowned it, combined and formed with it Libra in the Universe, Tishri in the Year, and the private parts of Man.↗ (Kalisch gives "gall.")↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · He produced Lamed, predominant in Sexual desire, crowned it, combined and formed with it Libra in the Universe, Tishri in the Year, and the private parts of Man.↗ (Kalisch gives *' gall.")↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

privately — Everyday, meaning 1: Without other people being there or knowing; in secret or alone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In your own thoughts, not said out loud: «privately, she was scared».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Owned or paid for by a person or company, not the government: «a privately owned park».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A book that is privately printed is printed in small numbers for friends and is not sold in shops.↗ Example: Can I talk to you privately, Miss?↗ · She spoke to him privately after class.↗ · Privately, I thought the film was boring.↗ · The forest is privately owned, so we can't go in.↗ · He changed privately in the cubicle.↗ · Some schools are run privately.↗ · Mr. Clouston has remarks on the raven as omen-bird in his notes to Mrs. Saxby's Birds of Omen in Shetland (privately printed, 1893).↗

privet — Everyday, meaning 1: A bush with small, dark green, shiny leaves that is often grown as a garden hedge.↗ Example: Our front garden has a privet hedge.↗ · Dad trims the privet every summer.↗ · Privet berries are poisonous, so don't eat them.↗ · Bees love the white privet flowers.↗ · Birds nest in the thick privet.↗ · The Dursleys lived at number four, Privet Drive.↗

privilege — Everyday, meaning 1: A special right or advantage that only some people have.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something that makes you feel honoured and lucky: «It was a privilege to meet her.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An advantage some people have in life because of money, family or where they were born.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (law) A legal right, such as keeping some talk secret.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: verb To treat one person or thing as more important than others.↗ Example: Year 6 pupils have the privilege of using the big field.↗ · If you misbehave, you will lose your screen privileges.↗ · It was a privilege to sing in the cathedral.↗ · Driving is a privilege, not a right.↗ · Some children grow up with more privilege than others.↗ · The headteacher said it was a privilege to lead our school.↗ · The prefects' privileges include their own common room.↗ · Prisoner though he was, the King of the Sheep had still some powers and privileges.↗

privily — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: In secret, so that others do not see or know.↗

privy — Everyday, meaning 1: (old) An outdoor toilet, a small hut over a hole in the ground.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) «Privy to» means allowed to know a secret: «I wasn't privy to their plans.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, formal) In titles.↗ e.g. Privy Council, a group that advises the king or queen.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Privy chambers are the private rooms of a king or queen.↗ Example: In the old days the privy was outside the house.↗ · The farm had a wooden privy.↗ · Only the captain was privy to the secret map.↗ · I wasn't privy to their plan.↗ · The Privy Council met at the palace.↗ · Nobody wanted to walk to the privy in the dark.↗ · Saouy, who witnessed the agitation of the people from the windows of the king's privy chambers, called to the executioner to strike at once.↗ · He that is crushed or maimed in his privy parts shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD.↗ (Torah DEU.23.1, JPS 1917)↗ · The king said moreover to Shimei: 'Thou knowest all the wickedness which thy heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father; therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head.↗ (Prophets 1KI.2.44, JPS 1917)↗

prize — Everyday, meaning 1: A prize is something you win for doing well in a game, race or contest.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A prize is anything very valuable that people want to get.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To prize something is to value it very much.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A prize animal or plant is one good enough to win prizes.↗ Example: The prize is $60 shared among 3 winners.↗ · 5 prizes were given.↗ · First prize is twice second prize.↗ · Each prize costs $4.↗ · She won first prize in the art contest.↗ · The prize for the quiz was a box of chocolates.↗ · He grew a prize pumpkin for the fair.↗ · Grandma prizes her old photos.↗ · At prize-giving, everyone clapped for the winners.↗ · "The gold piece is your prize."↗

pro — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A pro is a professional: a person paid for a sport or job.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A pro is someone very good at something: «You're a pro at this!».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Pros are reasons for something: «pros and cons» are reasons for and against.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Pro- as a prefix means in favour of: pro-environment.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (slang, euphemism) «Pro» can be short for a prostitute; avoid this use.↗ Example: She plays tennis like a pro.↗ · He wants to turn pro when he's older.↗ · Let's list the pros and cons of having a dog.↗ · One pro of walking to school is the exercise.↗ · (informal) You're a real pro at fixing bikes!↗ · She is pro-recycling.↗ · The golf pro gave us a lesson.↗ · Weigh up the pros before you decide.↗ · These Seven Double Letters He designed, pro- duced, and combined, and formed with them the Planets (stars) of this Universe, the Days of the Week, and the Gates of the soul (the orifices of perception) in Man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · At the International Mathematical Congress held in Paris in 1900, Cantor suggested that zero was pro- bably in use among the Babylonians as early as 1700 B. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

probability — Everyday, meaning 1: (maths) How likely something is to happen, given as a number from 0 (impossible) to 1 (certain), or as a fraction or percentage.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The chance that something will happen: «There's a high probability of rain.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) «In all probability» means «very likely».↗ Example: The probability of getting heads is one half.↗ · What is the probability of rolling a six on a dice?↗ · There's a high probability of snow tomorrow.↗ · In all probability, the bus will be late.↗ · Draw an arrow on the probability scale to show «unlikely».↗ · If a bag has 3 red and 1 blue marble, the probability of red is 3/4.↗ · The probability of an impossible event is 0.↗ · It is only a probability, but we cannot in any case reach more than probability in this matter, just at present.↗

probable — Everyday, meaning 1: Likely to happen or be true, but not certain.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun, informal) Someone likely to be chosen, e.g. for a team.↗ Example: Rain is probable later today.↗ · The probable cause of the fire was a faulty heater.↗ · It is probable that she missed the bus.↗ · On a dice, rolling a number less than 6 is more probable than rolling a 6.↗ · The doctor said a cold was the most probable answer.↗ · He is a probable for the starting team.↗ · It is probable that many more exist.↗

probably — Everyday, meaning 1: Probably means very likely; almost certainly, but not 100% sure.↗ Example: It will probably rain this afternoon.↗ · She is probably at home.↗ · You probably know the answer already.↗ · We will probably win.↗ · It's probably a squirrel in the garden.↗ · He probably forgot his lunch.↗ · Probably not — the shop closes at five.↗ · The dog has probably eaten my sock.↗ · Dr. Cassel is of the opinion that our author meant here, probably the invisible, celestial or universal axis that carries the whole Universe.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · It should probably be understood on one level as a reference to the ten digits of the decimal numeral system, though as we shall see, these Sefirot Belimah are imbued with metaphysical significance beyond mere numerals.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Another association between language, mouth, and genitals, though the connection (if any) with the SY is unclear, is found in the idiom עָרְלַת שְׂפָתַיִם ʽorlat sefatayim ‘uncircumcised of lips’, probably meaning one who is unskilled in speech, e.g. [Exodus 6:12].↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

probate — Everyday, meaning 1: (law) Probate is the official legal process that checks that a dead person's will is real, so that their money and belongings can be shared out as the will says.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (USA, law) To probate a will is to prove it in court.↗ Example: After Grandad died, Mum had to deal with probate.↗ · The house cannot be sold until probate is finished.↗ · The lawyer applied for probate of the will.↗ · Probate can take many months.↗ · The probate court checked that the will was real.↗ · Aunt Jo explained probate to me at the kitchen table.↗ · Without probate, the bank will not hand over the money.↗

probation — Everyday, meaning 1: (law) Probation is when a person who broke the law is allowed to stay out of prison but must behave well and meet regularly with a probation officer for a set time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (work) Probation is a trial time at the start of a new job, when the employer checks that the new worker is suitable.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (school, US) Academic probation is a warning time for a student whose marks or behaviour are too poor.↗ Example: The young man was put on probation instead of going to prison.↗ · He meets his probation officer every week.↗ · Mum is still on probation at her new job.↗ · After the probation period, she got a permanent contract.↗ · If he breaks the rules of his probation, he could go to prison.↗ · Our new puppy is "on probation" until it stops chewing shoes!↗ · The Twenty-fifth Path is the Intelligence of Probation, or is Tentative, and is so called because it is the primary temptation, by which the Creator (blessed be He) trieth all righteous persons.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

probationary — Everyday, meaning 1: Done or given for a trial time, to see if a person is good enough before they are made permanent.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law) Connected with probation, when someone who broke the law is watched instead of sent to prison.↗ Example: Mum is in her probationary period at her new job.↗ · Our new teacher is still probationary.↗ · After a three-month probationary period, he got a permanent contract.↗ · New drivers in some places have a probationary licence.↗ · The club gave him probationary membership.↗ · During the probationary year, nurses are checked often.↗

probe — Everyday, meaning 1: A space probe is a spacecraft with no people in it, sent to explore planets and space.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A probe is a thin tool used to examine or measure something, for example a temperature probe.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To probe means to look into something carefully or ask lots of questions to find out the truth.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To probe can also mean to push a tool or finger into something to explore it.↗ Example: A space probe sent back pictures of Saturn's rings.↗ · We used a temperature probe in the science lesson.↗ · The dentist probed my tooth gently.↗ · Detectives probed the mystery of the missing jewels.↗ · The bird probed the mud with its long beak.↗ · The probe landed on a comet.↗ · Test with them and probe of them (and form and think).↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Understand with Wisdom and become wise with Understanding; test with them and probe of them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

problem — Everyday, meaning 1: A problem is a question you have to work out, like a maths story: a word problem.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A problem is something that is wrong or hard and needs to be fixed.↗ e.g. The car has a problem.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «No problem» means it is easy, or you are welcome.↗ Example: Read the whole problem first, then choose.↗ · This problem has two steps.↗ · Tom solved 6 problems and Kim solved 9.↗ · Can you help me with this maths problem?↗ · We have a problem: the tap is leaking.↗ · If you have a problem at school, talk to your teacher.↗ · «Thank you!»↗ «No problem.»↗ · Litter is a big problem for sea animals.↗ · He pursued the problem like the sleuth-hound that he was.↗ · There are other problems with the interpretation ‘mothers’.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The reason why they have remained so long an unsolved problem is partly due to a lack of knowledge of Hebrew orthography, on which the Sefer Yetzirah is based.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

proboscis — Everyday, meaning 1: A proboscis is a long, bendy nose or snout, like an elephant's trunk or a tapir's snout.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A proboscis is also the long, tube-like mouthpart of some insects, like butterflies and mosquitoes, used for sucking up food.↗ Example: The butterfly uncurled its proboscis to drink nectar.↗ · A mosquito bites with its proboscis.↗ · An elephant's trunk is a kind of proboscis.↗ · The proboscis monkey has an enormous nose.↗ · A moth's proboscis can be longer than its body.↗ · The bee pushed its proboscis deep into the flower.↗