📖 P — The English dictionary · page 62

procrastination — Everyday, meaning 1: Procrastination is putting off something you should do, especially something boring or hard, and doing it later or at the last minute.↗ Example: My procrastination meant I did my project the night before it was due.↗ · Procrastination is when you tidy your desk instead of doing your homework.↗ · Mum says playing games before chores is pure procrastination.↗ · To beat procrastination, start with just five minutes.↗ · Procrastination made the job feel even bigger.↗ · "Procrastination is the thief of time," says the old proverb.↗ · Breaking the essay into small parts helped me stop procrastination.↗

procurable — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Able to be got, bought or obtained.↗ e.g. The part is not procurable here.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Available to get, often with some effort.↗ Example: Fresh milk was not procurable on the island.↗ · Batteries are easily procurable at any shop.↗ · The rare stamp is not procurable anywhere.↗ · Are these books procurable from the library?↗ · Water was barely procurable in the desert.↗ · Spare parts are readily procurable online.↗ · A Carpenter got up and advised the use of wood, which he said was readily procurable and easily worked.↗

procure — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To procure means to get or obtain something, often with some effort.↗ e.g. "they procured food for the journey".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To procure supplies for a company or a government means to buy them officially.↗ Example: The explorers procured food and water for the trip.↗ · The school procured new laptops for every class.↗ · She managed to procure two tickets for the sold-out show.↗ · The army procured more boots.↗ · We need to procure a few more chairs for the concert.↗ · The detective procured a copy of the letter.↗ · "Tell me, and I will procure the pearl."↗ · Thus might we procure great evil against our own souls.'↗ (Prophets JER.26.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness; yea, it is bitter, yea, it reacheth unto thy heart.↗ (Prophets JER.4.18, JPS 1917)↗

procurement — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) The act of getting or buying something, especially goods for a company or government.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (business) The department or job of buying things for a big organisation.↗ Example: Dad works in procurement for the hospital.↗ · The procurement of new laptops for the school took months.↗ · The council has rules for the procurement of school buses.↗ · The army's procurement office ordered new boots.↗ · Food procurement was hard during the long winter.↗ · She is a procurement manager for a supermarket.↗

prod — Everyday, meaning 1: To poke someone or something with a finger, a stick or another pointed thing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To push or remind someone to do something they are slow to do.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A poke, or a reminder.↗ Example: He prodded the fire with a stick.↗ · Stop prodding me with your pencil!↗ · She gave her brother a prod to wake him up.↗ · Mum had to prod me to tidy my room.↗ · The doctor prodded my tummy gently.↗ · The Hatter and the March Hare kept trying to wake the sleepy Dormouse.↗ · The farmer prodded the cows towards the gate.↗ · Lay your beast alongside, Toomai, and let him prod with his tusks.↗

prodigal — Everyday, meaning 1: (Bible) The prodigal son is the young man in Jesus's story who wastes his father's money, comes home sorry, and is welcomed with love.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Spending money or things too freely and wastefully.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun, humorous) Someone who comes back home after being away a long time, especially after doing wrong: «the prodigal returns».↗ Example: Jesus told the story of the prodigal son to show God's love.↗ · The prodigal son spent all his money and ended up feeding pigs.↗ · His father threw a party when the prodigal came home.↗ · «Look, the prodigal returns!» said Gran when my cousin finally visited.↗ · The king was prodigal with gold and soon the treasury was empty.↗ · Our teacher asked who we felt sorry for in the story of the prodigal son.↗ · The older brother was angry about the feast for the prodigal.↗

prodigious — Everyday, meaning 1: Very large, great or amazing in size, strength or amount.↗ Example: The hero had prodigious strength.↗ · The bird's song was prodigious and loud.↗ · He ran at a prodigious speed.↗

prodigiously — Everyday, meaning 1: In a very great or huge way; extremely.↗ Example: The giant was prodigiously tall.↗ · The old wizard was prodigiously clever.↗ · The river flooded prodigiously after the storm.↗

prodigy — Everyday, meaning 1: A child or person who is amazingly clever or talented, far beyond others of the same age.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A very wonderful or amazing thing that is hard to believe.↗ Example: Mozart was a musical prodigy as a boy.↗ · Kintaro was a prodigy of strength.↗ · Our new girl is a maths prodigy.↗

produce — Everyday, meaning 1: To produce is to make or grow something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Produce (said PROD-yoos) is fruit and vegetables that farmers grow.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To produce is to show or bring out: she produced a ticket from her bag.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To produce a film, show or play is to organise and pay for making it.↗ Example: The factory produces 500 toys a day.↗ · The farm sells fresh produce.↗ · Each hen produces 1 egg a day.↗ · How many cars are produced in a week?↗ · Plants produce oxygen.↗ · Bees produce honey.↗ · The magician produced a coin from behind my ear.↗ · Our class produced a short play.↗ · Buy local produce at the market.↗ · Gaea also produced the mountains, and Pontus (the sea).↗ · Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof.↗ (Torah LEV.25.3, JPS 1917)↗ · then I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth produce for the three years.↗ (Torah LEV.25.21, JPS 1917)↗ · then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield her produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.↗ (Torah LEV.26.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your reasons, saith the King of Jacob.↗ (Prophets ISA.41.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Yea, the LORD will give that which is good; and our land shall yield her produce.↗ (Writings PSA.85.13, JPS 1917)↗ · My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my produce than choice silver.↗ (Writings PRO.8.19, JPS 1917)↗

producer — Everyday, meaning 1: A producer is a person, company or country that makes or grows things to sell.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In science, a producer is a living thing, such as a plant, that makes its own food from sunlight.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A producer is a person who is in charge of making a film, TV show, play or music record.↗ Example: Plants are producers because they make their own food.↗ · In a food chain, grass is the producer.↗ · Canada is a big producer of wheat.↗ · The film producer chose the actors.↗ · Local producers sell eggs at the market.↗ · Producers are always at the start of a food chain.↗ · The music producer recorded the band's new song.↗

product — Everyday, meaning 1: A product is something that is made or grown to be sold: dairy products, cleaning products.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In maths, the product is the answer when you multiply numbers: the product of 3 and 4 is 12.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A product is a result of something: «a product of hard work».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In science, a product is a new substance made in a chemical reaction.↗ Example: The product of 6 and 7 is 42.↗ · Find the product of 5, 2 and 3.↗ · Milk and cheese are dairy products.↗ · Keep cleaning products locked away.↗ · Read the label on the product.↗ · The shop sells local products.↗ · Her success was the product of practice.↗ · Never mix two cleaning products.↗ · Beautiful weeping willows, real products of spring, hung their fresh branches over these lakes like a fresh, green, transparent, and yet screening veil.↗ · A work like the Sefer Yetzirah could not have been the product of the person, who actually put it into writing.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

production — Everyday, meaning 1: Making or growing things, especially in large amounts: car production, food production.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The amount that is made.↗ e.g. Production rose by 200 tins a day.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A play, show or film that is put on for people: the school production of «Annie».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal) Showing something: «on production of a ticket» means when you show a ticket.↗ Example: Our class is in the school production this year.↗ · Milk production on the farm is 500 litres a day.↗ · Car production stopped for a week.↗ · Production rose from 300 to 450 toys — an increase of 150.↗ · Entry is free on production of a library card.↗ · Plants use sunlight for the production of food.↗ · The film is still in production.↗ · Mass production makes things cheaper.↗ · 27) The author endeavors to show how the creative divine word became more condensed and how a new series of productions came out of three elements.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Some of them believe it to be a production of the first or the second century R. 0. ; others place it in the Geonic period, ranging from the seventh to the ninth centuries of the Christian Era.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

productive — Everyday, meaning 1: Making a lot of things, such as crops, ideas or results; fruitful and useful.↗ Example: The garden is productive in summer.↗ · The spring showers were productive and green.↗ · We had a productive morning and finished all the sums.↗

productivity — Everyday, meaning 1: How much work, goods or results someone or something produces in a certain time: «Productivity rose when the new machines came.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The quality of being productive, getting a lot done.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) How much plant or animal life a place produces, like a field or a lake.↗ Example: The factory's productivity doubled with new robots.↗ · Short breaks can improve your productivity when you study.↗ · Good soil increases the productivity of the farm.↗ · My productivity drops when I'm tired.↗ · The ocean near the coast has high productivity because of plankton.↗ · Workers asked for more pay because productivity had gone up.↗

prof — Everyday, meaning 1: Informal short form of «professor»: a teacher of the highest rank at a university.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Prof.: written short form used as a title before a name (Prof.↗ Jane Smith).↗ Example: Prof.↗ Ada Smith is an expert on insects.↗ · The students asked their prof for help.↗ · In the cartoon, everyone called the inventor «the Prof».↗ · A professor teaches at a university.↗ · My aunt is a prof of chemistry.↗ · The prof showed the class a robot she had built.↗ · Tenneman's "Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie," improved by Prof.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · The Ninth Path is the Pure intelligence so called because it purifies the Numerations, it proves and corrects the designing of their representation, and disposes their unity with which they are combined without diminution or division.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · Broyde, Miss Henrietta S z o 1 d, Prof.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

profane — Everyday, meaning 1: Profane language is rude, offensive or shows no respect for religion; swearing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Profane means not religious, ordinary and everyday, as opposed to sacred.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) To profane a holy place or thing is to treat it with disrespect.↗ Example: (formal) Profane language is not permitted in class.↗ · The film was rated for its profane words.↗ · He was told off for a profane joke.↗ · (formal) The invaders profaned the temple.↗ · Sacred music and profane music were both played.↗ · His profane shouting upset the neighbours.↗ · (formal) Profane remarks will result in a detention.↗ · The poem mixes the holy and the profane.↗ · He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.↗ (Torah LEV.21.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And he shall not profane his seed among his people; for I am the LORD who sanctify him.↗ (Torah LEV.21.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they set apart unto the LORD; (Torah LEV.22.15, JPS 1917)↗ · If they profane My statutes, and keep not My commandments; (Writings PSA.89.32, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou hast despised My holy things, and hast profaned My sabbaths.↗ (Prophets EZK.22.8, JPS 1917)↗ · My covenant will I not profane, nor alter that which is gone out of My lips.↗ (Writings PSA.89.35, JPS 1917)↗

profanity — Everyday, meaning 1: Profanity is swearing or rude, offensive language.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A profanity is one swear word or rude expression.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) Profanity is disrespect for holy things.↗ Example: The game has a profanity filter.↗ · Profanity is not allowed in school.↗ · He let out a string of profanities when he stubbed his toe.↗ · The film has strong profanity.↗ · Please avoid profanity in your story.↗ · The coach banned profanity on the pitch.↗ · She blushed at the profanity.↗ · (formal) Profanity may lead to removal from the venue.↗

profess — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To say openly that you feel, believe or have something.↗ e.g. He professed his love for chocolate.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To claim something, often falsely.↗ e.g. She professes to know everything.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To openly follow a religion.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Professed means openly declared or acknowledged as being a certain kind of person, such as a professed poet.↗ Example: The knight professed his loyalty to the queen.↗ · He professes to be the best player in school.↗ · She professed not to know who ate the cake.↗ · They profess a deep love of animals.↗ · The so-called wizard professed great powers.↗ · He professed ignorance of the rules.↗ · There are many who are more the poets of nature than those who are professed poets.↗