📖 P — The English dictionary · page 63

profession — Everyday, meaning 1: A job that needs special training or learning, such as being a doctor, teacher or lawyer.↗ Example: She chose the profession of teacher.↗ · Her father's profession was baking.↗ · What profession would you like to follow?↗

professional — Everyday, meaning 1: Doing a job or sport for money, as your work, not just for fun.↗ e.g. "a professional footballer".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Doing a job that needs special training, like a doctor, teacher or lawyer.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Done very well and carefully, as an expert would do it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: As a noun, a person who does a job as their work or with great skill.↗ Example: My cousin wants to be a professional basketball player.↗ · A doctor is a professional who has trained for many years.↗ · The poster looks very professional.↗ · If a gas pipe leaks, call a professional.↗ · She turned professional when she was eighteen.↗ · The teacher is a true professional.↗ · Professional footballers train every day.↗ · It is for professional students of folk-lore to study the original documents for themselves.↗

professionally — Everyday, meaning 1: As a job for money, not just as a hobby: «She sings professionally.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a skilled, careful, polite way, as a good worker should: «He handled the angry customer professionally.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: By an expert: «The photos were professionally taken.».↗ Example: My uncle plays football professionally in Scotland.↗ · The nurse spoke to us calmly and professionally.↗ · Our school photos were taken professionally.↗ · She wants to dance professionally when she grows up.↗ · The kitchen was professionally cleaned after the flood.↗ · Even when the crowd booed, the referee acted professionally.↗

professor — Everyday, meaning 1: A professor is a senior teacher at a university, often an expert in one subject.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (US) A professor is any university teacher.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In stories, «the professor» is often a clever, sometimes absent-minded scientist.↗ Example: My aunt is a professor of chemistry.↗ · Professor Lee teaches at the university.↗ · The professor explained the experiment.↗ · In the cartoon, the mad professor built a robot.↗ · She wants to be a professor one day.↗ · The professor wrote a book about dinosaurs.↗ · Ask the professor your question.↗ · The professor forgot his glasses again.↗ · Professor Huxley thinks there are none.↗ · Evans and Professor Minders Petrie have shown that certain linear characters which (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

proffer — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To hold something out to someone so that they can take it; to offer.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To offer advice, help or an explanation.↗ Example: He proffered his hand in friendship.↗ · She proffered a cup of tea to the visitor.↗ · The waiter proffered the menu.↗ · The Rat proffered a sandwich to the hungry Mole.↗ · He proffered his advice, but nobody listened.↗ · The boy proffered an apology for the broken window.↗

proficiency — Everyday, meaning 1: A high level of skill or ability in something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A test or badge showing that you have reached a certain level: «a swimming proficiency badge».↗ Example: She showed great proficiency in French.↗ · I passed my cycling proficiency test at school.↗ · The swimming club gives proficiency badges.↗ · Proficiency in reading helps with every subject.↗ · His proficiency on the violin grew with practice.↗ · The test measures your proficiency in English.↗

proficient — Everyday, meaning 1: Good at something because of practice and training; skilled.↗ e.g. She is a proficient swimmer.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal, in reports) Having reached the expected level in a subject: «proficient in reading».↗ Example: After a year of lessons, she became a proficient swimmer.↗ · You must be proficient at maths to join the club.↗ · He is proficient in three languages.↗ · The report says I am proficient in reading.↗ · A proficient cyclist always signals before turning.↗ · It takes practice to become proficient at the piano.↗ · She is highly proficient with a computer.↗

profile — Everyday, meaning 1: A profile is the side view of a face or head, especially its outline.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A profile is a short description of a person, place or company, telling the main facts about them.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: On a website, app or game, your profile is the page with your name, picture and information.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To profile someone is to write or collect a description of them; in police work it means guessing what kind of person did a crime.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «Keep a low profile» means try not to be noticed; a «high profile» means being well known.↗ Example: She drew her friend's face in profile.↗ · Set your profile to private so strangers cannot see it.↗ · His profile picture was a cartoon cat.↗ · The newspaper wrote a profile of the new head teacher.↗ · The famous footballer is keeping a low profile after the match.↗ · We drew a profile of the river from its source to the sea.↗ · It was a high-profile case on the news.↗ · Never put your home address on your profile.↗

profit — Everyday, meaning 1: Profit is the money you have left after you take away what you spent from what you earned.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To profit is to make money from something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To profit from something can mean to gain or learn something good from it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Profit can also mean a benefit or good result, not only money.↗ Example: We sold lemonade and made a profit of $12.↗ · The cakes cost £10 to make and sold for £25, so the profit was £15.↗ · If you sell it for less than it cost, you make a loss, not a profit.↗ · The shop's profits went up this year.↗ · Everyone can profit from reading more.↗ · The charity profited from the school's fun run.↗ · Work out the total profit from the bake sale.↗ · He sold his old bike at a profit.↗ · Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.↗ · And Judah said unto his brethren: 'What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?↗ (Torah GEN.37.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And Esau said: 'Behold, I am at the point to die; and what profit shall the birthright do to me?'↗ (Torah GEN.25.32, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.↗ (Prophets JER.7.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.↗ (Writings PRO.10.2, JPS 1917)↗ · What profit hath he that worketh in that he laboureth?↗ (Writings ECC.3.9, JPS 1917)↗

profitable — Everyday, meaning 1: Bringing in money or some good; helpful and worth doing.↗ Example: Selling cakes at the fair was profitable.↗ · It is profitable to keep bees for honey.↗ · The messenger hoped for a profitable office.↗ · Can a man be profitable unto God?↗ (Writings JOB.22.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Or can he that is wise be profitable unto Him?↗ (Writings JOB.22.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?↗ (Prophets ISA.44.10, JPS 1917)↗

profound — Everyday, meaning 1: Profound means very great or very strong, like a profound effect or profound sadness.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Profound means showing deep thinking and understanding.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (medicine) Profound deafness means being almost completely deaf.↗ Example: The book had a profound effect on me.↗ · There was a profound silence in the hall.↗ · «Why are we here?» is a profound question.↗ · The war caused profound changes.↗ · Grandma said something profound about kindness.↗ · My cousin has profound hearing loss.↗ · You are of a poetical nature, as it is called--I, on the contrary, possess profound knowledge and inexhaustible wit.↗

profoundly — Everyday, meaning 1: Very deeply or greatly: «profoundly grateful», «profoundly changed».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (health) Very severely, especially about hearing: «profoundly deaf» means hearing very little or nothing.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In a wise, deep-thinking way: «He spoke profoundly about life.».↗ Example: The war profoundly changed the town.↗ · We were profoundly grateful for the neighbours' help.↗ · My friend is profoundly deaf and uses sign language.↗ · The film moved her profoundly.↗ · Inventing the wheel profoundly affected how people lived.↗ · The two cats are profoundly different in character.↗

profuse — Everyday, meaning 1: Coming or given in very large amounts, pouring out: «profuse bleeding», «profuse sweating».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Given very freely and many times: «profuse apologies», «profuse thanks».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Growing thickly and in great numbers: «profuse flowers».↗ Example: He made profuse apologies for breaking the window.↗ · Profuse bleeding needs firm pressure and a grown-up to call for help.↗ · The roses grew in profuse bunches over the wall.↗ · After the race she was covered in profuse sweat.↗ · The visitors gave profuse thanks for the meal.↗ · The tree has profuse white blossom in spring.↗

profusely — Everyday, meaning 1: In great amounts; very much, plenty, more than enough.↗ Example: They thanked him profusely.↗ · Flowers grew profusely in the meadow.↗ · She apologised profusely for being late.↗ · In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one howleth, weeping profusely.↗ (Prophets ISA.15.3, JPS 1917)↗

profusion — Everyday, meaning 1: A very large amount of something, more than enough; «in profusion» means in great quantity.↗ Example: The roses grew in profusion along the wall.↗ · Cloaks were offered in profusion.↗ · The orchard was full of apples in profusion.↗ · There was a profusion of toys at the party.↗

progenitor — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) A person or animal from whom others are descended, an ancestor: «the progenitor of the family».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) A person or thing that starts a movement, idea or style; a founder or first model: «the progenitor of rock music».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) A cell or living thing that later things develop from.↗ Example: He was the progenitor of a long line of farmers.↗ · The wolf is the progenitor of all pet dogs.↗ · Some call that band the progenitor of punk music.↗ · Scientists study progenitor cells that grow into blood cells.↗ · Adam is called the progenitor of humankind in the Bible.↗ · The Wright brothers' plane was the progenitor of every modern aircraft.↗ · Many offspring or derivations came from the latter three, as their progenitors, as it is explained afterwards in the chapter.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

progeny — Everyday, meaning 1: The children or young of a parent; the offspring of a person or animal.↗ Example: The old fox and her progeny ran through the wood.↗ · The snail pair had a numerous progeny.↗ · Our hen's progeny were five chicks.↗ · The king hoped his progeny would rule after him.↗

prognosticate — Everyday, meaning 1: To foretell what will happen in the future, often from signs or special knowledge.↗ Example: The wise woman prognosticated a long winter.↗ · The seer prognosticated a great future for the boy.↗ · Nobody can prognosticate the weather exactly.↗ · The old men prognosticated rain from the red sky.↗

prognosticator — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person who predicts what will happen in the future, here by watching the stars.↗ Example: Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels; let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon thee.↗ (Prophets ISA.47.13, JPS 1917)↗

program — Everyday, meaning 1: A program is a set of instructions that tells a computer what to do.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To program means to write these instructions.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In American English, a program is also a show on TV or radio, a plan of activities, or a booklet at a show (British: programme).↗ Example: We wrote a program to make the robot move.↗ · Can you program the oven to start at six?↗ · This program helps you learn spelling.↗ · My favourite TV program is on tonight.↗ · She joined an after-school art program.↗ · The program crashed, so I restarted the computer.↗ · He loves programming games.↗

programme — Everyday, meaning 1: A show on TV or radio.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A plan of activities: a training programme.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A booklet telling you what happens at a play, concert or match.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To plan or set up something, or to make a machine do something automatically.↗ Example: My favourite programme is on at six.↗ · The school has a reading programme.↗ · We bought a programme at the football match.↗ · The play's programme listed all the actors.↗ · I programmed the oven to switch on.↗ · The space programme sent people to the Moon.↗ · The last item on the programme was a grand display of fireworks, to be let off exactly at midnight.↗

programmer — Everyday, meaning 1: A programmer is a person who writes computer programs: instructions that tell a computer what to do.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A programmer can also be a person who plans programmes for TV or radio.↗ Example: My mum is a programmer who makes apps.↗ · Programmers write code.↗ · We were programmers in computing class today.↗ · The game was made by a team of programmers.↗ · A programmer fixes bugs in the code.↗ · He wants to be a games programmer.↗ · Programmers use loops and variables.↗ · The programmer tested the program carefully.↗

progress — Everyday, meaning 1: Progress is moving forward or getting better at something over time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Progress is also movement towards a place.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To progress is to move forward, develop or improve.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «In progress» means happening now and not finished yet.↗ Example: You've made great progress with your reading this term.↗ · Work in progress — please don't touch!↗ · The climbers made slow progress up the snowy mountain.↗ · My progress report said I'm good at maths.↗ · As the story progresses, the hero gets braver.↗ · Medicine has made huge progress in the last hundred years.↗ · The game is in progress, so please wait.↗ · The beaming Morning Star beheld how the work progressed.↗ · Astle, The Origin and Progress of Writing, London 1784, p. 41: rhu!↗ ', IX, 354, 439).↗ <)r he could have meant Jewish astronomers like JIashallah, who was called by Abraham ibn Eira an Indian sage (mr; Din) (see M. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗