📖 P — The English dictionary · page 64

progression — Everyday, meaning 1: Moving forward or developing step by step from one stage to another: «the progression from caterpillar to butterfly».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (maths) A sequence of numbers that follow a rule, like 3, 6, 9, 12 (an arithmetic progression) or 2, 4, 8, 16 (a geometric progression).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (music) A series of chords played one after another: «a chord progression».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Getting better or worse over time, as in an illness or in skill.↗ Example: The numbers 5, 10, 15, 20 form an arithmetic progression.↗ · In a geometric progression you multiply by the same number each time.↗ · We watched the progression from tadpole to frog.↗ · Moving from swimming lessons to the team was a natural progression.↗ · The guitar song uses a simple chord progression.↗ · Doctors try to slow the progression of the disease.↗ · Our reading books show a progression from easy to hard.↗ · 1) Our author maintains that there is a first intelligent, self-existing, almighty, eternal ruling cause of all things, and that an everlasting entity produced nonentities by a progression of effects.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

progressive — Everyday, meaning 1: Progressive means happening or developing step by step over time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Progressive ideas or people support new ideas and changes in society, especially to make things fairer.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (grammar) The progressive form of a verb shows an action going on, like "I am running" or "she was singing".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (health) A progressive illness gets gradually worse.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (money) A progressive tax takes a bigger share from people who earn more.↗ Example: "I am eating" is in the present progressive.↗ · The music got progressively louder.↗ · She is very progressive and supports new ideas.↗ · My grandma has a progressive illness that makes her more forgetful each year.↗ · The school has a progressive approach to learning outside.↗ · (money) In a progressive tax system, people who earn more pay a bigger share.↗ · Progressive reformers helped end child labour in factories.↗

progressively — Everyday, meaning 1: Steadily and step by step, more and more over time: «It got progressively colder».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a progressive, forward-looking way (rare).↗ Example: The questions get progressively harder as you go down the page.↗ · It grew progressively darker as the sun set.↗ · My reading has got progressively better this year.↗ · The noise got progressively louder as the parade came closer.↗ · The path became progressively steeper.↗ · In the sequence 2, 4, 8, 16, the numbers get progressively bigger.↗ · His cough got progressively worse, so he went to the doctor.↗

prohibit — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To officially forbid something by a rule or law.↗ e.g. Smoking is prohibited.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To make something impossible; to prevent.↗ e.g. The cost prohibits us from going.↗ Example: Swimming is prohibited in this lake.↗ · Phones are prohibited during the exam.↗ · The law prohibits selling fireworks to children.↗ · Dogs are prohibited from the playground.↗ · Running by the pool is strictly prohibited.↗ · Knives are prohibited items on a plane.↗ · The high price prohibited us from buying it.↗

prohibited — Everyday, meaning 1: Not allowed by a law or a rule; forbidden.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Stopped from doing something by a rule or by force.↗ Example: Smoking is prohibited in the building.↗ · Swimming is prohibited when the red flag is up.↗ · Mobile phones are prohibited during the exam.↗ · Knives are prohibited items on a plane.↗ · Dogs are prohibited from the playground.↗ · Parking is strictly prohibited here.↗

prohibition — Everyday, meaning 1: A prohibition is a rule or law that says something is not allowed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Prohibition is the act of banning something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history, US) Prohibition was the time when making and selling alcohol was against the law in the United States.↗ Example: There is a prohibition on smoking in the school.↗ · A red circle with a line is a prohibition sign.↗ · The prohibition of mobile phones in exams is strict.↗ · During Prohibition, alcohol was illegal in the USA.↗ · The council lifted the prohibition on dogs in the park.↗ · Some foods have a prohibition in certain religions.↗ · The sign shows a prohibition on cycling.↗ · (formal) There is a prohibition against running near the pool.↗

project — Everyday, meaning 1: A project is a piece of planned work, often done over a period of time, like a school project about volcanoes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A project is a big plan, like building a bridge.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To project a picture is to shine it onto a screen or wall.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To project something means to stick out beyond an edge.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To project your voice is to speak loudly and clearly so people far away hear.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To project something means to guess a future number from what is known now.↗ Example: Our class project is about the rainforest.↗ · We made a model volcano for our science project.↗ · The teacher projected the photos onto the whiteboard.↗ · A rock projected out from the cliff.↗ · Project your voice so the back row can hear.↗ · Building the new bridge is a huge project.↗ · We worked on a group project together.↗ · The town projects that the school will need ten more classrooms.↗ · It was built of red brick, with projecting gables.↗ · + Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · 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)↗ · Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of Me; and that form projects, but not of My spirit, that they may add sin to sin; (Prophets ISA.30.1, JPS 1917)↗

projection — Everyday, meaning 1: A projection is an image shown on a screen or wall by a projector.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A projection is a guess about the future based on numbers now: a sales projection.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A projection is a part that sticks out from something.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (maths and geography) A map projection is a way of drawing the round Earth on a flat map.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (psychology) Projection is blaming others for feelings you have yourself.↗ Example: The projection on the wall was blurry.↗ · The teacher adjusted the projection.↗ · The projection says the town will grow.↗ · A rock projection made a shelter.↗ · The Mercator projection makes Greenland look huge.↗ · Population projections help plan schools.↗ · Voice projection helps actors be heard.↗ · The film projection started late.↗

projector — Everyday, meaning 1: A projector is a machine that shines light through or from a picture or video so that a large image appears on a screen or wall.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In school, a projector is often fixed to the ceiling and connected to a computer or interactive whiteboard.↗ Example: The teacher switched on the projector to show the video.↗ · The projector bulb blew in the middle of the film.↗ · We made a shoebox projector with a magnifying glass.↗ · Old cinemas used huge film projectors.↗ · Can someone turn the lights off so we can see the projector?↗ · The projector made the picture as big as the wall.↗

prolong — Everyday, meaning 1: To prolong something means to make it last longer.↗ Example: We prolonged our holiday by two days.↗ · Keeping milk in the fridge prolongs its life.↗ · Don't prolong the argument; just say sorry.↗ · The new medicine helped prolong Grandad's life.↗ · Extra time prolonged the football match.↗ · Prolonged rain caused flooding in the valley.↗ · Stop prolonging the agony and tell us who won!↗ · He wondered whether it were possible, by living simply and frugally henceforth, to prolong his life as long as he wished.↗ · thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, but the young thou mayest take unto thyself; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.↗ (Torah DEU.22.7, JPS 1917)↗ · and that ye may prolong your days upon the land, which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.↗ (Torah DEU.11.9, JPS 1917)↗ · I declare unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over the Jordan to go in to possess it.↗ (Torah DEU.30.18, JPS 1917)↗ · The prince that lacketh understanding is also a great oppressor; but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.↗ (Writings PRO.28.16, JPS 1917)↗ · but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he feareth not before God.↗ (Writings ECC.8.13, JPS 1917)↗

prolongation — Everyday, meaning 1: A prolongation is when something is made longer in time, such as a meeting or a stay.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It can also be when something is made longer in space, like a line extended.↗ Example: The rain led to a prolongation of the match.↗ · Medicine can bring a prolongation of life.↗ · The prolongation of the meeting annoyed everyone.↗ · In maths, draw the prolongation of line AB.↗ · The prolongation of the holiday was a surprise.↗ · A prolongation of the dry weather harmed the crops.↗

prolonged — Everyday, meaning 1: Lasting a long time, or longer than usual.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) Made something last longer.↗ Example: There was a prolonged silence after the bad news.↗ · Prolonged exposure to the sun can burn your skin.↗ · The drought was prolonged and the river dried up.↗ · The match was prolonged by extra time.↗ · Prolonged use of headphones at high volume can damage hearing.↗ · The audience gave a prolonged cheer.↗ · But the prolonged absence of Theseus gave rise to other troubles of a more serious character.↗ · 'Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying: The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?↗ (Prophets EZK.12.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And as for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away; yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.↗ (Writings DAN.7.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And jackals shall howl in their castles, and wild-dogs in the pleasant palaces; and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.↗ (Prophets ISA.13.22, JPS 1917)↗

promenade — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland) A wide path by the sea for walking along, often called «the prom».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A slow, relaxed walk in a public place, to enjoy yourself or to be seen.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To walk slowly and grandly in public.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (US, old) A formal dance; the US school «prom» gets its name from this.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (dance) A move in square dancing where partners walk round the circle together.↗ Example: We walked along the promenade eating ice cream.↗ · Brighton has a long promenade by the beach.↗ · Victorian families liked to promenade on Sunday afternoons.↗ · The ship's promenade deck had deckchairs.↗ · Huge waves crashed over the promenade in the storm.↗ · In square dancing, «Promenade!» means walk round with your partner.↗ · The American high school prom takes its name from «promenade».↗ · He walks about in the castle garden and on the promenades.↗

prominence — Everyday, meaning 1: Being well known or important: «She rose to prominence as a singer.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Being easy to see or notice: «The story was given prominence on the front page.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A part that sticks out or up, like a hill or a bump.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (science) A huge loop of glowing gas rising from the surface of the Sun (a solar prominence).↗ Example: She rose to prominence after winning the talent show.↗ · The newspaper gave the school play great prominence.↗ · The castle stands on a rocky prominence above the town.↗ · A solar prominence can be bigger than the whole Earth.↗ · The bump of the nose bone is a small prominence.↗ · Recycling has gained prominence in recent years.↗

prominent — Everyday, meaning 1: Prominent means easy to see because it stands out or sticks out.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A prominent person is important and well known.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Prominent means important or noticeable in a situation.↗ Example: Put the poster in a prominent place.↗ · The castle stands on a prominent hill.↗ · She is a prominent scientist.↗ · He has a prominent chin.↗ · Safety signs must be prominent.↗ · Football plays a prominent part in his life.↗ · A prominent writer visited our school.↗ · The bird has prominent red feathers.↗ · On the whole she is the most prominent among the strange figures with which the Skazkas make us acquainted.↗

prominently — Everyday, meaning 1: In a place or way that is easy to see or notice: «The sign was prominently displayed.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In an important way, playing a big part: «She figures prominently in the story.».↗ Example: The fire exit sign is prominently displayed above the door.↗ · His name features prominently in the history book.↗ · The trophy sits prominently on the head's desk.↗ · Our class picture was prominently placed in the hall.↗ · Dogs feature prominently in her stories.↗ · Put the price prominently on the label.↗

promise — Everyday, meaning 1: To say that you will certainly do something, or that something will certainly happen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A noun: what you say when you promise.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To show signs that something will happen or be good: «dark clouds promise rain»; «a promising young player».↗ Example: I promise to tidy my room after lunch.↗ · She kept her promise and came to my party.↗ · He broke his promise, and his friend was upset.↗ · Don't make promises you can't keep.↗ · Dad promised we would go to the beach on Sunday.↗ · We made a pinky promise.↗ · The grey sky promised rain.↗ · She is a promising swimmer.↗ · You promised you'd pay me to-day."↗ · And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be His own treasure, as He hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all His commandments; (Torah DEU.26.18, JPS 1917)↗ · The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as He hath promised you! — (Torah DEU.1.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as He hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.↗ (Torah EXO.12.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And the people did according to this promise.↗ (Writings NEH.5.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Is His promise come to an end for evermore?↗ (Writings PSA.77.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And now, O LORD, Thou alone art God, and hast promised this good thing unto Thy servant; (Writings 1CH.17.26, JPS 1917)↗