📖 P — The English dictionary · page 75

puppet — Everyday, meaning 1: A puppet is a toy figure of a person or animal that you move with your hand, strings or sticks to act out a show.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person or group controlled by someone else, who does what they are told.↗ Example: We made sock puppets in art.↗ · The puppet show was very funny.↗ · Pinocchio was a wooden puppet.↗ · She moved the puppet's mouth with her hand.↗ · Shadow puppets make shapes on the wall.↗ · The string puppet danced across the stage.↗ · The king was only a puppet of the rich lords.↗ · The puppet which plays so important a part in this story is worthy of a special examination.↗

puppy — Everyday, meaning 1: A puppy is a young dog.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Puppy fat» is soft fat some children have that goes away as they grow.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Puppy love» is a young person's first, sweet love.↗ Example: The dog had 6 puppies.↗ · She gave away 2 puppies.↗ · Each puppy eats 3 cups a day.↗ · How many puppies are left?↗ · A puppy has 4 legs.↗ · Our puppy chews everything, even my shoes!↗ · A puppy needs food, water, walks and love.↗ · He gave me puppy dog eyes to get a biscuit.↗ · In the house there are three puppies.↗

pur — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A Persian word meaning a lot, which is a token or stone drawn to decide something by chance.↗ Example: Wherefore they called these days Purim, after the name of pur.↗ (Writings EST.9.26, JPS 1917)↗ · because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast pur, that is, the lot, to discomfit them, and to destroy them; (Writings EST.9.24, JPS 1917)↗

purchasable — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Able to be bought.↗ e.g. Tickets are purchasable online.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Available for sale.↗ Example: Tickets are purchasable at the door.↗ · Extra coins are purchasable in the game — ask a grown-up first.↗ · Not every item in the museum shop is purchasable.↗ · With $10, which of these items are purchasable?↗ · Lunch is purchasable from the canteen.↗ · Seeds are purchasable at the garden centre.↗

purchase — Everyday, meaning 1: To buy something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) Something you have bought.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) The act of buying.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun) A firm hold or grip: «my feet couldn't get a purchase on the ice».↗ Example: Dad purchased new school shoes for me.↗ · Keep the receipt as proof of purchase.↗ · Ask a parent before any in-app purchase.↗ · She purchased 3 pens at $2 each, so she spent $6.↗ · Our best purchase was the tent.↗ · My boots couldn't get a purchase on the ice.↗ · Later, another neighbor purchased him and allowed his feathers to grow again.↗ · The field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.'↗ (Torah GEN.49.32, JPS 1917)↗ · the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth; there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.↗ (Torah GEN.25.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye shall purchase food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.↗ (Torah DEU.2.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying: (Prophets JER.32.16, JPS 1917)↗ · So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open; (Prophets JER.32.11, JPS 1917)↗

purchaser — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) A person or company that buys something; a buyer.↗ Example: The purchaser must pay within 30 days.↗ · Each purchaser gets a free gift.↗ · The house found a purchaser quickly.↗ · The purchaser paid 20 pounds for a 15-pound book and got 5 pounds change.↗ · The purchaser can return the item if it is broken.↗ · 50 purchasers bought tickets online.↗ · He couldn't supply goods fast enough; purchasers carried off everything in a twinkling.↗

pure — Everyday, meaning 1: Pure means not mixed with anything else.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Pure means clean and without dirt, germs or harmful things.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Pure can mean complete or total, as in pure luck.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Pure means good and without bad thoughts or wrongdoing.↗ Example: This juice is pure orange, with no sugar added.↗ · Pure gold is soft and shiny.↗ · Mountain air is clean and pure.↗ · It was pure luck that we found the key.↗ · The baby laughed with pure joy.↗ · Seawater is not pure; it has salt in it.↗ · Filtering muddy water makes it purer, but still not safe to drink.↗ · Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.↗ · It's pure charity that she is here at all.↗ · And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.↗ (Torah EXO.25.38, JPS 1917)↗ · He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.↗ (Torah LEV.24.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Of a talent of pure gold shall it be made, with all these vessels.↗ (Torah EXO.25.39, JPS 1917)↗ · Shall a man be pure before his Maker?↗ (Writings JOB.4.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherewithal shall a young man keep his way pure?↗ (Writings PSA.119.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.↗ (Writings JOB.16.17, JPS 1917)↗

purely — Everyday, meaning 1: Only, simply, for no other reason: «I did it purely for fun.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Completely, entirely: «a purely made-up story».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In a clean, pure way, without anything mixed in.↗ Example: We met purely by chance at the park.↗ · I joined the choir purely for fun.↗ · It was purely an accident, I didn't mean to break it.↗ · The story is purely made up.↗ · The water was purely clean after boiling and filtering.↗ · She trained purely and simply because she loved running.↗ · And this was purely spite, for there was plenty of milk for everybody.↗

pureness — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The state of being clean, clear or free from wrong.↗ Example: He that loveth pureness of heart, that hath grace in his lips, the king shall be his friend.↗ (Writings PRO.22.11, JPS 1917)↗

purge — Everyday, meaning 1: To get rid of people, things or ideas that are not wanted, often harshly: «The ruler purged his enemies from the army.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history) A purge: a time when a government or leader removes or punishes lots of people, sometimes killing them, as in the purges under Stalin.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To clean out completely: «purge the pipes», «purge old files from the computer».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (church) To make free from sin or guilt; to cleanse the soul.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (old, medicine) To empty the bowels with strong medicine.↗ Example: In the 1930s Stalin's purges killed and imprisoned huge numbers of people.↗ · I purged all the old photos from my tablet.↗ · The plumber purged the air from the radiators.↗ · The new king purged the palace of his brother's friends.↗ · In the story, the hero tried to purge his guilt by helping others.↗ · Mum had a big purge of the toy cupboard.↗ · Mansion, who has purged it of many errors without detracting from its old-fashioned quality.↗ · And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.↗ (Writings 2CH.34.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.↗ (Writings PSA.51.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will turn My hand upon thee, and purge away thy dross as with lye, and will take away all thine alloy; (Prophets ISA.1.25, JPS 1917)↗

purification — Everyday, meaning 1: Making something clean and pure by removing dirt or harmful things: «water purification».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (church, religion) Making a person or place spiritually clean, often with a ceremony; for example, the Bible's laws of purification, or washing before prayer in many faiths.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) Separating a pure substance from a mixture.↗ Example: Water purification removes germs so the water is safe to drink.↗ · Hikers carry purification tablets for stream water.↗ · The factory has an air purification system.↗ · Candlemas is also called the Feast of the Purification.↗ · Muslims wash in a set way for purification before prayer.↗ · We learned about purification by filtering muddy water in science.↗ · And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the purification from sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel.↗ (Torah NUM.19.17, JPS 1917)↗ · But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of purification threescore and six days.↗ (Torah LEV.12.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And she shall continue in the blood of purification three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purification be fulfilled.↗ (Torah LEV.12.4, JPS 1917)↗ · In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for purification and for sprinkling.↗ (Prophets ZEC.13.1, JPS 1917)↗ · every one that setteth his heart to seek God, the LORD, the God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification that pertaineth to holy things.'↗ (Writings 2CH.30.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And they kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, and so did the singers and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.↗ (Writings NEH.12.45, JPS 1917)↗

purifier — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person who cleans metal or people by removing what is impure.↗ Example: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver; and there shall be they that shall offer unto the LORD offerings in righteousness.↗ (Prophets MAL.3.3, JPS 1917)↗

purify — Everyday, meaning 1: To make something pure by removing dirt, germs or harmful things: «Boil the water to purify it.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (religion, church) To make someone spiritually clean, free from sin or guilt: «Christians believe God can purify people's hearts.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) To separate a substance from a mixture so it is pure.↗ Example: We purified muddy water with sand and charcoal filters.↗ · Boiling water for one minute helps to purify it.↗ · Plants help to purify the air in a room.↗ · In the Bible, people washed to purify themselves before worship.↗ · Scientists purified the salt by evaporating the water.↗ · The tablets purify water from streams.↗ · During this festival it was customary for shepherds to ignite a mass of straw, through which they rushed with their flocks, believing that this ordeal would purify them from sin.↗ · And as to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood, ye shall purify.'↗ (Torah NUM.31.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him: 'Put away the strange gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments; (Torah GEN.35.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And encamp ye without the camp seven days; whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, ye and your captives.↗ (Torah NUM.31.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day.↗ (Writings NEH.13.22, JPS 1917)↗ · When thou hast made an end of purifying it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.↗ (Prophets EZK.43.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And on the second day thou shalt offer a he-goat without blemish for a sin-offering; and they shall purify the altar, as they did purify it with the bullock.↗ (Prophets EZK.43.22, JPS 1917)↗

purim — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The Jewish holiday that remembers how Esther and Mordecai saved the Jews of Persia from Haman.↗ Example: Wherefore they called these days Purim, after the name of pur.↗ (Writings EST.9.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And the commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.↗ (Writings EST.9.32, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote down all the acts of power, to confirm this second letter of Purim.↗ (Writings EST.9.29, JPS 1917)↗

purity — Everyday, meaning 1: Purity is the state of being clean and free from dirt or anything mixed in.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Purity is goodness and innocence, being free from wrong.↗ Example: The water from the spring had great purity.↗ · The gold was tested for purity.↗ · The girl's purity made everyone trust her.↗ · Mum likes the purity of fresh milk.↗ · Learn this wisdom, and be wise in the understanding of it, investigate these numbers, and draw knowledge from them, fix the design in its purity, and pass from it to its Creator seated on his throne.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · Do homage in purity, lest He be angry, and ye perish in the way, when suddenly His wrath is kindled.↗ (Writings PSA.2.12, JPS 1917)↗

purple — Everyday, meaning 1: Purple is a colour you get by mixing red and blue, like grapes, plums or violets.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Purple was once a colour worn by kings and queens, because the dye was very costly.↗ Example: There are 6 purple and 9 yellow balloons.↗ · How many more red beads than purple beads?↗ · She has 14 crayons; 3 are purple.↗ · Each purple box holds 8 pens.↗ · Mix red and blue paint to make purple.↗ · Grapes can be green or purple.↗ · Her favourite colour is purple.↗ · Violets are small purple flowers.↗ · and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair; (Torah EXO.25.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.↗ (Torah EXO.39.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon.↗ (Torah NUM.4.13, JPS 1917)↗ · She maketh for herself coverlets; her clothing is fine linen and purple.↗ (Writings PRO.31.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.↗ (Writings 2CH.3.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king is held captive in the tresses thereof.↗ (Writings SNG.7.6, JPS 1917)↗