📖 P — The English dictionary · page 77

put — Everyday, meaning 1: To put is to move something to a place: put the cup on the table.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To put is to bring into a state: put the baby to sleep.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To put can mean to write or say: put your name at the top; put it simply.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: With small words put has many meanings: put on (clothes), put away, put off (delay), put up with (bear), put out (a fire), put up (a tent, or a guest for the night).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (casual) «Stay put» means stay where you are; «put a sock in it» means be quiet; «put your feet up» means rest.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (rough) «Put up or shut up» means prove it or be quiet; «put someone down» means make them feel small.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (euphemism) «Put down» or «put to sleep» said about a pet means the vet ended its life gently; «put away» can mean sent to prison.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: (formal) The exam voice says «place», «deposit», «position», «allocate», «insert», «distribute».↗ Everyday, meaning 9: To put something to rights means to set it in order or to repair it.↗ Example: I put three spoons on the table.↗ · When we put two groups together, we add.↗ · Kim puts 20 buttons into 4 equal groups.↗ · Put your name at the top of the page.↗ · Put your hand up if you know.↗ · Put on your coat; it's cold.↗ · Please put the toys away.↗ · The firefighters put out the fire.↗ · If you get lost, stay put and call for help.↗ · put 2 more plates out, nan + grandad coming↗ · Oh, put a sock in it, I'm trying to count!↗ · Twenty buttons are allocated equally into 4 receptacles; state the number deposited in each receptacle.↗ · Could you put that to rights?"↗ · And he put them all together into ward three days.↗ (Torah GEN.42.17, JPS 1917)↗ · We know not who put our money in our sacks.'↗ (Torah GEN.43.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.↗ (Torah EXO.22.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts?↗ (Writings JOB.38.36, JPS 1917)↗ · And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.↗ (Writings NEH.6.19, JPS 1917)↗ · The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.↗ (Writings 1CH.1.8, JPS 1917)↗

putrid — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Rotten and foul-smelling.↗ Example: Dead flies make the ointment of the perfumer fetid and putrid; so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honour.↗ (Writings ECC.10.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Then said he unto me: 'These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and when they shall enter into the sea, into the sea of the putrid waters, the waters shall be healed.↗ (Prophets EZK.47.8, JPS 1917)↗

puttest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «puttest» means «you put», a form of «put»: To put is to move something to a place: put the cup on the table.↗ Example: The LORD will command the blessing with thee in thy barns, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto; and He will bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.↗ (Torah DEU.28.8, JPS 1917)

putteth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «putteth» means «puts», a form of «put»: To put is to move something to a place: put the cup on the table.↗ Example: And he answered and said: 'Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD putteth in my mouth?'↗ (Torah NUM.23.12, JPS 1917) · Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.'↗ (Torah EXO.30.33, JPS 1917) · And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Lo, I am come unto thee; have I now any power at all to speak any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.'↗ (Torah NUM.22.38, JPS 1917)

putting — Everyday, meaning 1: Putting means placing something somewhere: putting a book on the shelf.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Putting is used in many phrases: putting on a coat (dressing), putting off a job (delaying), putting up with something (accepting it).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In golf, putting (said differently, to rhyme with «cutting») means hitting the ball gently along the grass towards the hole.↗ Example: I'm putting my toys away.↗ · She is putting on her coat because it's cold.↗ · Stop putting off your homework!↗ · Dad is putting up a shelf.↗ · Putting on a seat belt keeps you safe in the car.↗ · Putting three apples and two apples together makes five apples.↗ · The firefighters are putting out the fire.↗ · He practised putting on the mini-golf course.↗ · "I will," said Elfin, putting his arms around her.↗ · In the first edition I overlooked this word three; and putting and for as, made four classes of serving beings.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.↗ (Prophets JDG.7.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And she said unto him: 'Not so, because this great wrong in putting me forth is worse than the other that thou didst unto me.'↗ But he would not hearken unto her.↗ (Prophets 2SA.13.16, JPS 1917)↗ · For I hate putting away, saith the LORD, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith the LORD of hosts; therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.↗ (Prophets MAL.2.16, JPS 1917)↗

putty — Everyday, meaning 1: A soft grey or white paste that is pressed into gaps, for example to hold glass in a window frame, and that goes hard as it dries.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Any soft stuff that can be pressed and shaped easily, like the stretchy toy "silly putty".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (idiom) "Putty in someone's hands" means a person who is easily persuaded or controlled by someone else.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb, rare) To fill or fix something with putty.↗ Example: Dad pressed fresh putty around the new pane of glass.↗ · Fill the nail holes with putty before you paint the shelf.↗ · My little brother stretched his silly putty across the table.↗ · The putty takes a day to go hard.↗ · The puppy looked up with big eyes, and Gran was putty in his hands.↗ · We used a putty knife to scrape away the old putty.↗ · In art club we shaped putty into tiny animals.↗ · When he could see clearly he made out a mountain-like dragon whose heavy breast crushed the stones beneath it into putty.↗

puzzle — Everyday, meaning 1: A puzzle is a game or problem you solve by thinking, like a jigsaw with many pieces, a crossword or a riddle.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A puzzle is something hard to understand: «Where the cat went is a puzzle».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To puzzle is to make someone wonder or feel confused.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To puzzle over something is to think hard about it.↗ Example: A puzzle has 500 pieces.↗ · Lily has put together 120 pieces of the puzzle.↗ · Each puzzle costs $8.↗ · He solves 4 puzzles a day.↗ · Grandpa does the crossword puzzle every morning.↗ · Sudoku is a number puzzle.↗ · The missing cookies were a puzzle.↗ · The strange noise puzzled us.↗ · She puzzled over the riddle for an hour.↗ · He was quite puzzled when he reached the market-place.↗

puzzler — Everyday, meaning 1: A question, problem or mystery that is hard to understand or solve: «That riddle is a real puzzler.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person who enjoys doing puzzles, like crosswords or sudoku.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A puzzler can also be a person who is hard to understand or figure out.↗ Example: Here's a puzzler: what has keys but can't open locks?↗ · Question 10 on the maths test was a real puzzler.↗ · Why the cat kept hiding the socks was a puzzler.↗ · Grandma is a keen puzzler who does the crossword every day.↗ · The missing biscuits were a puzzler until we found crumbs on the dog.↗ · The teacher gives us a Friday puzzler to solve in pairs.↗ · He is a puzzler, take him how you will."↗

pygmy — Everyday, meaning 1: (of animals and plants) A very small kind of a species, much smaller than its relatives, such as a pygmy hippo, pygmy goat or pygmy marmoset.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (often offensive) An old word for members of some peoples in Central Africa who are short; today people prefer to use the names of the peoples themselves, such as the Mbuti or Baka.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, insulting) A person thought to be unimportant.↗ Example: The pygmy hippo lives in the forests of West Africa.↗ · A pygmy seahorse is smaller than your fingernail.↗ · The farm had three cheeky pygmy goats.↗ · The pygmy marmoset is one of the smallest monkeys.↗ · The pygmy possum sleeps through the cold winter in Australia.↗ · Our guide used the name Baka for the forest people instead of an old label.↗ · "I am your enemy," answered the valiant Pygmy, in his mightiest squeak.↗

pyjama — Everyday, meaning 1: (pyjamas) Loose, comfortable clothes for sleeping in, usually a top and trousers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (pyjama, before another noun) Belonging to pyjamas: «pyjama party», «pyjama top».↗ Example: I put on my pyjamas after my bath.↗ · We had a pyjama party at my friend's house.↗ · My pyjama top has stars on it.↗ · It was pyjama day at school, so we came in our PJs.↗ · Grandpa gave me a new pair of pyjamas.↗ · Don't go outside in your pyjamas!↗

pylon — Everyday, meaning 1: A pylon is a tall metal tower that holds up thick electricity cables high above the ground.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In some places (US) a pylon also means a traffic cone.↗ Example: Huge pylons carry electricity across the fields.↗ · Never climb a pylon — the electricity can kill you.↗ · Don't fly a kite near pylons or power lines.↗ · The sign on the pylon said «Danger of death».↗ · The pylons looked like giant metal people holding hands.↗ · Birds sat on the wires between the pylons.↗

pyramid — Everyday, meaning 1: A pyramid is a solid shape with a flat bottom (base) and sides shaped like triangles that meet at a point at the top.↗ A square pyramid has 5 faces.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The Pyramids of Egypt are huge old stone buildings of this shape, made as tombs for kings.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A pyramid is also a pile of things in rows that get smaller towards the top.↗ Example: A square pyramid has 5 faces.↗ · He built a pyramid of cans with 4 in the bottom row.↗ · Each row of the pyramid has one fewer block.↗ · How many edges does a square pyramid have?↗ · The ancient Egyptians built pyramids for their kings.↗ · A triangular pyramid has 4 faces, all triangles.↗ · The cheerleaders made a human pyramid.↗ · The food pyramid shows we need lots of fruit and vegetables.↗ · Then I buried them beneath a pyramid of sand, which covers them all.↗ · The whole creation is thus contemplated as a pyramid, terminating in a point at the top with a broad basis.↗ [See Dr. Graetz's Gnosticismus, p. 224.]↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

pyre — Everyday, meaning 1: A pyre is a big pile of wood or other fuel for burning, often for burning a dead body or a bundle of things.↗ Example: They built a pyre on the hill.↗ · The hero was placed on the pyre.↗ · The flames of the pyre rose high into the sky.↗ · Everything was flung on the pyre.↗

pyrite — Everyday, meaning 1: A shiny, pale gold-coloured mineral made of iron and sulphur, often called fool's gold because people mistook it for real gold.↗ Example: Pyrite is called fool's gold.↗ · The miner shouted with joy, but it was only pyrite.↗ · Pyrite often grows in little cubes.↗ · Real gold is soft, but pyrite is hard and brittle.↗ · Pyrite makes sparks if you strike it with steel.↗ · We found a shiny pyrite crystal at the rock shop.↗

pyrotechnic — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with fireworks: «a pyrotechnic display».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (pyrotechnics, noun) A fireworks show, or the skill of making and setting off fireworks.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (figurative) Very brilliant, dazzling and showy, especially in music, speech or skill: «pyrotechnic guitar playing».↗ Example: The pyrotechnic display lit up the whole bay.↗ · Pyrotechnic experts set off the fireworks safely from a barge.↗ · Different metals give pyrotechnic colours: copper makes blue, strontium makes red.↗ · The guitarist's pyrotechnic solo amazed the crowd.↗ · Only trained people should handle pyrotechnic devices.↗ · The film ended with pyrotechnics over the castle.↗

pythagorean — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Having to do with Pythagoras, the Greek thinker who taught that numbers are the basis of all things, or with his followers.↗ Example: We find this very idea in the Pythagorean system.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · The "one" in the Pythagorean dualism is the Symbol, I. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · A solution to this question will be found in the Pythagorean dualism.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

python — Everyday, meaning 1: A python is a large snake that is not venomous and kills its prey by wrapping round it and squeezing; pythons live in Africa, Asia and Australia.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Python (with a capital P) is a popular programming language, easy to read, used in schools and by scientists and companies.↗ Example: The python wrapped itself around its prey.↗ · Pythons are not venomous; they squeeze.↗ · A python can swallow an animal bigger than its head.↗ · We found a carpet python in the shed!↗ · In computing, we wrote our first program in Python.↗ · Python code uses indentation to show blocks.↗ · The reticulated python is one of the longest snakes in the world.↗ · Mowgli turned and saw the great Python’s head swaying a foot above his own.↗