📖 P — The English dictionary · page 9

parsi — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name of a people) A member of a community in India whose ancestors came from Persia (Iran) over a thousand years ago and who follow the Zoroastrian religion.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Belonging to this community.↗ Example: The Parsee in the Just So Story had a hat that shone in the sun.↗ · The Parsee filled the Rhinoceros's skin with cake crumbs.↗ · Parsis follow the Zoroastrian faith.↗ · The Parsi community lives mostly in Mumbai.↗ · Freddie Mercury's family were Parsis.↗ · A sacred fire burns in the Parsi temple.↗

parsley — Everyday, meaning 1: Parsley is a green herb with curly or flat leaves, used to flavour food and to decorate plates.↗ Example: Chop some parsley and sprinkle it on the potatoes.↗ · The gardener was watering the dill and parsley.↗ · Sam put a sprig of parsley on his plate.↗

parsnip — Everyday, meaning 1: A long, pale cream root vegetable, shaped like a carrot, with a sweet taste when cooked.↗ Example: We had roast parsnips with our chicken.↗ · A parsnip looks like a white carrot.↗ · Grandad grows parsnips in his allotment.↗ · Parsnips taste sweeter after a frost.↗ · Fine words butter no parsnips.↗ · Mum made parsnip soup.↗ · The gardener was near the gate, watering the dill and parsley, the carrots and parsnips.↗

parson — Everyday, meaning 1: A parson is a priest in charge of a church, especially in a country village.↗ Example: The parson preached at the church every Sunday.↗ · The parson's wife was amazed.↗ · Everyone in the village greeted the parson.↗

parsonage — Everyday, meaning 1: A parsonage is the house where a parson lives, usually next to the church.↗ (old use).↗ Example: The parsonage had a big garden with roses.↗ · She went to the parsonage to ask for work.↗ · Our grandmother grew up in an old parsonage in the country.↗

part — Everyday, meaning 1: A part is a piece of something bigger.↗ A slice is a part of a cake.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A part is one piece of a machine: car parts.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A part is a role in a play or film.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To take part means to join in.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To part is to separate: they parted at the gate; a parting (UK) or part (USA) is the line in your hair.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Parts can also mean a region or area of a country, as in "these parts".↗ Example: Cut the cake into 8 equal parts.↗ · Part of the money was spent on food.↗ · What part of the class is girls?↗ · Each part is 5 cm long.↗ · The roots are the part of the plant under the ground.↗ · She got the part of the queen in the play.↗ · Everyone can take part in the race.↗ · The friends parted at the bus stop.↗ · The best part of the trip was the zoo.↗ · What brings you into these parts?”↗ · Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.↗ (Torah EXO.16.36, JPS 1917)↗ · a several tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; (Torah NUM.28.29, JPS 1917)↗ · and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; (Torah NUM.29.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Will they part him among the merchants?↗ (Writings JOB.40.30, JPS 1917)↗ · Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts?↗ (Writings JOB.38.36, JPS 1917)↗ · I also will answer my part, I also will declare mine opinion.↗ (Writings JOB.32.17, JPS 1917)↗

partake — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To eat or drink something, usually offered to you.↗ e.g. "partake of the feast".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To take part in an activity.↗ e.g. "partake in the games".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (church) To receive communion, the bread and wine.↗ e.g. "partake of the bread".↗ Example: Will you partake of some tea and cake?↗ · All the villagers partook in the harvest festival.↗ · The guests partook of a great feast.↗ · At communion, Christians partake of the bread and wine.↗ · He would not partake in the cruel game.↗ · "Do partake," said the duchess, offering the biscuits.↗ · A COUNTRY MOUSE invited a Town Mouse, an intimate friend, to pay him a visit and partake of his country fare.↗ · The Triad, composed of llie Monad and Duad, partakes of the nature of both.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

parthenogenesis — Everyday, meaning 1: Parthenogenesis is a way some animals and plants have babies from an egg that has not been fertilised, so no father is needed.↗ Example: Some aphids reproduce by parthenogenesis in summer.↗ · A Komodo dragon in a zoo had babies by parthenogenesis.↗ · Whiptail lizards are all female and use parthenogenesis.↗ · Parthenogenesis means a baby grows from an unfertilised egg.↗ · Male honeybees come from unfertilised eggs, a kind of parthenogenesis.↗ · Scientists were surprised to find parthenogenesis in a shark.↗

partial — Everyday, meaning 1: Partial means not complete; only part of something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Partial means unfairly supporting one side or person more than another.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) To be partial to something means to like it a lot, as in "I'm partial to a scone".↗ Example: We saw a partial eclipse of the Sun through special glasses.↗ · The shop gave us a partial refund because the box was damaged.↗ · The plan was only a partial success.↗ · A judge must not be partial to either side.↗ · Grandpa is rather partial to a slice of chocolate cake.↗ · The flood caused partial damage to the school.↗ · There was only a partial answer to question five, so I got 2 marks out of 4.↗ · As soon as he mentioned olives, the princess, who was very partial to them, exclaimed:↗ · PARTIAL: English Wikisource transcription (proofread from Index:Sepher Yetzirah.djvu) — only Preface to the Second Edition, Introduction, and the text (chapters I-VI).↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

partiality — Everyday, meaning 1: Unfair support for one person or side over another.↗ e.g. "The referee showed partiality."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A special liking for something.↗ e.g. "a partiality for chocolate".↗ Example: The referee was accused of partiality towards the home team.↗ · A judge must avoid partiality.↗ · Grandpa has a partiality for strong cheese.↗ · The teacher showed no partiality and treated us all the same.↗ · Her partiality for cats was well known.↗ · Partiality in a contest is unfair to the other players.↗ · He gave judgments without partiality, hatred, ignorance, or fear.↗

partially — Everyday, meaning 1: Partially means partly; not completely.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Partially can mean in an unfair way that favours one side; this use is rare.↗ Example: The glass is partially full.↗ · The moon was partially hidden by clouds.↗ · My grandad is partially sighted.↗ · The road is partially closed.↗ · The test was partially correct.↗ · Never eat partially cooked chicken.↗ · The door was partially open.↗ · The cake was partially eaten by the time we arrived.↗ · The snow that lay upon it was partially thawed, and the stones crumbled beneath the feet.↗

participant — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who takes part in an activity, an event, a race, a game, a study or a competition.↗ Example: Every participant in the race got a medal.↗ · There were 64 participants in the chess competition.↗ · The survey had 30 participants.↗ · Participants must wear a helmet.↗ · Split the 48 participants into teams of 6.↗ · She was an active participant in the class discussion.↗ · Meroz has argued that the SY envisions Wisdom [חָכְמָה Chochmah] as a co-participant with God in the Work of Creation.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · A similar view is reflected in the midrashicic and Kabbalistic literature, where Torah or Wisdom acts as a participant or instrument in the Work of Creation; see e.g. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

participate — Everyday, meaning 1: To take part or join in an activity or event.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To share in something.↗ Example: Everyone in our class participated in the charity run.↗ · She always participates in class discussions.↗ · You don't have to win to participate.↗ · Over a hundred children participated in the science fair.↗ · Will you participate in the school play?↗ · Participants must wear a name badge.↗ · My report says I should participate more in group work.↗ · Most men of letters hastened to participate in the battle.↗ · On page 16 we read as follows: "All his (Gods) creation, and every minutest part thereof, participates of two most essential forms : the line 1 the symbol of the altitude, and the circle 0 the symbol of the horizon.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

participating — Everyday, meaning 1: Taking part or joining in an activity, game, event or lesson.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an adjective: those who are taking part, as in «participating teams».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) Sharing in something, such as profits or a plan.↗ Example: Thank you all for participating in the spelling bee.↗ · Twelve schools are participating in the science fair.↗ · Sam is participating in the school play this term.↗ · If 30 pupils are participating and each pays $2, how much is collected?↗ · Participating teams must arrive by 9 o'clock.↗ · She enjoys participating in class discussions.↗ · Are you participating in the charity run?↗ · Every participating child got a medal.↗

participation — Everyday, meaning 1: Participation is taking part in an activity or event.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Participation can also mean how many people take part.↗ Example: Thank you all for your participation in Sports Day.↗ · Our teacher wants more participation in class discussions.↗ · Participation in the school choir has doubled this year.↗ · Everyone got a participation medal for running the race.↗ · Voting is a way of participation in a democracy.↗ · (formal) Participation in the survey is voluntary.↗ · If 18 of 24 pupils joined the trip, the participation was 75%.↗

participle — Everyday, meaning 1: A participle is a form of a verb used to make tenses or used like an adjective.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The present participle ends in «-ing»: running, eating, singing.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The past participle often ends in «-ed», «-en» or has a special form: walked, eaten, sung, gone.↗ Example: In «She is singing», singing is the present participle.↗ · In «I have finished my homework», finished is the past participle.↗ · The past participle of «go» is «gone».↗ · «A broken window» uses the past participle as an adjective.↗ · Write the past participle of «write»: written.↗ · Some verbs have odd participles, such as swim, swam, swum.↗ · «Running late, we jumped in the car» starts with a participle phrase.↗ · The first is clearly the root שָׁכַב shakhav ‘to lie, lie down’, but שכובה looks like a passive participle, shekhuvah, while shakhav is normally an intransitive verb not amenable to being made passive.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

particle — Everyday, meaning 1: A particle is a very small piece or bit of something: dust particles.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In science, particles are the tiny bits that all matter is made of, such as atoms and molecules.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In grammar, a particle is a small word like «up» in «give up» or «to» in «to go».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A particle can also mean any single thing or item, however small, as in every created particle.↗ Example: Everything is made of tiny particles.↗ · In a solid, the particles are packed close together.↗ · Particles in a gas move fast and spread out.↗ · When ice melts, its particles start to slide around.↗ · Sunlight shows dust particles floating in the air.↗ · Smoke has tiny particles that are bad for your lungs.↗ · There wasn't a particle of truth in his story.↗ · Heating water makes its particles move faster.↗ · One must find out the truth concerning every created particle, and keep to that."↗ · It is a particle like כּ, as; it is added the word מִין kind, denoting: as a kind of, like, as.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

particular — Everyday, meaning 1: Particular means one certain thing, not any other: on that particular day.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Particular means special or more than usual: of particular importance.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A particular person is fussy and cares a lot about details.↗ e.g. He's very particular about his food.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun, formal) Particulars are the details or facts about something.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: "In particular" can mean especially, picking out one thing from others.↗ Example: Is there a particular book you want?↗ · I like all fruit, but bananas in particular.↗ · She is very particular about how her desk looks.↗ · On that particular day it snowed.↗ · «What are you doing?»↗ «Nothing in particular.»↗ · Pay particular attention to the last question.↗ · (formal) Please give your particulars at the desk.↗ · The punctuation of the book, in particular, is very eccentric.'↗ · This particular phraseology is one of several hints that the SY may share a particular literary affiliation with the Sifre Emet, the poems of Psalms, Proverbs, and Job.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · In associating the particular letters to each planet the learned Jesuit Kircher allots Beth to the Sun, Gimel to Venus, Daleth to Mercury, Kaph to Luna, Peh to Saturn, Resh to Jupiter, and Tau to Mars.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

particularly — Everyday, meaning 1: Especially; more than usual or more than others.↗ e.g. I particularly like apples.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In detail or carefully, as in «she looked at it particularly» (old-fashioned).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Not particularly» means not very, or not really.↗ e.g. "Are you hungry?" "↗ Not particularly."↗ Example: I particularly enjoyed the trip to the zoo.↗ · The bridge is particularly slippery when it rains.↗ · "Did you like the film?" "↗ Not particularly."↗ · The second question was particularly hard.↗ · Bees particularly like purple flowers.↗ · Be particularly careful near the road.↗ · He's not particularly fond of broccoli.↗ · It was a particularly windy day at the beach.↗ · "I find it particularly good myself."↗

partisan — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) Strongly supporting one political party or side, often without being fair to the other side.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A strong supporter of a party, person or idea.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun, history) A fighter in a secret army who fights against soldiers who have taken over their country, especially in the Second World War.↗ Example: The newspaper's report was very partisan.↗ · A good referee is not partisan.↗ · The partisans hid in the forest and blew up railway lines.↗ · Bipartisan laws are supported by both main parties.↗ · The crowd was partisan and cheered only for the home team.↗ · The judge must be non-partisan.↗