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noun
- A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
- (context, US, slang) A bed.
- (colloquial) A place of residence.
- A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
- A soft, or small, cushion.
- A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals; an animal's foot or paw.
- Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
- A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
- A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
- A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
- (cricket) a batsman's leg pad that protects it from damage when hit by the ball
- A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
- A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
- A keypad.
- A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
- An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket one end: "trip cord"
- the effect produced by sustained lower reeds, reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
verb (padd, ing)
- (transitive) To stuff.
- (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
- (transitive) To fill or lengthen (a story, one's importance, etc.).
- (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
- to pad cloth
- (context, transitive, cricket) to deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
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noun - A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat.
- A double-bladed oar used for kayaking.
- Time spent on paddling.
- We had a nice this morning.
- A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
- A paddlewheel.
- A blade of a waterwheel.
- a meandering walk through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- A kitchen utensil shaped like a and used for mixing, beating etc.
- A ping-pong bat.
- A flat limb of turtle or other sea animal, adapted for swimming.
- In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
verb (paddles, paddling, paddled)
- (transitive) To propel something through water with a , oar or hands.
- To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
- (transitive) To spank.
- (intransitive) To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
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noun
- Two similar or identical things taken together.
- I couldn't decide which of the two dresses I preferred, so I bought the pair.
- (followed by of) Two; a couple of.
- Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
- My wife and I make a great pair.
- Used in the names of some objects and garments that have two similar parts or halves.
- a pair of scissors
- a pair of jeans
- but not a pair of cymbals
- (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match
- (baseball) A double play, two outs recorded in one play
- They turned a to end the fifth.
- (baseball) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
- The Pirates took a from the Phillies.
- (poker) A poker hand that contains of two cards of identical rank which cannot also count as a better hand.
- (slang) - pair (of breasts) - she's got a gorgeous pair.
verb
- (transitive) To put (two people or things) together.
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noun (pl=pallia, pl2=palliums)
- A woollen vestment conferred on archbishops by the Pope.
- (historic) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
- (zoology) The mantle of a mollusc.
- (meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.
- (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
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noun
- Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.
- The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.
- 1990 October 28, w:Paul Simon, Paul Simon, "Further to Fly", w:The Rhythm of the Saints, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.
- : The open of desire wants everything.
- The corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal.
- A handheld computing device used to store personal data such as calendars and phone numbers.
verb
- to hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand
- to hold something without bending the fingers significantly
- to move something laterally by static friction against the palm of the hand
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adjective
- Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers
- (botany) Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.
- The maple tree has palmate leaves.
- (botany) (qualifier, leaves) Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point.
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noun
- (zoology) an appendage found near the mouth in invertebrates
- The fleshy part of a fingertip
- 1922: He folded his razor neatly and with stroking palps of fingers felt the smooth skin. " James Joyce, Ulysses
verb
- To feel, to explore by touch
- 1957: his skull looks palped and sucked down " Lawrence Durrell, Justine
| | parenchyma |
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noun
- the functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue
- the tissue making up most of the non-woody parts of a plant
| | pastern |
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noun
- The area on a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof.
- 1918: It was quite impossible to ride over the deeply-ploughed field; the earth bore only where there was still a little ice, in the thawed furrows the horse's legs sank in above its pasterns. " Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, p. 158)
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noun (pl=patellae or patellas)
- The sesamoid bone of the knee; the kneecap.
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noun
- The stomach or abdomen of a human or animal, especially a large, protruding one.
| | paw |
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noun
- (nonstandard, or, rural) father, Father; pa.
verb
- (context, of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws
- (context, of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw.
- (context, by extension, of a human) To clumsily dig through something.
| | pedicel |
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noun
- (botany) A stalk of individual flower; a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster.
- (anatomy) A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
- (zoology) A narrow stalk-like body part in insects and other arthropods, used in various specific senses.
- 1996: Spiders have the body clearly divided into two pieces which are joined by a narrow stalk, the . " Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe (Collins 1996, p. 10)
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noun
- An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
- There are two steers in the third .
- A place to confine a person; a prison cell.
- They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the again.
- (baseball) The bullpen.
- Two righties are up in the .
verb (pens, penning, penned or pent)
- (transitive) To enclose in a pen.
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noun
- (botany) The stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem.
- (entomology) A narrow or constricted segment of the body of an insect. Used especially to refer to the metasomal segment of Hymenoptera such as wasps. Alternate form: pedicel.
- (entomology) The stalk at the base of the nest of the paper wasp.
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noun
- That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
- Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view
- The problem has many phases.
- (astronomy) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form, or the absence, of its enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. Illustrated in W:Lunar phase, Wikipedia's article Lunar phase.
- Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.
verb (phas, ing)
- (to phase out) To discontinue (doing) something over a period of time (i.e., in phases).
- (transitive) To stun or shock someone.
- (intransitive) To become stunned or shocked.
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adjective
- pertaining to a seal; seallike
- 1955: she had already yanked out of me the coveted section and retreated to her mat near her mamma. " Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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noun - (biology) A light-emitting organ, found in some marine fish, that has symbiotic luminescent bacteria
| | pied |
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verb
- (past of, pi)
- (past of, pie)
adjective
- decorate, Decorated or colored in blotches.
| | pile |
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noun
- A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
- Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. —Cowper
- A covering of hair or fur.
- A large stake, or piece of timber, steel section pointed and driven into the earth or drilled and cast reinforced concrete, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.
- A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; — commonly called Volta"s pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The reverse (or tails) of a coin. (Obs)
- A hemorrhoid (usually it is in plural)
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noun (plural of pincer)
- A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws.
- The front claws of crustaceans such as lobsters.
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- A hollow tube that transports water, steam, or other liquid; usually made of metal, ceramic, wood, or plastic.
- A hollow stem with bowl at one end used for smoking (see also water pipe or bong)
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano, through which magma has passed; often filled with volcanic breccia
- A type of pasta, similar to macaroni
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, pillows, curtains, etc.); often a contrasting color
- (music) A hollow tube used to produce sound, such as an organ pipe.
- (music) A wind instrument making a whistling sound. (see pan pipes, bagpipe, boatswain's pipe)
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- (computing) The ASCII character at position 124 (decimal), 7C (hex), 01111100 (binary): " , "
- (computing) In Unix, the pipe character signifies that the output of one program feeds directly as input to another program.
- (context, computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access (e.g., a "fat pipe" refers to a high-bandwidth connection).
- (obsolete) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons; half a ton.
- 1882: Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, p. 205.
- (context, AU, colloquial, obsolete) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libelous, written on a piece of paper and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- 1818: yet, it is much to be hoped, that from his example pipe-making will in future be reposed solely in the hands of Mr. William Cluer of the Brickfield Hill. — w:Sydney Gazette, Sydney Gazette, 26 September 1818, on w:William Bland, William Bland convicted of libelling w:Lachlan Macquarie, Governor Macquarie in a pipe (William Cluer was an earthenware pipe manufacturer). Quoted in More Pig Bites Baby! Stories from Australia's First Newspaper, volume 2, ed. Micahel Connor, Duffy and Snellgrove, 2004, ISBN 1-876631-91-0.
verb (pip, ing)
- To convey or transport something by means of pipes.
- To install or configure pipes.
- To play music on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe.
- (nautical) To signal or order by a note pattern on a bosun's pipe.
- To decorate a cake using a pastry bag a flexible bag from which icing is forced through a small nozzle to make various designs
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noun (uncountable)
- The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees.
- (figuratively) The essential or vital part of an idea or theory or something else.
- the of my idea is ...
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noun
- Any of various freshwater flatworms, of the class Turbellaria.
| | plantigrade |
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noun
- A plantigrade animal
adjective
- (context, of an animal) walking with the entire sole of the foot on the ground.
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noun (plural planulae)
- The larva of a hydrozoan, which is free swimming and is covered in cilium, cilia.
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noun
- The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace
- (fencing) A half-jacket worn under the jacket for padding or for safety.
- An ornamental front panel on a woman's bodice.
- 1942: I bought here a wedding dress perhaps twenty or thirty years old ... a sequin to be worn over the womb as a feminine equivalent to a cod-piece, and a gauze veil embroidered in purple and gold. " Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 784)
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adjective
- Having hairs branching out laterally, like the parts of a feather.
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noun
- (gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the highest type; a person focused on spiritual reality (the other two being hylic and psychic).
adjective
- Of, or related to air or other gases
- Of, or related to pneumatics
- Powered by, or filled with compressed air
- (zoology) Having cavities filled with air
- Spiritual; Of, or related to the pneuma
- (context, of a woman) well-rounded; full-breasted; bouncy (especially during sex)
- "Every one says I'm awfully pneumatic," said Lenina reflectively, patting her own legs. - Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (chapter 6)
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noun
- An election or a survey of a particular group.
- The student council had a to see what people want served in the cafeteria.
- The network hub polled the department's computers to determine which ones could still respond.
- a place voters cast ballots
- The polls close at 8 p.m.
- Hair
- 1883: w:Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, w:Treasure Island, Treasure Island
- : ...the doctor, as if to hear better, had taken off his powdered wig, and sat there, looking very strange indeed with his own close-cropped black .
verb
- (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
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proper noun
- Surname from 14th century Irish. Derivative of Paul.
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verb
- (past of, poll)
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adjective
- (botany) Producing pollen; polleniferous.
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adjective
- variant spelling of polydactylous.
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noun
- The having of a plurality of socially bonded sexual partners at the same time; most commonly, the marriage of a man to more than one woman, or the practice of having several wives, at the same time; -- opposed to monogamy; as, the nations of the East practiced . See the Note under bigamy, and compare polyandry and polygyny.
- (zoology) The state or habit of having more than one mate.
- (botany) The condition or state of a plant which bears both perfect and unisexual flowers.
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noun (polygynies)
- The state or practice of having several wife, wives at the same time; plurality of wives; marriage to several wives - H. Spenser
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noun (polyzoari, a)
- (zoology) A polyzoary
| | polyzoic |
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noun
- ({zoology}} A spore that produces lots of sporozoites.
adjective
- (zoology) Pertaining to polyzoa.
| | predator |
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noun
- any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other organisms (their prey), primarily for food
- someone who attacks and plunders for gain
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verb to preen
- To groom; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers; -- said of birds.
| | prickle |
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noun
- A small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn.
- A tingling sensation of mild discomfort.
verb (prickles, prickling, prickled)
- (intransitive) To feel a prickle.
- (transitive) To cause someone to feel a prickle.
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noun
- A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.
- The pride of the peacock is the glory of God."William Blake
- Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris.
- That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
- A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.
- The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.
- Show; ostentation; glory.
- Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory,
- to be in the pride of one's life.
- Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
- Lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
- A company of lions.
verb (prides, priding, prided, prided)
- To experience or pride.
- I pride myself on being a good judge of character, but pride goes before the fall and I'm not a good judge of my own character so I'm often wrong without knowing it and fall in with a bad crowd.
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noun (plural proboscises or proboscides)
- (anatomy) An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.
- The tubular feeding and sucking organ of certain invertebrates like insects, worms and molluscs.
- The trunk of an elephant.
- Informally, a large human nose.
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noun
- A gastropod of the order Pulmonata
adjective - (anatomy) having lungs or similar organs
- (biology) of, relating to, or belonging to the gastropod order Pulmonata (slugs and snails)
| | pulp |
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noun
- A soft moist mass, especially of pressed vegetable matter
- The soft center of a fruit
- The soft center of a tooth
- A mixture of wood, cellulose and/or rags and water ground up to make paper.
- Mass of chemically processed wood fibres (cellulose).
- A lurid style of writing or publication
verb
- To make, or be made into
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noun
- A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
- This can deliver 100 gallons of water per minute.
- An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping
- It takes thirty pumps to get 10 litres ; he did 50 pumps of the weights.
- A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel.
- This is out of order, but you can gas up at the next one.
- (bodybuilding) A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
- (colloquial) A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
- She gave the other girl a on her new bike.
- (Obsolete American slang) The heart.
verb
- (transitive) To use a pump to move (liquid or gas).
- I've pumped over 1000 gallons of water in the last ten minutes.
- (transitive) (often followed by up) To fill with air.
- He pumped up the air-bed by hand, but used the service station air to up the tyres.
- (transitive) To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
- I pumped my fist with joy when I won the race.
- (transitive) To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
- (transitive) To gain information from (a person) by persistent questioning.
- (intransitive) To use a pump to move liquid or gas.
- I've been pumping for over a minute but the water isn't coming through.
- (intransitive) (slang) To be going very well.
- The waves were really pumping this morning.
- Last night's party was really pumping.
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noun
- a hole, cut, or tear created by a sharp object
- I got a in my bicycle tire and had to walk home.
verb (punctures, puncturing, punctured)
- to pierce; to break through; to tear a hole
- The needle punctured the balloon instantly.
| | pup |
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noun
- A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, shark and some other animals
- The dog has had that bed since he was just a .
- A young, inexperienced person
- The new teacher is a mere .
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noun (pupp, ies)
- A young dog.
- A young rat.
- A young seal.
- (slang, usually, in plural) A woman"s breast.
- (informal) a (generic) thing; particularly something that is a nuisance; a sucker
- I have another two dozen of these puppies to finish before I can go home.
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noun
- an animal which is of pure breed
adjective
- that (usually an animal) which has genuine parents of the same breed
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