pasta pasta / pstə/ noun an Italian food made of flour and water, and sometimes eggs, cooked by boiling, and eaten with pas-ta, a bowl of pasta; note that pasta takes a singular verb: th
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partly because we need the money, but
also because we want to move nearer to
the sea.
partner
partner /
Take your partners for the waltz 쑗 Sally
is my usual tennis partner 2 a person
with whom you are in a relationship,
him and his partner for drinks 3. a
per-son who owns and works in a business
became a partner in a firm of solicitors.
partnership
partnership /
ness relationship between two or more
people in which the risks and profits are
shared according to a letter of
agree-ment between the partners
party
party /
when several people meet, usually in
someone’s house, in order to celebrate
having a party on New Year’s Eve 쑗
Our family Christmas party was a
dis-aster as usual 쑗 She invited twenty
friends to her birthday party.
pass
pass /
He sent a long pass across the field and
Smith headed it into goal 쐽 verb 1 to
Can you pass me the salt, please? 쑗 He
passed the ball back to the goalkeeper.
in French 쑗 She passed her driving test
first time!
pass out phrasal verb to become
out when he saw the blood.
pass round phrasal verb to hand
passed the box of chocolates round the
table.
passage
passage / psd"/ noun 1 a long
She hurried along the passage 쑗
There’s an underground passage
be-tween the two railway stations 2 a
passages from the Bible 쑗 I
photocop-ied a particularly interesting passage
from the textbook.
passenger
passenger / psnd"ə/ noun a person who is travelling, e.g in a car, bus, train
or plane, but who is not the driver or one
car’s quite big – it can take three pas-sengers on the back seat 쑗 The plane was carrying 104 passengers and a crew of ten.
passing
passing /
fashion 2. which is going past 쑗 The
driver of a passing car saw the accident.
passion
passion / pʃ(ə)n/ noun a very strong
He couldn’t hide the passion he felt for her.
passive
passive / psv/ adjective allowing things to happen to you and not taking
the ringleaders, he only played a pas-sive role in the coup 쐽 noun the form of
a verb which shows that the subject is
car hit him’ the verb is active, but ‘he was hit by the car’ is passive.)
passport
passport / document allowing you to travel from
go-ing abroad you need to have a valid passport 쑗 We had to show our pass-ports at customs 쑗 His passport is out
of date.
password
password / word which you need to know to be al-lowed to do something such as use a particular computer
past
past /
ter 쑗 It’s past the children’s bedtime 쑗
It’s ten past nine (9.10) – we’ve missed
the TV news 2 passing in front of
you’ll see the shop on your left 쑗 She walked past me without saying any-thing 쑗 The car went past at at least 60 miles an hour (NOTE: Past is used for
times between o’clock and the
half-hour: 3.05 = five past three; 3.15 = a quarter past three; 3.25 = twenty-five past three; 3.30 = half past three For times after half past see to Past is also used with many verbs: to go
past, to drive past, to fly past, etc.) 쐽
adjective happening in a time which his
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working in France 쑗 The time for
talk-ing is past – what we need is action 쐽
we always had an office party just
be-fore Christmas.
pasta
pasta / pstə/ noun an Italian food
made of flour and water, and sometimes
eggs, cooked by boiling, and eaten with
pas-ta, a bowl of pasta; note that pasta
takes a singular verb: the pasta is very
good here)
paste
paste /pest/ noun 1 a thin liquid glue 쑗
Spread the paste evenly over the back of
the wallpaper 2. soft food 쑗 Mix the
flour, eggs and milk to a smooth paste 쑗
Add tomato paste to the soup 쐽 verb to
pasted a sheet of coloured paper over
the front of the box 쑗 He pasted the
postcards into his scrapbook 쒁 cut
pastry
pastry / pestri/ noun a mixture of flour,
was in the kitchen making pastry.
pat
a little pat 쐽 verb to give someone or
to make sure that his wallet was still
there (NOTE: pats – patting – patted)
back for having organised the show so
well.
patch
patch /ptʃ/ noun 1 a small piece of
material used for covering up a hole,
patch over the hole in his trousers 2 a
shed on a patch of ground by the railway
line 쑗 There’s a patch of rust on the car
door.
path
path /
ing 쑗 There’s a path across the field 쑗
Follow the path until you get to the sea.
pathetic
pathetic /pə θetk/ adjective making
you feel either sympathy or a lack of
joke 쑗 She looked a pathetic figure
standing in the rain.
patience
patience / peʃ(ə)ns/ noun the quality
you’ll soon learn how to ride a bike 쑗 I don’t have the patience to wait that long.
patient
patient / peʃ(ə)nt/ adjective the ability
to wait a long time without getting
get served in time 쐽 noun a sick person who is in hospital or who is being
treat-ed by a doctor, dentist, psychiatrist, etc
쑗 There are three other patients in the ward 쑗 The nurse is trying to take the patient’s temperature.
patiently
patiently / peʃ(ə)ntli/ adverb without getting annoyed
patrol
patrol /pə trəυl/ noun 1 the act of
keep-ing guard by walkkeep-ing or drivkeep-ing in one
make regular patrols round the walls of the prison 쑗 He was on patrol in the centre of town when he saw some youths
running away from a bank 2 a group of
pa-trol went past we hid behind a wall 쐽
verb to keep guard on a place by
se-curity guards are patrolling the ware-house (NOTE: patrols – patrolling –
patrolled)
pattern
pattern / pt(ə)n/ noun 1 instructions
She copied a pattern from a magazine to
knit her son a pullover 2 a design of
something, e.g lines or flowers,
repeat-ed again and again on cloth, wallpaper,
pattern of black and white spots 쑗 Do you like the pattern on our new carpet?
pause
pause /
read his speech slowly, with plenty of pauses 쑗 Take a short pause after every
100 steps 쐽verb to stop or rest for a
paused for a second to look at her watch.
pavement
pavement / pevmənt/ noun 1 a hard
path for people to walk on at the side of
the road 쑗 Look out; the pavement is
covered with ice! 2 US a hard road
sur-face
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paw
paw /
in its paws.
pay
pay 쑗 I can’t afford luxuries on my
mis-erable pay 쐽verb 1 to give someone
you pay for your car? 쑗 We pay £100 a
week in rent 쑗 Please pay the waiter for
your drinks 쑗 She paid him £10 for his
old bike 2. to give money to someone
secretar-ies £10 an hour 쑗 I paid them one
pound each for washing the car 쑗 I’ll
pay you a pound to wash my car (NOTE:
You pay someone to wash the car
before he or she washes it, but you
pay someone for washing the car
af-ter he or she has washed it pays –
paying – paid /ped/)
pay back phrasal verb to give
borrowed £10 last week and hasn’t paid
me back.
pay up phrasal verb to pay all the
quickly when the taxi driver called the
police.
payment
payment / pemənt/ noun the fact of
regular monthly payments into her
ac-count 쑗 She made a payment of
£10,000 to the solicitor.
pea
pea /
the round green seeds are eaten as
vege-tables
peace
peace /
keep the peace in the area 쑗 Both sides
are hoping to reach a peace settlement.
motorcy-cles ruin the peace and quiet of the
vil-lage.
peaceful
peaceful /
because there is very little noise or
by the river.
peach
peach /
peaches and cream for dessert.
peak
peak /
쑗 Can you see that snow-covered peak
in the distance? 2 the highest point 쑗
The team has to reach a peak of fitness before the match 쑗 The graph shows the peaks and troughs of pollution over
the last month 3 the front part of a cap,
with a dark blue peak.
peanut
peanut / under the ground in a shell
pear
with one end wider than the other
pearl
pearl /
wore a string of pearls which her grand-mother had given her.
pebble
pebble / peb(ə)l/ noun a small round stone
peculiar
There’s a peculiar smell coming from the kitchen 쑗 It’s peculiar that she
nev-er opens the curtains in hnev-er house.
pedal
pedal / ped(ə)l/ noun 1 an object
worked by the foot to make a machine
your foot down on the brake pedal 2 a
flat rest which you press down on with your foot to make a bicycle go forwards
쑗 He stood up on the pedals to make the
bike go up the hill 쐽 verb to make a
had to pedal hard to get up the hill.
ped-alled)
pedestrian
pedestrian /pə destriən/ noun a person who walks, rather than drives along, in a
in-jured in the accident.
peel
peel /
into the rubbish bin 쑗 This orange has got very thick peel (NOTE: no plural) 쐽
verb to take the outer skin off a fruit or
쑗 If the potatoes are very small you can boil them without peeling them.
peer
House of Lords.
peg
met-al object used for holding something in
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pegs in the cloakroom 쑗 They used no
nails in building the roof – it is all held
together with wooden pegs 2 왍 clothes
peg little wooden clip, used to attach
pegged the washing out on the line.
pen
can I borrow yours? 쑗 If you haven’t got
a pen you can always write in pencil.
penalty
penalty / pen(ə)lti/ noun a punishment
쑗 The maximum penalty for this offence
is two years’ imprisonment (NOTE: The
plural is penalties.)
pencil
pencil / pensəl/ noun an object for
writ-ing or drawwrit-ing with, made of wood,
with a long piece of black or coloured
material through the middle
penny
penny / peni/ noun the smallest British
£4.99, so I paid with a £5 note and got a
penny change 쑗 I came out without my
purse and I haven’t got a penny on me.
Pennies is used to refer to several
coins, but pence refers to the price In
prices, pence is always written p and
often said as /
costs 60p.: say ‘sixty p’ or ‘sixty
any money
pension
pension / penʃən/ noun money paid
regularly, e.g to someone who has
sion from his firm 쑗 She finds her
pen-sion is not enough to live on.
people
people /
were at least twenty people waiting to
see the doctor 쑗 So many people
want-ed to see the film that there were queues
every night 쑗 A group of people from
our office went to Paris by train.
pepper
pepper / pepə/ noun 1 a strong-tasting
powder used in cooking, made from the
whole seeds of a plant (black pepper) or
from seeds with the outer layer removed
taste (NOTE: no plural in this sense) 2.
a hollow green, red or yellow fruit used
for lunch.
per
can’t cycle any faster than fifteen miles per hour 쑗 Potatoes cost 10p per kilo 쑗
We paid our secretaries £10 per hour.
perceive
perceive /pə
slight that they’re almost impossible to perceive with the naked eye 쑗 I per-ceived a worsening in his condition dur-ing the night.
per cent
per cent /pə sent/, percent noun out of
are aged over 40 (NOTE: The symbol %
is used after numbers: 50%.)
percentage
percentage /pə sentd"/ noun an
A low percentage of the population
vot-ed 쑗 ‘What percentage of businesses are likely to be affected?’ – ‘Oh, about
40 per cent’.
perfect
perfect 1 /
Don’t change anything – the room is
perfect as it is 2 completely suitable 쑗
She’s the perfect secretary 쑗 George would be perfect for the job of sales-man 쑗 I was in a perfect position to see what happened.
perfect
perfect 2 /pə fekt/ verb to make
process for speeding up the bottling sys-tem.
perfectly
That dress fits you perfectly.
perform
perform /pə
It’s the sort of task that can be
per-formed by any computer 2 to do
some-thing such as acting, dancing or singing
per-form at the local theatre next week 쑗 The play will be performed in the village hall.
performance
performance /pə
way in which someone or something works, e.g how successful they are or
for ways to improve our performance 쑗 After last night’s miserable perform-ance I don’t think the team is likely to
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reach the semi-finals 2 a public show
perform-ance will start at 8 o’clock 쑗 There are
three performances a day during the
summer.
performer
performer /pə
who gives a public show in order to
en-tertain people
perfume
perfume /
which smells nice, and which you put
on your skin 2 a pleasant smell,
the roses
perhaps
perhaps /pə hps/ adverb possibly 쑗
Perhaps the train is late 쑗 They’re late
– perhaps the snow’s very deep 쑗 Is it
going to be fine? – Perhaps not, I can
see clouds over there.
period
period / pəriəd/ noun 1 an amount of
short period 쑗 The offer is open for a
limited period only 쑗 It was an
unhap-py period in her life 2 the time during
have three periods of English on
Thurs-days.
periodic
periodic /pəri ɒdk/ adjective
peri-odic attacks of the illness 쑗 We carry
out periodic reviews of the company’s
fi-nancial position.
permanent
permanent /
has found a permanent job 쑗 She is in
permanent employment 쑗 They are
liv-ing with her parents temporarily – it’s
not a permanent arrangement.
permanently
permanently /
for ever; always
permission
permission /pə mʃ(ə)n/ noun the
free-dom which you are given to do
need permission from the boss to go into
the storeroom 쑗 He asked the
manag-er’s permission to take a day off.
permit
permit 1 /
You have to have a permit to sell ice
cream from a van.
permit
permit 2 /pə mt/ verb to allow someone
three people to go into the exhibition 쑗
Smoking is not permitted in under-ground stations (NOTE: permits –
per-mitting – permitted)
person
person /
an 쑗 The police say a person entered the
house by the window 쑗 His father’s a very interesting person 앳 in person
used to emphasise that someone is
at the first night in person.
personal
personal / longing or referring to a particular
per-sonal property in the fire 2 private; that
you would not like to discuss with most
ques-tion? 쑗 That’s personal – I’d rather not answer that.
personality
personality / nlti/ noun 1.
personali-ty 2 a famous person, especially a TV
going to be opened by a famous sporting personality.
persuade
persuade /pə swed/ verb to get some-one to do what you want by explaining
the bank manager to give her a loan 쑗 After ten hours of discussion, they per-suaded him to leave.
pest
farmers look on rabbits as a pest 2 a
lit-tle boy is an absolute pest – he won’t stop whistling.
pet
쑗 The family has several pets – two cats,
a dog and a hamster.
petal
petal / pet(ə)l/ noun the colourful part of
a flower
petrol
petrol / petrəl/ noun a liquid used as a
very much petrol 쑗 The bus ran out of petrol on the motorway 쑗 Petrol prices are lower at supermarkets (NOTE: no plural: some petrol, a litre of petrol)
phase
phase /fez/ noun a stage in the
in its final phase 쑗 It’s a phase she’s going through and hopefully she will
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grow out of it 쑗 I’m sure dyeing his hair
green is just a phase.
philosophy
philosophy /f lɒsəfi/ noun 1 the study
He’s studying philosophy 2 a general
you should treat people as you would
want them to treat you.
phone
phone /fəυn/ noun a telephone 쑗 If
someone rings, can you answer the
phone for me? 쑗 She lifted the phone
and called the ambulance 쐽 verb to
Your wife phoned when you were out 쑗
Can you phone me at ten o’clock
tomor-row evening? 쑗 I need to phone our
of-fice in New York.
phone back phrasal verb to reply by
is out – can you phone back in about
fif-teen minutes? 쑗 She phoned back three
minutes later to ask me my address.
phone book
phone book / fəυn bυk/ noun a book
which gives the names of people and
businesses in a town in alphabetical
or-der, with their addresses and phone
numbers
phone call
phone call /
sion on which you speak to someone by
telephone
phone number
phone number / fəυn nmbə/ noun a
series of numbers that you press on a
tel-ephone to contact a particular person
photo
photo /fəυtəυ/ noun a photograph; a
photo of the village in the snow 쑗 I’ve
brought some holiday photos to show
you (NOTE: The plural is photos.)
photograph
photograph /
old black and white photograph of my
parents’ wedding 쑗 She’s trying to take
a photograph of the cat 쑗 He kept her
photograph in his wallet 쑗 You’ll need
two passport photographs to get your
visa 쐽 verb to take a picture with a
flowers in the public gardens.
photographer
photographer /fə tɒ'rəfə/ noun a
per-son who takes photographs, especially
as a job
photography
photography /fə tɒ'rəfi/ noun the practice of taking pictures on sensitive film with a camera
phrasal verb
phrasal verb / type of verb which has two or three parts, which together have a meaning different from that of the main verb, such as ‘tell off’, ‘look after’ and ‘put
up with’
phrase
phrase /frez/ noun a short sentence or
whole phrase, not just one word at a time 쑗 I’m trying to remember a phrase from ‘Hamlet’.
physical
physical / fzk(ə)l/ adjective relating
men-tal rather than physical 쑗 He has a strong physical attraction for her.
physically
physically / fzkli/ adverb 1 relating
attractive 쑗 One of the children is
phys-ically handicapped 2 relating to the
impos-sible to get a piano into that little car.
physics
physics / fzks/ noun the study of things such as heat, light and sound, and
She teaches physics at the local college.
쑗 It’s a law of physics that things fall
down to the ground and not up into the sky.
piano
piano /pi nəυ/ noun a large musical in-strument with black and white keys
taking piano lessons 쑗 She played the piano while her brother sang.
pick
The captain picks the football team 쑗 She was picked to play the part of the victim’s mother 쑗 The Association has
picked Paris for its next meeting 2 to
They’ve picked all the strawberries 쑗 Don’t pick the flowers in the public gar-dens 앳 take your pick choose which
and blue balloons – just take your pick!
pick up phrasal verb 1 to take
some-thing that is lying on a surface and lift it
hand-kerchief and he picked it up 쑗 He bent down to pick up a pound coin which he
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saw on the pavement 2 to learn
never took any piano lessons, she just
picked it up 쑗 He picked up some
Ger-man when he was working in GerGer-many.
We will pick you up from the hotel 쑗
Can you send a taxi to pick us up at
sev-en o’clock?
picnic
picnic / pknk/ noun a meal eaten
let’s go for a picnic 쑗 They stopped by
a wood, and had a picnic lunch 쐽 verb
on the bank of the river (NOTE: picnics
– picnicking – picnicked)
picture
picture / pktʃə/ noun a drawing, a
picture of the house 쑗 The book has
pages of pictures of wild animals 쑗 She
cut out the picture of the President from
the magazine.
pie
pie and ice cream 쑗 If we’re going on a
picnic, I’ll buy a big pork pie.
piece
piece /
Would you like another piece of cake? 쑗
I need two pieces of black cloth.
pierce
pierce /pəs/ verb to make a hole in
something
piercing
piercing / pəsŋ/ adjective (of a
They suddenly heard a piercing cry 쑗
He let out a piercing yell.
pig
ani-mal with short legs kept for its meat
pork Bacon, gammon and ham are
types of smoked or cured meat from a
pig.)
pigeon
pigeon / pd"ən/ noun a fat grey bird
which is common in towns
pile
Look at that pile of washing 쑗 The pile
of plates crashed onto the floor 쑗 The
wind blew piles of dead leaves into the
road 쑗 He was carrying a huge pile of
books.
pill
two pills before breakfast.
pillow
pillow / pləυ/ noun a cloth bag full of soft material which you put your head
on in bed
pilot
pilot / palət/ noun a person who flies a
be an airline pilot 쑗 He’s a helicopter pilot for an oil company.
pin
object with a round piece at the top, used for fastening things such as pieces
rib-bons to her dress with a pin before sew-ing them on 쐽 verb to attach something
about the meeting 쑗 He pinned her photograph on the wall 쑗 He pinned the calendar to the wall by his desk.
pinch
pinch /pntʃ/ noun 1 the action of
squeezing something between your
pinch 2 a small quantity of something
pinch of salt to the boiling water (NOTE:
squeeze something tightly, using the
me! 2 to steal something, especially
something that is not very valuable
pen!
pine
of evergreen tree with needle-shaped
along the edge of the field 2 wood from
for the kitchen 쑗 There are pine cup-boards in the children’s bedroom 쐽
because you do not have something any
pining for her cat.
pineapple
pineapple / panp(ə)l/ noun a large sweet tropical fruit, with stiff leaves with sharp points on top
pink
healthy now 쐽 noun a pale red colour 쑗
The bright pink of those flowers shows clearly across the garden.
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pint
to 0.568 of a litre
pipe
that carries a liquid or a gas from one
blocked pipe in the kitchen 쑗 The water
came out of the hole in the pipe 2 a
tube for smoking tobacco, with a small
bowl at one end in which the tobacco
burns
pit
rub-bish 2 a mine; a place where
substanc-es such as coal are dug out of the ground
쑗 My grandfather spent his whole life
working down a pit.
pitch
pitch /ptʃ/ noun 1 the ground on which
run round the football pitch 쑗 The pitch
is too wet to play on 쑗 He kept the ball
the whole length of the pitch and scored.
level of a period of anger or excitement
쑗 Excitement was at fever pitch 쐽 verb
in a field by the beach.
pity
Have you no pity for the homeless? 쐽
pity those children (NOTE: pities –
pit-ying – pitied)앳 what a pity used for
showing that you are disappointed, or
for showing that you feel sympathy for
someone who is disappointed
pizza
pizza /
sisting of a flat round piece of bread
cooked with things such as cheese,
to-matoes and onions on top
place
place /ples/ noun 1 where something
Here’s the place where we saw the
cows 쑗 We found a nice place for a
pic-nic 2 where something is usually kept
쑗 Make sure you put the file back in the
right place 3 a seat 쑗 I’m keeping this
place for my sister 쑗 I’m sorry, but this
place has been taken 4 a position in a
first three places 쐽verb to put
the teapot on the table 쑗 Please place
the envelope in the box.
plain
plain /plen/ adjective 1 simple and not
in the dining room 쑗 The outside is dec-orated with leaves and flowers, but the
inside is quite plain 2 easy to
plain English 3 obvious 쑗 It’s
perfect-ly plain what he wants 쑗 We made it plain to them that this was our final
of-fer 4 a more polite word than
two daughters are rather plain 쐽 noun
bordered by mountains (NOTE: Do not
confuse with plane.)
plainly
plainly / plenli/ adverb 1 in a way that
the French lesson 쑗 Plainly, the plan is
not working 2 clearly 쑗 It is plainly
visible from here 쑗 The sounds of a vi-olent argument could be heard plainly
from behind the door 3 without much
wallpa-per
plan
earlier in future 쑗 She drew up plans for the village fair 왍 according to plan
went off according to plan 2 a drawing
Here are the plans for the kitchen 쑗 The fire exits are shown on the plan of the of-fice 쐽 verb 1 to arrange how you are
planning her holiday in Greece 2 to
plan-ning to move to London next month 쑗
We weren’t planning to go on holiday this year 쑗 I plan to take the 5 o’clock flight to New York (NOTE: plans –
planning – planned)
plane
plane /plen/ noun 1 an aircraft with
Glasgow? 쑗 How are you getting to
Paris? – We’re going by plane 쑗 Don’t panic, you’ve got plenty of time to catch your plane 쑗 He was stuck in a traffic
jam and missed his plane 2 a tool with
a sharp blade for making wood smooth
쑗 He smoothed off the rough edges with
a plane.
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planet
planet / plnt/ noun 1 one of the
ob-jects in space which move round the
Sun 쑗 Is there life on any of the planets?
쑗 Earth is the third planet from the Sun.
2 the planet the planet Earth 쑗 an
en-vironmental disaster which could affect
the whole planet
plank
plank /plŋk/ noun a long flat piece of
wood used in building
planning
planning / plnŋ/ noun the act or
need very careful planning 쑗 The
project is still in the planning stage.
plant
plant /
which grows in the ground and has
row of cabbage plants 쑗 Sunflower
plants grow very tall 2 a large factory
쑗 They are planning to build a car plant
near the river 쐽 verb to put a plant in
trees and a peach tree in the garden.
plaster
plaster /
sand and a white substance called
‘lime’, which is mixed with water and
used for covering the inside walls of
yet and there is still bare plaster in most
of the rooms 2 a white substance which
becomes hard when it dries, used to
cov-er a broken arm or leg and hold it in
now has his leg in plaster 3.왍 sticking
plaster adhesive tape used for covering
stick-ing plaster on my cut.
plastic
plastic / plstk/ noun a strong material
made from chemicals, used to make
when we go to the beach 쑗 The
super-market gives you plastic bags to put
your shopping in 쑗 We cover our
gar-den furniture with plastic sheets when it
rains (NOTE: no plural: a bowl made of
plastic)
plate
plate /plet/ noun 1 a flat round dish for
plate 쑗 Pass all the plates down to the
end of the table 2 a flat piece of
den-tist has a brass plate on his door.
platform
platform /
structure by the side of the railway lines
at a station, to help passengers get on or
were waiting on the platform 쑗 The train for Liverpool will leave from
plat-form 10 2. a high wooden floor for someone to stand on when they are
sat in a row on the platform.
play
play on TV last night? 쑗 We went to the National Theatre to see the new play 쑗 Two of Shakespeare’s plays are on the list for the English exam 쐽verb 1 to
the university 쑗 Do you play tennis? 2.
to make music on a musical instrument
or to put a recording on a machine such
vio-lin very well 쑗 Let me play you my new
Bach CD 3 to enjoy yourself 쑗 When
you’ve finished your lesson you can go out to play 쑗 He doesn’t like playing with other children.
play back phrasal verb to listen to something which you have just recorded
player
player / pleə/ noun 1 a person who
play-ers for chess 쑗 Rugby playplay-ers have to
be fit 쑗 Four of the players in the
op-posing team are ill 2 a person who
horn player
playground
playground / ple'raυnd/ noun a place, at a school or in a public area, where children can play
pleasant
pleasant / plez(ə)nt/ adjective
gar-den! 쑗 How pleasant it is to sit here un-der the trees!
please
please / are making a polite request or accepting
please? 쑗 Please sit down 쑗 Can I have
a ham sandwich, please? 쑗 Do you want some more tea? – Yes, please! Compare
thank you 쐽 verb to make someone
please 왍 please yourself do as you like
쑗 Shall I take the red one or the green one? – Please yourself.
pleased
We’re very pleased with our new house.
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쑗 I’m pleased to hear you’re feeling
bet-ter 쑗 He wasn’t pleased when he heard
his exam results.
pleasure
pleasure / ple"ə/ noun a pleasant
feel-ing 쑗 His greatest pleasure is sitting by
the river 쑗 It gives me great pleasure to
be able to visit you today 앳 with
the job with pleasure.
plenty
plenty / plenti/ noun a large quantity 쑗
You’ve got plenty of time to catch the
train 쑗 Plenty of people complain
about the bus service 쑗 Have you got
enough bread? – Yes, we’ve got plenty.
plot
e.g used for building or for growing
next to the river 쑗 The plot isn’t big
enough to build a house on 2 the basic
has a complicated plot 쑗 I won’t tell
you the plot of the film – I don’t want to
spoil it for you 3 a secret plan to do
hatched a plot to hold up the security
van.
pluck
pluck /plk/ verb 1 to pull out feathers
the pheasants for you 2 to pull and let
go of the strings of a guitar or other
mu-sical instrument, in order to make a
strings of his guitar.
plug
object which covers the hole in a bath or
them there’s no plug in the bath? 쑗 She
pulled out the plug and let the water
drain away 2 an object attached to the
end of a wire, which you push into a
hole in the wall to make a piece of
cleaner is supplied with a plug.
plug in phrasal verb to connect a piece
of electrical equipment to an electricity
supply by pushing the plug into a hole in
plugged in – that’s why it wouldn’t
work.
plum
fruit with a smooth skin and a large
make a pie.
plumber
plumber / plmə/ noun a person whose job is to install or repair things such as water pipes and heating systems
plump
plump /plmp/ adjective (of a person)
short man with a plump red face 쑗 Is she pregnant or is she just plumper than she was?
plunge
plunge /plnd"/ verb 1 to throw
river to rescue the little boy 2 to fall
news of the devaluation.
plural
plural / plυərəl/ adjective, noun (in grammar) (which is) the form of a word
Does ‘government’ take a singular or plural verb? 쑗 What’s the plural of
‘mouse’? 쑗 The verb should be in the
plural after ‘programs’.
plus
salary plus bonus comes to more than
£30,000 (NOTE: In calculations plus is usually shown by the sign + : 10 + 4 =
14: say ‘ten plus four equals fourteen’.)
£200,000 plus
pocket / pɒkt/ noun a small bag sewn into the inside of a piece of clothing such as a coat, in which you can keep
looked in all her pockets but couldn’t find her keys 쑗 He was leaning against
a fence with his hands in his pockets.
pod
which some small vegetables such as
are eaten in their pods.
poem
with words carefully chosen to sound attractive or interesting, set out in lines usually of a regular length which some-times end in words which sound the
old sailor 쑗 The poem about the First World War was set to music by Britten.
poet
poems
poetry
poetry / pəυtri/ noun poems in general
쑗 Reading poetry makes me cry 쑗 This
...unhap-py period in her life the time during
have three periods of English on
Thurs-days.
periodic
periodic... and flowers, but the
inside is quite plain easy to
plain English obvious 쑗 It’s
perfect-ly plain what he wants 쑗 We made it plain to them