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finished 쑗 He has spent the past year

working in France 쑗 The time for

talk-ing is past – what we need is action 쐽

noun the time before now 쑗 In the past

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

oil or sauce (NOTE: no plural: some

pas-ta, a bowl of pasta; note that pasta

takes a singular verb: the pasta is very

good here)

paste

paste /pest/ 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

glue something such as paper 쑗 She

pasted a sheet of coloured paper over

the front of the box 쑗 He pasted the

postcards into his scrapbook 쒁 cut

pastry

pastry / pestri/ noun a mixture of flour,

fat and water, used to make pies 쑗 She

was in the kitchen making pastry.

pat

pat /pt/ noun a gentle touch with the

hand 쑗 I didn’t hit her – I just gave her

a little pat 쐽 verb to give someone or

something a pat 쑗 He patted his pocket

to make sure that his wallet was still

there (NOTE: pats – patting – patted)

앳 to pat someone on the back to

praise someone 앳 a pat on the back

praise 쑗 The committee got a pat on the

back for having organised the show so

well.

patch

patch / ptʃ/ noun 1 a small piece of

material used for covering up a hole,

e.g in clothes 쑗 His mother sewed a

patch over the hole in his trousers 2 a

small area of something 쑗 They built 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 θetk/ adjective making

you feel either sympathy or a lack of

re-spect 쑗 He made a pathetic attempt at a

joke 쑗 She looked a pathetic figure

standing in the rain.

patience

patience / peʃ(ə)ns/ noun the quality

of being patient 쑗 With a little patience, you’ll soon learn how to ride a bike 쑗 I don’t have the patience to wait that long.

patient

patient / peʃ(ə)nt/ adjective the ability

to wait a long time without getting

an-noyed 쑗 You must be patient – you will get served in time 쐽 noun a sick personwho 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 / peʃ(ə)ntli/ adverb withoutgetting annoyed

patrol

patrol /pə trəυl/ noun 1 the act of

keep-ing guard by walkkeep-ing or drivkeep-ing in one

direction and then back again 쑗 They 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

people keeping guard 쑗 Each time a trol went past we hid behind a wall 쐽

pa-verb to keep guard on a place by

walk-ing or drivwalk-ing up and down 쑗 Armed curity guards are patrolling the ware- house (NOTE: patrols – patrolling – patrolled)

se-pattern

pattern / pt(ə)n/ noun 1 instructions

which you follow to make something 쑗

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,

etc 쑗 She was wearing a coat with a pattern of black and white spots 쑗 Do you like the pattern on our new carpet?

pause

pause /

period of activity such as work 쑗 He read his speech slowly, with plenty of pauses 쑗 Take a short pause after every

100 steps 쐽verb to stop or rest for a

short time before continuing 쑗 She paused for a second to look at her watch.

pavement

pavement / pevmənt/ noun 1 a hard

path for people to walk on at the side of

a road 쑗 Walk on the pavement, not in the road 쑗 Look out; the pavement is

covered with ice! 2 US a hard road

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pay /pe/ noun the money you receive for

working 쑗 They’re on strike for more

pay 쑗 I can’t afford luxuries on my

mis-erable pay 쐽verb 1 to give someone

money for something 쑗 How much did

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

for doing something 쑗 We pay

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 /ped/)

pay back phrasal verb to give

some-one msome-oney which you owe them 쑗 He

borrowed £10 last week and hasn’t paid

me back.

pay up phrasal verb to pay all the

mon-ey which you owe 쑗 The tourist paid up

quickly when the taxi driver called the

police.

payment

payment / mt/ verb to allow someone

to do something 쑗 This ticket permits

three people to go into the exhibition 쑗

Smoking is not permitted in ground stations (NOTE: permits – per- mitting – permitted)

under-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

phys-ically present 쑗 Several celebrities were

at the first night in person.

personal

personal /

longing or referring to a particular

per-son or people 쑗 They lost all their

per-sonal property in the fire 2 private; that

you would not like to discuss with most

people 쑗 Can I ask you a personal tion? 쑗 That’s personal – I’d rather not answer that.

ques-personality

personality /  nlti/ noun 1.

character 쑗 He has a strange

personali-ty 2 a famous person, especially a TV

or radio star 쑗 The new supermarket is going to be opened by a famous sporting personality.

pest / pest/ noun 1 a plant, animal or

in-sect which causes problems 쑗 Many

farmers look on rabbits as a pest 2 a

person who annoys someone 쑗 That tle boy is an absolute pest – he won’t stop whistling.

lit-pet

pet /pet/ noun an animal kept in the home

쑗 The family has several pets – two cats,

a dog and a hamster.

petal

petal / pet(ə)l/ noun the colourful part of

a flowerpetrol

petrol / petrəl/ noun a liquid used as a

fuel for engines 쑗 This car doesn’t use very much petrol 쑗 The bus ran out of petrol on the motorway 쑗 Petrol prices are lower at supermarkets (NOTE: noplural: some petrol, a litre of petrol)phase

phase /fez/ noun a stage in the

develop-ment of something 쑗 The project is now

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

of the meaning of human existence 쑗

He’s studying philosophy 2 a general

way of thinking 쑗 My philosophy is that

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

speak to someone using a telephone 쑗

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

telephone; to call again 쑗 The manager

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

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

picture taken using a camera 쑗 Here’s 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 /

ture taken with a camera 쑗 I’ve found an

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

camera 쑗 She was photographing the

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 thepractice of taking pictures on sensitivefilm with a camera

phrasal verb

phrasal verb /

type of verb which has two or threeparts, which together have a meaningdifferent from that of the main verb,such as ‘tell off’, ‘look after’ and ‘put

up with’

phrase

phrase /frez/ noun a short sentence or

group of words 쑗 Try to translate the whole phrase, not just one word at a time 쑗 I’m trying to remember a phrase from ‘Hamlet’.

physical

physical / fzk(ə)l/ adjective relating

to the human body 쑗 The illness is tal rather than physical 쑗 He has a strong physical attraction for her.

men-physically

physically / fzkli/ adverb 1 relating

to the body 쑗 I find him physically very attractive 쑗 One of the children is phys-

ically handicapped 2 relating to the

laws of nature 쑗 It is physically sible to get a piano into that little car.

impos-physics

physics / fzks/ noun the study ofthings such as heat, light and sound, and

the way in which they affect objects 쑗

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.

pick

pick /pk/ verb 1 to choose something 쑗

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

take fruit or flowers from plants 쑗

They’ve picked all the strawberries 쑗

Don’t pick the flowers in the public dens 앳 take your pick choose which

gar-one you want 쑗 We’ve got green, red 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

in your hand 쑗 She dropped her 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

some-thing easily without being taught 쑗 She

never took any piano lessons, she just

picked it up 쑗 He picked up some

Ger-man when he was working in GerGer-many.

3 to give someone a lift in a vehicle 쑗

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 / pknk/ noun a meal eaten

out-doors away from home 쑗 If it’s fine,

let’s go for a picnic 쑗 They stopped by

a wood, and had a picnic lunch 쐽 verb

to eat a picnic 쑗 People were picnicking

on the bank of the river (NOTE: picnics

– picnicking – picnicked)

picture

picture / pktʃə/ noun a drawing, a

painting or a photograph 쑗 She drew 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 /pa/ noun meat or fruit cooked in a

pastry case 쑗 For pudding, there’s apple

pie and ice cream 쑗 If we’re going on a

picnic, I’ll buy a big pork pie.

piece

piece /

one of a number of similar things 쑗

Would you like another piece of cake? 쑗

I need two pieces of black cloth.

pierce

pierce /pəs/ verb to make a hole in

something

piercing

piercing / pəsŋ/ adjective (of a

sound) unpleasantly high and loud 쑗

They suddenly heard a piercing cry 쑗

He let out a piercing yell.

pig

pig /p'/ noun a pink or black farm

ani-mal with short legs kept for its meat

(NOTE: Fresh meat from a pig is called

pork Bacon, gammon and ham are

types of smoked or cured meat from a

pig.)

pigeon

pigeon / ...

etc 쑗 She was wearing a coat with a pattern of black and white spots 쑗 Do you like the pattern on our new carpet?

pause... or rest for a

short time before continuing 쑗 She paused for a second to look at her watch.

pavement

pavement / pevmənt/ noun... vegetable 쑗 He was peeling a banana.

쑗 If the potatoes are very small you can boil them without peeling them.

peer

peer