p

/piː/
Dictionary

noun

  • Abbreviation of penny; pence.
  • Proton

noun

  • One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
  • One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
  • Any record or writing; a collective memory.

    "the page of history"

  • The type set up for printing a page.
  • A screenful of text and possibly other content.
  • A web page.
  • A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.

noun

  • A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
  • A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
  • A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
  • (in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
  • A boy child.
  • A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
  • A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  • A message sent to someone's pager.
  • Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
Synonyms:boypage boy

preposition

  • For each.

    "$2.50 per dozen"

  • To each, in each (used in expressing ratios of units).

    "100 centimeters per meter"

  • By the, by means of the, via the, through the.

    "Introduce the endoscope per nasum."

  • In accordance with.

    "I parked my car at the curb per your request."

Synonyms:/pp.aan

preposition

  • After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.

adverb

  • Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very.
  • Prettily, in a pretty manner.

verb

  • To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge

    "Needlework purled with gold."

  • An inverted stitch producing ribbing etc

    "Knit one, purl two."

verb

  • To upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong.

    "The huntsman was purled from his horse."

verb

  • To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
  • To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.

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