--- title: P — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 38 description: The 1498 words of the English dictionary under P, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / P # P — The English dictionary · page 38 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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meaning 1:* The soft sound of something small dropping into water, like a pebble or a frog.[↗](../../plop/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (verb) To fall or drop with this sound.[↗](../../plop/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (verb, informal) To sit down or put something down heavily and carelessly: «She plopped down on the sofa.».[↗](../../plop/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The frog jumped into the pond with a plop.[↗](../../plop/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A big raindrop plopped onto my nose.[↗](../../plop/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He plopped his bag on the floor.[↗](../../plop/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Something went plop in the dark river.[↗](../../plop/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She plopped down on the beanbag.[↗](../../plop/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Two ice cubes plopped into my drink.[↗](../../plop/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · We heard a plop as the water vole dived.[↗](../../plop/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **plosive** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* A speech sound made by shutting off the air and letting it burst out, like p or t.[↗](../../plosive/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") **plot** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The main events of a story, film or play.[↗](../../plot/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A secret plan, often to do something wrong.[↗](../../plot/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A small piece of land, such as for a garden or a house.[↗](../../plot/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (verb, maths) To mark points on a graph or map.[↗](../../plot/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* (verb) To plan something secretly.[↗](../../plot/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The plot of the book is very exciting.[↗](../../plot/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Plot the point (3, 4) on the grid.[↗](../../plot/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The villains made a plot to steal the crown.[↗](../../plot/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We grow carrots on our plot.[↗](../../plot/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Plot your results on a bar chart.[↗](../../plot/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He's lost the plot\![↗](../../plot/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") (slang: gone a bit crazy)[↗](../../plot/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The children plotted a surprise party.[↗](../../plot/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The evil one's plot was successful.[↗](../../plot/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Now therefore take and cast him into the plot of ground, according to the word of the LORD.'[↗](../../plot/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2KI.9.26, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plot/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · But he stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD wrought a great victory.[↗](../../plot/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.23.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plot/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines.[↗](../../plot/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.23.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plot/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") **plotted** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (maths, maps) Marked points on a graph, grid or map.[↗](../../plotted/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "We plotted the points."[↗](../../plotted/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Secretly planned something, usually bad.[↗](../../plotted/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "They plotted to steal the crown."[↗](../../plotted/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Planned the story of a book or film.[↗](../../plotted/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "a well-plotted mystery".[↗](../../plotted/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (plotted plant) Planted in a pot (rare; usually "potted").[↗](../../plotted/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We plotted the points (1, 2) and (3, 4) on the grid.[↗](../../plotted/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The temperatures were plotted on a line graph.[↗](../../plotted/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The pirates plotted to take the ship.[↗](../../plotted/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Guy Fawkes plotted to blow up Parliament.[↗](../../plotted/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The captain plotted a course on the map.[↗](../../plotted/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The mystery is cleverly plotted.[↗](../../plotted/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · She plotted her revenge on her brother for weeks.[↗](../../plotted/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · She now plotted continually how she might destroy her good fortune.[↗](../../plotted/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **plough** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A big farm tool, pulled by a tractor or animals, that turns over and breaks up the soil to get it ready for planting.[↗](../../plough/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (verb) To turn over soil with a plough.[↗](../../plough/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (verb) To move or go forward with force: «the car ploughed into the fence».[↗](../../plough/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (verb) To keep going with something hard or boring: «plough through homework».[↗](../../plough/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* The Plough: a group of seven bright stars (UK name for the Big Dipper).[↗](../../plough/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The farmer ploughed the field before planting wheat.[↗](../../plough/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Long ago, horses pulled the plough.[↗](../../plough/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A snowplough cleared the road.[↗](../../plough/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · I ploughed through my maths homework.[↗](../../plough/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The car skidded and ploughed into a hedge.[↗](../../plough/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We found the Plough in the night sky.[↗](../../plough/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Three brothers are ploughing over there.[↗](../../plough/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **ploughman** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A ploughman is a farm worker who ploughs fields, pulling the plough with oxen or horses.[↗](../../ploughman/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A ploughman yoked his ox and ass together.[↗](../../ploughman/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The ploughman led his oxen away to drink.[↗](../../ploughman/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The ploughman was up before dawn to work the fields.[↗](../../ploughman/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **ploughshare** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The sharp metal blade of a plough that cuts into the soil.[↗](../../ploughshare/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (Bible) «They shall beat their swords into ploughshares» (Isaiah and Micah) is a picture of peace: weapons are made into farm tools.[↗](../../ploughshare/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* «They shall beat their swords into ploughshares.»[↗](../../ploughshare/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The farmer sharpened the ploughshare before spring.[↗](../../ploughshare/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A statue outside the United Nations shows a man beating a sword into a ploughshare.[↗](../../ploughshare/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The ploughshare cut deep into the soil.[↗](../../ploughshare/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The prophets dreamed of a time when weapons become ploughshares.[↗](../../ploughshare/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Old ploughshares were made of iron.[↗](../../ploughshare/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · They never knew when they were safe from him, as he could change himself into a man, woman or child, a stick, a goat, a ploughshare.[↗](../../ploughshare/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **plover** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A plover is a bird with a short beak, that lives on open land and often flies in flocks.[↗](../../plover/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The plovers fly in a curved line like a snake.[↗](../../plover/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We saw a flock of plovers on the marsh.[↗](../../plover/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The plovers will start their flight when the weather turns.[↗](../../plover/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **plow** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A plow is a farm tool pulled by animals to turn over the soil; it is the American spelling of «plough».[↗](../../plow/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To plow is to turn over soil with a plow.[↗](../../plow/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Cincinnatus left his plow standing where it was.[↗](../../plow/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Keep the bulls and the plow buffaloes by themselves.[↗](../../plow/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The farmer plows the field before the rain.[↗](../../plow/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.[↗](../../plow/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.22.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plow/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.[↗](../../plow/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.129.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plow/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow mischief, reap the same.[↗](../../plow/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.4.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plow/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, with the opening and harrowing of his ground?[↗](../../plow/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.28.24, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plow/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **plowed** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* Turned over soil with a plow.[↗](../../plowed/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which may neither be plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.[↗](../../plowed/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.21.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plowed/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **plower** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* A person who plows, turning soil with a plow.[↗](../../plower/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.[↗](../../plower/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.129.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plower/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **plowing** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* Turning over the soil with a plow.[↗](../../plowing/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.[↗](../../plowing/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.34.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plowing/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · For these two years hath the famine been in the land; and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.[↗](../../plowing/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.45.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plowing/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") **plowman** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* A person who plows a field, a farmer.[↗](../../plowman/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, with the opening and harrowing of his ground?[↗](../../plowman/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.28.24, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plowman/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.[↗](../../plowman/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets AMO.9.13, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plowman/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") **plowshare** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* The blade of a plow that cuts the soil.[↗](../../plowshare/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say: 'I am strong.'[↗](../../plowshare/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JOL.4.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plowshare/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.[↗](../../plowshare/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1SA.13.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plowshare/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") **ploy** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A clever trick or plan used to get an advantage or to make someone do something.[↗](../../ploy/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The "free" toy was a ploy to get us to buy more cereal.[↗](../../ploy/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Pretending to be ill was a ploy to miss the test.[↗](../../ploy/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The team used a clever ploy to win the ball.[↗](../../ploy/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The fox's ploy was to flatter the crow.[↗](../../ploy/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Adverts use ploys to make you want things.[↗](../../ploy/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · His ploy didn't work; Mum saw through it.[↗](../../ploy/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **pluck** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To pluck something is to pull it off or out quickly, such as a flower, a fruit or a hair.[↗](../../pluck/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To pluck a bird is to pull its feathers off before cooking.[↗](../../pluck/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To pluck the strings of a guitar or harp is to pull and let go with your fingers to make a note.[↗](../../pluck/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (noun) Pluck is courage and spirit in a difficult situation.[↗](../../pluck/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* To pluck up courage is to make yourself brave enough to do something.[↗](../../pluck/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She plucked an apple from the tree.[↗](../../pluck/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He finally plucked up the courage to ask a question.[↗](../../pluck/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Pluck the strings gently on your ukulele.[↗](../../pluck/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The lifeboat crew plucked the sailors from the stormy sea.[↗](../../pluck/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The farmer plucked the chicken for dinner.[↗](../../pluck/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The little girl showed real pluck when she spoke on stage.[↗](../../pluck/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · He seemed to pluck the number out of thin air.[↗](../../pluck/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum plucks her eyebrows with tweezers.[↗](../../pluck/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Come, pluck up your courage and follow me.”[↗](../../pluck/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · When thou comest into thy neighbour's standing corn, then thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.[↗](../../pluck/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.23.25, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pluck/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food.[↗](../../pluck/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.30.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pluck/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor; (Writings JOB.24.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pluck/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Thou didst pluck up a vine out of Egypt; Thou didst drive out the nations, and didst plant it.[↗](../../pluck/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.80.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pluck/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **plucked** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Plucked means pulled off or picked with the fingers, as in plucked flowers or fruit.[↗](../../plucked/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Plucked means having had the feathers pulled out, as in a plucked chicken.[↗](../../plucked/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Plucked means played by pulling and letting go of the strings, as on a guitar or harp.[↗](../../plucked/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Plucked can mean pulled quickly out of somewhere, as in «plucked from the sea» by a rescuer.[↗](../../plucked/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* If someone plucked up courage, they made themselves brave.[↗](../../plucked/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She plucked an apple from the tree.[↗](../../plucked/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Finally, Tom plucked up the courage to ask for help.[↗](../../plucked/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The harpist plucked the strings gently.[↗](../../plucked/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The farmer plucked the chicken before cooking it.[↗](../../plucked/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A lifeboat crew plucked the fisherman from the waves.[↗](../../plucked/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He plucked a number out of thin air as a guess.[↗](../../plucked/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The guitar's plucked notes echoed round the hall.[↗](../../plucked/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · They had plucked out all their feathers.[↗](../../plucked/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And the dove came in to him at eventide; and lo in her mouth an olive-leaf freshly plucked; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.[↗](../../plucked/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.8.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plucked/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them?[↗](../../plucked/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.4.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plucked/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.[↗](../../plucked/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.29.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plucked/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the faithless shall be plucked up out of it.[↗](../../plucked/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.2.22, JPS 1917)[↗](../../plucked/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **plug** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A plug is the part on the end of an electric wire that you push into a socket to get power.[↗](../../plug/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A plug is a round piece of rubber or plastic that blocks the hole in a bath or sink.[↗](../../plug/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To plug a hole is to block it.[↗](../../plug/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To plug something in is to connect it to the electricity supply.[↗](../../plug/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Plug in the lamp, please.[↗](../../plug/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Never touch a plug with wet hands.[↗](../../plug/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Pull out the plug to empty the bath.[↗](../../plug/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Unplug the toaster before cleaning it.[↗](../../plug/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Hold the plug, not the wire, to pull it out.[↗](../../plug/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We plugged the hole in the boat with a cloth.[↗](../../plug/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Wear earplugs at the fireworks.[↗](../../plug/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The TV is not working because it's not plugged in.[↗](../../plug/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Koane!” cried she, “come and help me to plug up the hole.[↗](../../plug/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **plugged** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Plugged in means connected to an electricity socket with a plug so it can work.[↗](../../plugged/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Plugged (up) means blocked or filled so that nothing can pass through, like a plugged hole or a stuffy nose.[↗](../../plugged/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Plugged can mean a hole was filled with something to stop a leak.[↗](../../plugged/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Plugged can mean talked about to advertise, like a book plugged on TV.[↗](../../plugged/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Is the charger plugged in?[↗](../../plugged/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The kettle won't work because it isn't plugged in.[↗](../../plugged/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The sink is plugged with hair.[↗](../../plugged/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · My nose is all plugged up with a cold.[↗](../../plugged/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad plugged the leak with tape.[↗](../../plugged/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Unplug the toaster before you clean it.[↗](../../plugged/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · She plugged her headphones into the tablet.[↗](../../plugged/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The author plugged her new book on the radio.[↗](../../plugged/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **plughole** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A plughole is the hole at the bottom of a bath or sink where the water drains away.[↗](../../plughole/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The water swirled down the plughole.[↗](../../plughole/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Hair has blocked the plughole again.[↗](../../plughole/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Put the plug in the plughole before you fill the sink.[↗](../../plughole/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · My ring nearly fell down the plughole\![↗](../../plughole/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't pour cooking fat down the plughole.[↗](../../plughole/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · All our hard work went down the plughole.[↗](../../plughole/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **plum** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A plum is a small round soft fruit with a smooth purple, red or yellow skin and a stone inside.[↗](../../plum/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Plum is a dark red-purple colour.[↗](../../plum/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A plum job is a very good one.[↗](../../plum/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A plum tree is a tree that grows plums.[↗](../../plum/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I add one plum on the table.[↗](../../plum/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I eat three plums from the table.[↗](../../plum/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · There are 15 plums in a bowl.[↗](../../plum/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · This plum is sweet and juicy.[↗](../../plum/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Be careful: a plum has a hard stone inside.[↗](../../plum/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandma makes plum jam in summer.[↗](../../plum/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A dried plum is called a prune.[↗](../../plum/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · She wore a plum-coloured scarf.[↗](../../plum/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Hit's a blessin' de w'ite sow 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