--- title: P — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 42 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/42/) [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 42 [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:* Behaving in a kind and respectful way, using good manners: saying please and thank you, not interrupting.[↗](../../polite/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Done or said in a respectful way: a polite request.[↗](../../polite/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* It's polite to say thank you.[↗](../../polite/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Please be polite to our visitors.[↗](../../polite/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She politely asked for another pencil.[↗](../../polite/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · It's not polite to talk with your mouth full.[↗](../../polite/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He gave a polite smile.[↗](../../polite/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A polite way to ask is «May I have some water, please?»[↗](../../polite/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Being polite makes people happy to help you.[↗](../../polite/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · You can be polite and still say no to a stranger.[↗](../../polite/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · This polite speech pleased the princess very much.[↗](../../polite/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **politely** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Politely means in a kind, respectful way that shows good manners.[↗](../../politely/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Ask politely: «May I have some water, please?»[↗](../../politely/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She politely said no thank you.[↗](../../politely/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Wait politely for your turn to speak.[↗](../../politely/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He politely held the door open.[↗](../../politely/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Say thank you politely when you get a present.[↗](../../politely/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Knock politely before you go in.[↗](../../politely/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · She politely asked the boy to stop.[↗](../../politely/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Speak politely even when you disagree.[↗](../../politely/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · “Good evening, dear mother,” said he politely.[↗](../../politely/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **politeness** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Politeness is behaving with good manners and respect for other people, for example saying please and thank you.[↗](../../politeness/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Politeness costs nothing.[↗](../../politeness/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Out of politeness, he ate the soup he didn't like.[↗](../../politeness/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The teacher praised our politeness on the trip.[↗](../../politeness/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Saying «thank you» is basic politeness.[↗](../../politeness/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She answered with great politeness.[↗](../../politeness/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Politeness helps people get along.[↗](../../politeness/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The king, and queen, and the whole court, were at tea with the princess; and he was received with great politeness.[↗](../../politeness/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **politic** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Wise and careful in what one does, so as to get on well and avoid trouble.[↗](../../politic/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Clever in a sly way, sometimes a little unfair.[↗](../../politic/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* They were a very politic race.[↗](../../politic/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · 'Oh!' said Little Klaus, 'that was just so politic of me.'[↗](../../politic/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · It was politic to say nothing until the king had spoken.[↗](../../politic/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **political** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* About government, how a country is run and the people in power.[↗](../../political/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* About political parties and elections.[↗](../../political/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* About power and arguments inside a group, like a school or a company.[↗](../../political/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The country has three main political parties.[↗](../../political/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A political map shows countries and their borders.[↗](../../political/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · They had a political argument at dinner.[↗](../../political/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The mayor gave a political speech.[↗](../../political/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Voting is a political right.[↗](../../political/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Choosing the team captain became quite political.[↗](../../political/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **politician** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A person whose job is in politics, especially someone elected to run a town, a region or a country, such as a member of parliament, a senator or a mayor.[↗](../../politician/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (sometimes negative) A person who is clever at getting what they want by managing people.[↗](../../politician/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The politician gave a speech in the town square.[↗](../../politician/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · People vote for politicians in an election.[↗](../../politician/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Our local politician visited the school.[↗](../../politician/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Politicians make laws in parliament.[↗](../../politician/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The politician promised to build a new hospital.[↗](../../politician/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She wants to be a politician when she grows up.[↗](../../politician/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · He was something of a politician, and had always taken a prominent part in the local elections, so he knew the proper Parliamentary expressions to use.[↗](../../politician/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **politics** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Politics is the activities of governments and people who run a country, including elections and making laws.[↗](../../politics/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Politics is the study of how countries are governed.[↗](../../politics/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A person's politics are their opinions about how the country should be run.[↗](../../politics/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (informal) Politics can mean arguing and plotting for power in any group: office politics, playground politics.[↗](../../politics/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My uncle is interested in politics.[↗](../../politics/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · People in politics make laws for the country.[↗](../../politics/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She wants to go into politics when she grows up.[↗](../../politics/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We don't talk about politics at dinner.[↗](../../politics/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · There's a lot of politics in our football club.[↗](../../politics/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Politics is studied at university.[↗](../../politics/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · About politics they had a good deal to say.[↗](../../politics/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **polka** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A lively, bouncy dance for couples that started in Central Europe in the 1800s, with quick hopping steps.[↗](../../polka/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The music played for this dance, usually with two beats in a bar.[↗](../../polka/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (as in «polka dots») a pattern of round dots of the same size spread evenly over cloth.[↗](../../polka/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (verb, rare) To dance a polka.[↗](../../polka/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* At the school ceilidh we learned to dance the polka.[↗](../../polka/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The band played a polka and everyone started hopping round the hall.[↗](../../polka/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A polka has two beats in each bar, so it is easy to clap along.[↗](../../polka/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · My nan's favourite dress is red with white polka dots.[↗](../../polka/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Ladybirds look like they are wearing polka dots.[↗](../../polka/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The accordion player squeezed out a jolly polka.[↗](../../polka/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · In art we printed polka dots with the ends of pencils.[↗](../../polka/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad and Gran polkaed round the kitchen at Christmas.[↗](../../polka/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · I am going to teach you to jump and bow, to dance a waltz and a polka, and even to stand on your head.”[↗](../../polka/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **poll** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A poll is a survey in which many people are asked the same question to find out what most of them think.[↗](../../poll/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The polls are an election, the time when people vote: «go to the polls».[↗](../../poll/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To poll people is to ask them questions in a survey.[↗](../../poll/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (formal) The number of votes in an election.[↗](../../poll/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* (old use) The head; a «poll tax» is a tax that every person must pay.[↗](../../poll/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We took a poll to choose the class pet.[↗](../../poll/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The poll showed that most pupils like pizza best.[↗](../../poll/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Grown-ups vote at a polling station.[↗](../../poll/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The country goes to the polls next month.[↗](../../poll/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The newspaper polled a thousand people.[↗](../../poll/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · An exit poll asks people how they voted as they leave.[↗](../../poll/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Twelve of the twenty-five children voted for a hamster in the poll.[↗](../../poll/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Its little brothers and sisters around the bed were flat-nosed imps with pointed ears, who made faces at one another, and scratched their polls.[↗](../../poll/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them — the shekel is twenty gerahs.[↗](../../poll/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.3.47, JPS 1917)[↗](../../poll/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · 'Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, by their polls; (Torah NUM.1.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../poll/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners of their hair polled; (Prophets JER.25.23, JPS 1917)[↗](../../poll/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.[↗](../../poll/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.44.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../poll/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.[↗](../../poll/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 1CH.23.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../poll/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **pollen** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Pollen is a fine yellow powder made by flowers.[↗](../../pollen/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* It must be carried from one flower to another, by insects or the wind, so the plant can make seeds.[↗](../../pollen/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Bees carry pollen from flower to flower.[↗](../../pollen/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The lily left yellow pollen on my nose.[↗](../../pollen/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A high pollen count makes my hay fever worse.[↗](../../pollen/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Wind blows pollen from grasses and trees.[↗](../../pollen/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Without pollen, plants could not make seeds.[↗](../../pollen/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The bee's legs were covered in pollen.[↗](../../pollen/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Pollen is made in the stamens of a flower.[↗](../../pollen/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · If you do this the pollen will cause your fur to grow again, and you will be quite well in a little while.”[↗](../../pollen/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **pollinate** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To carry pollen from the male part (stamen) of a flower to the female part (stigma) of the same or another flower, so seeds can form.[↗](../../pollinate/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Bees pollinate flowers while they collect nectar.[↗](../../pollinate/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The wind pollinates grasses.[↗](../../pollinate/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Without bees to pollinate them, apple trees would have few apples.[↗](../../pollinate/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Brightly coloured flowers attract insects to pollinate them.[↗](../../pollinate/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Farmers bring hives to the fields to pollinate the crops.[↗](../../pollinate/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Hummingbirds pollinate some flowers with long tubes.[↗](../../pollinate/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Pollen from one flower can pollinate another.[↗](../../pollinate/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · After a flower is pollinated, it grows seeds.[↗](../../pollinate/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **pollination** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Pollination is the moving of pollen from the male part of a flower (the anther) to the female part (the stigma), so that seeds can form.[↗](../../pollination/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Bees help with pollination.[↗](../../pollination/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Pollination happens when pollen reaches the stigma.[↗](../../pollination/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Some flowers use the wind for pollination.[↗](../../pollination/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Bright petals and sweet nectar attract insects for pollination.[↗](../../pollination/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · After pollination, the flower makes seeds.[↗](../../pollination/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Without pollination we would have fewer apples.[↗](../../pollination/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **pollinator** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A pollinator is an animal, usually an insect like a bee, butterfly or moth, that carries pollen from one flower to another so the plant can make seeds and fruit.[↗](../../pollinator/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Some birds (like hummingbirds), bats and even the wind can act as pollinators.[↗](../../pollinator/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Bees are the best-known pollinators.[↗](../../pollinator/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Hummingbirds are pollinators in the Americas.[↗](../../pollinator/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We planted lavender to attract pollinators.[↗](../../pollinator/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Without pollinators, there would be far fewer apples.[↗](../../pollinator/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Moths are night-time pollinators.[↗](../../pollinator/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Pesticides can harm pollinators.[↗](../../pollinator/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Our school made a pollinator garden by the playground.[↗](../../pollinator/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **pollock** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A sea fish of the North Atlantic, related to the cod, often eaten as fish fingers or fish and chips.[↗](../../pollock/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (a name) Pollock is a surname; Jackson Pollock was an American painter famous for dripping and splashing paint on large canvases.[↗](../../pollock/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* These fish fingers are made from pollock.[↗](../../pollock/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Pollock is a white fish like cod.[↗](../../pollock/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Fishermen caught pollock off the coast of Ireland.[↗](../../pollock/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We made splashy pictures like Jackson Pollock.[↗](../../pollock/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Pollock's paintings look messy but he planned them carefully.[↗](../../pollock/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum grilled pollock with lemon for tea.[↗](../../pollock/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **pollutant** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A substance that makes air, water or soil dirty and harmful to living things.[↗](../../pollutant/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Car exhaust contains pollutants that are bad for our lungs.[↗](../../pollutant/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Plastic is a pollutant in the oceans.[↗](../../pollutant/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The factory let pollutants into the river.[↗](../../pollutant/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Trees can trap some air pollutants.[↗](../../pollutant/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Fertiliser running off fields can be a pollutant.[↗](../../pollutant/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists measured the pollutants near the school gate.[↗](../../pollutant/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **pollute** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To pollute is to make air, water or land dirty and harmful by adding waste, smoke or chemicals.[↗](../../pollute/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Cars pollute the air with fumes.[↗](../../pollute/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Do not pollute the river with rubbish.[↗](../../pollute/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Plastic bags pollute the ocean.[↗](../../pollute/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The factory was fined for polluting the lake.[↗](../../pollute/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Polluted water can make animals ill.[↗](../../pollute/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · How can we pollute less?[↗](../../pollute/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Smoke from fires pollutes the air.[↗](../../pollute/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Ginsburg asserts that the system of vowel polluting was invented by a Rabbi Mocha in Palestine about a.d.[↗](../../pollute/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") 570, who designed it to assist his pupils.[↗](../../pollute/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../pollute/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Will not that land be greatly polluted?[↗](../../pollute/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.3.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pollute/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar.[↗](../../pollute/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets MAL.1.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pollute/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city\![↗](../../pollute/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ZEP.3.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pollute/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") **pollution** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Pollution is dirt, poison or waste in the air, water or land that harms living things.[↗](../../pollution/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The act of making things dirty and harmful.[↗](../../pollution/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Unwanted noise or light: noise pollution, light pollution.[↗](../../pollution/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Air pollution can make it hard to breathe.[↗](../../pollution/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Plastic pollution harms sea turtles.[↗](../../pollution/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Cities have more light pollution, so you see fewer stars.[↗](../../pollution/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We made posters about pollution.[↗](../../pollution/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The river was cleaned and the pollution went down.[↗](../../pollution/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Noise pollution from the airport keeps people awake.[↗](../../pollution/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Walking to school reduces pollution.[↗](../../pollution/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **polo** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Polo is a game played on horseback in which two teams use long-handled wooden mallets to hit a small ball into the other team's goal.[↗](../../polo/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Water polo is a team game played in a swimming pool, where swimmers throw a ball into a goal.[↗](../../polo/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A polo, or polo shirt, is a short-sleeved cotton shirt with a collar and a few buttons at the neck.[↗](../../polo/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A polo neck is a jumper with a high, folded collar round the neck (in the USA a turtleneck).[↗](../../polo/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The polo players galloped after the ball.[↗](../../polo/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Our school uniform is a blue polo shirt and grey trousers.[↗](../../polo/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · I joined the water polo club at the swimming pool.[↗](../../polo/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandma knitted me a woolly polo neck jumper.[↗](../../polo/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Polo was first played in ancient Persia.[↗](../../polo/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Marco Polo travelled all the way to China.[↗](../../polo/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A polo team has four riders.[↗](../../polo/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He told him that he wished him to play at polo.[↗](../../polo/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **polonium** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Polonium is a rare, extremely radioactive and poisonous chemical element, number 84, symbol Po, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie.[↗](../../polonium/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Marie Curie discovered polonium more than a hundred years ago.[↗](../../polonium/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Polonium was named after Poland.[↗](../../polonium/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Polonium is highly radioactive.[↗](../../polonium/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The symbol for polonium is Po.[↗](../../polonium/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Polonium is very rare in nature.[↗](../../polonium/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists handle polonium with great care.[↗](../../polonium/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **polygraph** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A polygraph is a machine that measures a person's breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure and sweating while they answer questions; it is often called a «lie detector».[↗](../../polygraph/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A polygraph test is the questioning done with this machine.[↗](../../polygraph/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The detective asked the suspect to take a polygraph test.[↗](../../polygraph/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A polygraph measures how fast your heart beats.[↗](../../polygraph/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He was so nervous that the polygraph showed he was lying, but he was telling the truth.[↗](../../polygraph/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists say polygraphs are not always right.[↗](../../polygraph/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In the film the spy fooled the polygraph.[↗](../../polygraph/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The polygraph has wires that go on your fingers and chest.[↗](../../polygraph/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **polymer** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (science) A polymer is a substance made of very long chain-like molecules, built from many small units (called monomers) joined together.[↗](../../polymer/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Plastics are polymers, but so are many natural things such as rubber, wool, silk, starch and the DNA in our cells.[↗](../../polymer/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Plastic is a polymer made from many small molecules joined in a chain.[↗](../../polymer/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We made slime in class, and it is a kind of polymer.[↗](../../polymer/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Rubber is a natural polymer that comes from trees.[↗](../../polymer/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Australian and British banknotes are made of polymer, not paper.[↗](../../polymer/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Silk and wool are natural polymers made by animals.[↗](../../polymer/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Some polymers take hundreds of years to break down.[↗](../../polymer/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A polymer chain is like a long string of beads.[↗](../../polymer/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/) … [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/41/) **42** [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/43/) … [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/77/) - ← 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