--- title: P — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 49 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/49/) [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 49 [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/) · [E](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/E/) · [F](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/) · [G](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/) · [H](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/) · [I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/I/) · [J](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/J/) · [K](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/K/) · [L](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/L/) · [M](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/) · [N](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/N/) · [O](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/O/) · [P](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/) · [Q](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Q/) · [R](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/R/) · [S](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/) · [T](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/T/) · [U](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/U/) · [V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/V/) · [W](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/) · [X](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/X/) · [Y](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Y/) · [Z](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Z/) [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/) … [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/48/) **49** [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/50/) … [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/77/) **poultry** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Birds kept on farms for their meat or eggs, such as chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys.[↗](../../poultry/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The meat from these birds.[↗](../../poultry/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The farmer keeps poultry and sheep.[↗](../../poultry/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Chickens, ducks and turkeys are all poultry.[↗](../../poultry/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Wash your hands after touching raw poultry.[↗](../../poultry/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The shop sells meat, poultry and fish.[↗](../../poultry/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Free-range poultry can walk outside.[↗](../../poultry/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Bird flu can spread among poultry.[↗](../../poultry/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A MAN had two Gamecocks in his poultry-yard.[↗](../../poultry/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **pounce** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To jump suddenly onto something to catch it, like a cat catching a mouse.[↗](../../pounce/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To quickly attack or criticise a mistake or chance: «She pounced on the chance to go».[↗](../../pounce/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (noun) A sudden jump to catch something.[↗](../../pounce/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The cat pounced on the toy mouse.[↗](../../pounce/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The lion crouched, ready to pounce.[↗](../../pounce/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The fox pounced on a vole in the snow.[↗](../../pounce/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She pounced on the chance to be in the play.[↗](../../pounce/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The teacher pounced on my spelling mistake.[↗](../../pounce/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · With one pounce, the kitten caught the ribbon.[↗](../../pounce/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · In a jiffy he pounced upon it.[↗](../../pounce/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **pound** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A pound is a unit of weight; a loaf of bread weighs about one pound.[↗](../../pound/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") A pound is 16 ounces.[↗](../../pound/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A pound (£) is the money of the United Kingdom; a pound has 100 pence.[↗](../../pound/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To pound is to hit hard again and again.[↗](../../pound/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A pound is a place where lost dogs or towed cars are kept.[↗](../../pound/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The strawberries weighed 35 pounds.[↗](../../pound/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A bag of flour weighs 5 pounds.[↗](../../pound/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Apples cost 2 dollars per pound.[↗](../../pound/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How many pounds did they pick?[↗](../../pound/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The comic cost 3 pounds in the shop in London.[↗](../../pound/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My heart was pounding before the race.[↗](../../pound/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · He pounded on the door.[↗](../../pound/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The baby weighed 7 pounds when she was born.[↗](../../pound/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · They got a puppy from the dog pound.[↗](../../pound/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · A pound is a little less than half a kilogram.[↗](../../pound/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Please give us the thousand pounds reward."[↗](../../pound/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and threescore and seven priests' tunics.[↗](../../pound/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings NEH.7.72, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pound/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · they gave after their ability into the treasury of the work threescore and one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand pounds of silver, and one hundred priests' tunics.[↗](../../pound/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings EZR.2.69, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pound/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.[↗](../../pound/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings NEH.7.71, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pound/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **pour** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To pour is to make a liquid flow out of a container, like pouring water into a glass.[↗](../../pour/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Rain pours when it rains very hard: «It's pouring».[↗](../../pour/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To pour (in, out) can mean lots of people or things move fast: crowds poured out of the stadium.[↗](../../pour/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She pours 200 ml of milk into a glass.[↗](../../pour/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He poured 2 liters out of the jug.[↗](../../pour/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Pour equal amounts into 4 cups.[↗](../../pour/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How much water is left after she pours 3 cups?[↗](../../pour/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · It's pouring outside, so take your raincoat.[↗](../../pour/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Pour the batter into the cake tin.[↗](../../pour/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Fans poured into the stadium.[↗](../../pour/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Ask an adult to pour hot water.[↗](../../pour/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Into another similar bottle she poured some good wine.[↗](../../pour/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Thou shalt break it in pieces, and pour oil thereon; it is a meal-offering.[↗](../../pour/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.2.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pour/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.[↗](../../pour/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.12.24, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pour/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.[↗](../../pour/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.29.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pour/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · So they poured out for the men to eat.[↗](../../pour/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2KI.4.40, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pour/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven, (Writings JOB.38.37, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pour/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · Mine eye is poured out, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, (Writings LAM.3.49, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pour/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **pout** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To pout is to push out the lips and look cross or sulky, often when you do not get your own way.[↗](../../pout/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A pout is such a face.[↗](../../pout/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* «They always say the same thing,» her sister pouted.[↗](../../pout/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · «No, no!» pouted the boy.[↗](../../pout/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The baby gave a little pout and turned away.[↗](../../pout/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **poverty** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Being very poor; not having enough money for food, clothes or a home.[↗](../../poverty/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (formal) A lack of something: poverty of ideas.[↗](../../poverty/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Many families lived in poverty in Victorian times.[↗](../../poverty/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Charities help people in poverty.[↗](../../poverty/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Poverty means not having enough to eat.[↗](../../poverty/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Our school collected food to fight poverty.[↗](../../poverty/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He grew up in poverty but became a doctor.[↗](../../poverty/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Ending poverty is a world goal.[↗](../../poverty/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · It was indeed poverty arrayed in rags.[↗](../../poverty/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · and there will I sustain thee; for there are yet five years of famine; lest thou come to poverty, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast.[↗](../../poverty/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.45.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../poverty/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The antithesis of wisdom is foolishness; of wealth, poverty; of fruitfulness, childlessness; of life, death; of dominion, dependence; of peace, war; and of beauty, ugliness.[↗](../../poverty/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../poverty/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · They are called Double, because each letter presents a contrast or permutation; thus Life and Death; Peace and War (Evil); Wisdom and Folly; Riches and Poverty; Grace and Indignation; Fertility and Solitude (Desolation); Power and Servitude.[↗](../../poverty/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../poverty/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.[↗](../../poverty/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.31.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../poverty/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · So shall thy poverty come as a runner, and thy want as an armed man.[↗](../../poverty/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.6.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../poverty/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · The rich man's wealth is his strong city; the ruin of the poor is their poverty.[↗](../../poverty/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.10.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../poverty/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **pow** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A word for the sound of a punch, a bang or a small explosion, used in comics and cartoons: «Pow\![↗](../../pow/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") Biff\![↗](../../pow/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") Bang!».[↗](../../pow/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (POW, abbreviation) A prisoner of war: a soldier captured and held by the enemy during a war.[↗](../../pow/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (informal) A word to show something sudden and exciting happened: «And then, pow, the lights went out.».[↗](../../pow/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* In the comic, the hero's fist went «Pow!»[↗](../../pow/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Write some sound words like «pow», «crash» and «boom».[↗](../../pow/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My great-grandad was a POW in the Second World War.[↗](../../pow/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The POWs were sent home when the war ended.[↗](../../pow/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We were walking along and, pow, it started pouring with rain.[↗](../../pow/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The fireworks went pow, pow, pow over the river.[↗](../../pow/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Den he draw back en come down on de tree--pow\![↗](../../pow/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **powder** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A dry substance made of very tiny pieces, like flour, dust or crushed chalk.[↗](../../powder/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A special powder used for a job: «washing powder», «baby powder», «talcum powder».[↗](../../powder/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (verb) To put powder on something.[↗](../../powder/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Fresh, light, dry snow (skiers' word).[↗](../../powder/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* Gunpowder (old use).[↗](../../powder/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Grind the chalk into a fine powder.[↗](../../powder/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum added baking powder to the cake mix.[↗](../../powder/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Washing powder is poisonous; don't touch it.[↗](../../powder/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Sugar powder dissolves faster than sugar cubes.[↗](../../powder/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Fresh powder is great for skiing.[↗](../../powder/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The baby smelled of baby powder.[↗](../../powder/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Never taste a powder you don't know.[↗](../../powder/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Abandoning the fight he rushed into the powder magazine and fired it.[↗](../../powder/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The LORD will make the rain of thy land powder and dust; from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.[↗](../../powder/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.28.24, JPS 1917)[↗](../../powder/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.[↗](../../powder/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.32.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../powder/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Who is this that cometh up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?[↗](../../powder/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings SNG.3.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../powder/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And he broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.[↗](../../powder/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 2CH.34.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../powder/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **powdery** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Like powder: fine, dry and soft.[↗](../../powdery/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Covered with powder.[↗](../../powdery/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The snow was soft and powdery.[↗](../../powdery/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Flour is a powdery solid.[↗](../../powdery/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The moth's wings were powdery.[↗](../../powdery/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Chalk leaves a powdery mark.[↗](../../powdery/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The powdery sand blew in the wind.[↗](../../powdery/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Skiers love powdery snow.[↗](../../powdery/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **power** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Power is the ability or strength to do something or to make things happen.[↗](../../power/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Power is control over people or things, like the power of a king.[↗](../../power/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Power is energy, especially electricity, used to run machines.[↗](../../power/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To power something means to give it energy so it works.[↗](../../power/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* In maths, a power is how many times a number is multiplied by itself, like 2 to the power of 3.[↗](../../power/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* There was a power cut, so we used candles.[↗](../../power/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The car is powered by electricity.[↗](../../power/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Solar power comes from the Sun.[↗](../../power/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Stay away from fallen power lines.[↗](../../power/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Her superpower is being invisible.[↗](../../power/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · 10 to the power of 2 is 100.[↗](../../power/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The king had great power over the land.[↗](../../power/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · I will do everything in my power to help.[↗](../../power/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · In our time water has wonderful powers.[↗](../../power/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.[↗](../../power/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.31.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../power/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Thy right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, Thy right hand, O LORD, dasheth in pieces the enemy.[↗](../../power/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.15.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../power/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And now, I pray Thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as Thou hast spoken, saying: (Torah NUM.14.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../power/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Or have I no power to deliver?[↗](../../power/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.50.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../power/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · Would He contend with me in His great power?[↗](../../power/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.23.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../power/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · How hast thou helped him that is without power\![↗](../../power/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.26.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../power/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **powerful** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Very strong; having a lot of strength or force.[↗](../../powerful/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Having great control or influence over people: a powerful king.[↗](../../powerful/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Having a strong effect: a powerful medicine, a powerful speech.[↗](../../powerful/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (of machines) Able to do a lot of work: a powerful engine.[↗](../../powerful/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The lion has powerful jaws.[↗](../../powerful/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The king was the most powerful man in the land.[↗](../../powerful/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · That was a powerful speech; some people cried.[↗](../../powerful/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A powerful storm knocked down trees.[↗](../../powerful/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · This magnet is more powerful than that one.[↗](../../powerful/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The wizard cast a powerful spell.[↗](../../powerful/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · "That was a powerful speech," thought the little Toad.[↗](../../powerful/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.[↗](../../powerful/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.29.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../powerful/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **powerless** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Without the power or strength to do something.[↗](../../powerless/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Unable to help or act.[↗](../../powerless/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The people felt powerless against the king.[↗](../../powerless/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The radio was powerless without batteries.[↗](../../powerless/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He was powerless to stop the flood.[↗](../../powerless/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Toad was powerless in the dungeon.[↗](../../powerless/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She felt powerless to help.[↗](../../powerless/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Without votes, women were powerless.[↗](../../powerless/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · I am powerless to save them.[↗](../../powerless/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **powhatan** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (a name) Powhatan was the leader of a large group of Algonquian-speaking Native American tribes in what is now Virginia, USA, around 1600; he was the father of Pocahontas.[↗](../../powhatan/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (a name) The Powhatan are the Native American people of that union of tribes, and their language.[↗](../../powhatan/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (a name) A county and some places in Virginia are named Powhatan.[↗](../../powhatan/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Powhatan led many tribes in the land the English called Virginia.[↗](../../powhatan/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan.[↗](../../powhatan/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The Powhatan people grew corn, beans and squash.[↗](../../powhatan/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · English settlers at Jamestown traded with the Powhatan.[↗](../../powhatan/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Today Powhatan descendants still live in Virginia.[↗](../../powhatan/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Our history book has a map of the Powhatan lands.[↗](../../powhatan/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **practicable** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal) Able to be done or put into practice successfully; possible in real life.[↗](../../practicable/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Building a bridge here is not practicable.[↗](../../practicable/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Please reply as soon as practicable.[↗](../../practicable/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Is it practicable to walk to school every day?[↗](../../practicable/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The plan was clever but not practicable.[↗](../../practicable/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Fire exits must be kept clear wherever practicable.[↗](../../practicable/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The engineer looked for a practicable route over the mountain.[↗](../../practicable/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **practical** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Practical means to do with doing real things rather than only ideas or theory.[↗](../../practical/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A practical person is good at dealing with real problems and making things work.[↗](../../practical/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A practical object or plan is useful and sensible.[↗](../../practical/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A practical is a lesson or exam where you do experiments or real tasks.[↗](../../practical/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We did a practical experiment with magnets.[↗](../../practical/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Wear practical shoes for the hike.[↗](../../practical/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandma is very practical; she can fix anything.[↗](../../practical/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · It isn't practical to walk ten miles to school.[↗](../../practical/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Our science practical is on Thursday.[↗](../../practical/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Learning to cook is a practical skill.[↗](../../practical/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · He played a practical joke on his sister.[↗](../../practical/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He was quite a practical boy.[↗](../../practical/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **practically** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Almost, nearly: «The jar is practically empty.».[↗](../../practically/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In a sensible, useful, real-life way: «Think practically about what to pack.».[↗](../../practically/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In practice, as things really are, not in theory.[↗](../../practically/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The bus was practically empty.[↗](../../practically/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I've practically finished my homework.[↗](../../practically/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Practically everyone in the class has a pet.[↗](../../practically/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Practically speaking, we can't fit ten people in the car.[↗](../../practically/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She is very practically minded and can fix anything.[↗](../../practically/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · It cost practically nothing at the car-boot sale.[↗](../../practically/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · We were practically running to get to school on time.[↗](../../practically/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · It is practically impossible to use the long tabulations for comparative purposes without some such shorthand.[↗](../../practically/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **practice** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Practice is doing something again and again to get better at it, like playing the piano every day.[↗](../../practice/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A practice is a meeting where a team trains, like football practice.[↗](../../practice/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A practice is also the way something is usually done, a habit: it is good practice to wash your hands.[↗](../../practice/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A doctor's or dentist's practice is the place where they work.[↗](../../practice/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* Practice can also be a verb, meaning to carry on an activity regularly, as a habit or skill.[↗](../../practice/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She does 20 minutes of piano practice each day.[↗](../../practice/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Football practice is 2 hours long.[↗](../../practice/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · How many minutes of practice in 5 days?[↗](../../practice/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He went to 3 practices this week.[↗](../../practice/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Practice makes perfect.[↗](../../practice/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We did some spelling practice before the test.[↗](../../practice/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · I am out of practice, so I play slowly now.[↗](../../practice/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · It is good practice to check your answer.[↗](../../practice/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The dentist's practice is next to the library.[↗](../../practice/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · But vainly they practice their cruel arts, For nought can sever our two fond hearts.’[↗](../../practice/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · "') As an early Arabian mathematiciaa Mohammed ben Musa Alkhowa- rezini said that the lodians practiced the so-called Arabian system of notation (M. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../practice/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/) … [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/48/) **49** [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/50/) … [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/77/) - ← previous: [page 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/48/) - next →: [page 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/50/) - ↑ back to [The English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/)