--- title: P — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 73 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/73/) [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 73 [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:* A pug is a small dog with a flat, wrinkly face, a curly tail and short fur, usually pale brown with a black face, or all black.[↗](../../pug/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (old slang) «Pug» was once a short word for a boxer (from «pugilist»).[↗](../../pug/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Our neighbour's pug snores very loudly.[↗](../../pug/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The pug wagged its curly tail.[↗](../../pug/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Pugs can overheat on hot days, so walk them in the cool morning.[↗](../../pug/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He has a pug nose, short and turned up.[↗](../../pug/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Flat-faced dogs like pugs can find it hard to breathe.[↗](../../pug/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The pug wore a little coat in the snow.[↗](../../pug/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · My friend named her pug Biscuit.[↗](../../pug/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · In the meantime, there arrived from the next town a lady; she had a pug dog with her, and came, she said, to dispose of shares in her tan-yard.[↗](../../pug/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **pugilist** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A pugilist is a boxer, a person who fights with the fists for sport.[↗](../../pugilist/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The pugilist won every fight in the town.[↗](../../pugilist/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Pollux was the first of the pugilists.[↗](../../pugilist/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The young pugilist trained every morning.[↗](../../pugilist/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **puke** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (slang) To puke is to vomit, to be sick.[↗](../../puke/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (slang) Puke is vomit.[↗](../../puke/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (slang) «Makes me want to puke» means something is disgusting.[↗](../../puke/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* (slang) I puked after the roller coaster.[↗](../../puke/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · (slang) There was puke on the bus floor.[↗](../../puke/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · (slang) That smell makes me want to puke.[↗](../../puke/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · (slang) The baby puked on Dad's shirt.[↗](../../puke/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · (slang) Don't eat so fast or you'll puke.[↗](../../puke/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · (polite, UK) I was sick in the night.[↗](../../puke/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · (formal) The patient vomited twice.[↗](../../puke/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · (slang) He puked up his dinner.[↗](../../puke/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **pul** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A small coin of Afghanistan: 100 puls make one afghani; today it is hardly used.[↗](../../pul/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (Persian, Dari) The word for «money» in Persian and Dari; it is not an English word.[↗](../../pul/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Often just a misspelling or cut-off piece of «pull» or a name.[↗](../../pul/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* One afghani is worth one hundred puls.[↗](../../pul/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The old coin in the museum was an Afghan pul.[↗](../../pul/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · In Persian, «pul» means money.[↗](../../pul/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The sign said «PUL» but someone had rubbed off the last L of «PULL».[↗](../../pul/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Pul coins are so small in value that people rarely use them.[↗](../../pul/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.[↗](../../pul/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2KI.15.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pul/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **pull** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To pull is to move something toward you by holding it.[↗](../../pull/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") You pull a wagon or pull a door open.[↗](../../pull/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To pull out or pull up is to take something out: pull weeds, pull a tooth, pull a card from a pile.[↗](../../pull/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A pull is a force that draws things closer, like the pull of a magnet or of gravity.[↗](../../pull/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A vehicle pulls in, out or over when it moves to the side or stops.[↗](../../pull/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Sam pulls 12 weeds in the morning and 9 more in the afternoon.[↗](../../pull/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She pulls 3 red marbles out of the bag.[↗](../../pull/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A horse pulls a cart with 40 bags of grain.[↗](../../pull/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How many weeds did they pull in all?[↗](../../pull/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Gravity pulls the apple down to the ground.[↗](../../pull/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The magnet pulls the paper clips toward it.[↗](../../pull/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The door says «pull», not «push».[↗](../../pull/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The car pulled over to let the ambulance pass.[↗](../../pull/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Are you pulling my leg?[↗](../../pull/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The Queen pulled off her shoes.[↗](../../pull/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made me desolate.[↗](../../pull/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings LAM.3.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pull/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And I will thrust thee from thy post, and from thy station shalt thou be pulled down.[↗](../../pull/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.22.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pull/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · And also pull out some for her of purpose from the bundles, and leave it, and let her glean, and rebuke her not.'[↗](../../pull/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings RUT.2.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pull/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **pullet** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A pullet is a young hen, a female chicken that has not yet laid many eggs.[↗](../../pullet/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The farmer kept a dozen pullets in the yard.[↗](../../pullet/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We are roasting pullets today.[↗](../../pullet/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The pullet clucked at the fox.[↗](../../pullet/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **pulley** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A pulley is a simple machine made of a wheel with a groove that a rope or chain runs over, used to lift heavy things more easily.[↗](../../pulley/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We used a pulley to lift the bucket.[↗](../../pulley/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The flag goes up the pole with a pulley.[↗](../../pulley/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A crane uses pulleys to lift heavy loads.[↗](../../pulley/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · With two pulleys, you need less effort.[↗](../../pulley/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The old well had a pulley and rope.[↗](../../pulley/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We built a pulley in our science lesson.[↗](../../pulley/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The curtains open with a small pulley.[↗](../../pulley/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Off went Tom and four men besides, and when they came to the tree they began to draw it into the cart with pulleys.[↗](../../pulley/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **pullover** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A knitted top with sleeves that you pull on over your head; a jumper or sweater.[↗](../../pullover/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (rare) Anything that is pulled over something else.[↗](../../pullover/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Put on your pullover; it's cold outside.[↗](../../pullover/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My school pullover is navy blue.[↗](../../pullover/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Gran knitted me a red pullover.[↗](../../pullover/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A pullover costs £12 and a hat costs £5.[↗](../../pullover/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He took off his pullover after running.[↗](../../pullover/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · I can't find my pullover in lost property.[↗](../../pullover/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · This pullover is too itchy.[↗](../../pullover/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **pulp** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Pulp is a soft, wet, squashed mass, such as the soft inside of a fruit or vegetable.[↗](../../pulp/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Pulp is the mush of wood or old paper mixed with water that is used to make paper.[↗](../../pulp/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To pulp something is to crush it into a soft mass.[↗](../../pulp/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* The pulp of a tooth is the soft living inside, with nerves and blood.[↗](../../pulp/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* «Pulp» stories or magazines are cheap, exciting, not very serious ones.[↗](../../pulp/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I like orange juice with pulp.[↗](../../pulp/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We made new paper from paper pulp.[↗](../../pulp/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Wood is turned into pulp at the paper mill.[↗](../../pulp/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Mash the fruit into a pulp.[↗](../../pulp/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The unsold books were pulped and recycled.[↗](../../pulp/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The dentist said the pulp of the tooth was fine.[↗](../../pulp/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandpa reads old pulp adventure stories.[↗](../../pulp/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **pulpit** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (church) A pulpit is a raised, enclosed stand in a church, from which the priest or minister gives the sermon.[↗](../../pulpit/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The pulpit can mean preachers or religious teaching in general, as in «from the pulpit».[↗](../../pulpit/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The vicar climbed the steps into the pulpit.[↗](../../pulpit/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The minister preached from the pulpit every Sunday.[↗](../../pulpit/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The old pulpit was carved from dark oak.[↗](../../pulpit/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · From the pulpit, the priest asked people to help the flood victims.[↗](../../pulpit/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · On our church visit we saw the font, the altar and the pulpit.[↗](../../pulpit/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The pulpit was high so everyone could hear.[↗](../../pulpit/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Then he came down from the pulpit, and stood with his musket in front of the princess’s chest.[↗](../../pulpit/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **pulpy** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Soft, wet and squashy, like pulp (the soft inside of fruit).[↗](../../pulpy/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (of stories) Cheap, exciting and not very well written, like old «pulp» magazines.[↗](../../pulpy/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The peaches were soft and pulpy.[↗](../../pulpy/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I like pulpy orange juice.[↗](../../pulpy/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The paper turned pulpy in the rain.[↗](../../pulpy/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Mash the bananas until pulpy.[↗](../../pulpy/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The tomatoes were overripe and pulpy.[↗](../../pulpy/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He reads pulpy adventure stories.[↗](../../pulpy/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **pulsar** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A tiny, very heavy, spinning dead star (a neutron star) that sends out beams of radio waves or light, which reach Earth as very regular pulses, like a lighthouse.[↗](../../pulsar/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A pulsar spins hundreds of times a second.[↗](../../pulsar/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The pulsar's beam sweeps past Earth like a lighthouse.[↗](../../pulsar/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first pulsar.[↗](../../pulsar/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · At first scientists jokingly called the signal "little green men".[↗](../../pulsar/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Pulsars are left over after a supernova.[↗](../../pulsar/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Some pulsars keep time better than clocks on Earth.[↗](../../pulsar/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **pulsation** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A regular beat or throb, like a heartbeat.[↗](../../pulsation/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (science) A regular swelling and shrinking, such as a star that grows bigger and smaller, or a wave of pressure.[↗](../../pulsation/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* You can feel the pulsation of blood in your wrist.[↗](../../pulsation/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The pulsation of the music filled the hall.[↗](../../pulsation/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The star's pulsation makes it brighter and dimmer.[↗](../../pulsation/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The doctor felt for a pulsation in his neck.[↗](../../pulsation/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Jellyfish move by pulsation of their bells.[↗](../../pulsation/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Count the pulsations in fifteen seconds and multiply by four.[↗](../../pulsation/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **pulse** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Your pulse is the beat of your heart that you can feel on your wrist or neck.[↗](../../pulse/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A pulse is one short beat, burst of light, sound or energy.[↗](../../pulse/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Pulses are seeds you can eat, like lentils, beans and peas.[↗](../../pulse/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To pulse is to beat or throb in a steady rhythm.[↗](../../pulse/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* Calling someone my pulse is an old, loving name for a person you dearly love.[↗](../../pulse/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Her pulse is 80 beats a minute.[↗](../../pulse/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · After running, his pulse went up by 30 beats.[↗](../../pulse/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · How many times does a heart with a pulse of 70 beat in 5 minutes?[↗](../../pulse/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Count your pulse for 15 seconds and multiply by 4.[↗](../../pulse/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Put two fingers on your wrist to feel your pulse.[↗](../../pulse/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The doctor checked my pulse.[↗](../../pulse/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Lentils and chickpeas are pulses.[↗](../../pulse/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The music pulsed through the hall.[↗](../../pulse/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Her pulse raced when the lights went out.[↗](../../pulse/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · “Is this true, my pulse?” he murmured.[↗](../../pulse/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · So the steward took away their food, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them pulse.[↗](../../pulse/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings DAN.1.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pulse/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · 'Try thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.[↗](../../pulse/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings DAN.1.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pulse/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse, (Prophets 2SA.17.28, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pulse/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **pulverised** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Crushed into powder or tiny pieces: «pulverised rock», «pulverised coal».[↗](../../pulverised/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) Beaten very heavily in a game or fight: «Our team got pulverised 7–0.».[↗](../../pulverised/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Completely destroyed: «The old building was pulverised by the wrecking ball.».[↗](../../pulverised/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The miners pulverised the rock to get the gold out.[↗](../../pulverised/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We pulverised chalk to make paint powder.[↗](../../pulverised/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The pestle pulverised the spices in the bowl.[↗](../../pulverised/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Our football team got pulverised by the champions.[↗](../../pulverised/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The glacier pulverised the stones into fine sand.[↗](../../pulverised/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The old car was pulverised in the crusher.[↗](../../pulverised/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **puma** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A puma is a large wild cat of North and South America with a plain sandy-brown coat and a long tail.[↗](../../puma/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") It is also called a cougar or mountain lion.[↗](../../puma/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A puma can leap high into a tree.[↗](../../puma/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The puma stalked a deer through the forest.[↗](../../puma/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Pumas live alone except for mothers with cubs.[↗](../../puma/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Puma, cougar and mountain lion are three names for the same cat.[↗](../../puma/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Puma cubs are born with spots that fade as they grow.[↗](../../puma/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Hikers in Canada were warned about a puma nearby.[↗](../../puma/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · But the puma easily saw through these excuses, and laughed at him.[↗](../../puma/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **pumice** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Pumice is a very light, rough grey rock full of tiny holes, made when frothy lava from a volcano cools quickly; it can float on water.[↗](../../pumice/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A pumice stone is a piece of this rock used to rub away hard skin, for example on your feet.[↗](../../pumice/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.[↗](../../pumice/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Pumice forms when bubbly lava cools very quickly.[↗](../../pumice/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Nan uses a pumice stone on her heels.[↗](../../pumice/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · After the eruption, a raft of pumice floated across the Pacific.[↗](../../pumice/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We tested rocks in water, and the pumice floated.[↗](../../pumice/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Pumice is rough, light and full of holes.[↗](../../pumice/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Some toothpastes and cleaners contain powdered pumice.[↗](../../pumice/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **pump** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A pump is a machine that pushes water, air, fuel or another liquid or gas from one place to another.[↗](../../pump/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To pump is to move it with a pump: «pump up a tyre».[↗](../../pump/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Your heart is a pump that pushes blood around your body.[↗](../../pump/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Pumps are also light flat shoes (UK).[↗](../../pump/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A pump moves 30 litres a minute.[↗](../../pump/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · How long to pump 600 litres?[↗](../../pump/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He pumps up 4 tyres.[↗](../../pump/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Two pumps work together.[↗](../../pump/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Use the bike pump to put air in the tyre.[↗](../../pump/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The heart pumps blood all around the body.[↗](../../pump/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Firefighters pumped water out of the flooded cellar.[↗](../../pump/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · We were pumped for the big game.[↗](../../pump/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · ‘Rubbish!’ said his wife.[↗](../../pump/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") ‘Who can pump out the sea?’[↗](../../pump/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **pumpkin** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A pumpkin is a large, round, orange vegetable (really a fruit) with a thick skin, soft flesh and many seeds inside.[↗](../../pumpkin/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Pumpkin is also the food made from it: pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie.[↗](../../pumpkin/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* «Pumpkin» is a loving name some parents call a child.[↗](../../pumpkin/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We carved a scary face into our pumpkin.[↗](../../pumpkin/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Cinderella's fairy godmother turned a pumpkin into a coach.[↗](../../pumpkin/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum roasted pumpkin with the potatoes.[↗](../../pumpkin/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We went to a pumpkin patch to pick one.[↗](../../pumpkin/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A pumpkin has lots of seeds inside.[↗](../../pumpkin/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Ask an adult to help when you cut a pumpkin; the knife is sharp.[↗](../../pumpkin/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Goodnight, pumpkin\![↗](../../pumpkin/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · "Run into the garden, and bring me a pumpkin."[↗](../../pumpkin/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **pun** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A pun is a joke that uses a word with two meanings, or words that sound the same, to be funny.[↗](../../pun/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To pun means to make such a joke.[↗](../../pun/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I'm reading a book about anti-gravity — it's impossible to put down.[↗](../../pun/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") That's a pun\![↗](../../pun/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · «Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana» is a famous pun.[↗](../../pun/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad tells terrible puns at dinner.[↗](../../pun/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The headline used a pun on «sole» and «soul».[↗](../../pun/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Why can't a bicycle stand up?[↗](../../pun/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") Because it's two-tyred — a pun on «tired».[↗](../../pun/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We wrote our own puns in English class.[↗](../../pun/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **punch** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To hit someone or something hard with a closed fist.[↗](../../punch/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (noun) A hard hit with the fist.[↗](../../punch/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To make a hole in something with a tool (punch a ticket).[↗](../../punch/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (noun) A tool for making holes (a hole punch).[↗](../../punch/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* (noun) A sweet drink made by mixing fruit juices, sometimes with alcohol, served from a big bowl.[↗](../../punch/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 6:* To press keys or buttons (punch in a number).[↗](../../punch/#m6 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 7:* (noun) Strength or force in a speech or idea (a joke with punch).[↗](../../punch/#m7 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He punched the pillow when he was angry.[↗](../../punch/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Punching other children is never OK.[↗](../../punch/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The boxer threw a punch.[↗](../../punch/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Use the hole punch to make holes in the paper.[↗](../../punch/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The bus driver punched my ticket.[↗](../../punch/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We made fruit punch for the party.[↗](../../punch/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The recipe uses 3 litres of juice and 2 litres of lemonade, so 5 litres of punch.[↗](../../punch/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · What's the punch line of the joke?[↗](../../punch/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The two then fell into grips, and went lurching and punching about the great hall.[↗](../../punch/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/) … [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/72/) **73** [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/74/) … [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/77/) - ← previous: [page 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/72/) - next →: [page 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/74/) - ↑ back to [The English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/)