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- platy-English-2-Noun-1en hasExample "I had a mixed community aquarium with several tetras, two mollies, some corydoras catfish, and a platy from a previous tank.".
- plausibility-English-Noun-3en hasExample "Integrity, fidelity, and other gracious plausibilities. 230686 E. Vaughan.".
- plausibly-English-Adverb-1en hasExample "She lied plausibly, but the police suspected her anyway.".
- plausibly-English-Adverb-2en hasExample "Plausibly, she said she'd been working at the time.".
- plaw-English-Noun-1en hasExample "give meat a plaw".
- play_around-English-Verb-1en hasExample "Stop playing around, and get on with your homework.".
- play_around-English-Verb-2en hasExample "You could build even more interesting components called amplifiers and begin playing around with amplifiers.".
- play_at-English-Verb-1en hasExample "So we played at being pirates for a while.".
- play_at-English-Verb-2en hasExample "In my opinion, John only plays at being an author. He hasn't sold more than two magazine articles in as many months.".
- play_ball-English-Verb-2en hasExample "The politicians refused to play ball with the journalists".
- play_by_ear-English-Verb-2en hasExample "If they ask for something we didn't prepare, we will have to play it by ear.".
- play_fast_and_loose-English-Verb-1en hasExample "I cannot say that the there were any outright lies in the editorial, but it does play fast and loose with the truth.".
- play_hardball-English-Verb-1en hasExample "He was more than willing to extend the terms of the loan, but his boss decided to play hardball and demanded a balloon payment.".
- play_hardball-English-Verb-2en hasExample "So you wanna play hardball?".
- play_hooky-English-Verb-1en hasExample "Plenty of people played hooky from work to go see the movie on opening day.".
- play_house-English-Verb-1en hasExample "Little girls seem to enjoy playing house more than little boys.".
- play_it_safe-English-Verb-1en hasExample "Deciding to play it safe, he joined his father's accounting firm rather than pursue an acting career.".
- play_ones_cards_right-English-Verb-1en hasExample "If you play your cards right, you'll get the promotion you've been waiting for.".
- play_out-English-Verb-2en hasExample "And now, to play us out, please welcome...Tom Waits.".
- play_possum-English-Verb-2en hasExample "When we used to get home late at night, I would play possum so my daddy would carry me inside and put me in bed.".
- play_second_fiddle-English-Verb-1en hasExample "I think the VP got tired of playing second fiddle to the president, so if she's not promoted soon, she might leave.".
- play_someone_like_a_fiddle-English-Verb-1en hasExample "He played you like a fiddle.".
- play_the_field-English-Verb-1en hasExample "He says I'm the only one, but my friends say he's playing the field.".
- play_up-English-Verb-1en hasExample "Children who do not receive enough attention may begin to play up.".
- play_up-English-Verb-2en hasExample "For the audition, Nicole will play up her skill as a pianist by playing Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach.".
- play_with_fire-English-Verb-1en hasExample "I'm telling you, if you sign that paper, you're playing with fire.".
- playability-English-Noun-2en hasExample "Mutant Chickens from Mars has great graphics, but the playability is lacking.".
- playback-French-Adverb-1en hasExample "Elle a chanté sa dernière chanson en playback.".
- playdate-English-Noun-2en hasExample "The poodles have regular playdates on weekday mornings.".
- playfeer-English-Noun-1en hasExample "Where she was wont to call him her dear son, Her little playfeer, and her pretty bun. ― Drayton.".
- playful-English-Adjective-1en hasExample "Actually, we are pretty playful in our romantic life.".
- playful-English-Adjective-3en hasExample "A brainteaser is a playful puzzle posed as a test of intelligence.".
- playful-English-Adjective-4en hasExample "He was a rather playful artist.".
- playground-English-Noun-3en hasExample "The city park playgrounds offer various slides, tubes and swings.".
- playground-English-Noun-4en hasExample "The exclusive tropical island was a millionaire's playground.".
- playlist-English-Verb-1en hasExample "She achieved success when her first single was playlisted on national radio.".
- plaziti-SerboCroatian-Verb-3en hasExample "plaziti jezik nekome — to stick one's tongue at somebody".
- plea-English-Noun-1en hasExample "a plea for mercy".
- plea-English-Noun-7en hasExample "The Supreme Judicial Court shall have cognizance of pleas real, personal, and mixed. --Laws of Massachusetts.".
- plead-English-Verb-1en hasExample "The defendant has decided to plead not guilty.".
- pleasance-English-Noun-1en hasExample "The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses. 319044 Ruskin.".
- pleasure-English-Noun-3en hasExample "What is your pleasure, coffee or tea?".
- pleasure-English-Verb-1en hasExample "Johnny pleasured Jackie orally last night.".
- plebeian-English-Adjective-2en hasExample "They were all from the ghetto, a plebeian throng.".
- pleca-Romanian-Verb-1en hasExample "Când pleci la mare?".
- plecs-Latvian-Noun-2en hasExample "jaka ar pagarinātiem pleciem — a jacket with extended shoulders".
- plecs-Latvian-Noun-3en hasExample "sviras labais, kreisais plecs — a lever's right, left arm (lit. shoulder)".
- plein-Dutch-Noun-1en hasExample "Het plein van ons dorp werd onlangs heraangelegd met nieuwe bloemenperken.".
- plein-French-Adjective-2en hasExample "il y a plein de choses à faire - there are plenty of things to do".
- pleisant-AngloNorman-Adjective-1en hasExample "jeo crei que (Seint Richard) pleisant vous seit".
- plejeble-Esperanto-Adverb-1en hasExample "plejeble multe 627826 as many as possible".
- plena-Esperanto-Adjective-1en hasExample "Ĉi tiu domo estas plena de miaj infanaĝaj memoroj.".
- plenary-English-Noun-1en hasExample "After lunch, we will all be in the main auditorium listening to the plenary.".
- plenary_session-English-Noun-1en hasExample "The conference consists of five regular sessions spread across multiple rooms and two plenary sessions in the main auditorium.".
- plenipotentiary-English-Noun-1en hasExample "1985: Two of them are hanging up there on Golgotha, and that ought to be enough to show the authority of Rome’s ah plenipotentiary. — Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked".
- plenteous-English-Adjective-1en hasExample "His farm, though small, nevertheless allowed him a plenteous supply of healthy food.".
- plentifully-English-Adverb-1en hasExample "O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer. - Psalm 31".
- plentitude-English-Noun-1en hasExample "Of quotations in the OED there are indeed a plentitude.".
- plenty-English-Adverb-1en hasExample "This office is plenty big enough for our needs.".
- plenty-English-Noun-1en hasExample "We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.".
- pleonasm-English-Noun-2en hasExample "\"The two of them are both the same\" is a pleonasm (as the word \"both\" is redundant), as is \"killed dead\".".
- pleopod-English-Noun-1en hasExample "In decapods such as lobsters, pleopods are legs mainly used for swimming but sometimes used for brooding eggs or catching food. In some species certain pleopods of an animal may have been adapted to special functions such as reproduction.".
- plesant-AngloNorman-Adjective-1en hasExample "jeo n'ai garde, Sire, qe ceo coer ne serroit mult plesant a vous.".
- plesiochronous-English-Adjective-1en hasExample "The DS-3 standard uses bit stuffing to allow the clocks of its tributaries to be plesiochronous.".
- plethora-English-Noun-1en hasExample "The menu offers a plethora of cuisines from around the world.".
- pliable-English-Adjective-1en hasExample "You will find the clay perfectly pliable as long as it stays fairly moist.".
- pliant-French-Adjective-1en hasExample "Sa mère a acheté un vélo pliant. - His mother bought a folding bicycle.".
- pliantly-English-Adverb-1en hasExample "She was tall and pliantly slender, without angularity anywhere. — Dashiell Hammett, \"The Maltese Falcon\"".
- pliers-English-Noun-1en hasExample "I need a pair of pliers to get a good grip on that broken screw.".
- plieti\u011Di-Esperanto-Verb-1en hasExample "Dum tempo la balono plietiĝas.".
- plighter-English-Noun-1en hasExample "This kingly seal And plighter of high hearts! ― Shakespeare.".
- plim-Translingual-Symbol-1en hasExample "For a sequence {X} of random variables 247573 is the same as 247574 247575".
- plin-Romanian-Adjective-1en hasExample "Un pahar plin de lapte".
- plnit-Czech-Verb-2en hasExample "Své sliby vždy plní.—He always fulfills his promises.".
- plocka-Swedish-Verb-1en hasExample "plocka blommor".
- plomb-French-Noun-1en hasExample "intoxication saturnine par le plomb.".
- plombagine-French-Noun-1en hasExample "−La mine de crayons, de quoi est-elle faite ?−Avec de la plombagine, une pierre tendre qu'on scie en baguettes et qu'on enferme dans deux moitiés de cylindre de bois. (Colette, Cl. école, 1900)".
- ploop-English-Interjection-1en hasExample "The pebbles went ploop and sunk to the bottom of the pond.".
- ploop-English-Noun-1en hasExample "I heard a ploop, but I couldn't tell where it came from.".
- plop-English-Noun-1en hasExample "He heard the plops of rain on the roof.".
- plop-English-Noun-3en hasExample "No, you plop, I've only got £1.30.".
- plop-Romanian-Noun-1en hasExample "Pe lângă plopii fără soț, adesea am trecut.".
- plot-English-Verb-1en hasExample "They had plotted a robbery.".
- plot-English-Verb-2en hasExample "They plotted the number of edits per day.".
- plot-English-Verb-3en hasExample "Every five minutes they plotted their position.".
- plot-English-Verb-4en hasExample "They were plotting against the king.".
- plouc-French-Noun-1en hasExample "Il n'est jamais allé à une ville ; c'est un vrai plouc. - He's never been to the city; he's a real hick.".
- plough-English-Noun-1en hasExample "The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.".
- plough-English-Verb-1en hasExample "I've still got to plough that field.".
- plough-English-Verb-2en hasExample "Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.".
- plough_back-English-Verb-1en hasExample "The dividends were small last year because we ploughed back most of the money to buy new machinery".
- plough_into-English-Verb-1en hasExample "The lorry ploughed into the line of stationary cars.".
- plough_on-English-Verb-1en hasExample "We could stop for a coffee, or plough on to the hotel.".
- plough_through-English-Verb-2en hasExample "I managed to plough through the crowds and get to the information desk.".
- plow_back-English-Verb-1en hasExample "The dividends were small last year because we plowed back most of the money to buy new machinery".
- plow_into-English-Verb-1en hasExample "The lorry plowed into the line of stationary cars.".
- plow_on-English-Verb-1en hasExample "If you want to get good grades in the exam, you have to plow on with the book.".
- plow_through-English-Verb-2en hasExample "I managed to plow through the crowds and get to the information desk.".
- plowman-English-Noun-1en hasExample "A cereal breeder's farmhands must be good plowmen.".
- plowshare-English-Noun-1en hasExample "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (Isaiah 2:4, KJV)".