Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 128
Progenitress (n.) A female progenitor.
Progeniture (n.) A begetting, or birth.
Progeny (n.) Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.
Proglottid (n.) Proglottis.
Proglottides (n. pl. ) of Proglottis
Proglottis (n.) One of the free, or nearly free, segments of a tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence.
Prognathi (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of mankind, including those that have prognathous jaws.
Prognathic (a.) Prognathous.
Prognathism (n.) Projection of the jaws.
Prognathous (a.) Having the jaws projecting beyond the upper part of the face; -- opposed to orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.
Progne (n.) A swallow.
Progne (n.) A genus of swallows including the purple martin. See Martin.
Progne (n.) An American butterfly (Polygonia, / Vanessa, Progne). It is orange and black above, grayish beneath, with an L-shaped silver mark on the hind wings. Called also gray comma.
Prognosis (n.) The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment; as, the prognosis of hydrophobia is bad.
Prognostic (a.) Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.
Prognostic (n.) That which prognosticates; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen; hence, a foretelling; a prediction.
That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import. -- Macaulay.
Prognostic (n.) (Med.) A sign or symptom indicating the course and termination of a disease. -- Parr.
Syn: Sign; omen; presage; token; indication.
Prognostic (v. t.) To prognosticate. [Obs.]
Prognostic (a.) Of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions [syn: predictive, prognostic, prognosticative].
Prognostic (n.) A sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" [syn: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy].
Prognosticable (a.) Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. -- Sir T. Browne.
Prognosticated (imp. & p. p.) of Prognosticate.
Prognosticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prognosticate.
Prognosticate (v. t.) 預知，預言，預測 To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.
Prognosticate (v.) Make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" [syn: {predict}, {foretell}, {prognosticate}, {call}, {forebode}, {anticipate}, {promise}].
Prognosticate (v.) Indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: {bode}, {portend}, {auspicate}, {prognosticate}, {omen}, {presage}, {betoken}, {foreshadow}, {augur}, {foretell}, {prefigure}, {forecast}, {predict}].
Prognostication (n.) 預知，預言，預測 The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.
Prognostication (n.) That which foreshows; a foretoken.
Prognostication (n.) A sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" [syn: {omen}, {portent}, {presage}, {prognostic}, {prognostication}, {prodigy}].
Prognostication (n.) A statement made about the future [syn: {prediction}, {foretelling}, {forecasting}, {prognostication}].
Prognostication (n.) Knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) [syn: {prophecy}, {prognostication}, {vaticination}].
Prognosticator (n.) 預言者，占卜者 One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs.
Program (n.) Same as Programme.
Programmata (n. pl. ) of Programma.
Programma (n.) Any law, which, after it had passed the Athenian senate, was fixed on a tablet for public inspection previously to its being proposed to the general assembly of the people.
Programma (n.) An edict published for public information; an official bulletin; a public proclamation.
Programma (n.) See Programme.
Programma (n.) A preface.
Programme (n.) That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary sketch.
Programme (n.) [ C ] (UK) (US program) Programme (n.) [ C ] (Broadcast) (A2) （電視或廣播中的）節目 A broadcast on television or radio.
// It's one of those arts programmes late at night.
// It's my favourite TV programme - I never miss an episode.
Programme (n.) [ C ] (Book) 節目單 A thin book or piece of paper giving information about a play or musical or sports event, usually bought at the theatre or place where the event happens.
// I looked in the programme to find out the actor's name.
// He collected football programmes.
Programme (n.) [ C ] (Plan) (B2) 計劃，方案 A plan of activities to be done or things to be achieved.
// The school offers an exciting and varied programme of social events.
// The rail system is to put 20 million pounds into its modernization programme.
// I'm running three mornings a week - it's all part of my fitness programme.
Idiom:
Get with the programme (Informal) 接受新的思想；對現在的情況多加關注 To accept new ideas and give more attention to what is happening now.
// They've been playing the same old music for ten years now - it's time to get with the programme.
Programme (v.) [ T + obj + to infinitive ] (UK) (US program) (-mm-) 為…制定計劃；由…安排 To tell a device or system to operate in a particular way or at a particular time.
// I've programmed the heating to come on at 6.00.
Be programmed to do sth 按某種方式行事 To always do or think a particular thing, although you do not try to.
// I'm programmed to wake up at seven.
Progress (n.) [U] 前進，進步，進展 A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance.
Progress (n.) In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.
Progress (n.) In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
Progress (n.) In business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.
Progress (n.) In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.
Progress (n.) Toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of quality or condition; -- applied to individuals, communities, or the race; as, social, moral, religious, or political progress.
Progress (n.) A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions.
Progress (v. t.) To make progress in; to pass through. [Obs.]
Progressed (imp. & p. p.) of Progress.
Progressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Progress.
Progress (v. i.) 前進，進步，進展 To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing.
Progress (v. i.) To make improvement; to advance.
Progress (v. t.) To make progress in; to pass through. [Obs.]
Progress (n.) Gradual improvement or growth or development; "advancement of knowledge"; "great progress in the arts" [syn: {advancement}, {progress}].
Progress (n.) The act of moving forward (as toward a goal) [syn: {progress}, {progression}, {procession}, {advance}, {advancement}, {forward motion}, {onward motion}] [ant: {retreat}].
Progress (n.) A movement forward; "he listened for the progress of the troops" [syn: {progress}, {progression}, {advance}].
Progress (v.) Develop in a positive way; "He progressed well in school"; "My plants are coming along"; "Plans are shaping up" [syn: {progress}, {come on}, {come along}, {advance}, {get on}, {get along}, {shape up}] [ant: {regress}, {retrograde}, {retrogress}].
Progress (v.) Dove forward, also in the metaphorical sense; "Time marches on" [syn: {advance}, {progress}, {pass on}, {move on}, {march on}, {go on}] [ant: {draw back}, {move back}, {pull away}, {pull back}, {recede}, {retire}, {retreat}, {withdraw}].
Progress (v.) Form or accumulate steadily; "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"; "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border" [syn: {build up}, {work up}, {build}, {progress}].
Progression (n.) 前進，連續，級數 The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward.
Progression (n.) Course; passage; lapse or process of time.
Progression (n.) (Math.) Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic.
Progression (n.) (Mus.) A regular succession of tones or chords; the movement of the parts in harmony; the order of the modulations in a piece from key to key.
Progression (n.) A series with a definite pattern of advance [syn: {progression}, {patterned advance}].
Progression (n.) A movement forward; "he listened for the progress of the troops" [syn: {progress}, {progression}, {advance}].
Progression (n.) The act of moving forward (as toward a goal) [syn: {progress}, {progression}, {procession}, {advance}, {advancement}, {forward motion}, {onward motion}] [ant: {retreat}].
Progression (n.) [ C or U ] (C1) 進展；發展；前進 The act of changing to the next stage of development.
// Drugs can slow down the progression of the disease.
// The novel follows the progression of a woman from youth to middle age.
// She'd always worked with old people so becoming a nurse was a logical/ natural progression.
Progressional (a.) 進步的；【數】級數的；連續的 Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
Progressionist (n.) 進步論者，改革論者 One who holds to a belief in the progression of society toward perfection.
Progressionist (n.) One who maintains the doctrine of progression in organic forms; -- opposed to uniformitarian. -- H. Spencer.
Progressist (n.) 進步主義者；進步論者；進步黨黨員；改良主義者 One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.
Progressive (a.) 進步的；先進的；革新的；向前進的；發展中的 [Z]；漸次的，逐漸的；累進的 [Z] Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to {retrograde}.
Progressive (a.) Improving; as, art is in a progressive state.
Progressive (a.) (U. S. History) Of or pertaining to the Progressive party.
Progressive (a.) Favoring improvement, change, progress, or reform, especially in a political context; -- used of people. Contrasted with {conservative}.
Note: The term progressive is sometimes used to describe the views of a politician, where {liberal} might have been used at one time, in communities where the term liberal has come to connote extreme views.
Progressive (a.) Disposed toward adopting new methods in government or education, holding tolerant and liberal ideas, and generally favoring improvement in civic life; -- of towns and communities.
{Progressive euchre} or {Progressive whist}, A way of playing at card parties, by which after every game, the losers at the first table go to the last table, and the winners at all the tables, except the first, move up to the next table.
{Progressive muscular atrophy} (Med.), A nervous disorder characterized by continuous atrophy of the muscles. -- {Pro*gress"ive*ly}, adv. -- {Pro*gress"ive*ness}, n.
Progressive (a.) Favoring or promoting progress; "progressive schools" [ant: {regressive}].
Progressive (a.) Favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) [syn: {progressive}, {reformist}, {reform-minded}].
Progressive (a.) (Of taxes) Adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases [ant: {regressive}].
Progressive (a.) Gradually advancing in extent.
Progressive (a.) (Of a card game or a dance) Involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position; "progressive euchre"; "progressive tournaments".
Progressive (a.) Advancing in severity; "progressive paralysis".
Progressive (n.) [C] 進步分子；革新主義者；【美】【史】（大寫）進步黨黨員 A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going [syn: {progressive}, {progressive tense}, {imperfect}, {imperfect tense}, {continuous tense}].
Progressive (n.) A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties [syn: {liberal}, {liberalist}, {progressive}] [ant: {conservative}, {conservativist}].
Progressively (adv.) 前進地；日益增加地 Advancing in amount or intensity; "she became increasingly depressed" [syn: {increasingly}, {progressively}, {more and more}].
Progue (v. i.) To prog.
Progue (n.) A sharp point; a goad.
Progue (v. t. ) To prick; to goad.
Proheme (n.) Proem.
Prohibited (imp. & p. p.) of Prohibit.
Prohibiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prohibit.
Prohibit (v. t.) To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing.
Prohibit (v. t.) To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude.
Prohibit (v.) (B2) [ T often passive ] 禁止；阻止To officially refuse to allow something.
// Motor vehicles are prohibited from driving in the town centre.
// The government introduced a law prohibiting tobacco advertisements on TV.
// Parking is strictly prohibited between these gates.
Prohibit (v.) [ T ] 阻止；妨礙；使不可能 To prevent a particular activity by making it impossible.
// The loudness of the music prohibits serious conversation in most nightclubs.
Prohibiter (n.) One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.
Prohibition (n.) The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.
Prohibition (n.) Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
Prohibition (n.) [ C or U ] 禁止；禁令 The act of officially not allowing something, or an order that does this.
// New York City has announced a prohibition on smoking on buses.
// The environmental group is demanding a complete prohibition against the hunting of whales.
// It's my feeling that the money spent on drug prohibition would be better spent on information and education.
Prohibition (n.) [ U ] 禁酒時期（1920至1933年間美國禁止生產和銷售酒的時期） The period from 1920 to 1933 when the production and sale of alcohol was not allowed in the US.
Prohibitionist (n.) One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a protectionist.
Prohibitionist (n.) One who favors the prohibition of the sale (or of the sale and manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
Prohibitionist (n.) A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages. [syn: dry].
Prohibitive (a.) That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.
Prohibitory (a.) Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price.
Proin (v. t.) To lop; to trim; to prune; to adorn.
Proin (v. i.) To employed in pruning.
Project (n.) The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
Project (n.) That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
Project (n.) An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.
Projected (imp. & p. p.) of Project.
Projecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Project.
Project (v. t.) To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
Project (v. t.) To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.
Project (v. t.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4.
Project (v. i.) To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.
Project (v. i.) To form a project; to scheme.
Projectile (a.) [Z] [B] 拋射的，投擲的；供拋射用的 Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force.
Projectile (a.) Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion.
Projectile (n.) [C] 拋射體；發射體；射彈（如子彈、砲彈等） A body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm.
Projectile (n.) (pl.) (Mech.) A part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range, time of flight, etc., of bodies thrown or driven through the air by an impelling force.
Compare: Dynamical
Dynamical (a.) [Narrower terms: {can-do}; {driving}; {energizing, energising, kinetic}; {forceful, slashing, vigorous}; {projectile}; {propellant, propellent, propelling, propulsive}; {renascent, resurgent}; {self-propelled, self-propelling}; {high-octane, high-powered, high-power, high-voltage}]
Compare: Dynamically
Dynamically (adv.) In accordance with the principles of dynamics or moving forces. -- J. Peile.
Projectile (a.) Impelling or impelled forward; "a projectile force"; "a projectile missile".
Projectile (n.) A weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled [syn: {projectile}, {missile}].
Projectile (n.) Any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine [syn: {rocket}, {projectile}].
Projectile (n.) The final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these disputes were settled by physical contact of the disputants, with such simple arguments as the rudimentary logic of the times could supply -- the sword, the spear, and so forth. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. Its capital defect is that it requires personal attendance at the point of propulsion.
Projection (n.) 設計，規劃 [U] [C]；投擲，發射 [U]；凸出 [U] The act of throwing or shooting forward.
Projection (n.) A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.
Projection (n.) The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan. -- Davenant.
Projection (n.) (Persp.) The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each.
Projection (n.) (Geog.) Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.
{Conical projection}, A mode of representing the sphere, the spherical surface being projected upon the surface of a cone tangent to the sphere, the point of sight being at the center of the sphere.
{Cylindric projection}, A mode of representing the sphere, the spherical surface being projected upon the surface of a cylinder touching the sphere, the point of sight being at the center of the sphere.
{Globular}, {Gnomonic}, {Orthographic}, {projection},etc. See under {Globular}, {Gnomonic}, etc.
{Mercator's projection}, A mode of representing the sphere in which the meridians are drawn parallel to each other, and the parallels of latitude are straight lines whose distance from each other increases with their distance from the equator, so that at all places the degrees of latitude and longitude have to each other the same ratio as on the sphere itself.
{Oblique projection}, A projection made by parallel lines drawn from every point of a figure and meeting the plane of projection obliquely.
{Polar projection}, A projection of the sphere in which the point of sight is at the center, and the plane of projection passes through one of the polar circles.
{Powder of projection} (Alchemy.), A certain powder cast into a crucible or other vessel containing prepared metal or other matter which is to be thereby transmuted into gold.
{Projection of a point on a plane} (Descriptive Geom.), The foot of a perpendicular to the plane drawn through the point.
{Projection of a straight line of a plane}, The straight line of the plane connecting the feet of the perpendiculars let fall from the extremities of the given line.
Syn: See {Protuberance}.
Projection (n.) A prediction made by extrapolating from past observations.
Projection (n.) The projection of an image from a film onto a screen.
Projection (n.) A planned undertaking [syn: {project}, {projection}].
Projection (n.) Any structure that branches out from a central support.
Projection (n.) Any solid convex shape that juts out from something.
Projection (n.) (Psychiatry) A defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else.
Projection (n.) The acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality; "our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection"; "a prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice" [syn: {projection}, {acoustic projection}, {sound projection}].
Projection (n.) The representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction.
Projection (n.) The act of projecting out from something [syn: {protrusion}, {projection}, {jut}, {jutting}].
Projection (n.) The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting [syn: {expulsion}, {projection}, {ejection}, {forcing out}].
Projection, () In domain theory, a function, f, which is (a) idempotent, i.e. f(f(x))=f(x) and (b) whose result is no more defined than its argument. E.g. F(x)=bottom or F(x)=x.
In reduction systems, a function which returns some component of its argument. E.g. head, tail, \ (x,y) . x.
In a graph reduction system the function can just return a pointer to part of its argument and does not need to build any new graph.
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Projection (n.) (Calculation) (C1) [ C ] 預測，推測 A calculation or guess about the future based on information that you have.
// The company has failed to achieve last year's sales projections by 30 percent.
Projection (n.) (Image) (C1) [ U ] 放映；投射 The act of projecting a film or an image onto a screen or wall.
Projection (n.) (Sticking out) [ C ] 凸出物；隆起物 Something that projects from a surface or above the edge of something.
Projection (n.) (Drawing) [ C ] (Specialized) (Art,) (Architecture) 投影 A drawing that represents a solid shape or a line as seen from a particular direction.
Projectment (n.) Design; contrivance; projection.
Projector (n.) One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes.
Projecture (n.) A jutting out beyond a surface.
Projet (n.) A plan proposed; a draft of a proposed measure; a project.
Proke (v. i.) To poke; to thrust.
Prolapse (n.) The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum.
Prolapse (v. i.) To fall down or out; to protrude.
Prolapsion (n.) Prolapse.
Prolapsus (n.) Prolapse.
Prolate (a.) 扁長的；擴展的；延長的 Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to {oblate}.
{Prolate cycloid}. See the Note under {Cycloid}.
{Prolate ellipsoid} or {Prolate spheroid} (Geom.), A figure generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its major axis. Contrasted with {oblate spheroid}. See {Ellipsoid of revolution}, under {Ellipsoid}.