Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 129
Prolate (v. t.) To utter; to pronounce. [Obs.] "Foun-der-ed; prolate it right." -- B. Jonson.
Prolate (a.) Having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter; "a prolate spheroid is generated by revolving an ellipse about its major axis" [syn: {prolate}, {watermelon-shaped}] [ant: {oblate}, {pumpkin-shaped}].
Prolate (a.) Rounded like an egg [syn: {egg-shaped}, {elliptic}, {elliptical}, {oval}, {oval-shaped}, {ovate}, {oviform}, {ovoid}, {prolate}].
Prolation (n.) The act of prolating or pronouncing; utterance; pronunciation. [Obs.] -- Ray.
Prolation (n.) The act of deferring; delay. [Obs.] -- Ainsworth.
Prolation (n.) (Mus.) A medi[ae]val method of determining of the proportionate duration of semibreves and minims. -- Busby.
Prolata (n. pl. ) of Prolatum.
Prolatum (n.) (Geom.) A prolate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.
Proleg (n.) (Zool.) One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of the larvae of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. Those of Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also proped, propleg, and falseleg.
Prolegate (n.) (Rom. Hist.) The deputy or substitute for a legate.
Prolegomenary (a.) Of the nature of a prolegomenon; preliminary; introductory; prefatory.
Prolegomena (n. pl. ) of Prolegomenon.
Prolegomenon (n.) A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise. -- D. Stokes (1659). Sir W. Scott.
Prolegomenon (n.) A preliminary discussion inserted at the beginning of a book or treatise.
Prolepsis (n.) (Rhet.) 預期，預料，預辯法 A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented. -- Abp. Bramhall.
Prolepsis (n.) (Rhet.) A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
Prolepsis (n.) (Chron.) An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
Prolepsis (n.) (Gram.) The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb. Proleptic
Prolepsis (n.) Anticipating and answering objections in advance.
Proleptic (a.) Alt. of Proleptical.
Proleptical (a.) 預期的，預料的，預辯法的 Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative. "A far-seeing or proleptic wisdom." -- De Quincey.
Proleptical (a.) Previous; antecedent. -- Glanvill.
Proleptical (a.) (Med.) Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.
Proleptically (adv.) In a proleptical manner.
Proleptics (n.) (Med.) The art and science of predicting in medicine. -- Laycock.
Proletaire (n.) One of the common people; a low person; also, the common people as a class or estate in a country.
Proletaneous (a.) Having a numerous offspring. [R.]
Proletarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar. "Every citizen, if he were not a proletarian animal kept at the public cost." -- De Quincey.
Proletarian (n.) A proletary.
Proletarian (a.) Belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat.
Proletarian (n.) A member of the working class (not necessarily employed); "workers of the world--unite!" [syn: proletarian, prole, worker].
Proletariat (n.) [F.] 無產階級 The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.
Proletariat (n.) A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" [syn: {labor}, {labour}, {working class}, {proletariat}].
The proletariat (n.) [ S, + sing/ pl. verb ] 工人階級；無產階級 The class of people who do unskilled jobs in industry and own little or no property.
Proletariate (n.) 無產階級 The lower classes; beggars.
Proletaries (n. pl. ) of Proletary.
Proletary (n.) 最下級的公民；無產者 A citizen of the lowest class, who served the state, not with property, but only by having children; hence, a common person.
Prolicide (n.) 殺害自己的嬰兒；殺嬰罪；墮胎罪 The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth.
Pro-life (a.) 反墮胎的；主張保護胎兒權利的 Same as antiabortion; -- used by those opposed to voluntary abortion, to emphasize their view of a fetus as already living, and to avoid the negative tone of a word beginning with "anti-."
Proliferate (v. t.) (Biol.) (v. i. & v. t.)【生】（使）增殖；（使）激增；（使）擴散 To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.
Proliferate (v. t.) (Zool.) To produce zooids by budding.
Proliferate (v.) Grow rapidly; "Pizza parlors proliferate in this area."
Proliferate (v.) Cause to grow or increase rapidly; "We must not proliferate nuclear arms."
Proliferation (n.) (Biol.) 【生】增殖；激增；擴散 The continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation. -- Virchow.
Proliferation (n.) (Zool.) The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession.
Proliferation (n.) Growth by the rapid multiplication of parts.
Proliferation (n.) A rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons); "the proliferation of nuclear weapons" [ant: {non-proliferation}, {nonproliferation}].
Proliferous (a.) (Bot.) 【生】增殖性的；增生的；【植】層出的 Bearing offspring; -- applied to a flower from within which another is produced, or to a branch or frond from which another rises, or to a plant which is reproduced by buds or gemmae.
Proliferous (a.) (Zool.) Producing young by budding.
Proliferous (a.) (Zool.) Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid.
Proliferous (a.) (Zool.) Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; -- said of corals.
Proliferous cyst (Med.), A cyst that produces highly-organized or even vascular structures. -- Paget. -- Pro*lif"er*ous*ly, adv.
Prolific (a.) 多產的，多育的；富於創造力的；豐富的，富饒的；富於……的 [（+of/ in）] Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.
Prolific (a.) Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.
Prolific (a.) (Bot.) Proliferous.
Prolific (a.) Intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination" [syn: fecund, fertile, prolific].
Prolific (a.) Bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree" [syn: prolific, fertile].
Prolificacy (n.) Prolificness. [R.]
Prolificacy (n.) The property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovely in their rankness" [syn: richness, rankness, prolificacy, fertility].
Prolifical (a.) Producing young or fruit abundantly; fruitful; prolific. -- Pro*lif"ic*al*ly, adv.
Prolificate (v. t.) To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate. -- Sir T. Browne.
Prolification (n.) The generation of young.
Prolification (n.) (Bot.) Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmae.
Prolificness (n.) The quality or state of being prolific; fruitfulness; prolificacy.
Prolix (a.) 冗長的，說話囉嗦的 Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with reference to discourse written or spoken; as, a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon.
With wig prolix, down flowing to his waist. -- Cowper.
Prolix (a.) Indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; -- applied to a speaker or writer.
Syn: Long; diffuse; prolonged; protracted; tedious; tiresome; wearisome.
Usage: Prolix, Diffuse. A prolix writer delights in circumlocution, extended detail, and trifling particulars. A diffuse writer is fond of amplifying, and abounds in epithets, figures, and illustrations. Diffuseness often arises from an exuberance of imagination; prolixity is generally connected with a want of it.
Prolix (a.) Tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length; "editing a prolix manuscript"; "a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know" [ant: {concise}].
Prolixious (a.) Dilatory; tedious; superfluous. [Obs.] "Lay by all nicety, and prolixious blushes." -- Shak.
Prolixity (n.) 冗長；囉嗦 The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings. "For fulsomeness of his prolixitee." -- Chaucer.
Idly running on with vain prolixity. -- Drayton.
Prolixity (n.) Boring verbosity [syn: {prolixity}, {prolixness}, {windiness}, {long-windedness}, {wordiness}]
Prolixly (adv.) In a prolix manner. -- Dryden.
Prolixness (n.) Prolixity. -- Adam Smith.
Prolixness (n.) Boring verbosity [syn: prolixity, prolixness, windiness, long-windedness, wordiness].
Proll (v. i.) To prowl about; to rob. [Obs.] -- South.
Though ye prolle aye, ye shall it never find. -- Chaucer.
Prolled (imp. & p. p.) of Proll.
Prolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Proll.
Proll (v. t.) To search or prowl after; to rob; to plunder. [Obs.] -- Barrow.
Proller (n.) Prowler; thief. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
Prolocutor (n.) 議長；代言人 One who speaks for another. -- Jeffrey.
Prolocutor (n.) The presiding officer of a convocation. -- Macaulay.
Prolocutor. () In the ecclesiastical law, signifies a president or chairman of a convocation.
Prolocutorship (n.) The office of a prolocutor.
Prolog (n. & v.) Prologue.
Prolog (n.) (Computers) A declarative higher-level programming language in which instructions are written not as explicit procedural data-manipulation commands, but as logical statements. The language has built-in resolution procedures for logical inference.
Higher programming language (n.) (Computers) A computer programming language with an instruction set allowing one instruction to code for several assembly language instructions.
Note: The aggregation of several assembly-language instructions into one instruction allows much greater efficiency in writing computer programs. Most programs are now written in some higher programming language, such as BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, C, C++, PROLOG, or JAVA.
Prologize (v. i.) To deliver a Prologue. [R.] -- Whewell.
Prologizer (n.) One who prologizes. [R.]
Prologued (imp. & p. p.) of Prologue.
Prologuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prologue.
Prologue (v. t.) 為……作序（或序詩）；為（戲劇）唸開場白 To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue. [R.] -- Shak.
Prologue (n.) 序言；序詩；（戲劇的）開場白，開場詩 [（+to）]；【喻】（一系列事件等的）開端，序幕[（+to）]；唸開場白（或開場詩）的演員 The preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or performance; as, the prologue of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales;" esp., a discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance.
Prologue (n.) One who delivers a prologue. [R.] -- Shak.
Prologue (n.) An introduction to a play.
Prolonged (imp. & p. p.) of Prolong.
Prolonging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prolong.
Prolong (v. t.) 延長，拉長；拖延；拖長（音節等）的發音 To extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line.
Prolong (v. t.) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue; as, to prolong one's days.
Prolong awhile the traitor's life. -- Shak.
The unhappy queen with talk prolonged the night. -- Dryden.
Prolong (v. t.) To put off to a distant time; to postpone. -- Shak.
Prolong (v.) Lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight" [syn: prolong, protract, extend, draw out].
Prolong (v.) Lengthen or extend in duration or space; "We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible"; "prolong the treatment of the patient"; "keep up the good work" [syn: prolong, sustain, keep up].
Prolongable (a.) Capable of being prolonged; as, life is prolongable by care.
Each syllable being a prolongable quantity. -- Rush.
Prolongated (imp. & p. p.) of Prolongate.
Prolongating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prolongate.
Prolongate (v. t.) 延長；拉長；拖延 To prolong; to extend in space or in time. [R.]
Prolongation (n.) 延長；延期；延長部分 The act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction. --Bacon.
Prolongation (n.) That which forms an additional length.
Prolonge (n.) (Field Artillery) A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes.
Prolonge (n.) A rope fitted with a hook and used for towing a gun carriage.
Prolonged (a.) 延長的；拖延的；特別長的 Relatively long in duration; tediously protracted; "a drawn-out argument"; "an extended discussion"; "a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law"; "a prolonged and bitter struggle"; "protracted negotiations" [syn: drawn-out, extended, lengthy, prolonged, protracted].
Prolonged (a.) Drawn out or made longer spatially; "Picasso's elongated Don Quixote"; "lengthened skirts are fashionable this year"; "the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes"; "a prolonged black line across the page" [syn: elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged].
Prolonger (n.) One who, or that which, causes an extension in time or space.
Prolongment (n.) Prolongation.
Prolusion (n.) A trial before the principal performance; a prelude; hence, an introductory essay or exercise. "Domestic prolusions." -- Thackeray.
Her presence was in some measure a restraint on the worthy divine, whose prolusion lasted. -- Sir W. Scott.
Promanation (n.) The act of flowing forth; emanation; efflux. [Obs.] -- Dr. H. More.
Promenade (n.) [C] 散步；（開車、乘遊艇）兜風；散步場所；海濱人行道 A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise. -- Burke.
Promenade (n.) A place for walking; a public walk. -- Bp. Montagu.
Promenaded (imp. & p. p.) of Promenade.
Promenading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Promenade.
Promenade (v. i.) To walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.
Promenade (n.) A formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year [syn: promenade, prom].
Promenade (n.) A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk [syn: promenade, mall].
Promenade (n.) A square dance figure; couples march counterclockwise in a circle.
Promenade (n.) A march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance.
Promenade (n.) A leisurely walk (usually in some public place) [syn: amble, promenade, saunter, stroll, perambulation]
Promenade (v.) March in a procession; "the veterans paraded down the street" [syn: parade, troop, promenade]
Promenade (v.) Take a leisurely walk; "The ladies promenaded along the beach."
Promenader (n.) One who promenades.
Promerit (v. t.) To oblige; to confer a favor on. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Promerit (v. t.) To deserve; to procure by merit. [Obs.] -- Davenant.
Promerops (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of very brilliant birds belonging to Promerops, Epimarchus, and allied genera, closely related to the paradise birds, and mostly native of New Guinea. They have a long curved beak and a long graduated tail.
Promethea (n.) (Zool.) A large American bombycid moth ({Callosamia promethea). Its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band.
Promethean (a.) 創造的；賦予生命的；有生機的；普羅米修斯的 Of or pertaining to Prometheus. See Prometheus. "Promethean fire." -- Shak.
Promethean (a.) Having a life-giving quality; inspiring.
Promethean (n.) (Old Chem.) (a) An apparatus for automatic ignition.
Promethean (n.) (Old Chem.) (b) A kind of lucifer match.
Promethean (a.) Relating to or characteristic of the demigod Prometheus, especially in being rebelliously creative and innovative.
‘The Promethean scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the cosmos.’
Compare: Demigod
Demigod (n.) [C] 半神半人（神和人所生的後代）；半神和神祕的導師；次神；（如神般的）英雄人物，受崇拜的人 A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.
Demigod (n.) A person with great powers and abilities [syn: demigod, superman, Ubermensch].
Demigod (n.) A person who is part mortal and part god [syn: daemon, demigod].
Demigod (n.) A hacker with years of experience, a world-wide reputation, and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the hacker community. To qualify as a genuin demigod, the person must recognizably identify with the hacker community and have helped shape it. Major demigods include Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (co-inventors of Unix and C), Richard M. Stallman (inventor of EMACS), Larry Wall (inventor of Perl), Linus Torvalds (inventor of { Linux), and most recently James Gosling (inventor of Java, NeWS, and { GOSMACS) and Guido van Rossum (inventor of Python). In their hearts of hearts, most hackers dream of someday becoming demigods themselves, and more than one major software project has been driven to completion by the author's veiled hopes of apotheosis. See also net.god, true-hacker, { ubergeek. Since 1995 or so this term has been gradually displaced by { ubergeek.
Demigod, () A hacker with years of experience, a national reputation, and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the hacker community. To qualify as a genuine demigod, the person must recognisably identify with the hacker community and have helped shape it. Major demigods include Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (co-inventors of Unix and C) and Richard Stallman (inventor of Emacs). In their hearts of hearts, most hackers dream of someday becoming demigods themselves, and more than one major software project has been driven to completion by the author's veiled hopes of apotheosis.
See also net.god, true-hacker. (1994-10-27)
Compare: Cosmos
Cosmos (n.)（有和諧體系的）宇宙 [the S]；（和諧的）完整體系 [U] The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.
Cosmos (n.) The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony. -- Humboldt.
Cosmos (n.) (Bot.) A genus of composite plants closely related to Bidens, usually with very showy flowers, some with yellow, others with red, scarlet, purple, white, or lilac rays. They are natives of the warmer parts of America, and many species are cultivated. Cosmos bipinnatus and Cosmos diversifolius are among the best-known species; Cosmos caudatus, of the West Indies, is widely naturalized.
Cosmos (n.) Everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence" [syn: universe, existence, creation, world, cosmos, macrocosm].
Cosmos (n.) Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals [syn: cosmos, cosmea].
Cosmos, () Computer System for Mainframe Operations.
Cosmos, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 582
Housing Units (2000): 261
Land area (2000): 1.120643 sq. miles (2.902452 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.018272 sq. miles (0.047325 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.138915 sq. miles (2.949777 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13420
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 44.937273 N, 94.697437 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56228
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cosmos, MN
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Promethean (n.) (Old Chem.) An apparatus for automatic ignition.
Promethean (n.) A kind of lucifer match.
Prometheus (n.) (Class. Myth.) 【希神】普羅米修士 The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver. Prominence
Prometheus, The Tree (n.) In 1964, Prometheus, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, was the oldest known non-clonal organism on Earth. That year, a graduate student cut down the 5,000- year-old tree to examine its ring growth patterns and derive information about the climate. It is unclear who suggested that Prometheus be cut down, why the action was deemed necessary, and whether its impact was fully understood at the time. Methuselah is currently the oldest known living tree; how old is it?