Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 27
Patter (v. t.) To spatter; to sprinkle. [R.] "And patter the water about the boat." -- J. R. Drake.
Patter (v. i.) To mutter; as prayers.
[The hooded clouds] patter their doleful prayers. -- Longfellow.
To patter flash, To talk in thieves' cant. [Slang]
Patter (n.) A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet.
Patter (n.) Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue.
Patter (n.) The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter; gypsies' patter.
Patter (n.) The language or oratory of a street peddler, conjurer, or the like, hence, glib talk; a voluble harangue; mere talk; chatter; also, specif., rapid speech, esp. as sometimes introduced in songs. [Cant or Colloq.]
Pattering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Patter.
Patter (v. i.) To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.
The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard. -- Thomson.
Patter (v. i.) To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips. -- Tyndale. [In this sense, and in the following, perh.
from paternoster.]
Patter (v. i.) To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue. [Colloq.]
I've gone out and pattered to get money. -- Mayhew.
Patter (n.) Plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) [syn: spiel, patter, line of gab].
Patter (n.) A quick succession of light rapid sounds; "the patter of mice"; "the patter of tiny feet."
Patter (v.) Rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick" [syn: sprinkle, spit, spatter, patter, pitter-patter].
Patter (v.) Make light, rapid and repeated sounds; "gently pattering rain" [syn: patter, pitter-patter].
Patterer (n.) One who patters, or talks glibly; specifically, a street peddler. [Cant, Eng.]
Pattern (n.) Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
I will be the pattern of all patience. -- Shak.
Pattern (n.) A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
He compares the pattern with the whole piece. -- Swift.
Pattern (n.) Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.
Pattern (n.) Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
Pattern (n.) Something made after a model; a copy. -- Shak.
The patterns of things in the heavens. -- Heb. ix. 23.
Pattern (n.) Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.
Pattern (n.) (Founding) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it.
Pattern (n.) A recognizable characteristic relationship or set of relationships between the members of any set of objects or actions, or the properties of the members; also, the set having a definable relationship between its members.
Note: Various collections of objects or markings are spoken of as a pattern. Thus: the distribution of bomb or shell impacts on a target area, or of bullet holes in a target; a set of traits or actions that appear to be consistent throughout the members of a group or over time within a group, as behavioral pattern, traffic pattern, dress pattern; the wave pattern for a spoken word; the pattern of intensities in a spectrum; a grammatical pattern.
Pattern (n.) (Gun.) A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.
Pattern (n.) the recommended flight path for an airplane to follow as it approaches an airport for a landing. Same as landing pattern.
Pattern (n.) An image or diagram containing lines, usually horizontal, vertical, and diagonal, sometimes of varying widths, used to test the resolution of an optical instrument or the accuracy of reproduction of image copying or transmission equipment. Same as test pattern.
Pattern box, pattern chain, or pattern cylinder (Figure Weaving), Devices, in a loom, for presenting several shuttles to the picker in the proper succession for forming the figure.
Pattern card. (a) A set of samples on a card.
Pattern card. (b) (Weaving) One of the perforated cards in a Jacquard apparatus.
Pattern reader, One who arranges textile patterns.
Pattern wheel (Horology), A count-wheel.
Patterned (imp. & p. p.) of Pattern.
Patterning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pattern.
Pattern (v. t.) To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate. -- Milton.
[A temple] patterned from that which Adam reared in Paradise. -- Sir T. Herbert.
Pattern (v. t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.
To pattern after, To imitate; to follow.
Pattern (n.) A perceptual structure; "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them" [syn: form, shape, pattern].
Pattern (n.) A customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern" [syn: practice, pattern].
Pattern (n.) A decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors" [syn: design, pattern, figure].
Pattern (n.) Something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors" [syn: convention, normal, pattern, rule, formula].
Pattern (n.) A model considered worthy of imitation; "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics."
Pattern (n.) Something intended as a guide for making something else; "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt" [syn: blueprint, design, pattern].
Pattern (n.) The path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport; "the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded"; "they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted" [syn: traffic pattern, approach pattern, pattern].
Pattern (n.) Graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle [syn: radiation pattern, radiation diagram, pattern].
Pattern (v.) Plan or create according to a model or models [syn: model, pattern].
Pattern (v.) Form a pattern; "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before."
Patties (n. pl. ) of Patty.
Patty (n.) A little pie.
Patty (n.) Small flat mass of chopped food [syn: patty, cake]
Patty (n.) Small pie or pasty.
Patty (n.) Round flat candy.
Pattypan (n.) A pan for baking patties.
Pattypan (n.) A patty. [Obs.]
Patulous (a.) Open; expanded; slightly spreading; having the parts loose or dispersed; as, a patulous calyx; a patulous cluster of flowers.
The eyes are large and patulous. -- Sir J. Hill.
Pau (n.) See Pah.
Pau, () (Gen. 36:39) or Pai (1 Chr. 1:50), bleating, an Edomitish city ruled over by Hadar.
Pau, () Same as Pai.
Pauciloquent (a.) Uttering few words; brief in speech. [R.]
Pauciloquy (n.) Brevity in speech. [R.]
Paucispiral (a.) (Zool.) Having few spirals, or whorls; as, a paucispiral operculum or shell.
Paucity (n.) Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity ; rarity. -- Hooker.
Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. -- I. Taylor.
Paucity (n.) Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood. -- Sir T. Browne. Paugie
Paucity (n.) An insufficient quantity or number [syn: dearth, paucity].
Paugies (n. pl. ) of Paugy.
Paugie (n.) Alt. of Paugy.
Paugy (n.) (Zool.) The scup. See Porgy, and Scup.
Compare: Porgy
Porgy (n.; pl. Porgies.) [See Paugie.] (Zool.) (a) The scup.
Porgy (n.; pl. Porgies.) [See Paugie.] (Zool.) (b) The sailor's choice, or pinfish.
Porgy (n.; pl. Porgies.) [See Paugie.] (Zool.) (c) The margate fish.
Porgy (n.; pl. Porgies.) [See Paugie.] (Zool.) (d) The spadefish.
Porgy (n.; pl. Porgies.) [See Paugie.] (Zool.) (e) Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish. [Written also porgee, porgie, and paugy.]
Porgy (n.; pl. Porgies.) [See Paugie.] (Zool.) Any one of numerous sparoid food fishes, as the jolthead porgy, the sheepshead porgy ({Calamus penna) of the West Indies, the grass porgy ({Calamus arctifrons) of Florida, and the red porgy ({Pagrus pagrus) of Europe.
Pauhaugen (n.) (Zool.) The menhaden; -- called also poghaden.
Paul (n.) See Pawl.
Paul (n.) An Italian silver coin. See Paolo.
Compare: Pawl
Pawl (n.) (Mach.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel. [Written also paul, or pall.]
Pawl bitt (Naut.), A heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls.
Pawl rim or Pawl ring (Naut.), A stationary metallic ring surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in.
Paul (n.) United States feminist (1885-1977) [syn: Paul, Alice Paul].
Paul (n.) (New Testament) A Christian missionary to the Gentiles; author of several Epistles in the New Testament; even though Paul was not present at the Last Supper he is considered an Apostle; "Paul's name was Saul prior to his conversion to Christianity" [syn: Paul, Saint Paul, St. Paul, Apostle Paul, Paul the Apostle, Apostle of the Gentiles, Saul, Saul of Tarsus].
Paul, () Small; little
Paul, ID -- U.S. city in Idaho
Population (2000): 998
Housing Units (2000): 430
Land area (2000): 0.639989 sq. miles (1.657565 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.012983 sq. miles (0.033626 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.652972 sq. miles (1.691191 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61210
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 42.606349 N, 113.783235 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 83347
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Paul, ID
Paul
Pauldron (n.) (Mil. Antiq.) A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece. Paulian
Paulian (n.) Alt. of Paulianist.
Paulianist (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ.
Paulician (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Christian dualists originating in Armenia in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New.
Paulin (n.) (Naut.) See Tarpaulin.
Pauline (a.) Of or pertaining to the apostle Paul, or his writings; resembling, or conforming to, the writings of Paul; as, the Pauline epistles; Pauline doctrine.
My religion had always been Pauline. -- J. H. Newman.
Pauline (a.) Relating to Paul the Apostle or his doctrines.
Paulist (n.) (R. C. Ch.) A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants.
Paulownia (n.) (Bot.) A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceae, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis.
Note: The tree is native to Japan, and has immense heart-shaped leaves, and large purplish flowers in panicles. The capsules contain many little winged seeds, which are beautiful microscopic objects. The tree is hardy in America as far north as Connecticut.
Paum (v. t. & i.) To palm off by fraud; to cheat at cards. [Obs.] -- Swift.
Paunce (n.) (Bot.) The pansy. [Also paunce.]
Paunce (n.) [See Pansy.] (Bot.) The pansy. "The pretty paunce." -- Spenser.
Paunch (n.) (Anat.) The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.
Paunch (n.) (Naut.) A paunch mat; -- called also panch.
Paunch (n.) The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
Paunch (n.) A noticeably protruding belly; a potbelly.
Paunch mat (Naut.), A thick mat made of strands of rope, used to prevent the yard or rigging from chafing.
Paunched (imp. & p. p.) of Paunch.
Paunching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paunch.
Paunch (v. t.) To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel. -- Shak.
Paunch (v. t.) To stuff with food. [Obs.] -- Udall.
Paunch (n.) A protruding abdomen [syn: belly, paunch].
Paunchy (a.) Pot-bellied. [R.] -- Dickens.
Paunchy (a.) Having a large belly [syn: abdominous, paunchy, potbellied].
Paune (n.) A kind of bread. See Pone.
Compare: Pone
Pone (n.) A kind of johnnycake. [Written also paune.] [Southern U. S.]
Pauper (n.) [L. See Poor.] A very poor person; one without any means of support, especially one dependent on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pauper immigrants, pauper labor.
Pauper (n.) A person who is very poor.
PAUPER. () One so poor that he must be supported at the public expense.
PAUPER. () The statutes of the several states make ample provisions for the support of the poor. It is not within the plan of this work even to give an abstract of such extensive legislation. Vide 16 Vin. Ab. 259; Botts on the Poor Laws; Woodf. Landl. & Ten. 901.
Pauper (n.) A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.
Pauper (n.) [ C ] 窮人，貧民 A very poor person.
Pauperism (n.) The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community. -- Whatly.
Syn: Poverty; indigence; penury; want; need; destitution. See Poverty.
Pauperism (n.) 有被救濟的資格；貧窮 A state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" [(Syn.): {indigence}, {need}, {penury}, {pauperism}, {pauperization}]
Pauperism (n.) The state or condition of utter poverty.
Pauperization (n.) The act or process of reducing to pauperism. -- C. Kingsley.
Pauperization (n.) 使成為受救濟貧民，貧窮化 A state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" [(Syn.): {indigence}, {need}, {penury}, {pauperism}, {pauperization}]
Pauperization (n.) The act of making someone poor [(Syn.): {pauperization}, {pauperisation}, {impoverishment}]
Pauperized (imp. & p. p.) of Pauperize.
Pauperizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pauperize.
Pauperize (v. t.) To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry.
Pauperize (v. t.) 使成貧窮，使成為受救濟者 Reduce to beggary. [(Syn.): {beggar}, {pauperize}, {pauperise}]
Pauropoda (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheae.
Pauropoda (n.) An obscure class of minute arthropods with branched antennae and 8 to 10 pairs of legs [syn: Pauropoda, class Pauropoda].
Pause (n.) A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
Pause (n.) Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
I stand in pause where I shall first begin. -- Shak.
Pause (n.) In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
Pause (n.) In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
Pause (n.) A break or paragraph in writing.
He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe. -- Locke.
Pause (n.) (Mus.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
Syn: Stop; cessation; suspension.
Pause (v. t.) To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively. [R.] -- Shak.
Paused (imp. & p. p.) of Pause.
Pausing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pause.
Pause (v. i.) To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest. "Tarry, pause a day or two." -- Shak.
Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused. -- Milton.
Pause (v. i.) To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
Pause (v. i.) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. [R.]
Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture. -- Shak.
Pause (v. i.) To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect. [R.] "Take time to pause." -- Shak.
To pause upon, to deliberate concerning. -- Shak.
Syn: To intermit; stop; stay; wait; delay; tarry; hesitate; demur.
Pause (n.) A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something [syn: pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspension].
Pause (n.) Temporary inactivity.
Pause (v.) Interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused" [syn: hesitate, pause].
Pause (v.) Cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch" [syn: pause, intermit, break].
Pause (n.) (B2) [ C ] 暫停 A short period in which something such as a sound or an activity is stopped before starting again.
// There will be a brief pause in the proceedings while the piano is moved into place.
// After a long, awkward pause, someone finally asked a question.
// She spoke for three quarters of an hour without so much as a pause.
// There followed a pregnant (= filled with meaning) pause in which neither of them knew what to say.
Pause (n.) [ C ] (UK specialized music) （音樂的）休止，休止符 A period of silence between musical notes, or a symbol that represents this. (Syn.) Rest
Idiom: Give sb pause
Give sb pause (Formal) 使（某人）停下來仔細考慮 To cause someone to stop and think about what they were doing or intending to do.
Pause (v.) (B1) [ I ] 暫停，停頓 To stop doing something for a short time.
// He paused and thought for a moment.
// She paused to catch her breath, and then kept on jogging.
Pauser (n.) One who pauses. -- Shak.
Pausingly (adv.) With pauses; haltingly. -- Shak.
Pauxi (n.) (Zool.) A curassow ({Ourax pauxi), which, in South America, is often domesticated.
Pavage (n.) See Pavage. [R.]
Pavage (n.) A tax toward paving streets
Pavage (n.) The act of applying paving materials to an area [syn: paving, pavage].
Pavan (n.) A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock. [Written also pavane, paven, pavian, and pavin.]
Pavan (n.) Music composed for dancing the pavane [syn: pavane, pavan].
Pavan (n.) A stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries [syn: pavane, pavan].
Pave (n.) The pavement.
Nymphe du pav['e], A prostitute who solicits in the street; a streetwalker. [A low euphemism.]
Paved (imp. & p. p.) of Pave.
Paving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pave.
Pave (v. t.) 鋪設，安排，為…鋪路 To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court.
With silver paved, and all divine with gold. -- Dryden.
To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways. -- Gay.
Pave (v. t.) Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an enterprise.
It might open and pave a prepared way to his own title. -- Bacon.
Pave (n.) A setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows.
Pave (v.) Cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic; "pave the roads in the village."
Pavement (n.) 鋪路石，鋪石路，人行道，車道 That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.
The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. -- Milton.
Pavement teeth (Zool.), Flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement.
Pavement (v. t.) 鋪砌，鋪設，鋪築 To furnish with a pavement; to pave. [Obs.] "How richly pavemented!" -- Bp. Hall.
Pavement (n.) The paved surface of a thoroughfare [syn: pavement, paving].
Pavement (n.) Material used to pave an area [syn: paving, pavement, paving material].
Pavement (n.) Walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway [syn: sidewalk, pavement].
Pavement, () It was the custom of the Roman governors to erect their tribunals in open places, as the market-place, the circus, or even the highway. Pilate caused his seat of judgment to be set down in a place called "the Pavement" (John 19:13) i.e., a place paved with a mosaic of coloured stones. It was probably a place thus prepared in front of the "judgment hall." (See GABBATHA.)
Pavement (n.) [ C ] (B1) (UK) (US sidewalk) 人行道 A path with a hard surface on one or both sides of a road, that people walk on.
// Keep to the pavement, Rosie, there's a good girl.
Pavement (n.) (B2) (US) 鋪築過的路面 The surface of a road when it has been covered with concrete or tarmac.
Idiom: Pound the pavement
Pound the pavement 徘徊街頭找工作 To walk through the streets looking for a job.
Compare: Pavan
Pavan (n.) A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock. [Written also pavane, paven, pavian, and pavin.]
Paven (n.) See Pavan.
Paver (n.) One who paves; one who lays a pavement. [Written also pavier and pavior.]
Pavesade (n.) A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board. Pavese
Pavese (n.) Alt. of Pavesse.
Pavesse (n.) Pavise. [Obs.]
Pavis, Pavise (n.) (Mil. Antiq.) A large heavy oblong shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes also screened an archer with it.
It was originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position [Written also pavis, pavais, pavese, and pavesse.] -- Fairholt.
Paviage (n.) (Law) A contribution or a tax for paving streets or highways. -- Bouvier.
Paviage. () Contribution or tax. for paving the streets or highways.
Compare: Pavan
Pavan (n.) A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock. [Written also pavane, paven, pavian, and pavin.]
Pavian (n.) See Pavan.
Pavid (a.) Timid; fearful. [R.] -- Thackeray.
Pavidity (n.) Timidity. [R.]
Pavier (n.) A paver.
Paver (n.) One who paves; one who lays a pavement. [Written also pavier and pavior.]
Compare: Fraxin
Fraxin (n.) [From Fraxinus.] (Chem.) A colorless crystalline substance ({C16H18O10) found in the bark of the ash ({Fraxinus), and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. It is structurally a derivative of a coumarin glucoside. It shows a delicate blue-green fluorescence in alkaline solutions; -- called also paviin and fraxoside. -- MI-11br
Paviin (n.) (Chem.) A glucoside found in species of the genus Pavia of the Horse-chestnut family.