Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 27
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 (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.]
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.
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.
Pattypan (n.) A pan for baking patties.
Pattypan (n.) A patty.
Patulous (a.) Open; expanded; slightly spreading; having the parts loose or dispersed; as, a patulous calyx; a patulous cluster of flowers.
Pau (n.) See Pah.
Pauciloquent (a.) Uttering few words; brief in speech.
Pauciloquy (n.) Brevity in speech.
Paucispiral (a.) Having few spirals, or whorls; as, a paucispiral operculum or shell.
Paucity (n.) Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity.
Paucity (n.) Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood.
Paugies (n. pl. ) of Paugy.
Paugie (n.) Alt. of Paugy.
Paugy (n.) The scup. See Porgy, and Scup.
Pauhaugen (n.) The menhaden; -- called also poghaden.
Paul (n.) See Pawl.
Paul (n.) An Italian silver coin. See Paolo.
Pauldron (n.) A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece.
Paulian (n.) Alt. of Paulianist
Paulianist (n.) 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.) 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.) 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.
Paulist (n.) 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.) A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceae, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis.
Paum (v. t. & i.) To palm off by fraud; to cheat at cards.
Paunce (n.) The pansy.
Paunch (n.) The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.
Paunch (n.) A paunch mat; -- called also panch.
Paunch (n.) The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
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.
Paunch (v. t.) To stuff with food.
Paunchy (a.) Pot-bellied.
Paune (n.) A kind of bread. See Pone.
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.
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.
Pauperization (n.) 使成為受救濟貧民，貧窮化 1: 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}] 2: 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.) An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheae.
Pause (n.) A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
Pause (n.) Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
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.
Pause (n.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
Paused (imp. & p. p.) of Pause.
Pausing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pause.
Pause (n.) To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
Pause (n.) To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
Pause (n.) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
Pause (n.) To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.
Pause (v. t.) To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.
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.
Pausingly (adv.) With pauses; haltingly.
Pauxi (n.) A curassow (Ourax pauxi), which, in South America, is often domesticated.
Pavage (n.) See 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.
Pave (n.) The pavement.
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.
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.
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.
Pavement (v. t.) 鋪砌，鋪設，鋪築 To furnish with a pavement; to pave.
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 徘徊街頭找工作 To walk through the streets looking for a job.
Paven (n.) See Pavan.
Paver (n.) One who paves; one who lays a pavement.
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 (n.) Alt. of Pavesse.
Pavesse (n.) Pavise.
Paviage (n.) A contribution or a tax for paving streets or highways.
Pavian (n.) See Pavan.
Pavid (a.) Timid; fearful.
Pavidity (n.) Timidity.
Pavier (n.) A paver.
Paviin (n.) A glucoside found in species of the genus Pavia of the Horse-chestnut family.