Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 70
Pitchy (a.) Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.
Pitchy (a.) Smeared with pitch.
Pitchy (a.) Black; pitch-dark; dismal. "Pitchy night." -- Shak.
Pitchy (a.) Of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal [syn: coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy, sooty].
Pitchy (a.) Having the characteristics of pitch or tar [syn: pitchy, resinous, resiny, tarry].
Piteous (a.) Pious; devout. [Obs.]
The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation. -- Wyclif.
Piteous (a.) Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender. "[She] piteous of his case." -- Pope.
She was so charitable and so pitous. -- Chaucer.
Piteous (a.) Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case. -- Spenser.
The most piteous tale of Lear. -- Shak.
Piteous (a.) Paltry; mean; pitiful. "Piteous amends." -- Milton.
Syn: Sorrowful; mournful; affecting; doleful; woeful; rueful; sad; wretched; miserable; pitiable; pitiful; compassionate. -- Pit"e*ous*ly, adv. -- Pit"e*ous*ness, n.
Piteous (a.) Deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched].
Pitfall (n.) A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind. -- Sir T. North.
Pitfall (n.) An unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty [syn: pitfall, booby trap].
Pitfall (n.) A trap in the form of a concealed hole [syn: pit, pitfall].
Pitfalling (a.) Entrapping; insnaring. [R.] "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses." -- Milton.
Pith (n.) (Bot.) The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue.
Pith (n.) (Zool.) The spongy interior substance of a feather.
Pith (n.) (Anat.) The spinal cord; the marrow.
Pith (n.) Hence: The which contains the strength of life; the vital or essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as, the speech lacked pith.
Enterprises of great pith and moment. -- Shak.
Pith paper. Same as Rice paper, under Rice.
Pith (v. t.) (Physiol.) To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal.
Pith (n.) Soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants.
Pith (n.) The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty].
Pith (v.) Remove the pith from (a plant).
Pith (n.) [ U ] （水果表皮和瓤之間的）襯皮；木髓 The white substance between the skin and the flesh of citrus fruits such as oranges, or the soft, white inside part of the stem of some plants.
Pitheci (n. pl.) A division of mammals including the apes and monkeys. Sometimes used in the sense of Primates.
Pithecoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Pithecia, or subfamily Pithecinae, which includes the saki, ouakari, and other allied South American monkeys.
Pithecoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the anthropoid apes in particular, or to the higher apes of the Old World, collectively.
Pithful (a.) Full of pith.
Pithful (a.) (rare) 有髓的，有力的，含蓄的 Full of pith, pithy; substantial, important; succinct.
Pitiful (a.) 可憐的，令人同情的 Making people feel sympathy.
// The refugees arriving at the camp had pitiful stories to tell.
Pitiful (a.) (C2) 糟糕的；令人不滿意的；不足的 Used to say that you consider something to be very bad or not satisfactory or not enough.
// A pitiful state of affairs.
The amount of time and money being spent on researching this disease is pitiful.
Pithily (adv.) In a pithy manner.
Pithiness (n.) The quality or state of being pithy.
Pithless (a.) Destitute of pith, or of strength; feeble.
Pit-hole (n.) A pit; a pockmark.
Pithsome (a.) Pithy; robust.
Pithy (a.) 有髓的；簡潔有力的；簡練的 Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.
Pithy (a.) Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent.
This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed. -- Dryden.
In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy. -- Addison.
Pithy gall (Zool.), A large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly ({Diastrophus nebulosus).
Pithy (a.) Concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen [syn: pithy, sententious].
Pitiable (a.) Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.
Pitiable (a.) (Formal) 可憐的 Pitiful.
Pitiably (adv.) (Formal) 可憐地 Pitiful.
Pitier (n.) One who pities.
Pitiful (a.) Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.
Pitiful (a.) Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
Pitiful (a.) To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.
Pitiless (a.) Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements.
Pitiless (a.) Exciting no pity; as, a pitiless condition.
Pitmen (n. pl. ) of Pitman.
Pitman (n.) One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.
Pitman (n.) The connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a connecting rod in other machinery.
Pitot's tube () A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height to which the fluid rises in the tube; a kind of current meter.
Pitpan (n.) A long, flat-bottomed canoe, used for the navigation of rivers and lagoons in Central America.
Pitpat (n. & adv.) See Pitapat.
Pitta (n.) Any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birds belonging to Pitta, and allied genera of the family Pittidae. Most of the species are varied with three or more colors, such as blue, green, crimson, yellow, purple, and black. They are called also ground thrushes, and Old World ant thrushes; but they are not related to the true thrushes.
Pittacal (n.) A dark blue substance obtained from wood tar. It consists of hydrocarbons which when oxidized form the orange-yellow eupittonic compounds, the salts of which are dark blue.
Pittance (n.) An allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole.
Pittance (n.) A meager portion, quantity, or allowance; an inconsiderable salary or compensation.
Pittance (n.) [ C usually singular ] (Disapproving) 少量金錢，（尤指）微薄的工資 A very small amount of money, especially money received as payment, income, or a present.
// He works hard but he's paid a pittance.
Pitted (a.) Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2.
Pitted (v. t.) Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue.
Pitter (n.) A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums, and other stone fruit.
Pitter (v. i.) To make a pattering sound; to murmur; as, pittering streams.
Pittle-pattle (v. i.) To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle.
Pituitary (a.) Secreting mucus or phlegm; as, the pituitary membrane, or the mucous membrane which lines the nasal cavities.
Pituitary (a.) Of or pertaining to the pituitary body; as, the pituitary fossa.
Pituitary body (n.) (Formerly) The pituitary gland.
Pituitary gland (n.) A small oval endocrine gland attached to the base of the vertebrate brain and consisting of an anterior and a posterior lobe, the secretions of which control the other endocrine glands and influence growth, metabolism, and maturation. Also called hypophysis, pituitary body.
Pituite (n.) Mucus, phlegm.
Pituitous (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, pituite or mucus; full of mucus; discharging mucus.
Pities (n. pl. ) of Pity.
Pitied (imp. & p. p.) of Pity.
Pittsburgh (n.) 匹茲堡（英語：Pittsburgh）位於美國賓夕法尼亞州西南部，阿勒格尼河與莫農加希拉河匯合成俄亥俄河的河口，為美國最適宜居住的都市 [7]。賓夕法尼亞州第二大城市，阿利根尼縣縣治。2000年人口統計334,563（七縣大都區人口2,462,571）。匹茲堡曾是美國著名的鋼鐵工業城市，有「世界鋼都」之稱。但1980年代後，匹茲堡的鋼鐵業務已經淡出，現已轉型為以醫療、金融及高科技工業為主之都市。市內最大企業為匹茲堡大學醫學中心，並為全美第六大銀行匹茲堡國家銀行所在地。
由於近年的經濟發展堪為典範，於2009年獲選主辦世界二十國集團（G20）高峰會 [8]。匹茲堡交通便利，公路、鐵路和水上運輸發達，匹茲堡國際機場位於該市西部，為美國東部著名的大型機場，有18家航空公司聚集此地。匹茲堡大學和卡內基梅隆大學是美國著名的高等學府。
Pittsburgh Is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County. As of 2017, a population of 305,704 lives within the city limits, making it the 63rd-largest city in the U.S. [2] [5] The metropolitan population of 2,353,045 is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania (behind Philadelphia), and the 26th-largest in the U.S.
Located at the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers, Pittsburgh is known both as "the Steel City" for its more than 300 steel-related businesses and as the "City of Bridges" for its 446 bridges. [6] The city features 30 skyscrapers, two inclined railways, a pre-revolutionary fortification and the Point State Park at the confluence of the rivers. The city developed as a vital link of the Atlantic coast and Midwest, as the mineral-rich Allegheny Mountains made the area coveted by the French and British empires, Virginians, Whiskey Rebels, and Civil War raiders. [7]
Aside from steel, Pittsburgh has led in manufacturing of aluminum, glass, shipbuilding, petroleum, foods, sports, transportation, computing, autos, and electronics. [8] For part of the 20th century, Pittsburgh was behind only New York and Chicago in corporate headquarters employment; it had the most U.S. stockholders per capita. [9] America's 1980s deindustrialization laid off area blue-collar workers and thousands of downtown white-collar workers when the longtime Pittsburgh-based world headquarters moved out. [10] This heritage left the area with renowned museums, medical centers, [11] parks, research centers, libraries, a diverse cultural district and the most bars per capita in the U.S. [12]
Today, Google, Apple Inc., Bosch, Facebook, Uber, Nokia, Autodesk, Microsoft and IBM are among 1,600 technology firms generating $20.7 billion in annual Pittsburgh payrolls. The area has served as the long-time federal agency headquarters for cyber defense, software engineering, robotics, energy research and the nuclear navy. [13] The area is home to 68 colleges and universities, including research and development leaders Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. [14] The nation's eighth-largest bank, eight Fortune 500 companies, and six of the top 300 U.S. law firms make their global headquarters in the area, while RAND, BNY Mellon, Nova, FedEx, Bayer and NIOSH have regional bases that helped Pittsburgh become the sixth-best area for U.S. job growth. [15]
In 2015, Pittsburgh was listed among the "eleven most livable cities in the world"; [16] The Economist's Global Liveability Ranking placed Pittsburgh as the first- or second-most livable city in the United States in 2005, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2014. [17] The region is a hub for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, sustainable energy, and energy extraction. [18]
Pity (n.) 憐憫；同情 [U]；可惜的事，憾事 [S] [+（that）] Piety. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Pity (n.) A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord. -- Prov. xix. 17.
He . . . has no more pity in him than a dog. -- Shak.
Pity (n.) A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted. "The more the pity." -- Shak.
What pity is it.
That we can die but once to serve our country! -- Addison.
Note: In this sense, sometimes used in the plural, especially in the colloquialism: "It is a thousand pities."
Syn: Compassion; mercy; commiseration; condolence; sympathy, fellow-suffering; fellow-feeling. -- {Pity}, {Sympathy}, {Compassion}. Sympathy is literally fellow-feeling, and therefore requiers a certain degree of equality in situation, circumstances, etc., to its fullest exercise. Compassion is deep tenderness for another under severe or inevitable misfortune. Pity regards its object not only as suffering, but weak, and hence as inferior.
Pitying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pity.
Pity (v. t.) 憐憫；同情 [W] To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. -- Ps. ciii. 13.
Pity (v. t.) To move to pity; -- used impersonally. [Obs.]
It pitieth them to see her in the dust. -- Bk. of Com. Prayer.
Pity (v. i.) To be compassionate; to show pity.
I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy. -- Jer. xiii. 14.
Pity (n.) A feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn: {commiseration}, {pity}, {ruth}, {pathos}].
Pity (n.) An unfortunate development; "it's a pity he couldn't do it" [syn: {pity}, {shame}].
Pity (n.) The humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it [syn: {compassion}, {pity}].
Pity (v.) Share the suffering of [syn: {feel for}, {pity}, {compassionate}, {condole with}, {sympathize with}].
Pity (n.) A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
Pitying (a.) Expressing pity; as, a pitying eye, glance, or word.
Pityriasis (n.) A superficial affection of the skin, characterized by irregular patches of thin scales which are shed in branlike particles.
Pityroid (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, bran.
Piu (adv.) A little more; as, piu allegro, a little more briskly.
Pivot (n.) [C] 樞，樞軸；支樞；【喻】中樞；中心點；中心人物；（在樞軸上的）轉動，旋轉運動 A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.
Pivot (n.) The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.
Pivot (n.) Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.
Pivot (n.) (Mil.) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; -- called also pivot man.
Pivot bridge, A form of drawbridge in which one span, called the pivot span, turns about a central vertical axis.
Pivot gun, A gun mounted on a pivot or revolving carriage, so as to turn in any direction.
Pivot tooth (Dentistry), An artificial crown attached to the root of a natural tooth by a pin or peg.
Pivoted (imp. & p. p.) of Pivot.
Pivoting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pivot.
Pivot (v. t.) 把……置於樞軸上；以……為中心旋轉 To place on a pivot. -- Clarke.
Pivot (n.) The person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver [syn: pivot, pivot man].
Pivot (n.) Axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns [syn: pivot, pin].
Pivot (n.) The act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot; "the golfer went to the driving range to practice his pivot".
Pivot (v.) Turn on a pivot [syn: pivot, swivel].
Pivotal (a.) 樞軸的；中樞的；重要的 Of or pertaining to a pivot or turning point; belonging to, or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot; as, the pivotalopportunity of a career; the pivotal position in a battle.
Pivotal (a.) Being of crucial importance; "a pivotal event"; "Its pivotal location has also exposed it to periodic invasions"- Henry Kissinger; "the polar events of this study"; "a polar principal" [syn: pivotal, polar].
Pix (n. & v.) See Pyx.
Pixies (n. pl. ) of Pixie.
Pixy (n.) Alt. of Pixie.
Pixie (n.) An old English name for a fairy; an elf. [Written also picksy.]
Pixie (n.) (Bot.) A low creeping evergreen plant ({Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.
Pixy ring, A fairy ring or circle. [Prov. Eng.]
Pixy stool (Bot.), A toadstool or mushroom. [Prov. Eng.]
Pixy (n.) Creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas [syn: pyxie, pixie, pixy, Pyxidanthera barbulata].
Pixy (n.) (Folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous [syn: elf, hob, gremlin, pixie, pixy, brownie, imp].
Pixy-led (a.) Led by pixies; bewildered.
Pizzicato () A direction to violinists to pluck the string with the finger, instead of using the bow. (Abrev. pizz.)
Pizzle (n.) The penis; -- so called in some animals, as the bull.
Placability (n.) The quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition.
Placable (a.) Capable of being appeased or pacified; ready or willing to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone.
Placableness (n.) The quality of being placable.
Placard (n.) A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.
Placard (n.) Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something.
Placard (n.) A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.
Placard (n.) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate.
Placard (n.) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.
Placarded (imp. & p. p.) of Placard.
Placarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Placard.
Placard (v. t.) To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city.
Placard (v. t.) To announce by placards; as, to placard a sale.
Placate (n.) Same as Placard, 4 & 5.
Placated (imp. & p. p.) of Placate.
Placating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Placate.
Placate (v. t.) To appease; to pacify; to concilate.
Placate (v.) [ T ] 平息，安撫 To stop someone from feeling angry.
// Outraged minority groups will not be placated by promises of future improvements.
Placation (n.) The act of placating.
Place (n.) Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space.
Here is the place appointed. -- Shak.
What place can be for us Within heaven's bound? -- Milton.
The word place has sometimes a more confused sense, and stands for that space which any body takes up; and so the universe is a place. -- Locke.
Place (n.) A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end. "Hangman boys in the market place." -- Shak.
Place (n.) A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country.
Are you native of this place? -- Shak.