pair off
         v 1: form a pair or pairs; "The two old friends paired off"
               [syn: {pair}, {pair off}, {partner off}, {couple}]

English Dictionary: prop	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
paraph n a flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pareve adj containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism; "pareve margarine"; "parvebread" Synonym(s): pareve, parve
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
parve adj containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism; "pareve margarine"; "parvebread" Synonym(s): pareve, parve
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
parvo n any of a group of viruses containing DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and causing disease in dogs and cattle; not known to be associated with any human disease Synonym(s): parvovirus, parvo
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
peer review v evaluate professionally a colleague's work [syn: referee, peer review]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
poor boy n a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States Synonym(s): bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prep n preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) Synonym(s): homework, prep, preparation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prepay v pay for something before receiving it
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
preview n an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future Synonym(s): preview, prevue, trailer a screening for a select audience in advance of release for the general public v watch (a movie or play) before it is released to the general public
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prevue n an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future Synonym(s): preview, prevue, trailer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
privy adj hidden from general view or use; "a privy place to rest and think"; "a secluded romantic spot"; "a secret garden" Synonym(s): privy, secluded, secret (followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known; "privy to the details of the conspiracy" n a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom] a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate Synonym(s): outhouse, privy, earth-closet, jakes
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
probe n an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities; "there was a congressional probe into the scandal" Synonym(s): probe, investigation a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities an exploratory action or expedition an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity v question or examine thoroughly and closely [syn: probe, examine] examine physically with or as if with a probe; "probe an anthill" Synonym(s): probe, dig into, poke into
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prof n someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university Synonym(s): professor, prof
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
proof adj (used in combination or as a suffix) able to withstand; "temptation-proof"; "childproof locks" n any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something; "if you have any proof for what you say, now is the time to produce it" Synonym(s): proof, cogent evidence a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it a measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume) (printing) an impression made to check for errors Synonym(s): proof, test copy, trial impression a trial photographic print from a negative the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something Synonym(s): validation, proof, substantiation v make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset knead to reach proper lightness; "proof dough" read for errors; "I should proofread my manuscripts" Synonym(s): proofread, proof activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk; "proof yeast" make resistant (to harm); "proof the materials against shrinking in the dryer"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prop n a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie; "before every scene he ran down his checklist of props" Synonym(s): property, prop a propeller that rotates to push against air Synonym(s): airplane propeller, airscrew, prop v support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building" Synonym(s): prop up, prop, shore up, shore
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prove v be shown or be found to be; "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive" Synonym(s): prove, turn out, turn up establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture" Synonym(s): prove, demonstrate, establish, show, shew Antonym(s): confute, disprove provide evidence for; "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence" Synonym(s): testify, bear witness, prove, evidence, show prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe" Synonym(s): test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay increase in volume; "the dough rose slowly in the warm room" Synonym(s): rise, prove cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread" Synonym(s): raise, leaven, prove take a trial impression of obtain probate of; "prove a will"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Provo n a city in north central Utah settled by Mormons
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
purify v remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water" Synonym(s): purify, sublimate, make pure, distill make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified" Synonym(s): purify, purge, sanctify become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
purvey v supply with provisions Synonym(s): provision, purvey
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
purview n the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge" Synonym(s): horizon, view, purview
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pyrope n a deep red garnet used as a gemstone
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Leadwort \Lead"wort`\, n. (Bot.)       A genus of maritime herbs ({Plumbago}). {P. Europ[91]a} has       lead-colored spots on the leaves, and nearly lead-colored       flowers.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Paraph \Par"aph\, n. [F. paraphe, parafe, contr. fr.       paragraphe.]       A flourish made with the pen at the end of a signature. In       the Middle Ages, this formed a sort of rude safeguard against       forgery. --Brande & C.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Paraph \Par"aph\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Paraphed}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Paraphing}.] [Cf. F. parapher, parafer.]       To add a paraph to; to sign, esp. with the initials.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Parfay \Par*fay"\, interj. [Par + fay.]       By my faith; verily. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Preef \Preef\, n.       Proof. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prepay \Pre*pay"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prepaid}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Prepaying}.]       To pay in advance, or beforehand; as, to prepay postage.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Preve \Preve\, v. i. & i.       To prove. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Preve \Preve\, n.       Proof. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prief \Prief\, n.       Proof. [Obs.] --Spenser. Lydgate.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prieve \Prieve\, v. t.       To prove. [Obs. or Scot.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Privy \Priv"y\, a. [F. priv[82], fr. L. privatus. See       {Private}.]       1. Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to             private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.             [bd] Privee knights and squires.[b8] --Chaucer.          2. Secret; clandestine. [bd] A privee thief.[b8] --Chaucer.          3. Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the             public. [bd] Privy chambers.[b8] --Ezek. xxi. 14.          4. Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly             cognizant; privately knowing.                         His wife also being privy to it.         --Acts v. 2.                         Myself am one made privy to the plot. --Shak.          {Privy chamber}, a private apartment in a royal residence.             [Eng.]          {Privy council} (Eng. Law), the principal council of the             sovereign, composed of the cabinet ministers and other             persons chosen by the king or queen. --Burrill.          {Privy councilor}, a member of the privy council.          {Privy purse}, moneys set apart for the personal use of the             monarch; also, the title of the person having charge of             these moneys. [Eng.] --Macaulay.          {Privy seal} [or] {signed}, the seal which the king uses in             grants, etc., which are to pass the great seal, or which             the uses in matters of subordinate consequence which do             not require the great seal; also, elliptically, the             principal secretary of state, or person intrusted with the             privy seal. [Eng.]          {Privy verdict}, a verdict given privily to the judge out of             court; -- now disused. --Burrill.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Privy \Priv"y\, n.; pl. {Privies}.       1. (Law) A partaker; a person having an interest in any             action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate             created by another; a person having an interest derived             from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a             party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished             from party. --Burrill. Wharton.          2. A necessary house or place; a backhouse.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Probe \Probe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Probed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Probing}.] [L. probare to try, examine. See {Prove}.]       1. To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the             body, with a probe.          2. Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine             thoroughly. --Dryden.                         The growing disposition to probe the legality of all                      acts, of the crown.                           --Hallam.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Probe \Probe\, n. (Surg.)       An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances       of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of       for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc.       --Parr.          {Probe}, [or] {Probe-pointed}, {scissors} (Surg.), scissors             used to open wounds, the blade of which, to be thrust into             the orifice, has a button at the end. --Wiseman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Proof \Proof\, a.       1. Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof             charge.          2. Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm;             waterproof; bombproof.                         I . . . have found thee Proof against all                      temptation.                                       --Milton.                         This was a good, stout proof article of faith.                                                                               --Burke.          3. Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of             alcoholic liquors.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Proof \Proof\, n. [OF. prove, proeve, F. preuve, fr. L. proba,       fr. probare to prove. See {Prove}.]       1. Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or             discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a             trial.                         For whatsoever mother wit or art Could work, he put                      in proof.                                          --Spenser.                         You shall have many proofs to show your skill.                                                                               --Ford.                         Formerly, a very rude mode of ascertaining the                      strength of spirits was practiced, called the proof.                                                                               --Ure.          2. That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any             truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or             arguments that induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the             judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.                         I'll have some proof.                        --Shak.                         It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able                      to confirm whatever he pleases.         --Emerson.          Note: Properly speaking, proof is the effect or result of                evidence, evidence is the medium of proof. Cf.                {Demonstration}, 1.          3. The quality or state of having been proved or tried;             firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not             yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.          4. Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.          5. (Print.) A trial impression, as from type, taken for             correction or examination; -- called also {proof sheet}.          6. (Math.) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation             performed. Cf. {Prove}, v. t., 5.          7. Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed             impenetrable; properly, armor of proof. [Obs.] --Shak.          {Artist's proof}, a very early proof impression of an             engraving, or the like; -- often distinguished by the             artist's signature.          {Proof reader}, one who reads, and marks correction in,             proofs. See def. 5, above.          Syn: Testimony; evidence; reason; argument; trial;                demonstration. See {Testimony}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prop \Prop\, n. [Akin to LG., D., & Dan. prop stopple, stopper,       cork, Sw. propp, G. pfropf. See {Prop}, v.]       That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which       anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a       prop for a building. [bd]Two props of virtue.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prop \Prop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Propped}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Propping}.] [Akin to LG. & D. proppen to cram, stuff, thrust       into, stop, G. pfropfen, Dan. proppe, Sw. proppa; of       uncertain origin, cf. G. pfropfen to graft, fr. L. propago       set, layer of a plant, slip, shoot. Cf. 3d. {Prop},       {Propagate}.]       To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something       under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building;       (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining       state. --Shak.                   Till the bright mountains prop the incumbent sky.                                                                               --Pope.                   For being not propp'd by ancestry.         --Shak.                   I prop myself upon those few supports that are left me.                                                                               --Pope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prop \Prop\, n.       A shell, used as a die. See {Props}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prove \Prove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Proved}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Proving}.] [OE. prover, F. prouver, fr. L. probare to try,       approve, prove, fr. probus good, proper. Cf. {Probable},       {Proof}, {Probe}.]       1. To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or             standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder             or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a             standard measure.                         Thou hast proved mine heart.               --Ps. xvii. 3.          2. To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or             fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.                         They have inferred much from slender premises, and                      conjectured when they could not prove. --J. H.                                                                               Newman.          3. To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of;             to verify; as, to prove a will.          4. To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by             trial; to experience; to suffer.                         Where she, captived long, great woes did prove.                                                                               --Spenser.          5. (Arith.) To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the             correctness of any operation or result; thus, in             subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added             to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater,             the correctness of the subtraction is proved.          6. (Printing) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof             of; as, to prove a page.          Syn: To try; verify; justify; confirm; establish; evince;                manifest; show; demonstrate.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prove \Prove\, v. i.       1. To make trial; to essay.          2. To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out             to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves             false. [bd]The case proves mortal.[b8] --Arbuthnot.                         So life a winter's morn may prove.      --Keble.          3. To succeed; to turn out as expected. [Obs.] [bd]The             experiment proved not.[b8] --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Purify \Pu"ri*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Purified}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Purifying}.] [F. purifier, L. purificare; purus pure +       -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {Pure}, and {-fy}.]       1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture,             or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious             matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the             blood; to purify the air.          2. Hence, in figurative uses:             (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify                   the heart.                               And fit them so Purified to receive him pure.                                                                               --Milton.             (b) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.                               And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the                            horns of the altar, . . . and purified the                            altar.                                          --Lev. viii.                                                                               15.                               Purify both yourselves and your captives. --                                                                               Num. xxxi. 19.             (c) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to                   purify a language. --Sprat.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Purify \Pu"ri*fy\, v. i.       To grow or become pure or clear.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Purvey \Pur*vey"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Purveyed}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Purveying}.] [OE. purveien, porveien, OF. porveeir,       porveoir, F. pourvoir, fr. L. providere. See {Provide}, and       cf. {Purview}.]       1. To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions,             or the like.                         Give no odds to your foes, but do purvey Yourself of                      sword before that bloody day.            --Spenser.          2. To procure; to get.                         I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the                      children of Benjamin.                        --Sir W. Scot.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Purvey \Pur*vey"\, v. i.       1. To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.             --Chaucer. Milton.          2. To pander; -- with to. [bd] Their turpitude purveys to             their malice.[b8] [R.] --Burke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Purview \Pur"view\, n. [OF. purveu, pourveu, F. pourvu,       provided, p. p. of OF. porveoir, F. pourvoir. See {Purvey},       {View}, and cf. {Proviso}.]       1.             (a) (Law) The body of a statute, or that part which begins                   with [bd] Be it enacted, [b8] as distinguished from                   the preamble. --Cowell.             (b) Hence: The limit or scope of a statute; the whole                   extent of its intention or provisions. --Marshall.                               Profanations within the purview of several                            statutes.                                    --Bacon.          2. Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent.                         In determining the extent of information required in                      the exercise of a particular authority, recourse                      must be had to the objects within the purview of                      that authority.                                 --Madison.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pyrope \Pyr"ope\, n. [L. pyropus a kind of red bronze, fr. Gr.       [?]; [?] fire + [?] the eye, face: cf. F. pyrope.] (Min.)       A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color,       frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gem. See       the Note under {Garnet}.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Provo, SD       Zip code(s): 57774    Provo, UT (city, FIPS 62470)       Location: 40.24715 N, 111.64267 W       Population (1990): 86835 (24578 housing units)       Area: 100.0 sq km (land), 5.5 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 84601, 84604, 84606
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
perf /perf/ n.   Syn. {chad} (sense 1).   The term `perfory'    /per'f*-ree/ is also heard.   The term {perf} may also refer to the    perforations themselves, rather than the chad they produce when torn    (philatelists use it this way).
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
perf          {chad}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
\perp          {LaTeX} inverted T.   Used in {domain theory} to represent       {bottom}.          (1995-02-03)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PREP          1. (PReP) {PowerPC Reference Platform}.          2. (PREP) PRogrammed Electronics Patterns.   Language for       designing {integrated circuit}s.   ["Computer Assisted Mask       Production", R.L. Rosenfeld, Proc IEEE 57(9) Sep 1969].
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Probe          An {object-oriented} {logic language} based on {ObjVlisp}.          ["Proposition d'une Extension Objet Minimale pour Prolog",       Actes du Sem Prog en Logique, Tregastel (May 1987),       pp. 483-506].
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
proof          1. A {finite} sequence of {well-formed formula}s, F1,       F2, ... Fn, where each Fi either is an {axiom}, or follows by       some rule of inference from some of the previous F's, and Fn       is the statement being proved.          See also {proof theory}.          2. A left-associative {natural language} {parser} by Craig       R. Latta .   Ported to {Decstation       3100}, {Sun-4}.          {(ftp://scam.berkeley.edu/pub/src/local/proof/)}.          E-mail: .   Mailing list:       proof-requestf@xcf.berkeley.edu (Subject: add me).          (1994-11-29)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Purify          A debugging tool from Pure Software.