p-type semiconductor
         n 1: a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due
               chiefly to the movement of positive holes

English Dictionary: put back	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
paid vacation n a vacation from work by an employee with pay granted
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
peat bog n wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel Synonym(s): bog, peat bog
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pettifog v argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies" Synonym(s): quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pettifogger n a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods Synonym(s): shyster, pettifogger a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections Synonym(s): quibbler, caviller, caviler, pettifogger
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pettifoggery n a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
petty officer n a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army Synonym(s): petty officer, PO, P.O.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
photo-offset n a method of offset printing using photomechanical plates Synonym(s): photo-offset printing, photo-offset
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
photo-offset printing n a method of offset printing using photomechanical plates Synonym(s): photo-offset printing, photo-offset
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
photopic vision n normal vision in daylight; vision with sufficient illumination that the cones are active and hue is perceived Synonym(s): daylight vision, photopic vision
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
photopigment n a special pigment found in the rods and cones of the retina
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
phytophagic adj (of animals) feeding on plants [syn: plant-eating(a), phytophagic, phytophagous, phytophilous]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
phytophagous adj (of animals) feeding on plants [syn: plant-eating(a), phytophagic, phytophagous, phytophilous]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Pituophis n bull snakes Synonym(s): Pituophis, genus Pituophis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Pituophis melanoleucus n bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows Synonym(s): gopher snake, Pituophis melanoleucus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
put back v put something back where it belongs; "replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it"; "please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them" Synonym(s): replace, put back cost a certain amount; "My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000" Synonym(s): set back, knock back, put back
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Patefaction \Pat`e*fac"tion\, n. [L. patefactio, fr. patefacere       to open; patere to lie open + facere to make.]       The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open       declaration. --Jer. Taylor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peat \Peat\, n. [Prob. for beat, prop., material used to make       the fire burn better, fr. AS. b[?]tan to better, mend (a       fire), b[?]t advantage. See {Better}, {Boot} advantage.]       A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and       fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and       found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations,       where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is       often dried and used for fuel.          {Peat bog}, a bog containing peat; also, peat as it occurs in             such places; peat moss.          {Peat moss}.       (a) The plants which, when decomposed, become peat.       (b) A fen producing peat.       (c) (Bot.) Moss of the genus {Sphagnum}, which often grows             abundantly in boggy or peaty places.          {Peat reek}, the reek or smoke of peat; hence, also, the             peculiar flavor given to whisky by being distilled with             peat as fuel. [Scot.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pettifog \Pet"ti*fog\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pettifogged}; p. pr.       & vb. n. {Pettifogging}.] [Petty + fog to pettifog.]       To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business       in a petty or tricky way. [bd]He takes no money, but       pettifogs gratis.[b8] --S. Butler.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pettifog \Pet"ti*fog\, v. t.       To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to       pettifog a claim. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pettifog \Pet"ti*fog\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pettifogged}; p. pr.       & vb. n. {Pettifogging}.] [Petty + fog to pettifog.]       To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business       in a petty or tricky way. [bd]He takes no money, but       pettifogs gratis.[b8] --S. Butler.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pettifogger \Pet"ti*fog`ger\, n.       A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods       are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.                   A pettifogger was lord chancellor.         --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pettifoggery \Pet"ti*fog`ger*y\, n.; pl. -{ies}.       The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks;       quibbles.                   Quirks of law, and pettifoggeries.         --Barrow.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pettifog \Pet"ti*fog\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pettifogged}; p. pr.       & vb. n. {Pettifogging}.] [Petty + fog to pettifog.]       To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business       in a petty or tricky way. [bd]He takes no money, but       pettifogs gratis.[b8] --S. Butler.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pettifogging \Pet"ti*fog`ging\, a.       Paltry; quibbling; mean.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pettifogging \Pet"ti*fog`ging\, n.       Pettifoggery.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pettifogulize \Pet`ti*fog"u*lize\, v. i.       To act as a pettifogger; to use contemptible tricks. --De       Quincey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Petty \Pet"ty\, a. [Compar. {Pettier}; superl. {Pettiest}.] [OE.       petit, F. petit; probably of Celtic origin, and akin to E.       piece. Cf. {Petit}.]       Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior;       subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. --Denham.                   Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all.                                                                               --Milton.          {Petty averages}. See under {Average}.          {Petty cash}, money expended or received in small items or             amounts.          {Petty officer}, a subofficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc.,             corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army.          Note: For petty constable, petty jury, petty larceny, petty                treason, See {Petit}.          Syn: Little; diminutive; inconsiderable; inferior; trifling;                trivial; unimportant; frivolous.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Phd2bus \Ph[d2]"bus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] pure,       bright.]       1. (Class. Myth.) Apollo; the sun god.          2. The sun. [bd]Ph[d2]bus 'gins arise.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Photopsia \Pho*top"si*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. fw^s, fwto`s, light +       [?] sight.] (Med.)       An affection of the eye, in which the patient perceives       luminous rays, flashes, coruscations, etc. See {phosphene}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Photopsy \Pho*top"sy\, n.       Same as {Photopsia}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Photovisual \Pho`to*vis"u*al\, a. (Optics)       Of certain achromatic lenses, having the same focus for the       actinic and for the brightest of the visual rays.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
1. The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance             constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of             dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close             arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure.             It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or             utility.          Note: Ivory is the name commercially given not only to the                substance constituting the tusks of the elephant, but                also to that of the tusks of the hippopotamus and                walrus, the hornlike tusk of the narwhal, etc.          2. The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.          3. Any carving executed in ivory. --Mollett.          4. pl. Teeth; as, to show one's ivories. [Slang]          {Ivory black}. See under {Black}, n.          {Ivory gull} (Zo[94]l.), a white Arctic gull ({Larus             eburneus}).          {Ivory nut} (Bot.), the nut of a species of palm, the             {Phytephas macroarpa}, often as large as a hen's egg. When             young the seed contains a fluid, which gradually hardness             into a whitish, close-grained, albuminous substance,             resembling the finest ivory in texture and color, whence             it is called {vegetable ivory}. It is wrought into various             articles, as buttons, chessmen, etc. The palm is found in             New Grenada. A smaller kind is the fruit of the {Phytephas             microarpa}. The nuts are known in commerce as Corosso             nuts.          {Ivory palm} (Bot.), the palm tree which produces ivory nuts.                      {Ivory shell} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Eburna}, a genus of             marine gastropod shells, having a smooth surface, usually             white with red or brown spots.          {Vegetable ivory}, the meat of the ivory nut. See {Ivory nut}             (above).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
1. The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance             constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of             dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close             arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure.             It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or             utility.          Note: Ivory is the name commercially given not only to the                substance constituting the tusks of the elephant, but                also to that of the tusks of the hippopotamus and                walrus, the hornlike tusk of the narwhal, etc.          2. The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.          3. Any carving executed in ivory. --Mollett.          4. pl. Teeth; as, to show one's ivories. [Slang]          {Ivory black}. See under {Black}, n.          {Ivory gull} (Zo[94]l.), a white Arctic gull ({Larus             eburneus}).          {Ivory nut} (Bot.), the nut of a species of palm, the             {Phytephas macroarpa}, often as large as a hen's egg. When             young the seed contains a fluid, which gradually hardness             into a whitish, close-grained, albuminous substance,             resembling the finest ivory in texture and color, whence             it is called {vegetable ivory}. It is wrought into various             articles, as buttons, chessmen, etc. The palm is found in             New Grenada. A smaller kind is the fruit of the {Phytephas             microarpa}. The nuts are known in commerce as Corosso             nuts.          {Ivory palm} (Bot.), the palm tree which produces ivory nuts.                      {Ivory shell} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Eburna}, a genus of             marine gastropod shells, having a smooth surface, usually             white with red or brown spots.          {Vegetable ivory}, the meat of the ivory nut. See {Ivory nut}             (above).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Phytophagic \Phy`to*phag"ic\, a. (Zo[94]l.)       Phytophagous.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Phytophagous \Phy*toph"a*gous\, a. [Phyto- + Gr. [?] to eat.]       (Zo[94]l.)       Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Phytophagy \Phy*toph"a*gy\, n.       The eating of plants.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Phytophysiology \Phy`to*phys`i*ol"o*gy\, n. [Phyto- +       physiology.]       Vegetable physiology.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rust \Rust\, n. [AS. rust; akin to D. roest, G. & Sw. rost,       Icel. ry[eb]; -- named from its color, and akin to E. red.       [fb]113. See {Red}.]       1. (Chem.) The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when             exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or             hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of             corrosion.          2. (Bot.) A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty             spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses             ({Trichobasis Rubigo-vera}), now usually believed to be a             form or condition of the corn mildew ({Puccinia             graminis}). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as             corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish.          Note: Rust is also applied to many other minute fungi which                infest vegetation, such as the species of {Ustilago},                {Uredo}, and {Lecythea}.          3. That which resembles rust in appearance or effects.             Specifically: (a) A composition used in making a rust             joint. See {Rust joint}, below.             (b) Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on                   salted meat.             (c) Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence.                               Sacred truths cleared from all rust and dross of                            human mixtures.                           --Eikon                                                                               Basilike.          Note: Rust is used in the formation of compounds of obvious                meaning; as, rust-colored, rust-consumed, rust-eaten,                and the like.          {Rust joint}, a joint made between surfaces of iron by             filling the space between them with a wet mixture of             cast-iron borings, sal ammoniac, and sulphur, which by             oxidation becomes hard, and impervious to steam, water,             etc.          {Rust mite} (Zo[94]l.), a minute mite ({Phytopius oleivorus})             which, by puncturing the rind, causes the rust-colored             patches on oranges.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pine \Pine\, n. [AS. p[c6]n, L. pinus.]       1. (Bot.) Any tree of the coniferous genus {Pinus}. See             {Pinus}.          Note: There are about twenty-eight species in the United                States, of which the {white pine} ({P. Strobus}), the                {Georgia pine} ({P. australis}), the {red pine} ({P.                resinosa}), and the great West Coast {sugar pine} ({P.                Lambertiana}) are among the most valuable. The {Scotch                pine} or {fir}, also called {Norway} or {Riga pine}                ({Pinus sylvestris}), is the only British species. The                {nut pine} is any pine tree, or species of pine, which                bears large edible seeds. See {Pinon}. The spruces,                firs, larches, and true cedars, though formerly                considered pines, are now commonly assigned to other                genera.          2. The wood of the pine tree.          3. A pineapple.          {Ground pine}. (Bot.) See under {Ground}.          {Norfolk Island pine} (Bot.), a beautiful coniferous tree,             the {Araucaria excelsa}.          {Pine barren}, a tract of infertile land which is covered             with pines. [Southern U.S.]          {Pine borer} (Zo[94]l.), any beetle whose larv[91] bore into             pine trees.          {Pine finch}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pinefinch}, in the Vocabulary.                      {Pine grosbeak} (Zo[94]l.), a large grosbeak ({Pinicola             enucleator}), which inhabits the northern parts of both             hemispheres. The adult male is more or less tinged with             red.          {Pine lizard} (Zo[94]l.), a small, very active, mottled gray             lizard ({Sceloporus undulatus}), native of the Middle             States; -- called also {swift}, {brown scorpion}, and             {alligator}.          {Pine marten}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) A European weasel ({Mustela martes}), called also                   {sweet marten}, and {yellow-breasted marten}.             (b) The American sable. See {Sable}.          {Pine moth} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small             tortricid moths of the genus {Retinia}, whose larv[91]             burrow in the ends of the branchlets of pine trees, often             doing great damage.          {Pine mouse} (Zo[94]l.), an American wild mouse ({Arvicola             pinetorum}), native of the Middle States. It lives in pine             forests.          {Pine needle} (Bot.), one of the slender needle-shaped leaves             of a pine tree. See {Pinus}.          {Pine-needle wool}. See {Pine wool} (below).          {Pine oil}, an oil resembling turpentine, obtained from fir             and pine trees, and used in making varnishes and colors.                      {Pine snake} (Zo[94]l.), a large harmless North American             snake ({Pituophis melanoleucus}). It is whitish, covered             with brown blotches having black margins. Called also             {bull snake}. The Western pine snake ({P. Sayi}) is             chestnut-brown, mottled with black and orange.          {Pine tree} (Bot.), a tree of the genus {Pinus}; pine.          {Pine-tree money}, money coined in Massachusetts in the             seventeenth century, and so called from its bearing a             figure of a pine tree.          {Pine weevil} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of             weevils whose larv[91] bore in the wood of pine trees.             Several species are known in both Europe and America,             belonging to the genera {Pissodes}, {Hylobius}, etc.          {Pine wool}, a fiber obtained from pine needles by steaming             them. It is prepared on a large scale in some of the             Southern United States, and has many uses in the economic             arts; -- called also {pine-needle wool}, and {pine-wood             wool}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Putty-faced \Put"ty-faced`\, a.       White-faced; -- used contemptuously. --Clarke.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Patapsco, MD       Zip code(s): 21048
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Path Pascal          Parallel extension of Pascal.   Processes have shared access to       data objects.   Constraints on their synchronisation are       specified in a path expression.          ["An Overview of Path Pascal's Design", R.H. Campbell, SIGPLAN       Notices 15(9):13-24 (Sep 1980)].
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PDP Assembly Language          (PAL) The {assembly language} for the {PDP-8} and       {PDP-11}.          [Description?]          (1995-01-26)