passion
A true desire sustained or prolonged.
English words 1,001–5,000 · Từ tiếng Anh 1.001–5.000 3,214
The next four thousand English words by corpus frequency. Definitions adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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patent
An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent.
path
A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
pathetic
Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos.
patience
The quality of being patient.
patient
Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
patrol
A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.
paying
payment
payment
The act of paying.
PC
Initialism of personal computer. — A personal computer, especially one similar to an IBM PC that runs Microsoft Windows (or, originally, DOS), usually as opposed to (say) an Apple Mac.
peaceful
Not at war; not disturbed by strife or turmoil.
pearl
A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-o
peer
To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
penalty
A legal sentence.
pension
An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes.
people's
Considered to be of, from, or in tune with the common people, rather than from a ruling elite.
perceived
Generally recognized to be true.
percentage
The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
perception
The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
perfectly
With perfection.
performing
A performance.
permanent
Without end, eternal.
permission
authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
permit
To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for.
permitted
Allowed, authorized.
perry
A fermented alcoholic beverage made from pears, similar to hard apple cider.
personality
Of people, a set of non-physical psychological and social qualities that make one person distinct from another.
personally
In a personal manner.
personnel
Collection of people in an organization, such as employees and office staff, members of the military, etc.
perspective
A view, vista or outlook.
petition
A formal written request made by an individual or a group of people to a sovereign or political authority, often containing many signatures, soliciting some grace, right, mercy, or the redress of some wrong or grievance.
phase
A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.
phenomenon
A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof.
philosophy
An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism, often attempting to provide explanations relating to general concepts such as existence and rationality.
phoenix
A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
phones
headphones
photo
A photograph.
photograph
A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
photographer
One who takes photographs, typically as an occupation.
photography
The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
phrase
A short written or spoken expression.
physical
Of matter and nature. — Pertaining to the world as understood through the senses rather than the mind, having to do with the material world.
physically
In a physical manner.
physician
A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery.
physics
The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
piano
A percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings.
pic
A picture, especially a photographic image.
picked
Having a pick, or a particular number/type of pick (in any sense of the word)
picture-perfect
Completely flawless or ideal
pictures
cinema, movie theatre
pilot
A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
pin-drop
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
pissed
Drunk.
pizza
A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.
placing
The action by which something is placed; placement; positioning.
plain
Simple, unaltered. — Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
plane
Of a surface: flat or level.
planet
Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
planned
Existing or designed according to a plan.
planning
Verbal noun of plan: action of the verb to plan. — The act of formulating of a course of action, or of drawing up plans.