| plane1 |
Plane is a short word for airplane. |
| planet |
A planet is a large thing in space that moves around a star. Planets are much smaller than stars, and they don't give off light as stars do. Earth is a planet that moves around the star that we call the sun. The other planets that move around the sun are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. |
| planetarium |
A planetarium is a place where you can see a show about stars, planets, and other things in space. When you look up at the big, round ceiling in a planetarium, it looks like the night sky, and the show makes you feel as if you are traveling through space. |
| plant |
A plant is a living thing that has leaves and roots that usually grow in the ground. Plants use light from the sun to make their own food. Grass, trees, vegetables, and flowers are plants. [3 definitions] |
| plastic |
Plastic is a substance made from certain kinds of chemicals. Plastic begins as a soft substance and then becomes more solid. It can be made into many kinds of shapes when it is soft. Toys, dishes, furniture, and many other things can be made of plastic. |
| plate |
A plate is a flat dish used to hold food. There are plates of many sizes for serving and eating food. |
| plateau |
A plateau is a very high piece of land that is quite flat. Some plateaus are like flat hills or mountains, but some plateaus are high areas of land that stretch out for hundreds of miles. |
| play |
When you play, you do things to have fun. [5 definitions] |
| player |
A player is someone who plays in a game or sport. If you are hitting or throwing a ball in a game, you are a player. [2 definitions] |
| playground |
A playground is a place where children can play. Playgrounds often have things that are fun to play on like slides and swings. Many schools and parks have playgrounds. |
| pleasant |
When something is pleasant, it makes us feel good. Most people think that a warm, sunny day is a pleasant thing. [2 definitions] |
| please |
When you please someone, you make them happy or you do something that they like. [2 definitions] |
| pleasure |
When something gives you pleasure, it makes you feel happy. Petting a cat or smelling a nice flower gives many people pleasure. People do many things because they have to, but they also do things just for pleasure, for fun. Watching movies, reading, swimming, and playing a game or sport are some things that people do for pleasure. |
| plenty |
When there is plenty of something, there is a lot of it and maybe more than you need. |
| pliers |
A pliers is a kind of tool that people use for holding, bending, and sometimes cutting things. |
| plug |
A plug is a thing used for getting electricity to something like a lamp or television or toaster. A plug is made of plastic or rubber, and it has two or three round or flat pieces of metal that stick out from it. A plug is attached to the end of a cord, and the cord is connected to something that uses electricity. To bring electricity to this thing, we put the plug into something called an outlet in the wall. When the plug is in the outlet, electricity flows through the cord. |
| plumber |
A plumber is a person whose job is to work on pipes that carry water through buildings. |
| plural |
When you use a word that is plural, you are talking about more than one of some kind of thing. The word "books" is plural, but the word "book" is not. We say "one book," but we say "two books." |
| plus |
Plus has the meaning of adding things together. When we say two plus two equals four, it means that two added to two equals four. |
| plus sign |
One action we do with numbers is to add them together. An example of adding is "two plus three equals five." When we write this in numbers, we use something called a plus sign (+) between the first two numbers: 2 + 3. The plus sign tells us that what is going to happen with these two numbers is adding. |
| Pluto |
Pluto is a round object in outer space. Like our Earth, it moves around the sun. Scientists used to call Pluto a planet. It was the planet that was the smallest and farthest from the sun. But, now, scientists think Pluto is a little different from a real planet, and they don't call it a planet anymore. |