Sherlock Holmes and his friend Watson were on a camping and hiking trip.
They had gone to bed and were lying there looking up at the sky. Holmes said, "Watson, look up. What do you see?"
"Well, I see thousands of stars."
"And what does that mean to you?"
"Well, I guess it means we will have another nice day tomorrow. What does it mean to you, Holmes?"
"To me, it means someone has stolen our tent."
n. (pl. -dia) membranous sac enclosing the heart. [greek kardia heart]
PERIPATETIC
—adj. - (of a teacher) working in more than one school or college etc.
- going from place to place; itinerant. —n. Peripatetic person, esp. A teacher. [greek pateo walk]
PERIPHRASIS
n. (pl. -phrases) 1 roundabout way of speaking; circumlocution.
- roundabout phrase. periphrastic adj. [greek: related to *phrase]
PERISTALSIS
n. Involuntary muscular wavelike movement by which the contents of the digestive tract are propelled along it. [greek peristello wrap around]
PERITONITIS
n. Inflammatory disease of the peritoneum.
PERMISSIBLE
adj. Allowable. permissibility n. [french or medieval latin: related to *permit]
PERMUTATION
n. - one of the possible ordered arrangements or groupings of a set of things.
- combination or selection of a specified number of things from a larger group, esp. Matches in a football pool. [latin permuto change thoroughly]
PERSONALITY
n. (pl. -ies) 1 a person's distinctive character or qualities (has a strong personality). B socially attractive qualities (was clever but had no personality).
- famous person (tv personality).
- (in pl.) Personal remarks.
PERSONALIZE
v. (also -ise) (-zing or -sing) 1 make personal, esp. By marking with one's name etc.
- personify.
PERSPECTIVE
—n. - a art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of relative positions, size, etc. B picture so drawn.
- apparent relation between visible objects as to position, distance, etc.
- mental view of the relative importance of things.
- view, esp. Stretching into the distance. —adj. Of or in perspective. in (or out of) perspective 1 drawn or viewed according (or not according) to the rules of perspective.
- correctly (or incorrectly) regarded in terms of relative importance. [latin perspicio -spect- look at]
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