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Ploid
- unknown - Complete set of chromosomes
Poked
- verb -
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist"
- make a hole by poking
- search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office"
- stir by poking; "poke the embers in the fireplace"
Poled
- verb - deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole
- propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "We went punting in Cambridge"
- support on poles; "pole climbing plants like beans"
Pored
- verb - direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
Posed
- verb - arranged for pictorial purposes
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
- be a mystery or bewildering to;
- behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself"
- introduce; "This poses an interesting question"
- pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
- put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
Pound
- noun - 16 ounces avoirdupois; "he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds"
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs; "unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound"
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle; "pound the roots with a heavy flat stone"
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist"
- move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the room"
- move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast"
- partition off into compartments; "The locks pound the water of the canal"
Pried
- verb - be nosey; "Don't pry into my personal matters!"
- make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him"
- search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office"
- to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"
Prodd
- - A crossbow. See Prod, 3.
Proud
- adjective - feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride; "proud parents"; "proud of his accomplishments"; "a proud moment"; "proud to serve his country"; "a proud name"; "proud princes"
- having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks"