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p | penny |

As a letter p

is the sixteenth letter of the.

As a symbol p

is voiceless bilabial plosive.

As a noun penny is

(historical) in the united kingdom and ireland, a copper coin worth 1/240 of a pound sterling or irish pound before decimalisation abbreviation: d.

As a verb penny is

(slang) to jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door.

p

Translingual

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Letter

  • The sixteenth letter of the .

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * With hook: * (wynn) {{Letter , page=P , NATO=Papa , Morse=·––· , Character=P , Braille=? }} Image:Latin P.png, Capital and lowercase versions of P , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter P.png, Uppercase and lowercase P in Fraktur

    Symbol

    (Voiceless bilabial plosive) (head)
  • voiceless bilabial plosive
    • ----

    penny

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (lb) In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
  • In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1/100 of a pound sterling.
  • (lb) In Ireland, a coin worth 1/100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p.
  • In the US and Canada, a one-cent coin, worth 1/100 of a dollar. Abbreviation: .
  • In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.
  • A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.
  • Money in general.
  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:What penny hath Rome borne, / What men provided, what munition sent?

    • Usage notes

    The plural is used for other cases, in particular when referring to multiple individual coins.

    Synonyms

    * old penny * new penny (old-fashioned ) * (one-cent coin) cent

    Derived terms

    * a bad penny always turns up * bad penny * eightpenny nail * fourpenny nail * * pence * penniless * penny ante * penny arcade * penny dreadful * penny-farthing * penny for one's thoughts * penny pincher * penny wedding * penny whistle * pretty penny * sixpenny nail * tenpenny nail * watch the pennies

    Verb

  • (slang) To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door.
    • Zach and Ben had only been at college for a week when their door was pennied by the girls down the hall.
  • (electronics) To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.

    • See also

    * d * the penny drops English nouns with irregular plurals ----