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PLEASE
please
(adverb) used in polite request; “please pay attention”
please, delight
(verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to; “These colors please the senses”; “a pleasing sensation”
please
(verb) give satisfaction; “The waiters around her aim to please”
please
(verb) be the will of or have the will (to); “he could do many things if he pleased”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
please (third-person singular simple present pleases, present participle pleasing, simple past and past participle pleased)
(ambitransitive) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
(intransitive, ergative) To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
Synonyms
• (to make happy): satisfy
• (to desire): desire, will
Antonyms
• (to make happy): annoy, irritate, disgust, displease
Etymology 2
Adverb
please (not comparable)
Used to make a polite request.
Used as an affirmative to an offer.
An expression of annoyance or impatience.
Etymology 3
Adverb
please (not comparable)
(Cincinnati) Said as a request to repeat information.
Synonyms
• (request to repeat): what, excuse me, pardon me, come again; see also say again
Anagrams
• Sapele, asleep, elapse, sapele
Source: Wiktionary
Please, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pleased; p. pr. & vb. n. Pleasing.] Etym: [OE. plesen, OF. plaisir, fr. L. placere, akin to placare to reconcile. Cf. Complacent, Placable, Placid, Plea, Plead, Pleasure.]
1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy. I pray to God that it may plesen you. Chaucer. What next I bring shall please thee, be assured. Milton.
2. To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will. Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he. Ps. cxxxv. 6. A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases, are the same things in common speech. J. Edwards.
3. To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used impersonally. "It pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell." Col. i. 19. To-morrow, may it please you. Shak. To be pleased in or with, to have complacency in; to take pleasure in.
– To be pleased to do a thing, to take pleasure in doing it; to have the will to do it; to think proper to do it. Dryden.
Please, v. i.
1. To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions. What pleasing scemed, for her now pleases more. Milton. For we that live to please, must please to live. Johnson.
2. To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent. Heavenly stranger, please to taste These bounties. Milton. That he would please 8give me my liberty. Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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