Please

Definition: Please

Please

Verb

1. Give pleasure to; be pleasing to.

2. Be the will of or have the will (to); "he could do many things if he pleased".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "please" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Satire

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

PLEASE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Please

Amusement

Recreate, solace, cheer, rejoice; please; interest; treat, regale.

Consent

Adverb: OK, yes; (assent); by all means; (willingly); no problem; if you please, as you please; be it so, so be it, well and good, of course; please do; don't hesitate.

Deprecation

Interjection: cry you mercy! God forbid! forbid it Heaven! Heaven forefend, Heaven forbid! far be it from! hands off!; (prohibition); please don't.

Fastidiousness

Adjective: fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal, difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned; squeasy, queasy; hard to please, difficult to please; querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous; censorious; hypercritical; overcritical.

Obedience

Phrase: to hear is to obey; as you please, if you please; your wish is my command; as you wish; no sooner said than done.

Pain

Please, charm, delight, becharm, imparadise; gladden; (make cheerful); take, captivate, fascinate; enchant, entrance, enrapture, transport, bewitch; enravish.

Request

Adverb: prithee, do, please, pray; be so good as, be good enough; have the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please.

Selfishness

Verb: be selfish; Adjective: please oneself, indulge oneself, coddle oneself; consult one's own wishes, consult one's own pleasure; look after one's own interest; feather one's nest; take care of number one, have an eye to the main chance, know on which side one's bread is buttered; give an inch and take an ell.

Crosswords: Please

Please tell me that their lawyer hasn't pinned their hopes on a phone bill (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Please, don't start that again (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

Why, isn't that what I'm doing? I mean if it's something else, please advise me Maury (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe)

Yeah, King Jaffe Joffer's room, please. Yeah, hello, King (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield)

Long Island Ice Tea, please. (The Opposite of Sex; writing credit: Don Roos.)

Wanna please you anyway I can (One In A Million; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Oh I'll speak my Southern English just as natural as I please ("My Home's in Alabama"; performing artist: Alabama)

Gone get down on my knees hopin' you please. (How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore; performing artist: Alicia Keys)

Make me walk, make me talk, do whatever you please (Barbie Girl; performing artist: Aqua)

And beg you to please see me (Until You Come Back To Me; performing artist: Aretha Franklin)

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Illinois: Please Don't Pronounce the "S (references; author: unknown)

Sign at the Pavlov Institute: Knock. Please don't ring bell. (references; author: unknown)

It is OK to let your mind go blank, but please turn off the sound. (references; author: unknown)

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you ought. (references; author: unknown)

Paul, please pause for proper applause. (references; author: unknown)

Please pay promptly. (references; author: unknown)

Please Don't Eat My Mother (1972)

We're Sorry! Please Sir (1972)

Please Stand by (1972)

Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down? (1970)

Please Hurry! (1969)

Please Don't Talk About Me (performing artist: Louis Armstrong)

Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (performing artist: Sammy Jr. Davis)

Please Help Me, I'm Falling (performing artist: Hank Locklin)

Please Don't Go (performing artist: K.W.S.)

Please Don't Go (performing artist: KC and the Sunshine Band)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Dying to Please (reference)

• Elder Rage, or Take My Father... Please!: How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents (reference)

• "... call me Eldon, please." (reference)

• Please Don't Just Do What I Tell You, Do What Needs to Be Done: Every Employee's Guide to Making Work More Rewarding (reference)

• Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Prosze Slonia DVD / Please, Mr. Elephant DVD (reference)

• The Twilight Zone: Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up/ To Serve Man (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Please Come Home for Christmas (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• HP Procurve 100/1000bt Module1port *sales Please Pull From Br89* (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Dune buggies can be great fun on Arizona public lands, but please be careful!. Credit: Beth Perault.

I have AIDS Please Hug Me Poster.

... One thousand pounds, old father, if you please; / [John Collier]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Jerry "Beat to a stand still", Dr. Please 'Em's prescription,...] / Drawn & Engd. by I.R. & G. Cruickshank. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The great Presidential sweepstakes of 1856. Free for all ages, "go as they please". Credit: Library of Congress.

Dog: please your Honor, I want to change my name from Dachschund to French Bull. Credit: Library of Congress.

He strives to please. Credit: Library of Congress.

Little Flower, please don't forget a loyal Tammanyite is putting up for this radio time!. Credit: Library of Congress.

What every husband knows. Ed, please make out those checks! The bills are all ... Credit: Library of Congress.

'May I please have your undivided attention?' / Oliphant. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Nor let any one say, that mischief can arise from hence, as often as it shall please a busy head, or turbulent spirit, to desire the alteration of the government. (Second Treatise of Government)

The constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She was received with a cordial respect which could not but please, and given all the consequence she could wish for.

Dirk, please, if you would

(r)To please you, O Athenians

Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 't was natural to please.

Please come and take me home

He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town, Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us.

I desired the Captain would please to accept this ring in return of his civilities, which he absolutely refused

I think I shall not buy greedily, but go round and round it as long as I live, and be buried in it first, that it may please me the more at last

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Most are shy, quiet, and eager to please the teacher. (references)

A. Please contact your state or local health department. (references)

If you take more medicines, please list them on a separate paper. (references)

Business

Japanese consumers are hard to please. (references)

It says that Japanese consumers are hard to please. (references)

If you would like to have information on exact labeling requirements, please contact the MITI office below. (references)

Civil Liberties

Malaysia

Citizens generally have the right to travel, live, and work where they please; however, the Government restricts these rights in some circumstances. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

In the event of a dispute on discrimination of a procurement by MoD or one of its buying offices, please contact the Office of Military Cooperation to notify them of the problem and request their assistance. (references)

Moldova

These leads are then sent out by email to U.S. companies that subscribed to the Moldova distribution list and are also posted on BISNIS's website (www.bisnis.doc.gov). For more information, please contact BISNIS at bisnis@ita.doc.gov or call (202) 482-4655. (references)

Trade

Argentina

At this point in time, for information on labeling requirements of hazardous materials, please contact the ANMAT (above) with your request including the product's HS number. (references)

Argentina

For lists of the U.S.-made products for which minimum import prices have been established, please contact Commercial Service Buenos Aires at Buenos.Aires.Office.Box@mail.doc.gov. It includes HS headings/subheadings, product description, reference dollar value (FOB), unit of quantity, and country of origin. (references)

Argentina

Please consult a freight forwarder, an insurance company, a port terminal, or a customs broker for exact costs. (references)

Travel

Thailand

An importer can use the letter of guarantee as a substitute to the import entry form and the payment guarantee . The importer must complete the carnet import/re-export document and submit it to Customs officers at Thailand's port of entry . The Customs officers will inspect the goods, keep a copy of the import entry form and return the carnet book to the importer . If the goods are not taken out within the period of time stated in the contract, the guarantor will have to pay duty, a 10 percent penalty, and any applicable fees . For further information, please contact the Privilege Goods and Investment Promotion Sub-Division tel: (662) 249-4150, fax: (662) 249-4212. (references)

Chile

The following are Chile's legal holidays for 2001. Because some dates will vary on an annual basis, please check www.embassy.cl/holiday.htm . (references)

Thailand

Thai Customs Department policy and procedures on temporary entry of goods for business practices and exhibitions are described below . For further information, please contact Bangkok International Airport Customs House tel: (662) 535-1550, Public Relations Sub-Division, Customs Department tel: (662) 249-9017, 249-3298; Customs Department web site: www.customs.go.th or the Commercial Service Bangkok tel: (662) 205-5090. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "please": as cool as you please ♦ as you please ♦ be hard to please ♦ can you please ..? ♦ difficult to please ♦ do as you please ♦ enclosed please find ♦ hard to please ♦ he is hard to please ♦ if you please ♦ i'll do as please ♦ it might please you to know ♦ may it please god to grant it! ♦ more ... please ♦ more water please ♦ my bill please ♦ next please ♦ please be seated ♦ please be seated! ♦ please call my people! ♦ please come in! ♦ please come to the point ♦ please daddy! ♦ please do ♦ please do not speak to the driver! ♦ please do! ♦ please don't ♦ please forward ♦ please god ♦ please god he comes ♦ please god! ♦ please help yourself! ♦ please oneself ♦ please onself ♦ please pass me the sugar ♦ please remain seated ♦ Please send corrections to Oliver Heidelbach ♦ please smb. ♦ please smb. greatly ♦ please stop that noise! ♦ please take a seat! ♦ please the ear ♦ please think about it ♦ please wait a moment ♦ please wait! ♦ please write it down ♦ please your honor! ♦ please your honour! ♦ please yourself ♦ please yourself! ♦ table for two please ♦ the same again please ♦ try to please ♦ when you please ♦ wishful to please ♦ would you please ..? ♦ you may please yourself about it. Additional references.

Beginning with "please": please-don't-put-us-through-demille-again, please-don't-thank-me, please-we.

Ending with "please": p-please.

Containing "please": god-please-be-kind-and-let-it-be-so.

Afrikaans

asseblief. (various references)

Albanian

pëlqej (affect, approve, enjoy, fancy, Favor, favour, like, love, relish, take to), lutem (appeal, be at one's devotions, beg, entreat, implore, petition, plead, pray, short circuit, solicit, supplicate), kënaq (appease, content, enchant, feast, gratify, humor, humour, indulge, regale, satisfy, suffice), dua (aim, appreciate, be fond of, be keen on, be willing to, care, care for, choose, do with, fancy, intend, like, love, seek, take a fancy to, want, wish), dëshiroj (aspire, care, choose, crave, desiderate, desire, like, list, love, want, wish, wish for). (various references)

Arabic 

‏من فضلك (in care to you), ‏سر (breeze, brighten, delight, divert, gladden, gratify, mystery, pleasure, reserve, satisfy, secret, steer), ‏عجب (admire, appreciate, commend, elation, enamor, enamour, fall for, marvel, overconfidence, pomp, strike, vainglory, weirdness, wonder, wonderment), ‏ارجوك, ‏إذا سمحت, ‏أسعد (impale, make, warm), ‏أشبع (appease, assuage, charge, drench, feed, flood, full, gratify, requite, sate, satiate, saturate, slake, soak, steep), ‏رضى (accept, be content with, cater for, feed, get on with smth., gratify, pleasure, sate, satisfy, tickle, unhand). (various references)

Basque

mesedez. (various references)

Bavarian

gäh san s so guad. (various references)

Breton

plijfe (it would please), blijfe (it would please). (various references)

Bulgarian 

угаждам на (gratify, humor, humour, pamper), удовлетворявам (gratify, indulge, satisfy, suffice, supply), харесвам се на (fetch), нравя се на (commend, suit), намирам за добре (choose, elect), моля (adjure, ask, beg, implore, invoke, pray, request, solicit, supplicate), задоволявам (answer, cater for, content, cover, fulfil, fulfill, gratify, indulge, salve, satisfy, serve, slake, suffice, suit), благоволявам (condescend, deign, favour, stoop, vouchsafe), приятно ми е (be glad, joy, relish), порадвам (delight), понравям се (make smb.'s agreeable, suit), искам (ask, call for, choose, demand, desire, like, list, postulate, request, require, seek, tax, want, will, wilt, wish, would), доставям удоволствие на (delight), доволен съм (be content with, be glad, be pleased, be satisfied, content). (various references)

Catalan

plau, agradar. (various references)

Chinese 

請 (to ask, to invite, to request, to treat), 请, 祈 (implore, pray), 使高興 (gratify, make happy, rejoice). (various references)

Croatian

molim (beg, to beg). (various references)

Czech

potìšit (cheer, gladden, tickle), uspokojit (appease, gratify, satisfy, tickle), rozradovat (delight), ráèit, líbit se (attract, enjoy, like, love, pleasure, relish), chtít (choose, intend, mean, want, wish). (various references)

Danish

vær så god at, behage. (various references)

Dutch

wees zo goed, alstublieft (behold, here are, here is, here you are, look), alsjeblieft (behold, here are, here is, here you are, look). (various references)

Esperanto

plaĉi, bv., bonvolu. (various references)

Estonian

palun, meeldi. (various references)

Faeroese

veit mær tann beina, ger so væl, dáma (appreciate, fare, like). (various references)

Farsi 

کیف کردن , لطفا, سرگرم کردن (Amuse, Entertain, Inveigle, Occupy, Sport), خواهشمنداست , خشنودساختن (Appease), دلپذیرکردن . (various references)

Finnish

miellyttää (appeal, attract, catch a person's fancy). (various references)

Flemish

alstublieft. (various references)

French

plaire, s'il vous plaît (if you please). (various references)

Frisian

sinnigje, noaskje, asjebleaft. (various references)

German

gefallen (appeal, benefit, dropped, fallen, Favor, favors, favour, fell, killed in action, pleasure, relish, suit, to oblige, to please, tumbled, zestfulness), bitte (appeal, application, don't mention it, go ahead, have a seat, here you are, if you please, not at all, petition, plea, please do, please pass the bread, request, suit, sure, that's all right, this way in, you're welcome), belieben (discretion, pleasure), erfreuen (delight, gladden, gratify, make glad, rejoice, to please), behagen (be appropriate, be suitable, contentment, ease, pleasure, relish, suit). (various references)

Greek 

παρακαλώ (ask, beg, beseech, by all means, go ahead, implore, petition, plead, pray, request, solicit, urge, you are welcome), ευχαριστώ (content, gratify, satisfy, thank, thanks). (various references)

Guarani

néi, eremíkena (please say), eme'êna (give please), eme'êmína (give please), ejumína (please come), ñyromíkena (pardon please), ñyrõmína (please pardon). (various references)

Haitian Creole

tanpri, silvouplè. (various references)

Hebrew 

בבקשה. (various references)

Hungarian

tetszik valakinek, tessék (behold, help yourself, here are, here is, here it is, here you are, look), örömöt szerez. (various references)

Indonesian

silakan, senang (agreeable, delight, glad, snug), mari, coba (just imagine, make an attempt, try), apalah (what does it amount ?). (various references)

Irish

thaitin (did please). (various references)

Italian

piacere (appeal, be fond of, care, fun, like, pleasure), prego (after you, don't mention it, not at all, you welcome, you're welcome). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

頂戴　 (being given, reception), お願い致します , お願いします , 御願いします , 何卒 (by all means, kindly), 何分 (anyway, how many minutes?, what minute?), 下さい (please do for me), と比べて (after all, anyhow, at all, at any rate, at best, at most, by all means, compared with, in any case, it cannot be helped, kindly, somehow or other, there is a possibility, there is a tendency, there is no other way, what's the best thing to do?, What's the matter?, What's wrong?). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おねがいします, おねがいいたします, なにぶん (anyway), なにとぞ (by all means, kindly), ください (please do for me), どうぞ (by all means, kindly), どうか (somehow or other). (various references)

Korean 

제발. (various references)

Luganda

mwattu (dear). (various references)

Manx

cur taitnys da (amuse, gratify). (various references)

Norwegian

vær så god. (various references)

Occitan

agradar. (various references)

Pidgin English

excuse (to please). (various references)

Pig Latin

easeplay.(various references)

Polish

proszę, podobać się, zachciej, racz. (various references)

Portuguese

agradar (conceit, delight, flatter, gratify, kittle, like, list, pleasure), aprazer (pleasure). (various references)

Quechua

yanapariway (please help me), desculpariway (please excuse me). (various references)

Romanian

poftim (good god, goodness gracious, great guns, here you are, oh do, phew, there now, there you are), plãcea (catch the fancy of, like), vrea (can, care for, choose, expect, like, make, mean, will, wish), satisface (allay, answer, appease, cater for, content, fill, grant, gratify, humor, humour, meet, pander to, satisfy, serve, suit), mulţumi (acknowledge, cater for, content, fill, gratify, meet, recompense, reward, satisfy, suit, thank), face cum vrea. (various references)

Russian 

пожалуйста (if you please, prithee, would you please, you are welcome). (various references)

Scottish

taitinn (give delight, pleasing, satisfy), mas e bhur toil e. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prijati (go down well), zadovoljiti (fulfill, gratify, indulge, satisfy, suit, supply), ugoditi (accommodate, satisfy), svideti (suit), molim vas, izvoleti (deign), dopasti se. (various references)

Slovene

prosim. (various references)

Somali

fadlan. (various references)

Sotho

ak'u. (various references)

Spanish

por favor (prithee, turn it up), gustar (appeal, appeal to, appreciate, interest, like, love, suit, taste), agradar (favour, gratify, pleasure, promise, will, zestfulness). (various references)

Swahili

tafadhali. (various references)

Swedish

behaga (appeal to, choose, like, wish), vänligen. (various references)

Tagalog

paki. (various references)

Tahitian

na (how, in, when, with you). (various references)

Tswana

tsweetswee. (various references)

Turkish

lütfen (kindly). (various references)

Turkmen 

яaranmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

хотіти (care, choose, desire, want, will, wish), будь ласка (not at all, now, ta, you're welcome), бажати (admire, care, choose, desire, want, will, wish), прошу, подобатися (fancy, like), догоджати (adulate, cater, humor, humour, tickle). (various references)

Welsh

os gwelwch yn dda. (various references)

Xhosa

ndicela (May I please). (various references)

tukumbi. (various references)

adriserit, beneplacent, beneplacita, beneplacitae, beneplacitis, beneplacito, beneplacitum, beneplacuerit, commodo, conplaceant, conplaceat, conplacebam, conplacebit, conplacebunt, conplacet, conplacitior, conplacuisti, conplacuit, delectabar, delectaberis, delectabit, delectabitur, delectabor, delectabunt, delectabuntur, delectamini, delectans, delectare, delectari, delectaris, delectasti, delectat, delectata, delectati, delectatur, delectatus, delectaverunt, delectentur, delecteris, demere, iucunda, iucundabit, iucundabitur, iucundabor, iucundabuntur, iucundamini, iucundata, iucundatur, iucunderis, iucundo, iuda, iudae, iudam, iudamque, iudas, iudi, iuvat, oblectabit, oblectantur, oblectaret, oblectat, oblecteris, placeam, placeat, placebat, placebit, placebo, placebunt, placendum, placens, placent, placentem, placentes, placentia, placeo, placere, placerem, placeret, places, placet, placetur, placita, placitam, placito, placitos, placitum, placorem, placuerant, placuerat, placuerint, placueris, placuerit, placuerunt, placui, placuisse, placuisset, placuisti, placuit, placuitque. (various references)

lician. (various references)

plesir. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "please": pleased, pleaser, pleasers, pleases. (additional references)

Words ending with "please": displease. (additional references)

Words containing "please": displeased, displeases, timepleaser, timepleasers, unpleased. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Please" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blease, clease, flease, glease, peaze, pelame, peluse, pieuse, plaebe, plase, plause, pleabe, pleace, pleade, pleage, pleaseaaa, Pleass, pleasse, pleathe, pleaze, pleeese, Plensa, plesage, Pleso, plesser, Plessy, pleuse, Ploose. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: asleep, elapse.

-1 letter: easel, lapse, leaps, lease, pales, peals, pease, peels, peles, pleas, salep, sepal, sleep, spale, speel.

-2 letters: alee, ales, alps, apes, apse, ease, eels, else, laps, lase, leap, leas, lees, pale, pals, pase, peal, peas, peel, pees, pele, plea, sale, salp, seal, seel, seep, slap, spae.

-3 letters: ale, alp, als, ape, asp, eel, els.

+1 letter: beleaps, elapsed, elapses, empales, leapers, pelages, pleased, pleaser, pleases, presale, relapse, repeals, sepaled, spelean.

+2 letters: calipees, capelets, cypselae, deplanes, empalers, empanels, emplaces, emplanes, enplanes, ensample, epaulets, espalier, especial, examples, heeltaps, opalesce, paleness, palettes, palewise, parolees, peakless, pearlers, pedestal, penalise, percales, petrales, pleaches, pleaders, pleasers, pleasure, pleaters, pleiades, poleaxes, prelates, relapsed, relapser, relapses, repanels, replaces, replates, repleads, resample, seaplane, sepaline, sepalled, spaetzle, spalpeen, spelaean, tapeless, vesperal.