Definition of please in English:

please

verb pliːzpliz

[with object]

1Cause to feel happy and satisfied.
he arranged a fishing trip to please his son
with object and infinitive it pleased him to be seen with someone in the news
Example sentencesExamples
- He loved the city and it pleased him that she was interested in its history.
- It pleased me to see New Jersey State Troopers out in force at the Newark airport.
- I knew they were just anxious to get started, and it pleased me.
- It pleased me somehow to be weathered by this deadly wind on my face and to be exposed to a gorgeous icy glare on this sunny afternoon.
- When they told me where they lived I had no idea where Downpatrick was, and it pleased me that now I had a passing acquaintance with the place.
- Though it pleased them that the fight was finally over, their losses were overwhelming.
- And there can be little doubt that, if nothing else, it pleased the Commission and Commissioner.
- It pleased him, though he couldn't think of any useful advice he'd given.
- He said it pleased him, and he was flattered not offended…
- Now only happiness lay before them and it pleased her well.
- It pleased me to know that he was a very good conversationalist, and was capable of holding intelligent conversation for more than two seconds.
- It grieved her for the same reason it pleased her.
- All we can say is that it pleased the Lord to do this.
- It pleased Maria to see Isabella able to enjoy herself again.
- The dancers before him danced and twirled just for him and it pleased him.
- It pleased me no end, trying to make amends for many years of imposed suppression.
- I could hear a smile over the line and it pleased me.
- Yet Katherine saw the small mistake, and it pleased her.
- It pleased him so much to see her doing new things and living her life.
- It pleased him to know that he might go on, far away from this place.
Synonyms
nice, agreeable, pleasant, pleasurable, satisfying, gratifying, welcome, good, acceptable, to one's liking, enjoyable, entertaining, amusing, delightful, fine
informal lovely
See also: pleasant (sense 1)
1. 1.1no object Give satisfaction.
  she was quiet and eager to please
  Example sentencesExamples
  A keen worker, Manuel is eager to please but possesses a poor command of the English language.
  Eager as ever to please, here's just two of the many dissertations we received.
  He is, by inclination, eager to please, keen to win support within his party and go with the political grain.
  Even the most eager to please and intelligent dog will need these rules reinforced all the time.
  She's a little bit wild, eager to please, sexually adventurous and willing to do what they want.
  Eager to please, it goes for easy laughs, reinforcing rather than challenging stereotypes.
  I was your typical white girl growing up in the suburbs - too nice, too eager to please.
  It may be equally frustrating to children who are eager to please, obtain approval, and gain parental acceptance.
  The Sanctuary itself was spectacularly built and was very aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
  The hotel offers rooms of five-star quality at four or even three-star prices and is notably eager to please.
  They are eager to please and want to ensure that your business is successful.
  They like when I push them to the extremes of their body and they are always eager to please.
  These Edinburgh festivals generate noise and excitement and their proliferation pleases and astonishes.
  Putting on your best smile and adopting a pleasant, helpful attitude you stand eager and ready to please, waiting for the onslaught of the great shopping public.
  This was a shame, because the staff were friendly and eager to please, and that end of Blossom Street really could do with a top-notch little eatery to spice it up.
  I find myself behaving like the good little Catholic boy I was raised to be: deferential, eager to please.
  You get little respect and sometimes get lots of scorn, but yet you are faithful and eager to please.
  Eager to please, Adam even has plastic surgery - a barely discernible nose job.
  He was looking down at him like a puppy dog, eager to please but at the same time unable to speak his mind.
  He's eager and willing to please and follows my instructions without a fault.
  Synonyms
  friendly, amiable, pleasant, agreeable, affable, nice, genial, likeable, good-humoured, charming, engaging, winning, delightful
  informal lovely
  See also: pleasant (sense 2)
2. 1.2 Satisfy aesthetically.
  he was wearing a buttonhole that did not quite please the eye
  Example sentencesExamples
  The practice of counting pitches has all but eliminated the aesthetically pleasing complete game performance.
  We all want a safer, cleaner and a more aesthetically pleasing community.
  The surgeon also strives for a functional repair of the muscles and an aesthetically pleasing approximation of the skin edges.
  My aesthetically pleasing black borders are back!
  The patient will use an aesthetically pleasing reconstruction.
  Get out of your rut of voting for the aesthetically pleasing contestant with no vocal talent, and pick the ones who can sing.
  ‘We're trying to make the garden more visually pleasing and also attract inner town wildlife,’ said Mr Goldie.
  Display areas were created in which glass cases were as densely packed as possible without much regard to an aesthetically pleasing installation.
  The participants would be bringing aesthetically pleasing furniture suitable for those living in tiny accommodations.
  The coloring looks good throughout, always vibrant and always pleasing to the eye.
  A woman's body is deemed to be valuable only as long as it satisfies men or pleases others in the society.
  Indeed, relocating a city to a more effective, attractive but perhaps less aesthetically pleasing location has its logical merits if it improves its strategic aims.
  It wasn't just because of the camaraderie of the legends, but because of the aesthetically pleasing physiques they built as well.
  Such vitriol toughened her up for the less aesthetically pleasing career of boxing.
  It was ‘attractive and pleasing, both within and without’, and in its heyday could seat 1,000 worshippers.
  An aesthetically pleasing city with clean air would make cycling and walking more pleasurable.
  But I also didn't expect the modern yet historic and aesthetically pleasing city I found myself in this weekend.
  They do not recognize how aesthetically pleasing your site is but rather will digest the content of your site to understand its subject matter.
  Moreover, the numerous wineries and vineyards were quite aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
  Aesthetically pleasing it wasn't, but his goal did suggest a quickness of mind and, just as important, a ruthlessness that is engrained in all great strikers.
  Synonyms
  make happy, give pleasure to, make someone pleased/glad/content, make someone feel good, delight, charm, amuse, divert, entertain, be agreeable to, gladden, cheer up
  satisfy, gratify, humour, oblige, content, suit
  informal tickle pink
2please oneselfTake only one's own wishes into consideration in deciding how to act or proceed.
this is the first time in ages that I can just please myself
Example sentencesExamples
- Busier than ever, she is happily married with two young children and plans to spend her fifties pleasing herself and exploring other avenues.
- They didn't do it to please themselves or just one guy.
- The glory of being older is that we can be ourselves and please ourselves.
- By the end of the week you feel much better, and paradoxically by pleasing yourself your partner is also satisfied.
- I tend to follow my instincts and please myself.
- I was trying so hard to please myself, I was turning into somebody else.
- Unfortunately, there are still some parish councillors who get elected or co-opted and then believe they can please themselves.
- They're most interested in pleasing themselves, like some of the people you're forced to deal with.
- I've come to the realisation, at 57, that I have to do things that please myself, and if people like them that's a bonus.
- I don't conform unless I choose to, and, frankly, I please myself.
- The healthy freaks will please themselves with the newest diet and healthy food.
- Everybody was just into pleasing themselves, to such a point that there was no room for any relationship.
- On the show, there's this really delicate balance between pleasing ourselves, just making ourselves happy, and making the audience happy.
- All over the country, harassed parents are frantically trying to decide how to entertain their offspring, rather than pleasing themselves.
- Many of these women aborted not to please themselves, but to preserve relationships: with their mothers, with their families in general, with their boyfriends.
- They please themselves whether they serve or not.
- We wanted to please ourselves and be one of the best bands we would want to see live, and make some of the best records that we would have in our record collection.
- Yes, we aim to please others; however, I firmly believe we should please ourselves first.
- If you're just pleasing yourself, why not save it for home?
- I have often found myself out of balance with worry about what others think at the expense of pleasing myself.
1. 2.1no object Wish or desire to do something.
  feel free to wander around as you please
  Example sentencesExamples
  And the soft drink industry says students should have the freedom to eat as they please unless their parents say otherwise.
  In a way, it's great that we have the luxurious situation that allows people to pretty-much come and go as they please - turning up to sing whenever they fancy.
  This incidence does raise several issues, not least of which is the continued lack of a proper policy to find permanent places for these people who continue to flout the law and do as they please.
  People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please.
  Even more than staying in a hotel you will have the freedom to get up when you like, stay up as late as you choose, come and go as you please, and eat when you want.
  Users of such indices can pick and choose as they please in this evolving garden of relationships.
  I defend a private club's right to recruit membership as they please.
  Agitate for the freedoms of everyone to worship as they please.
  More commonly, people seem to opt in and out of the traditional system as they please, positioning themselves to their greatest advantage.
  But shoppers can't come and go as they please, nor can they always choose the food they want.
  For that reason I don't accept the unconditional authority of states to treat their citizens as they please.
  A total of 122 animals, of eight species, have been placed in the park; all but the deer are free to move around as they please.
  ‘Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please,’ warned Karl Marx.
  That means governments can spend them as they please.
  We are all entitled to our opinions (and to think mine are a load of codswallop) and to get out there and express them as stridently as we please.
  If her relatives do not like it, they can do as they please.
  I understand that editors can hire and fire as they please.
  Visitors will be able to come and go as they please, and there will be collecting boxes for them to make a donation.
  The validity of such claims is measured best in Texas, where the big meatpackers have the most freedom to do as they please.
  Unlike the existing secure camp at Oakington, Cambridgeshire, the centres are expected to be open, with occupants free to come and go as they please.
  Synonyms
  like, want, wish, desire, see/think fit, choose, be inclined, will, prefer, opt
2. 2.2it pleases", "pleased", etc., "someone to do somethingdated It is someone's choice to do something.
  instead of attending the meeting, it pleased him to go off hunting
  Example sentencesExamples
  Please, if it pleases you to laugh at the dog - do so.
  They have always been upfront about their desire to be famous, partly because this was a very vulgar thing to say in the Seventies and it pleased them to go against the grain.
  While it pleases me to read the above comments and Mr. Conley's challenge, I'm also pleased to see William stand up for Michael.
  If it pleases you to advance and research this theory, then please the more power to you.
  I realise today that although his last diaries are very interesting, they have been composed for Chertkov and those whom it pleases Mr Chertkov to show them!

adverb pliːzpliz

1Used in polite requests or questions.
please address letters to the Editor
what type of fish is this, please?
Example sentencesExamples
- For our meeting at 11 am, please think about this question - I will be very interested to hear your views
- If you have any other questions, please feel free to get in touch and I'll reply as quickly as I possibly can.
- Would the Prime Minister please address the question.
- If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us again.
- For a full list of questions, please visit the Background Briefing website.
- Could you please ask your question, the person with the mike up there?
- Again, I pose the question, can someone please explain why the noise of the sirens is very much more noticeable compared with a few months ago?
- So if anyone has more questions please feel free to email me.
- If you have any specific questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact your state editor or the network editor.
- Would the right honourable Prime Minister please address the question briefly.
- Would you ask the Minister to address the question please.
- It is not a rhetorical question, so please do me and anyone else reading along here the courtesy of a reply.
- If you have any questions please address them to this group.
- If you have any questions, please direct all queries to Greg Popcak.
- There is actually a competition on the site to win a set of the gnomes, so if you can be bothered to register and answer the insultingly easy question please do.
- We have a lot of readers, so if someone knows the answer to the following question, please leave it in a comment.
- This may be a stupid question, but please forgive my ignorance.
- If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact us again.
- If you have questions about this, please let me know.
- These unnecessary asides only waste the time of the House, so would the Minister please just address the question.
Synonyms
if you please, if you wouldn't mind, if you would be so good
1. 1.1 Used to add urgency and emotion to a request.
  please, please come home!
  Example sentencesExamples
  A note to bloggers: please, please make your links open in new windows.
  Please, please do not infect your output with the tired diatribes of this ageing and out-of-touch right-wing bigot.
  If you feel the same please, please, please let me know.
  There's only a little over a week to decide. Please, please, please!
  Thanks in advance, and please, please travel home to us safely.
  Please, please do not destroy those palm trees.
  So please, please, keep your presents rolling in!
  Please, please, can we have a little perspective?
  But until we can help you get those things, please, please don't push us too far.
  If you feel envy from his mind - well, I ask that you please ignore the emotion.
  Please, please, please, do not, in the event of any positive action, give me the conditioned reflex answer that any relaxation will have to be means tested.
  Please, please let's get to work on this building and make sure it has some kind of future.
  Please, please, I beg of people to write to their MP and demand in the name of British justice that capital punishment be reinstated in this country.
  Please oh please oh please oh please oh please let it pass.
  Please, please, please tell me they are still going to do this.
  Please, please return to your original format.
  Please please please understand that if I cause any offence to anybody, at all, anywhere, I apologise fulsomely and unreservedly.
  Please, please let us show that we respect the wild life of the Dales and put off the grass cutting till July - and give plants, birds and other creatures a chance.
  While you're there, please, please, don't take a stroll along the Riverwalk.
  So please please please vote for the lovely Vaughan.
2. 1.2 Used to agree politely to a request.
  ‘May I ring you at home?’ ‘Please do.’
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘Yes, yes, please do,’ I would coo soothingly, anxious not to disturb his flow.
  Yes, Please Do Come In.
  Actually, yes, please do erase everything on my ipod.
3. 1.3 Used in polite or emphatic acceptance of an offer.
  ‘Would you like a drink?’ ‘Yes, please.’
  Example sentencesExamples
  And she says yes, please, are you free this evening?
  Yes please Cath; that's the best offer I've had from any woman in months.
  We would love a new ‘academy’ for our children, yes please, but we'd like it for everyone.
  I can't imagine there would have been too many cries of, Yes please.
  Yes please, but let's have a proper debate first!
  So yes please we tell the aged salesperson we'll have that one with 40 pounds off. ‘Ahh have you got an old fridge we can pick up then he asks’.
  Yes, please, because at this time in my country it is really bad.
  ‘Yes, please,’ Natalie answered, grabbing her glass and following Sheila to the sofa.
4. 1.4 Used to ask someone to stop doing something of which the speaker disapproves.
  Rita, please—people are looking
  Example sentencesExamples
  They are non-stop party favourites for a party you hope will stop, soon, please.
  But please stop thinking you know so much about me, because frankly it's getting boring.
  Don't give me that look please, stop begging me with your glances.
  So please, stop pretending that the motivations for this are inexplicable.
  Now, please don't disapprove, but I am very fond of Peter Halliway.
  But please stop posting that particular conspiracy theory.
  If you are calling for no reason at all, please stop because it's getting really annoying.
  Many young people are, regrettably, disabled by illness or accident, so please will you stop and consider this before launching into a reprimand?
  ‘Ilse, please stop,’ Niklas pleaded, clenching his fists and leaning on the chair.
  And please, stop emailing me asking when I am going to get your bio/picture up.
5. 1.5 Used to express incredulity or irritation.
  Oh please, is that meant to be a serious argument?
  Example sentencesExamples
  Oh please! So Meg's foie gras post is up.
  Oh, please. I've been reading some of the hubbub about our latest release on blogs here and there, and I have to say that some people simply need to take a pill.

Phrases

as — as you please

informal Used to emphasize the manner in which someone does something, especially when this is seen as surprising.
she walked forward as calm as you please
Example sentencesExamples
- The staff are friendly without being saccharine and are quite willing to let you linger for as long as you please over a cup of coffee.
- You can feel as ridiculous as you please or you can admire the pretty mosaic tiles, breathe in the herb-infused vapours and let the heat take over.
- There I'd be driving along just as nice as you please and in the passenger seat the fellow would be bouncing up and down, up and down.
- She stood as pretty as you please in her sunbonnet, and long dress in the hot weather waiting for my brother Dick to come up and see her.
- Stay as long as you please then, Mr. Benito, Mr. Kane.
- They're gone and he's sneaking up on the place and jerking doors open and windows as quick as you please.
- Mehinakrota walked in as bold as you please, his head held high.
- Once you've got the material, you can be as creative as you please with sewing or painting on patterns.
- He stopped about two feet from me, as casual as you please, staring down at me, and I staring at him with a mixture of determination and fear.
- Now, imagine controlling that character and wandering about for as long as you please, taking in the fully interactive and insanely large environments.

if you please

1Used in polite requests.
follow me, if you please
Example sentencesExamples
- I'll thank you to keep your landing strips, your tarmacs, your runways and your taxiing lanes well under sufficient layers of cotton if you please.
- I'll take another Martini, now, Sproat, if you please.
- Kindly refrain from showing the following movies on Sunday afternoons, in addition to The Craft, if you please.
- Argue otherwise if you please, it doesn't matter.
- And now I have said about as much as I ought to say in this impromptu manner, and if you please, I'll take the music.
- Kindly draw the water while I change my dress, if you please.
- And you may follow, if you please, or keep to public streets.
Synonyms
if you please, if you wouldn't mind, if you would be so good
2Used to express indignation at something perceived as unreasonable.
she wants me to make fifty cakes in time for the festival, if you please!
Example sentencesExamples
- We must adopt the promised land mindset, if you please.
- And, if you're into Chinese astrology, I'm also a ripsnorting rascal of a rooster or the female version… a hen if you please.
- Presumably some of our heroes, such as Mattie Holland, or Maitiú Ó hAoláin if you please, will find it educational too when they read the match programme.
- I need to be at least 2 preferably 5 kilometers away now if you please!
- A large plasma screen on the wall offered excellent TV reception, as well as high-speed Internet access using the wireless keyboard provided… at £5.99 per hour, if you please.
- No, she uses them as arsenal, weapons of mass distraction, if you please.
- And of course, should Don Brash indicate that he is keen to become the next MP for Tamaki, I should expect Margaret and Tim to withdraw their nominations - gone by lunchtime, if you please…
- Post-concert champagne and cigars in the Lace Market Hotel, if you please!
- Instead, they farm that sort of stuff out to a separate hygienist, who charges 30 quid a session and ‘recommends’ that I visit her every three months, if you please.
- So, if you please, don't automatically hate all yuppies.

please yourself

Used to express indifference, especially when someone does not cooperate or behave as expected.
‘I can manage on my own.’ ‘Please yourself.’
Example sentencesExamples
- Oh well please yourself!
- Well, please yourself. They'll be there and us dead, very likely.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French plaisir 'to please', from Latin placere.

A word that comes via Old French plaisir ‘to please’ from Latin placere, found also in implacable (Late Middle English). Phrases like yes, please were originally short for ‘may it please you’ or ‘let it please you’. Please on its own, as used today, was not known to Shakespeare, who used please you: ‘Will you hear the letter?—So please you, for I never heard it yet’ (As You Like It). The proverbs you can't please everyone and little things please little minds are both old and can be traced back to the late 15th and late 16th centuries. Something pleasant (Middle English) was originally something ‘pleasing’, the meaning of the word in its French source. If you were complacent (mid 17th century) you were originally willing to go along with what pleases others.

Rhymes

Achinese, Ambonese, appease, Assamese, Balinese, Belize, Beninese, Bernese, bêtise, Bhutanese, breeze, Burmese, Cantonese, Castries, cerise, cheese, chemise, Chinese, Cingalese, Cleese, Congolese, Denise, Dodecanese, ease, éminence grise, expertise, Faroese, freeze, Fries, frieze, Gabonese, Genoese, Goanese, Guyanese, he's, Japanese, Javanese, jeez, journalese, Kanarese, Keys, Lebanese, lees, legalese, Louise, Macanese, Madurese, Maltese, marquise, Milanese, Nepalese, officialese, overseas, pease, Pekinese, Peloponnese, Piedmontese, Portuguese, Pyrenees, reprise, Rwandese, seise, seize, Senegalese, she's, Siamese, Sienese, Sikkimese, Sinhalese, sleaze, sneeze, squeeze, Stockton-on-Tees, Sudanese, Sundanese, Surinamese, Tabriz, Taiwanese, tease, Tees, telegraphese, these, Timorese, Togolese, trapeze, valise, Viennese, Vietnamese, vocalese, wheeze

Definition of please in US English:

please

verbplēzpliz

[with object]

1Cause to feel happy and satisfied.
he arranged a fishing trip to please his son
with object and infinitive it pleased him to be seen with someone in the news
Example sentencesExamples
- When they told me where they lived I had no idea where Downpatrick was, and it pleased me that now I had a passing acquaintance with the place.
- Though it pleased them that the fight was finally over, their losses were overwhelming.
- All we can say is that it pleased the Lord to do this.
- Yet Katherine saw the small mistake, and it pleased her.
- It pleased me to know that he was a very good conversationalist, and was capable of holding intelligent conversation for more than two seconds.
- It pleased me somehow to be weathered by this deadly wind on my face and to be exposed to a gorgeous icy glare on this sunny afternoon.
- It pleased me no end, trying to make amends for many years of imposed suppression.
- He loved the city and it pleased him that she was interested in its history.
- It pleased Maria to see Isabella able to enjoy herself again.
- It pleased me to see New Jersey State Troopers out in force at the Newark airport.
- I could hear a smile over the line and it pleased me.
- It pleased him, though he couldn't think of any useful advice he'd given.
- And there can be little doubt that, if nothing else, it pleased the Commission and Commissioner.
- I knew they were just anxious to get started, and it pleased me.
- It pleased him to know that he might go on, far away from this place.
- He said it pleased him, and he was flattered not offended…
- Now only happiness lay before them and it pleased her well.
- It grieved her for the same reason it pleased her.
- The dancers before him danced and twirled just for him and it pleased him.
- It pleased him so much to see her doing new things and living her life.
Synonyms
nice, agreeable, pleasant, pleasurable, satisfying, gratifying, welcome, good, acceptable, to one's liking, enjoyable, entertaining, amusing, delightful, fine
1. 1.1no object Give satisfaction.
  she was quiet and eager to please
  Example sentencesExamples
  They like when I push them to the extremes of their body and they are always eager to please.
  He's eager and willing to please and follows my instructions without a fault.
  They are eager to please and want to ensure that your business is successful.
  Putting on your best smile and adopting a pleasant, helpful attitude you stand eager and ready to please, waiting for the onslaught of the great shopping public.
  I find myself behaving like the good little Catholic boy I was raised to be: deferential, eager to please.
  The hotel offers rooms of five-star quality at four or even three-star prices and is notably eager to please.
  You get little respect and sometimes get lots of scorn, but yet you are faithful and eager to please.
  It may be equally frustrating to children who are eager to please, obtain approval, and gain parental acceptance.
  This was a shame, because the staff were friendly and eager to please, and that end of Blossom Street really could do with a top-notch little eatery to spice it up.
  Eager as ever to please, here's just two of the many dissertations we received.
  He is, by inclination, eager to please, keen to win support within his party and go with the political grain.
  Eager to please, it goes for easy laughs, reinforcing rather than challenging stereotypes.
  Even the most eager to please and intelligent dog will need these rules reinforced all the time.
  The Sanctuary itself was spectacularly built and was very aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
  These Edinburgh festivals generate noise and excitement and their proliferation pleases and astonishes.
  She's a little bit wild, eager to please, sexually adventurous and willing to do what they want.
  He was looking down at him like a puppy dog, eager to please but at the same time unable to speak his mind.
  I was your typical white girl growing up in the suburbs - too nice, too eager to please.
  Eager to please, Adam even has plastic surgery - a barely discernible nose job.
  A keen worker, Manuel is eager to please but possesses a poor command of the English language.
  Synonyms
  friendly, amiable, pleasant, agreeable, affable, nice, genial, likeable, good-humoured, charming, engaging, winning, delightful
2. 1.2 Satisfy aesthetically.
  Example sentencesExamples
  A woman's body is deemed to be valuable only as long as it satisfies men or pleases others in the society.
  Indeed, relocating a city to a more effective, attractive but perhaps less aesthetically pleasing location has its logical merits if it improves its strategic aims.
  But I also didn't expect the modern yet historic and aesthetically pleasing city I found myself in this weekend.
  They do not recognize how aesthetically pleasing your site is but rather will digest the content of your site to understand its subject matter.
  An aesthetically pleasing city with clean air would make cycling and walking more pleasurable.
  ‘We're trying to make the garden more visually pleasing and also attract inner town wildlife,’ said Mr Goldie.
  We all want a safer, cleaner and a more aesthetically pleasing community.
  Display areas were created in which glass cases were as densely packed as possible without much regard to an aesthetically pleasing installation.
  The surgeon also strives for a functional repair of the muscles and an aesthetically pleasing approximation of the skin edges.
  Get out of your rut of voting for the aesthetically pleasing contestant with no vocal talent, and pick the ones who can sing.
  It was ‘attractive and pleasing, both within and without’, and in its heyday could seat 1,000 worshippers.
  The practice of counting pitches has all but eliminated the aesthetically pleasing complete game performance.
  Aesthetically pleasing it wasn't, but his goal did suggest a quickness of mind and, just as important, a ruthlessness that is engrained in all great strikers.
  The coloring looks good throughout, always vibrant and always pleasing to the eye.
  The participants would be bringing aesthetically pleasing furniture suitable for those living in tiny accommodations.
  My aesthetically pleasing black borders are back!
  Such vitriol toughened her up for the less aesthetically pleasing career of boxing.
  It wasn't just because of the camaraderie of the legends, but because of the aesthetically pleasing physiques they built as well.
  The patient will use an aesthetically pleasing reconstruction.
  Moreover, the numerous wineries and vineyards were quite aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
  Synonyms
  make happy, give pleasure to, make someone content, make someone glad, make someone pleased, make someone feel good, delight, charm, amuse, divert, entertain, be agreeable to, gladden, cheer up
2please oneselfTake only one's own wishes into consideration in deciding how to act or proceed.
this is the first time in ages that I can just please myself
Example sentencesExamples
- We wanted to please ourselves and be one of the best bands we would want to see live, and make some of the best records that we would have in our record collection.
- I tend to follow my instincts and please myself.
- The glory of being older is that we can be ourselves and please ourselves.
- They please themselves whether they serve or not.
- On the show, there's this really delicate balance between pleasing ourselves, just making ourselves happy, and making the audience happy.
- Everybody was just into pleasing themselves, to such a point that there was no room for any relationship.
- Unfortunately, there are still some parish councillors who get elected or co-opted and then believe they can please themselves.
- Yes, we aim to please others; however, I firmly believe we should please ourselves first.
- Busier than ever, she is happily married with two young children and plans to spend her fifties pleasing herself and exploring other avenues.
- I don't conform unless I choose to, and, frankly, I please myself.
- I've come to the realisation, at 57, that I have to do things that please myself, and if people like them that's a bonus.
- They're most interested in pleasing themselves, like some of the people you're forced to deal with.
- I was trying so hard to please myself, I was turning into somebody else.
- The healthy freaks will please themselves with the newest diet and healthy food.
- I have often found myself out of balance with worry about what others think at the expense of pleasing myself.
- By the end of the week you feel much better, and paradoxically by pleasing yourself your partner is also satisfied.
- They didn't do it to please themselves or just one guy.
- All over the country, harassed parents are frantically trying to decide how to entertain their offspring, rather than pleasing themselves.
- Many of these women aborted not to please themselves, but to preserve relationships: with their mothers, with their families in general, with their boyfriends.
- If you're just pleasing yourself, why not save it for home?
1. 2.1no object Wish or desire to do something.
  feel free to wander around as you please
  Example sentencesExamples
  This incidence does raise several issues, not least of which is the continued lack of a proper policy to find permanent places for these people who continue to flout the law and do as they please.
  Agitate for the freedoms of everyone to worship as they please.
  More commonly, people seem to opt in and out of the traditional system as they please, positioning themselves to their greatest advantage.
  We are all entitled to our opinions (and to think mine are a load of codswallop) and to get out there and express them as stridently as we please.
  Visitors will be able to come and go as they please, and there will be collecting boxes for them to make a donation.
  And the soft drink industry says students should have the freedom to eat as they please unless their parents say otherwise.
  The validity of such claims is measured best in Texas, where the big meatpackers have the most freedom to do as they please.
  Users of such indices can pick and choose as they please in this evolving garden of relationships.
  If her relatives do not like it, they can do as they please.
  In a way, it's great that we have the luxurious situation that allows people to pretty-much come and go as they please - turning up to sing whenever they fancy.
  People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please.
  For that reason I don't accept the unconditional authority of states to treat their citizens as they please.
  A total of 122 animals, of eight species, have been placed in the park; all but the deer are free to move around as they please.
  That means governments can spend them as they please.
  I understand that editors can hire and fire as they please.
  But shoppers can't come and go as they please, nor can they always choose the food they want.
  Even more than staying in a hotel you will have the freedom to get up when you like, stay up as late as you choose, come and go as you please, and eat when you want.
  Unlike the existing secure camp at Oakington, Cambridgeshire, the centres are expected to be open, with occupants free to come and go as they please.
  I defend a private club's right to recruit membership as they please.
  ‘Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please,’ warned Karl Marx.
  Synonyms
  like, want, wish, desire, see fit, think fit, choose, be inclined, will, prefer, opt
2. 2.2it pleases", "pleased", etc., "someone to do somethingdated It is someone's choice to do something.
  instead of attending the meeting, it pleased him to go off hunting
  Example sentencesExamples
  While it pleases me to read the above comments and Mr. Conley's challenge, I'm also pleased to see William stand up for Michael.
  I realise today that although his last diaries are very interesting, they have been composed for Chertkov and those whom it pleases Mr Chertkov to show them!
  They have always been upfront about their desire to be famous, partly because this was a very vulgar thing to say in the Seventies and it pleased them to go against the grain.
  If it pleases you to advance and research this theory, then please the more power to you.
  Please, if it pleases you to laugh at the dog - do so.

adverbplēzpliz

1Used in polite requests or questions.
please address letters to the Editor
what type of fish is this, please?
Example sentencesExamples
- It is not a rhetorical question, so please do me and anyone else reading along here the courtesy of a reply.
- We have a lot of readers, so if someone knows the answer to the following question, please leave it in a comment.
- If you have any questions, please direct all queries to Greg Popcak.
- For our meeting at 11 am, please think about this question - I will be very interested to hear your views
- So if anyone has more questions please feel free to email me.
- If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us again.
- If you have any other questions, please feel free to get in touch and I'll reply as quickly as I possibly can.
- These unnecessary asides only waste the time of the House, so would the Minister please just address the question.
- If you have any specific questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact your state editor or the network editor.
- Would the Prime Minister please address the question.
- For a full list of questions, please visit the Background Briefing website.
- Could you please ask your question, the person with the mike up there?
- If you have questions about this, please let me know.
- Again, I pose the question, can someone please explain why the noise of the sirens is very much more noticeable compared with a few months ago?
- This may be a stupid question, but please forgive my ignorance.
- There is actually a competition on the site to win a set of the gnomes, so if you can be bothered to register and answer the insultingly easy question please do.
- If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact us again.
- Would you ask the Minister to address the question please.
- If you have any questions please address them to this group.
- Would the right honourable Prime Minister please address the question briefly.
Synonyms
if you please, if you wouldn't mind, if you would be so good
1. 1.1 Used to add urgency and emotion to a request.
  please, please come home!
  Example sentencesExamples
  Please, please, please tell me they are still going to do this.
  But until we can help you get those things, please, please don't push us too far.
  Please oh please oh please oh please oh please let it pass.
  Please, please, please, do not, in the event of any positive action, give me the conditioned reflex answer that any relaxation will have to be means tested.
  Please, please, can we have a little perspective?
  Please, please do not infect your output with the tired diatribes of this ageing and out-of-touch right-wing bigot.
  If you feel the same please, please, please let me know.
  Thanks in advance, and please, please travel home to us safely.
  A note to bloggers: please, please make your links open in new windows.
  Please please please understand that if I cause any offence to anybody, at all, anywhere, I apologise fulsomely and unreservedly.
  There's only a little over a week to decide. Please, please, please!
  Please, please let's get to work on this building and make sure it has some kind of future.
  Please, please, I beg of people to write to their MP and demand in the name of British justice that capital punishment be reinstated in this country.
  So please, please, keep your presents rolling in!
  Please, please let us show that we respect the wild life of the Dales and put off the grass cutting till July - and give plants, birds and other creatures a chance.
  Please, please do not destroy those palm trees.
  So please please please vote for the lovely Vaughan.
  While you're there, please, please, don't take a stroll along the Riverwalk.
  Please, please return to your original format.
  If you feel envy from his mind - well, I ask that you please ignore the emotion.
2. 1.2 Used to agree politely to a request.
  “May I call you at home?” “Please do.”
  Example sentencesExamples
  Yes, Please Do Come In.
  Actually, yes, please do erase everything on my ipod.
  ‘Yes, yes, please do,’ I would coo soothingly, anxious not to disturb his flow.
3. 1.3 Used in polite or emphatic acceptance of an offer.
  “Would you like a drink?” “Yes, please.”
  Example sentencesExamples
  Yes please Cath; that's the best offer I've had from any woman in months.
  So yes please we tell the aged salesperson we'll have that one with 40 pounds off. ‘Ahh have you got an old fridge we can pick up then he asks’.
  ‘Yes, please,’ Natalie answered, grabbing her glass and following Sheila to the sofa.
  I can't imagine there would have been too many cries of, Yes please.
  We would love a new ‘academy’ for our children, yes please, but we'd like it for everyone.
  Yes, please, because at this time in my country it is really bad.
  And she says yes, please, are you free this evening?
  Yes please, but let's have a proper debate first!
4. 1.4 Used to ask someone to stop doing something of which the speaker disapproves.
  Rita, please—people are looking
  Example sentencesExamples
  They are non-stop party favourites for a party you hope will stop, soon, please.
  Don't give me that look please, stop begging me with your glances.
  Now, please don't disapprove, but I am very fond of Peter Halliway.
  And please, stop emailing me asking when I am going to get your bio/picture up.
  But please stop thinking you know so much about me, because frankly it's getting boring.
  Many young people are, regrettably, disabled by illness or accident, so please will you stop and consider this before launching into a reprimand?
  But please stop posting that particular conspiracy theory.
  So please, stop pretending that the motivations for this are inexplicable.
  If you are calling for no reason at all, please stop because it's getting really annoying.
  ‘Ilse, please stop,’ Niklas pleaded, clenching his fists and leaning on the chair.
5. 1.5 Used to express incredulity or irritation.
  You cleaned out the barn in only two hours? Oh, please!
  Example sentencesExamples
  Oh please! So Meg's foie gras post is up.
  Oh, please. I've been reading some of the hubbub about our latest release on blogs here and there, and I have to say that some people simply need to take a pill.

Phrases

as — as you please

informal Used to emphasize the manner in which someone does something, especially when this is seen as surprising.
she walked forward as calm as you please
Example sentencesExamples
- They're gone and he's sneaking up on the place and jerking doors open and windows as quick as you please.
- Once you've got the material, you can be as creative as you please with sewing or painting on patterns.
- The staff are friendly without being saccharine and are quite willing to let you linger for as long as you please over a cup of coffee.
- Stay as long as you please then, Mr. Benito, Mr. Kane.
- Now, imagine controlling that character and wandering about for as long as you please, taking in the fully interactive and insanely large environments.
- There I'd be driving along just as nice as you please and in the passenger seat the fellow would be bouncing up and down, up and down.
- You can feel as ridiculous as you please or you can admire the pretty mosaic tiles, breathe in the herb-infused vapours and let the heat take over.
- She stood as pretty as you please in her sunbonnet, and long dress in the hot weather waiting for my brother Dick to come up and see her.
- Mehinakrota walked in as bold as you please, his head held high.
- He stopped about two feet from me, as casual as you please, staring down at me, and I staring at him with a mixture of determination and fear.

if you please

1Used in polite requests.
follow me, if you please
Example sentencesExamples
- Argue otherwise if you please, it doesn't matter.
- Kindly draw the water while I change my dress, if you please.
- I'll thank you to keep your landing strips, your tarmacs, your runways and your taxiing lanes well under sufficient layers of cotton if you please.
- I'll take another Martini, now, Sproat, if you please.
- And now I have said about as much as I ought to say in this impromptu manner, and if you please, I'll take the music.
- Kindly refrain from showing the following movies on Sunday afternoons, in addition to The Craft, if you please.
- And you may follow, if you please, or keep to public streets.
Synonyms
if you please, if you wouldn't mind, if you would be so good
2Used to express indignation at something perceived as unreasonable.
she wants me to make fifty cakes in time for the festival, if you please!
Example sentencesExamples
- So, if you please, don't automatically hate all yuppies.
- Instead, they farm that sort of stuff out to a separate hygienist, who charges 30 quid a session and ‘recommends’ that I visit her every three months, if you please.
- And, if you're into Chinese astrology, I'm also a ripsnorting rascal of a rooster or the female version… a hen if you please.
- We must adopt the promised land mindset, if you please.
- Presumably some of our heroes, such as Mattie Holland, or Maitiú Ó hAoláin if you please, will find it educational too when they read the match programme.
- Post-concert champagne and cigars in the Lace Market Hotel, if you please!
- And of course, should Don Brash indicate that he is keen to become the next MP for Tamaki, I should expect Margaret and Tim to withdraw their nominations - gone by lunchtime, if you please…
- No, she uses them as arsenal, weapons of mass distraction, if you please.
- I need to be at least 2 preferably 5 kilometers away now if you please!
- A large plasma screen on the wall offered excellent TV reception, as well as high-speed Internet access using the wireless keyboard provided… at £5.99 per hour, if you please.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French plaisir ‘to please’, from Latin placere.

单词	please
释义	Definition of please in English: please verb pliːzpliz [with object] 1Cause to feel happy and satisfied. he arranged a fishing trip to please his son with object and infinitive it pleased him to be seen with someone in the news Example sentencesExamples He loved the city and it pleased him that she was interested in its history. It pleased me to see New Jersey State Troopers out in force at the Newark airport. I knew they were just anxious to get started, and it pleased me. It pleased me somehow to be weathered by this deadly wind on my face and to be exposed to a gorgeous icy glare on this sunny afternoon. When they told me where they lived I had no idea where Downpatrick was, and it pleased me that now I had a passing acquaintance with the place. Though it pleased them that the fight was finally over, their losses were overwhelming. And there can be little doubt that, if nothing else, it pleased the Commission and Commissioner. It pleased him, though he couldn't think of any useful advice he'd given. He said it pleased him, and he was flattered not offended… Now only happiness lay before them and it pleased her well. It pleased me to know that he was a very good conversationalist, and was capable of holding intelligent conversation for more than two seconds. It grieved her for the same reason it pleased her. All we can say is that it pleased the Lord to do this. It pleased Maria to see Isabella able to enjoy herself again. The dancers before him danced and twirled just for him and it pleased him. It pleased me no end, trying to make amends for many years of imposed suppression. I could hear a smile over the line and it pleased me. Yet Katherine saw the small mistake, and it pleased her. It pleased him so much to see her doing new things and living her life. It pleased him to know that he might go on, far away from this place. Synonyms nice, agreeable, pleasant, pleasurable, satisfying, gratifying, welcome, good, acceptable, to one's liking, enjoyable, entertaining, amusing, delightful, fine informal lovely See also: pleasant (sense 1) 1.1no object Give satisfaction. she was quiet and eager to please Example sentencesExamples A keen worker, Manuel is eager to please but possesses a poor command of the English language. Eager as ever to please, here's just two of the many dissertations we received. He is, by inclination, eager to please, keen to win support within his party and go with the political grain. Even the most eager to please and intelligent dog will need these rules reinforced all the time. She's a little bit wild, eager to please, sexually adventurous and willing to do what they want. Eager to please, it goes for easy laughs, reinforcing rather than challenging stereotypes. I was your typical white girl growing up in the suburbs - too nice, too eager to please. It may be equally frustrating to children who are eager to please, obtain approval, and gain parental acceptance. The Sanctuary itself was spectacularly built and was very aesthetically pleasing to the eye. The hotel offers rooms of five-star quality at four or even three-star prices and is notably eager to please. They are eager to please and want to ensure that your business is successful. They like when I push them to the extremes of their body and they are always eager to please. These Edinburgh festivals generate noise and excitement and their proliferation pleases and astonishes. Putting on your best smile and adopting a pleasant, helpful attitude you stand eager and ready to please, waiting for the onslaught of the great shopping public. This was a shame, because the staff were friendly and eager to please, and that end of Blossom Street really could do with a top-notch little eatery to spice it up. I find myself behaving like the good little Catholic boy I was raised to be: deferential, eager to please. You get little respect and sometimes get lots of scorn, but yet you are faithful and eager to please. Eager to please, Adam even has plastic surgery - a barely discernible nose job. He was looking down at him like a puppy dog, eager to please but at the same time unable to speak his mind. He's eager and willing to please and follows my instructions without a fault. Synonyms friendly, amiable, pleasant, agreeable, affable, nice, genial, likeable, good-humoured, charming, engaging, winning, delightful informal lovely See also: pleasant (sense 2) 1.2 Satisfy aesthetically. he was wearing a buttonhole that did not quite please the eye Example sentencesExamples The practice of counting pitches has all but eliminated the aesthetically pleasing complete game performance. We all want a safer, cleaner and a more aesthetically pleasing community. The surgeon also strives for a functional repair of the muscles and an aesthetically pleasing approximation of the skin edges. My aesthetically pleasing black borders are back! The patient will use an aesthetically pleasing reconstruction. Get out of your rut of voting for the aesthetically pleasing contestant with no vocal talent, and pick the ones who can sing. ‘We're trying to make the garden more visually pleasing and also attract inner town wildlife,’ said Mr Goldie. Display areas were created in which glass cases were as densely packed as possible without much regard to an aesthetically pleasing installation. The participants would be bringing aesthetically pleasing furniture suitable for those living in tiny accommodations. The coloring looks good throughout, always vibrant and always pleasing to the eye. A woman's body is deemed to be valuable only as long as it satisfies men or pleases others in the society. Indeed, relocating a city to a more effective, attractive but perhaps less aesthetically pleasing location has its logical merits if it improves its strategic aims. It wasn't just because of the camaraderie of the legends, but because of the aesthetically pleasing physiques they built as well. Such vitriol toughened her up for the less aesthetically pleasing career of boxing. It was ‘attractive and pleasing, both within and without’, and in its heyday could seat 1,000 worshippers. An aesthetically pleasing city with clean air would make cycling and walking more pleasurable. But I also didn't expect the modern yet historic and aesthetically pleasing city I found myself in this weekend. They do not recognize how aesthetically pleasing your site is but rather will digest the content of your site to understand its subject matter. Moreover, the numerous wineries and vineyards were quite aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Aesthetically pleasing it wasn't, but his goal did suggest a quickness of mind and, just as important, a ruthlessness that is engrained in all great strikers. Synonyms make happy, give pleasure to, make someone pleased/glad/content, make someone feel good, delight, charm, amuse, divert, entertain, be agreeable to, gladden, cheer up satisfy, gratify, humour, oblige, content, suit informal tickle pink 2please oneselfTake only one's own wishes into consideration in deciding how to act or proceed. this is the first time in ages that I can just please myself Example sentencesExamples Busier than ever, she is happily married with two young children and plans to spend her fifties pleasing herself and exploring other avenues. They didn't do it to please themselves or just one guy. The glory of being older is that we can be ourselves and please ourselves. By the end of the week you feel much better, and paradoxically by pleasing yourself your partner is also satisfied. I tend to follow my instincts and please myself. I was trying so hard to please myself, I was turning into somebody else. Unfortunately, there are still some parish councillors who get elected or co-opted and then believe they can please themselves. They're most interested in pleasing themselves, like some of the people you're forced to deal with. I've come to the realisation, at 57, that I have to do things that please myself, and if people like them that's a bonus. I don't conform unless I choose to, and, frankly, I please myself. The healthy freaks will please themselves with the newest diet and healthy food. Everybody was just into pleasing themselves, to such a point that there was no room for any relationship. On the show, there's this really delicate balance between pleasing ourselves, just making ourselves happy, and making the audience happy. All over the country, harassed parents are frantically trying to decide how to entertain their offspring, rather than pleasing themselves. Many of these women aborted not to please themselves, but to preserve relationships: with their mothers, with their families in general, with their boyfriends. They please themselves whether they serve or not. We wanted to please ourselves and be one of the best bands we would want to see live, and make some of the best records that we would have in our record collection. Yes, we aim to please others; however, I firmly believe we should please ourselves first. If you're just pleasing yourself, why not save it for home? I have often found myself out of balance with worry about what others think at the expense of pleasing myself. 2.1no object Wish or desire to do something. feel free to wander around as you please Example sentencesExamples And the soft drink industry says students should have the freedom to eat as they please unless their parents say otherwise. In a way, it's great that we have the luxurious situation that allows people to pretty-much come and go as they please - turning up to sing whenever they fancy. This incidence does raise several issues, not least of which is the continued lack of a proper policy to find permanent places for these people who continue to flout the law and do as they please. People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Even more than staying in a hotel you will have the freedom to get up when you like, stay up as late as you choose, come and go as you please, and eat when you want. Users of such indices can pick and choose as they please in this evolving garden of relationships. I defend a private club's right to recruit membership as they please. Agitate for the freedoms of everyone to worship as they please. More commonly, people seem to opt in and out of the traditional system as they please, positioning themselves to their greatest advantage. But shoppers can't come and go as they please, nor can they always choose the food they want. For that reason I don't accept the unconditional authority of states to treat their citizens as they please. A total of 122 animals, of eight species, have been placed in the park; all but the deer are free to move around as they please. ‘Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please,’ warned Karl Marx. That means governments can spend them as they please. We are all entitled to our opinions (and to think mine are a load of codswallop) and to get out there and express them as stridently as we please. If her relatives do not like it, they can do as they please. I understand that editors can hire and fire as they please. Visitors will be able to come and go as they please, and there will be collecting boxes for them to make a donation. The validity of such claims is measured best in Texas, where the big meatpackers have the most freedom to do as they please. Unlike the existing secure camp at Oakington, Cambridgeshire, the centres are expected to be open, with occupants free to come and go as they please. Synonyms like, want, wish, desire, see/think fit, choose, be inclined, will, prefer, opt 2.2it pleases", "pleased", etc., "someone to do somethingdated It is someone's choice to do something. instead of attending the meeting, it pleased him to go off hunting Example sentencesExamples Please, if it pleases you to laugh at the dog - do so. They have always been upfront about their desire to be famous, partly because this was a very vulgar thing to say in the Seventies and it pleased them to go against the grain. While it pleases me to read the above comments and Mr. Conley's challenge, I'm also pleased to see William stand up for Michael. If it pleases you to advance and research this theory, then please the more power to you. I realise today that although his last diaries are very interesting, they have been composed for Chertkov and those whom it pleases Mr Chertkov to show them! adverb pliːzpliz 1Used in polite requests or questions. please address letters to the Editor what type of fish is this, please? Example sentencesExamples For our meeting at 11 am, please think about this question - I will be very interested to hear your views If you have any other questions, please feel free to get in touch and I'll reply as quickly as I possibly can. Would the Prime Minister please address the question. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us again. For a full list of questions, please visit the Background Briefing website. Could you please ask your question, the person with the mike up there? Again, I pose the question, can someone please explain why the noise of the sirens is very much more noticeable compared with a few months ago? So if anyone has more questions please feel free to email me. If you have any specific questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact your state editor or the network editor. Would the right honourable Prime Minister please address the question briefly. Would you ask the Minister to address the question please. It is not a rhetorical question, so please do me and anyone else reading along here the courtesy of a reply. If you have any questions please address them to this group. If you have any questions, please direct all queries to Greg Popcak. There is actually a competition on the site to win a set of the gnomes, so if you can be bothered to register and answer the insultingly easy question please do. We have a lot of readers, so if someone knows the answer to the following question, please leave it in a comment. This may be a stupid question, but please forgive my ignorance. If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact us again. If you have questions about this, please let me know. These unnecessary asides only waste the time of the House, so would the Minister please just address the question. Synonyms if you please, if you wouldn't mind, if you would be so good 1.1 Used to add urgency and emotion to a request. please, please come home! Example sentencesExamples A note to bloggers: please, please make your links open in new windows. Please, please do not infect your output with the tired diatribes of this ageing and out-of-touch right-wing bigot. If you feel the same please, please, please let me know. There's only a little over a week to decide. Please, please, please! Thanks in advance, and please, please travel home to us safely. Please, please do not destroy those palm trees. So please, please, keep your presents rolling in! Please, please, can we have a little perspective? But until we can help you get those things, please, please don't push us too far. If you feel envy from his mind - well, I ask that you please ignore the emotion. Please, please, please, do not, in the event of any positive action, give me the conditioned reflex answer that any relaxation will have to be means tested. Please, please let's get to work on this building and make sure it has some kind of future. Please, please, I beg of people to write to their MP and demand in the name of British justice that capital punishment be reinstated in this country. Please oh please oh please oh please oh please let it pass. Please, please, please tell me they are still going to do this. Please, please return to your original format. Please please please understand that if I cause any offence to anybody, at all, anywhere, I apologise fulsomely and unreservedly. Please, please let us show that we respect the wild life of the Dales and put off the grass cutting till July - and give plants, birds and other creatures a chance. While you're there, please, please, don't take a stroll along the Riverwalk. So please please please vote for the lovely Vaughan. 1.2 Used to agree politely to a request. ‘May I ring you at home?’ ‘Please do.’ Example sentencesExamples ‘Yes, yes, please do,’ I would coo soothingly, anxious not to disturb his flow. Yes, Please Do Come In. Actually, yes, please do erase everything on my ipod. 1.3 Used in polite or emphatic acceptance of an offer. ‘Would you like a drink?’ ‘Yes, please.’ Example sentencesExamples And she says yes, please, are you free this evening? Yes please Cath; that's the best offer I've had from any woman in months. We would love a new ‘academy’ for our children, yes please, but we'd like it for everyone. I can't imagine there would have been too many cries of, Yes please. Yes please, but let's have a proper debate first! So yes please we tell the aged salesperson we'll have that one with 40 pounds off. ‘Ahh have you got an old fridge we can pick up then he asks’. Yes, please, because at this time in my country it is really bad. ‘Yes, please,’ Natalie answered, grabbing her glass and following Sheila to the sofa. 1.4 Used to ask someone to stop doing something of which the speaker disapproves. Rita, please—people are looking Example sentencesExamples They are non-stop party favourites for a party you hope will stop, soon, please. But please stop thinking you know so much about me, because frankly it's getting boring. Don't give me that look please, stop begging me with your glances. So please, stop pretending that the motivations for this are inexplicable. Now, please don't disapprove, but I am very fond of Peter Halliway. But please stop posting that particular conspiracy theory. If you are calling for no reason at all, please stop because it's getting really annoying. Many young people are, regrettably, disabled by illness or accident, so please will you stop and consider this before launching into a reprimand? ‘Ilse, please stop,’ Niklas pleaded, clenching his fists and leaning on the chair. And please, stop emailing me asking when I am going to get your bio/picture up. 1.5 Used to express incredulity or irritation. Oh please, is that meant to be a serious argument? Example sentencesExamples Oh please! So Meg's foie gras post is up. Oh, please. I've been reading some of the hubbub about our latest release on blogs here and there, and I have to say that some people simply need to take a pill. Phrases as — as you please informal Used to emphasize the manner in which someone does something, especially when this is seen as surprising. she walked forward as calm as you please Example sentencesExamples The staff are friendly without being saccharine and are quite willing to let you linger for as long as you please over a cup of coffee. You can feel as ridiculous as you please or you can admire the pretty mosaic tiles, breathe in the herb-infused vapours and let the heat take over. There I'd be driving along just as nice as you please and in the passenger seat the fellow would be bouncing up and down, up and down. She stood as pretty as you please in her sunbonnet, and long dress in the hot weather waiting for my brother Dick to come up and see her. Stay as long as you please then, Mr. Benito, Mr. Kane. They're gone and he's sneaking up on the place and jerking doors open and windows as quick as you please. Mehinakrota walked in as bold as you please, his head held high. Once you've got the material, you can be as creative as you please with sewing or painting on patterns. He stopped about two feet from me, as casual as you please, staring down at me, and I staring at him with a mixture of determination and fear. Now, imagine controlling that character and wandering about for as long as you please, taking in the fully interactive and insanely large environments. if you please 1Used in polite requests. follow me, if you please Example sentencesExamples I'll thank you to keep your landing strips, your tarmacs, your runways and your taxiing lanes well under sufficient layers of cotton if you please. I'll take another Martini, now, Sproat, if you please. Kindly refrain from showing the following movies on Sunday afternoons, in addition to The Craft, if you please. Argue otherwise if you please, it doesn't matter. And now I have said about as much as I ought to say in this impromptu manner, and if you please, I'll take the music. Kindly draw the water while I change my dress, if you please. And you may follow, if you please, or keep to public streets. Synonyms if you please, if you wouldn't mind, if you would be so good 2Used to express indignation at something perceived as unreasonable. she wants me to make fifty cakes in time for the festival, if you please! Example sentencesExamples We must adopt the promised land mindset, if you please. And, if you're into Chinese astrology, I'm also a ripsnorting rascal of a rooster or the female version… a hen if you please. Presumably some of our heroes, such as Mattie Holland, or Maitiú Ó hAoláin if you please, will find it educational too when they read the match programme. I need to be at least 2 preferably 5 kilometers away now if you please! A large plasma screen on the wall offered excellent TV reception, as well as high-speed Internet access using the wireless keyboard provided… at £5.99 per hour, if you please. No, she uses them as arsenal, weapons of mass distraction, if you please. And of course, should Don Brash indicate that he is keen to become the next MP for Tamaki, I should expect Margaret and Tim to withdraw their nominations - gone by lunchtime, if you please… Post-concert champagne and cigars in the Lace Market Hotel, if you please! Instead, they farm that sort of stuff out to a separate hygienist, who charges 30 quid a session and ‘recommends’ that I visit her every three months, if you please. So, if you please, don't automatically hate all yuppies. please yourself Used to express indifference, especially when someone does not cooperate or behave as expected. ‘I can manage on my own.’ ‘Please yourself.’ Example sentencesExamples Oh well please yourself! Well, please yourself. They'll be there and us dead, very likely. Origin Middle English: from Old French plaisir 'to please', from Latin placere. A word that comes via Old French plaisir ‘to please’ from Latin placere, found also in implacable (Late Middle English). Phrases like yes, please were originally short for ‘may it please you’ or ‘let it please you’. Please on its own, as used today, was not known to Shakespeare, who used please you: ‘Will you hear the letter?—So please you, for I never heard it yet’ (As You Like It). The proverbs you can't please everyone and little things please little minds are both old and can be traced back to the late 15th and late 16th centuries. Something pleasant (Middle English) was originally something ‘pleasing’, the meaning of the word in its French source. If you were complacent (mid 17th century) you were originally willing to go along with what pleases others. Rhymes Achinese, Ambonese, appease, Assamese, Balinese, Belize, Beninese, Bernese, bêtise, Bhutanese, breeze, Burmese, Cantonese, Castries, cerise, cheese, chemise, Chinese, Cingalese, Cleese, Congolese, Denise, Dodecanese, ease, éminence grise, expertise, Faroese, freeze, Fries, frieze, Gabonese, Genoese, Goanese, Guyanese, he's, Japanese, Javanese, jeez, journalese, Kanarese, Keys, Lebanese, lees, legalese, Louise, Macanese, Madurese, Maltese, marquise, Milanese, Nepalese, officialese, overseas, pease, Pekinese, Peloponnese, Piedmontese, Portuguese, Pyrenees, reprise, Rwandese, seise, seize, Senegalese, she's, Siamese, Sienese, Sikkimese, Sinhalese, sleaze, sneeze, squeeze, Stockton-on-Tees, Sudanese, Sundanese, Surinamese, Tabriz, Taiwanese, tease, Tees, telegraphese, these, Timorese, Togolese, trapeze, valise, Viennese, Vietnamese, vocalese, wheeze verb.1 phr. Definition of please in US English: please verbplēzpliz [with object] 1Cause to feel happy and satisfied. he arranged a fishing trip to please his son with object and infinitive it pleased him to be seen with someone in the news Example sentencesExamples When they told me where they lived I had no idea where Downpatrick was, and it pleased me that now I had a passing acquaintance with the place. Though it pleased them that the fight was finally over, their losses were overwhelming. All we can say is that it pleased the Lord to do this. Yet Katherine saw the small mistake, and it pleased her. It pleased me to know that he was a very good conversationalist, and was capable of holding intelligent conversation for more than two seconds. It pleased me somehow to be weathered by this deadly wind on my face and to be exposed to a gorgeous icy glare on this sunny afternoon. It pleased me no end, trying to make amends for many years of imposed suppression. He loved the city and it pleased him that she was interested in its history. It pleased Maria to see Isabella able to enjoy herself again. It pleased me to see New Jersey State Troopers out in force at the Newark airport. I could hear a smile over the line and it pleased me. It pleased him, though he couldn't think of any useful advice he'd given. And there can be little doubt that, if nothing else, it pleased the Commission and Commissioner. I knew they were just anxious to get started, and it pleased me. It pleased him to know that he might go on, far away from this place. He said it pleased him, and he was flattered not offended… Now only happiness lay before them and it pleased her well. It grieved her for the same reason it pleased her. The dancers before him danced and twirled just for him and it pleased him. It pleased him so much to see her doing new things and living her life. Synonyms nice, agreeable, pleasant, pleasurable, satisfying, gratifying, welcome, good, acceptable, to one's liking, enjoyable, entertaining, amusing, delightful, fine 1.1no object Give satisfaction. she was quiet and eager to please Example sentencesExamples They like when I push them to the extremes of their body and they are always eager to please. He's eager and willing to please and follows my instructions without a fault. They are eager to please and want to ensure that your business is successful. Putting on your best smile and adopting a pleasant, helpful attitude you stand eager and ready to please, waiting for the onslaught of the great shopping public. I find myself behaving like the good little Catholic boy I was raised to be: deferential, eager to please. The hotel offers rooms of five-star quality at four or even three-star prices and is notably eager to please. You get little respect and sometimes get lots of scorn, but yet you are faithful and eager to please. It may be equally frustrating to children who are eager to please, obtain approval, and gain parental acceptance. This was a shame, because the staff were friendly and eager to please, and that end of Blossom Street really could do with a top-notch little eatery to spice it up. Eager as ever to please, here's just two of the many dissertations we received. He is, by inclination, eager to please, keen to win support within his party and go with the political grain. Eager to please, it goes for easy laughs, reinforcing rather than challenging stereotypes. Even the most eager to please and intelligent dog will need these rules reinforced all the time. The Sanctuary itself was spectacularly built and was very aesthetically pleasing to the eye. These Edinburgh festivals generate noise and excitement and their proliferation pleases and astonishes. She's a little bit wild, eager to please, sexually adventurous and willing to do what they want. He was looking down at him like a puppy dog, eager to please but at the same time unable to speak his mind. I was your typical white girl growing up in the suburbs - too nice, too eager to please. Eager to please, Adam even has plastic surgery - a barely discernible nose job. A keen worker, Manuel is eager to please but possesses a poor command of the English language. Synonyms friendly, amiable, pleasant, agreeable, affable, nice, genial, likeable, good-humoured, charming, engaging, winning, delightful 1.2 Satisfy aesthetically. Example sentencesExamples A woman's body is deemed to be valuable only as long as it satisfies men or pleases others in the society. Indeed, relocating a city to a more effective, attractive but perhaps less aesthetically pleasing location has its logical merits if it improves its strategic aims. But I also didn't expect the modern yet historic and aesthetically pleasing city I found myself in this weekend. They do not recognize how aesthetically pleasing your site is but rather will digest the content of your site to understand its subject matter. An aesthetically pleasing city with clean air would make cycling and walking more pleasurable. ‘We're trying to make the garden more visually pleasing and also attract inner town wildlife,’ said Mr Goldie. We all want a safer, cleaner and a more aesthetically pleasing community. Display areas were created in which glass cases were as densely packed as possible without much regard to an aesthetically pleasing installation. The surgeon also strives for a functional repair of the muscles and an aesthetically pleasing approximation of the skin edges. Get out of your rut of voting for the aesthetically pleasing contestant with no vocal talent, and pick the ones who can sing. It was ‘attractive and pleasing, both within and without’, and in its heyday could seat 1,000 worshippers. The practice of counting pitches has all but eliminated the aesthetically pleasing complete game performance. Aesthetically pleasing it wasn't, but his goal did suggest a quickness of mind and, just as important, a ruthlessness that is engrained in all great strikers. The coloring looks good throughout, always vibrant and always pleasing to the eye. The participants would be bringing aesthetically pleasing furniture suitable for those living in tiny accommodations. My aesthetically pleasing black borders are back! Such vitriol toughened her up for the less aesthetically pleasing career of boxing. It wasn't just because of the camaraderie of the legends, but because of the aesthetically pleasing physiques they built as well. The patient will use an aesthetically pleasing reconstruction. Moreover, the numerous wineries and vineyards were quite aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Synonyms make happy, give pleasure to, make someone content, make someone glad, make someone pleased, make someone feel good, delight, charm, amuse, divert, entertain, be agreeable to, gladden, cheer up 2please oneselfTake only one's own wishes into consideration in deciding how to act or proceed. this is the first time in ages that I can just please myself Example sentencesExamples We wanted to please ourselves and be one of the best bands we would want to see live, and make some of the best records that we would have in our record collection. I tend to follow my instincts and please myself. The glory of being older is that we can be ourselves and please ourselves. They please themselves whether they serve or not. On the show, there's this really delicate balance between pleasing ourselves, just making ourselves happy, and making the audience happy. Everybody was just into pleasing themselves, to such a point that there was no room for any relationship. Unfortunately, there are still some parish councillors who get elected or co-opted and then believe they can please themselves. Yes, we aim to please others; however, I firmly believe we should please ourselves first. Busier than ever, she is happily married with two young children and plans to spend her fifties pleasing herself and exploring other avenues. I don't conform unless I choose to, and, frankly, I please myself. I've come to the realisation, at 57, that I have to do things that please myself, and if people like them that's a bonus. They're most interested in pleasing themselves, like some of the people you're forced to deal with. I was trying so hard to please myself, I was turning into somebody else. The healthy freaks will please themselves with the newest diet and healthy food. I have often found myself out of balance with worry about what others think at the expense of pleasing myself. By the end of the week you feel much better, and paradoxically by pleasing yourself your partner is also satisfied. They didn't do it to please themselves or just one guy. All over the country, harassed parents are frantically trying to decide how to entertain their offspring, rather than pleasing themselves. Many of these women aborted not to please themselves, but to preserve relationships: with their mothers, with their families in general, with their boyfriends. If you're just pleasing yourself, why not save it for home? 2.1no object Wish or desire to do something. feel free to wander around as you please Example sentencesExamples This incidence does raise several issues, not least of which is the continued lack of a proper policy to find permanent places for these people who continue to flout the law and do as they please. Agitate for the freedoms of everyone to worship as they please. More commonly, people seem to opt in and out of the traditional system as they please, positioning themselves to their greatest advantage. We are all entitled to our opinions (and to think mine are a load of codswallop) and to get out there and express them as stridently as we please. Visitors will be able to come and go as they please, and there will be collecting boxes for them to make a donation. And the soft drink industry says students should have the freedom to eat as they please unless their parents say otherwise. The validity of such claims is measured best in Texas, where the big meatpackers have the most freedom to do as they please. Users of such indices can pick and choose as they please in this evolving garden of relationships. If her relatives do not like it, they can do as they please. In a way, it's great that we have the luxurious situation that allows people to pretty-much come and go as they please - turning up to sing whenever they fancy. People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. For that reason I don't accept the unconditional authority of states to treat their citizens as they please. A total of 122 animals, of eight species, have been placed in the park; all but the deer are free to move around as they please. That means governments can spend them as they please. I understand that editors can hire and fire as they please. But shoppers can't come and go as they please, nor can they always choose the food they want. Even more than staying in a hotel you will have the freedom to get up when you like, stay up as late as you choose, come and go as you please, and eat when you want. Unlike the existing secure camp at Oakington, Cambridgeshire, the centres are expected to be open, with occupants free to come and go as they please. I defend a private club's right to recruit membership as they please. ‘Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please,’ warned Karl Marx. Synonyms like, want, wish, desire, see fit, think fit, choose, be inclined, will, prefer, opt 2.2it pleases", "pleased", etc., "someone to do somethingdated It is someone's choice to do something. instead of attending the meeting, it pleased him to go off hunting Example sentencesExamples While it pleases me to read the above comments and Mr. Conley's challenge, I'm also pleased to see William stand up for Michael. I realise today that although his last diaries are very interesting, they have been composed for Chertkov and those whom it pleases Mr Chertkov to show them! They have always been upfront about their desire to be famous, partly because this was a very vulgar thing to say in the Seventies and it pleased them to go against the grain. If it pleases you to advance and research this theory, then please the more power to you. Please, if it pleases you to laugh at the dog - do so. adverbplēzpliz 1Used in polite requests or questions. please address letters to the Editor what type of fish is this, please? Example sentencesExamples It is not a rhetorical question, so please do me and anyone else reading along here the courtesy of a reply. We have a lot of readers, so if someone knows the answer to the following question, please leave it in a comment. If you have any questions, please direct all queries to Greg Popcak. For our meeting at 11 am, please think about this question - I will be very interested to hear your views So if anyone has more questions please feel free to email me. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us again. If you have any other questions, please feel free to get in touch and I'll reply as quickly as I possibly can. These unnecessary asides only waste the time of the House, so would the Minister please just address the question. If you have any specific questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact your state editor or the network editor. Would the Prime Minister please address the question. For a full list of questions, please visit the Background Briefing website. Could you please ask your question, the person with the mike up there? If you have questions about this, please let me know. Again, I pose the question, can someone please explain why the noise of the sirens is very much more noticeable compared with a few months ago? This may be a stupid question, but please forgive my ignorance. There is actually a competition on the site to win a set of the gnomes, so if you can be bothered to register and answer the insultingly easy question please do. If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact us again. Would you ask the Minister to address the question please. If you have any questions please address them to this group. Would the right honourable Prime Minister please address the question briefly. Synonyms if you please, if you wouldn't mind, if you would be so good 1.1 Used to add urgency and emotion to a request. please, please come home! Example sentencesExamples Please, please, please tell me they are still going to do this. But until we can help you get those things, please, please don't push us too far. Please oh please oh please oh please oh please let it pass. Please, please, please, do not, in the event of any positive action, give me the conditioned reflex answer that any relaxation will have to be means tested. Please, please, can we have a little perspective? Please, please do not infect your output with the tired diatribes of this ageing and out-of-touch right-wing bigot. If you feel the same please, please, please let me know. Thanks in advance, and please, please travel home to us safely. A note to bloggers: please, please make your links open in new windows. Please please please understand that if I cause any offence to anybody, at all, anywhere, I apologise fulsomely and unreservedly. There's only a little over a week to decide. Please, please, please! Please, please let's get to work on this building and make sure it has some kind of future. Please, please, I beg of people to write to their MP and demand in the name of British justice that capital punishment be reinstated in this country. So please, please, keep your presents rolling in! Please, please let us show that we respect the wild life of the Dales and put off the grass cutting till July - and give plants, birds and other creatures a chance. Please, please do not destroy those palm trees. So please please please vote for the lovely Vaughan. While you're there, please, please, don't take a stroll along the Riverwalk. Please, please return to your original format. If you feel envy from his mind - well, I ask that you please ignore the emotion. 1.2 Used to agree politely to a request. “May I call you at home?” “Please do.” Example sentencesExamples Yes, Please Do Come In. Actually, yes, please do erase everything on my ipod. ‘Yes, yes, please do,’ I would coo soothingly, anxious not to disturb his flow. 1.3 Used in polite or emphatic acceptance of an offer. “Would you like a drink?” “Yes, please.” Example sentencesExamples Yes please Cath; that's the best offer I've had from any woman in months. So yes please we tell the aged salesperson we'll have that one with 40 pounds off. ‘Ahh have you got an old fridge we can pick up then he asks’. ‘Yes, please,’ Natalie answered, grabbing her glass and following Sheila to the sofa. I can't imagine there would have been too many cries of, Yes please. We would love a new ‘academy’ for our children, yes please, but we'd like it for everyone. Yes, please, because at this time in my country it is really bad. And she says yes, please, are you free this evening? Yes please, but let's have a proper debate first! 1.4 Used to ask someone to stop doing something of which the speaker disapproves. Rita, please—people are looking Example sentencesExamples They are non-stop party favourites for a party you hope will stop, soon, please. Don't give me that look please, stop begging me with your glances. Now, please don't disapprove, but I am very fond of Peter Halliway. And please, stop emailing me asking when I am going to get your bio/picture up. But please stop thinking you know so much about me, because frankly it's getting boring. Many young people are, regrettably, disabled by illness or accident, so please will you stop and consider this before launching into a reprimand? But please stop posting that particular conspiracy theory. So please, stop pretending that the motivations for this are inexplicable. If you are calling for no reason at all, please stop because it's getting really annoying. ‘Ilse, please stop,’ Niklas pleaded, clenching his fists and leaning on the chair. 1.5 Used to express incredulity or irritation. You cleaned out the barn in only two hours? Oh, please! Example sentencesExamples Oh please! So Meg's foie gras post is up. Oh, please. I've been reading some of the hubbub about our latest release on blogs here and there, and I have to say that some people simply need to take a pill. Phrases as — as you please informal Used to emphasize the manner in which someone does something, especially when this is seen as surprising. she walked forward as calm as you please Example sentencesExamples They're gone and he's sneaking up on the place and jerking doors open and windows as quick as you please. Once you've got the material, you can be as creative as you please with sewing or painting on patterns. The staff are friendly without being saccharine and are quite willing to let you linger for as long as you please over a cup of coffee. Stay as long as you please then, Mr. Benito, Mr. Kane. Now, imagine controlling that character and wandering about for as long as you please, taking in the fully interactive and insanely large environments. There I'd be driving along just as nice as you please and in the passenger seat the fellow would be bouncing up and down, up and down. You can feel as ridiculous as you please or you can admire the pretty mosaic tiles, breathe in the herb-infused vapours and let the heat take over. She stood as pretty as you please in her sunbonnet, and long dress in the hot weather waiting for my brother Dick to come up and see her. Mehinakrota walked in as bold as you please, his head held high. He stopped about two feet from me, as casual as you please, staring down at me, and I staring at him with a mixture of determination and fear. if you please 1Used in polite requests. follow me, if you please Example sentencesExamples Argue otherwise if you please, it doesn't matter. Kindly draw the water while I change my dress, if you please. I'll thank you to keep your landing strips, your tarmacs, your runways and your taxiing lanes well under sufficient layers of cotton if you please. I'll take another Martini, now, Sproat, if you please. And now I have said about as much as I ought to say in this impromptu manner, and if you please, I'll take the music. Kindly refrain from showing the following movies on Sunday afternoons, in addition to The Craft, if you please. And you may follow, if you please, or keep to public streets. Synonyms if you please, if you wouldn't mind, if you would be so good 2Used to express indignation at something perceived as unreasonable. she wants me to make fifty cakes in time for the festival, if you please! Example sentencesExamples So, if you please, don't automatically hate all yuppies. Instead, they farm that sort of stuff out to a separate hygienist, who charges 30 quid a session and ‘recommends’ that I visit her every three months, if you please. And, if you're into Chinese astrology, I'm also a ripsnorting rascal of a rooster or the female version… a hen if you please. We must adopt the promised land mindset, if you please. Presumably some of our heroes, such as Mattie Holland, or Maitiú Ó hAoláin if you please, will find it educational too when they read the match programme. Post-concert champagne and cigars in the Lace Market Hotel, if you please! And of course, should Don Brash indicate that he is keen to become the next MP for Tamaki, I should expect Margaret and Tim to withdraw their nominations - gone by lunchtime, if you please… No, she uses them as arsenal, weapons of mass distraction, if you please. I need to be at least 2 preferably 5 kilometers away now if you please! A large plasma screen on the wall offered excellent TV reception, as well as high-speed Internet access using the wireless keyboard provided… at £5.99 per hour, if you please. Origin Middle English: from Old French plaisir ‘to please’, from Latin placere. verb.1 phr.
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