please

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

please [please pleases pleased pleasing] exclamation, verb BrE [pliːz] NAmE [pliːz]
exclamation
1. used as a polite way of asking for sth or telling sb to do sth
• Please sit down.
• Two coffees, please.
•Quiet please!
•Please could I leave early today?
2. used to add force to a request or statement
• Please don't leave me here alone.
• Please, please don't forget.
•Please, I don't understand what I have to do.
3. used as a polite way of accepting sth
• ‘Would you like some help?’ ‘Yes, please.’
• ‘Coffee?’ ‘Please.’
4. Please! (informal, often humorous)used to ask sb to stop behaving badly
•Children, please! I'm trying to work.
•John! Please!
5. Please/P-leaseBrE [pəˈliːz] ; NAmE [pəˈliːz] used when you are replying to sb who has said sth that you think is stupid
•Oh, please! You cannot be serious.

Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French plaisir ‘to please’, from Latin placere.
Idioms: ↑do as you please ▪ ↑if you please ▪ ↑please God ▪ ↑please the eye ▪ ↑please yourself
 
verb
1. transitive, intransitive ~ (sb) | it pleases sb to do sth to make sb happy
• You can't please everybody.
• He's a difficult man to please.
•There's just no pleasing some people (= some people are impossible to please).
•I did it to please my parents.
•She's always very eager to please.
Opp: ↑displease
2. intransitive often used after as or what, where, etc. to mean ‘to want’, ‘to choose’ or ‘to like’ to do sth
•You may stay as long as you please.
•She always does exactly as she pleases.
•I'm free now to live wherever I please.
Verb forms:

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

Thesaurus:
please verb T, I
•I did it to please my parents.
satisfy • • delight • |especially spoken make sb's day • |written gratify •
formal Opp: displease
It pleased/satisfied/delighted/gratified sb that…
It pleased/delighted/gratified sb to find/hear/know/see/think…
You can't please/satisfy everybody/everyone.
Please or satisfy? Sth that satisfies you is just good enough, but sth might please you very much:
•The result pleased us enormously.
 ✗ The result satisfied us enormously.

Example Bank:
•Some children are very difficult to please.
•The planning policy failed to please anyone.
•The result pleased us enormously.
•There's just no pleasing some people.
•He's a difficult man to please.
•She's always very eager to please.