Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - imperfect
Imperfect
imperfect
adj. & n. --adj. 1 not fully formed or done; faulty, incomplete. 2 Gram. (of a tense) denoting a (usu. past) action in progress but not completed at the time in question (e.g. they were singing). 3 Mus. (of a cadence) ending on the dominant chord. --n. the imperfect tense. Phrases and idioms imperfect rhyme Prosody a rhyme that only partly satisfies the usual criteria (e.g. love and move). Derivatives imperfectly adv. Etymology: ME imparfit etc. f. OF imparfait f. L imperfectus (as IN-(1), PERFECT)
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I. adjective Etymology: alteration of Middle English imparfit, from Latin ~us, from in+ perfectus perfect Date: 14th century not perfect: as, defective, having stamens or pistils but not both, lacking or not involving sexual reproduction , of, relating to, or constituting a verb tense used to designate a continuing state or an incomplete action especially in the past, not enforceable at law, ~ly adverb ~ness noun II. noun Date: 1871 an ~ tense ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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