Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - perfect
Perfect
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adj., v., & n. --adj. 1 complete; not deficient. 2 faultless (a perfect diamond). 3 very satisfactory (a perfect evening). 4 exact; precise (a perfect circle). 5 entire; unqualified (a perfect stranger). 6 Math. (of a number) equal to the sum of its divisors. 7 Gram. (of a tense) denoting a completed action or event in the past, formed in English with have or has and the past participle, as in they have eaten. 8 Mus. (of pitch) absolute. 9 Bot. a (of a flower) having all four types of whorl. b (of a fungus) in the stage where the sexual spores are formed. 10 (often foll. by in) thoroughly trained or skilled (is perfect in geometry). --v.tr. 1 make perfect; improve. 2 carry through; complete. 3 complete (a sheet) by printing the other side. --n. Gram. the perfect tense. Phrases and idioms perfect binding a form of bookbinding in which the leaves are attached to the spine by gluing rather than sewing. perfect interval Mus. a fourth or fifth as it would occur in a major or minor scale starting on the lower note of the interval, or octave. perfect pitch = absolute pitch 1. Derivatives perfecter n. perfectible adj. perfectibility n. perfectness n. Etymology: ME and OF parfit, perfet f. L perfectus past part. of perficere complete (as PER-, facere do)
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I. adjective see: do Date: 14th century 1. being entirely without fault or defect ; flawless , satisfying all requirements ; accurate, corresponding to an ideal standard or abstract concept , faithfully reproducing the original, legally valid, expert, proficient , 3. pure, total, lacking in no essential detail ; complete, sane, absolute, unequivocal , of an extreme kind ; unmitigated , mature, of, relating to, or constituting a verb form or verbal that expresses an action or state completed at the time of speaking or at a time spoken of, 6. obsolete certain, sure, contented, satisfied, belonging to the consonances unison, fourth, fifth, and octave which retain their character when inverted and when raised or lowered by a half step become augmented or diminished, 8. sexually mature and fully differentiated , having both stamens and pistils in the same flower , ~ness noun Synonyms: see: ~ II. transitive verb Date: 14th century to bring to final form, to make ~ ; improve, refine, ~er noun III. noun Date: 1841 the ~ tense of a language ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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