Definition of pure in English:

pure

adjective pjʊəpjʊr

1Not mixed or adulterated with any other substance or material.
cars can run on pure alcohol
the jacket was pure wool
Example sentencesExamples
- This tactile, sensual experience was made more poignant by the knowledge that these substances were pure, unalloyed, irreducible.
- The term extinction coefficients describes the absorbance spectra of a single pure substance at known concentrations.
- Liquor sales as measured in pure alcohol have increased by three per cent during the first nine months of the trial aimed at reducing grog related harm in Alice Springs.
- I said I worked on semiconductor materials, where very pure crystals of, for example, silicon, are grown.
- As for material, pure cotton is a very good choice for a tropical climate.
- When a solid is made up of a pure substance and forms slowly, it can become a crystal.
- The material felt like pure silk, completely smooth.
- As it is today, this is pure sit-com material and most respectable sit-com writers would shy away from such clichéd and hackneyed situations.
- The analysis revealed that iron constituted less than 1 percent of the material, indicating essentially pure rhodochrosite.
- Primary standards are usually aqueous-based and consist of weighed-in amounts of pure materials.
- Both the wild and the cultivated balsams are found in varied colours such as red, blue, yellow, pink, purple and white, either in a pure or mixed form.
- All of these markets have exacting requirements for pure uncontaminated raw material.
- One popular extinguisher material is pure carbon dioxide.
- The material was a pure iron that had been embedded in the plants while the iron was still molten.
- When examined, the container was found to contain 32 pallets each containing four, 45-gallon drums of pure alcohol.
- The British drink two gallons of pure alcohol per person per year: more than almost all other Westerners.
- The Hantex showroom has a big collection of kasavu saris, dhotis, furnishing materials as well as pure cotton products at affordable prices.
- White-sand soil is almost pure quartz material derived from sediments that are more than 570 million years old.
- For pure wool it's also lovely and soft and I won't have to wear anything underneath to stop scratchiness.
- Thin films are simply not as good as pure bulk materials, even if they are cheaper, so it's incredibly important to make sure that the very most is made of the incoming light.
Synonyms
unmixed, unalloyed, unadulterated, unblended, uncontaminated, sterling, solid, refined, one hundred per cent, 100%
clarified, clear, filtered, distilled, processed, neat, straight, undiluted
flawless, perfect, genuine, authentic, real, actual, bona fide, veritable, pukka, true
1. 1.1 Without any extraneous and unnecessary elements.
  the romantic notion of pure art devoid of social responsibility
  Example sentencesExamples
  Often a piece resembles a pure collage until elements settle into a discernible rhythm pattern or a drumbeat will emerge to anchor the noises swirling around it.
  When light passes through a spectroscope it breaks into bands of unique colors that represent pure elements.
  Hitler and the Nazis did it effectively, brutally waging war against decadent surrealists and any other artists or writers they considered an aberration from the pure Aryan ideal of art.
  His action scenes are beautiful capsules of pure kinetic art and grace, fusing his camera movement and his physical choreography into a singular performance.
  The plot elements partake of pure melodrama, but the treatment raises the story to another level.
  Such scenes work on the level of stylization and pure martial arts action, and may be appreciated wholly out of context, but the essence of heroism remains elusive.
  But though it may be trivial in the face of war's absurd brutality, perhaps nothing makes as much sense as the pure beauty of Japanese art.
  Yet Widayanto has succeeded in treading the fine line between his pure art creations and his more commercial products.
  Although not pure art deco, its houses incorporated many of the elements of the style and large whitewashed villas now grace the south side.
  No longer a pure art, it would come to the people as a ruling class ‘art’, conditioned according to some political or religious design.
  This is pure classic fairy-tale material, and what it may lack in gritty complexity it makes up in primal symbolic resonance.
  The 1970s were the first decade after films went from pure entertainment to art.
  But, of the pieces I've seen, the pure graphic element doesn't do much on a gut level for me, at least not yet.
  I reach the insane conclusion that mathematics is pure art and I know that it isn't.
  I do believe video games are sort of at the heart of a cancer that's eating away at this culture, turning every popular art form into a pure service industry.
  Because her paintings are so artificial and so plainly painted, the viewer can appreciate pure art without the weight of hidden messages.
  It is predominantly an adaptation of Cotswold vernacular architecture with pure arts and crafts embellishments.
  Deeply embedded within her mind is a node of pure Elemental energy.
  It's pure art to handle the ‘questioner’ who in fact is giving a mini-speech.
  If a person does only judo it seemed that their art turned into pure sport.
  Synonyms
  sheer, utter, simple, absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, complete, thorough, total, perfect, consummate, unmitigated, unqualified, palpable, patent
2. 1.2 Free of any contamination.
  the pure, clear waters of Scotland
  Example sentencesExamples
  If the water has strange smell, you should use pure bottled water.
  The success of destroying all microorganisms capable of growing in canned food is based on the temperature obtained in pure steam, free of air, at sea level.
  He adopted a mostly vegetarian diet, cutting out sugar and saturated fat, taking antioxidants, herbal and soy supplements and drinking tons of pure water and green tea.
  While driving along the winding and narrow Norwegian roads alongside a fjord we came to a massive glacier towering across the clearest expanse of pure turquoise water.
  It is very important to find quality water filters so that you can drink clean and pure water.
  Announce prizes like free tankers of pure water till the end of summer and free coaching for IIT foundation and medicine foundation.
  In the 17th century a well was discovered on Ilkley Moor, according to folklore, by a shepherd who bathed his injured leg in the water and the pure water cleaned the wound and cured him!
  I still haven't got to the bottom of it, but my guess is that it was the heady combination of utterly pure water and deliciously clean air.
  Valerie and Noel Trezise will offer you a wide range of pure sweet natural honey free of additives or preservatives.
  Growing wild in the pure and unpolluted waters of W. Ireland, the watercress is of exceptional quality.
  He fought tenaciously for pure water, clean air, and the free use of condoms on the NHS.
  Organic meat is from animals that have been raised on a pure organic diet feed and pasture.
  In a new bowl, place one pound of sugar with pure clean water.
  Where is the crystal clear, pure, unpolluted water that once characterized the river as well as most shallow wells in the area?
  The Government schemes to provide pure drinking water has not benefited the people living in the remote villages.
  Care was taken to use pure water in the chamber because most contaminants tend to lower the water vapor pressure.
  You start with water and end with water, pure and unpolluting.
  Its light began to fade away, and kept fading until they were just looking at a pail full of pure, unpolluted water.
  One of the psychics passed around a canteen full of clean, pure water, which Veon accepted gratefully.
  Thousands of restoration projects in rural areas need millions of trees to provide clean air, pure water, and improved wildlife habitat.
  Synonyms
  clean, clear, fresh, crisp, refreshing, sparkling, unpolluted, untainted, unadulterated, uncontaminated
  wholesome, natural, healthy, health-giving, healthful, good for you
  salubrious, sanitary, uninfected, disinfected, germ-free, sterile, sterilized, pasteurized, aseptic
3. 1.3 (of an animal or plant) of unmixed origin or descent; pedigree.
  the pure Charolais is white or light wheat in the coat
  80 pure-bred stallions were on parade
  Example sentencesExamples
  Didi is a registered pure-bred gold schipperke, the colour of a golden fox, with foxy ears and a pointy foxy snout.
  If the alpaca is indeed a descendant of the vicuna, geneticists might be able to identify pure-bred alpacas and guide new breeding programs to improve the quality of alpaca fleece.
  The 28 student judges identified 16 matches out of the 25 pure-bred dogs, but they could not match mixed-breed dogs and their masters.
  She now has her own horse, Luke, a pure-bred Arab, and trains on him three times a week.
  We also compared the mean expression level in hybrids relative to pure species between male-specific genes and all other genes.
  The piglets are the first pure-bred Gloucesters to be born on the farm - one of the north west's top tourist attractions - for nearly 10 years.
  With pure-bred pups selling for as much as £500, dealing involving Labradors, Shih Tzus, German Shepherds, Spaniels and other breeds brought in from Ireland and Eastern Europe is a growing, multimillion-pound business.
  A Laois family of doglovers is searching for their pure-bred Springer Spaniel and say they would pay anything to get him back.
  The family also had the supreme and reserve pens of pure-bred Texels and took the best single butcher's lamb award.
  A record 80 pure-bred stallions were on parade and the biggest turnout of vintage tractors and other vehicles were on show.
  In 1876, William and his wife returned to Bell Block where he started his celebrated model farm on Corbett Road, breeding pure-bred Jersey cattle.
  Last year the club reared and released into natural environments over 400 pure-bred mallard duck and 1,000 pheasant.
  If you're showing, check any relevant breed society guidelines first - pure-bred Arabs and natives should be shown with full, unplaited manes, whilst part-breds should have their manes pulled and plaited.
  The seed project was started last year to produce different varieties of quality, pure-bred mahangu (pearl millet), sorghum, maize, groundnut and cowpea seed, adapted to the needs of local farmers.
  Some does are ‘strategically’ mated, but most just spend an afternoon in a private stall with one of the farm's many thick-nosed, pure-bred bucks.
  They showed six-year-old Folds Veronica - one of six pure-bred Cleveland Bay mares they keep at their farm in Godshill.
  Scheduled for March 23, the international program features seven races worth a total of $15,250,000, a figure that includes $250,000 for a pure-bred Arabian race.
  Iceland has these pure-bred horses that haven't changed in 900 years.
  Of course he was pure puppy to Mr. Comolli, but we knew that Spook wanted our flesh in chunky pieces hanging from his slavering jaws.
  Xiao Yan's favorite pet is a pure-bred cat, which she purchased for 16,000 RMB. ‘Each month, I have to spend a few hundred dollars on essential care for the cat,’ she said.
  Synonyms
  pedigree, thoroughbred, full, full-bred, pure-blooded, blooded, pedigreed, pure, genuine
2(of a sound) perfectly in tune and with a clear tone.
these small cymbals produce a quiet but high pitched and very pure note
Example sentencesExamples
- At only 23 she already produces a pure clear sound which soared above the orchestra, refusing to be overpowered.
- I couldn't tell what the guy vocalist's words were, but the tone quality was amazing, a full and pure sound.
- A few of the audience may have wandered away with the feeling that too little of this gave us a pure, beguiling Monteverdi sound.
- Sieden and Baker sing with pure tone and true, perhaps a bit naïve, fostering the illusion that they're just very good local soloists.
- The width of the bore and the large diameter of the tone holes gives it a strong, pure sound, invaluable to the military band and to the swing and dance big bands.
- Each section was totally integrated, the sounds were pure and precise.
- It's not related to the band because it isn't music in any shape or form, just anguished, terrifying pure sound.
- Yet, unlike Mahler, you chose not pure orchestral Lieder performed by a singer.
- Though Carter hasn't lost his love of the lyric as pure sound, the sentiments here come from the heart more than the head.
- The tune was so pure, it reminded Katrina of all the good things in life.
- It's the deep, dark keening sound of the cello, the twilight voicings of the piano and the perfect, pure pitch of Paula Morelenbaums creamy voice.
- One may disregard or actively listen for the words, feel how they combine with the music, but it is hard not to hear them as something other and more than pure musical sound.
- In fact, he had invented an amazing type of speaker that really allowed pure sound to come through.
- Anthony Marwood is perfectly suited to tackle these two contrasting works, displaying a tone and intonation that is pure and sensitive.
- ‘I wanted a nice bass sound - something that's in your face and not the sweet and pure sound of the traditional harp,’ she said.
- Intent upon moving beyond notes and creating pure sound, he borrowed from African, Indian, and Middle Eastern sources.
- In fact, I'm so glad you asked me that question because that's another thing that would concern people is the fact that I'm not making a pure sound.
- Levy's glistening cascades of tonal warmth were pure instrumental bel canto.
- The pure, high tones of the sopranos were ravishing.
- We rarely hear a pure fundamental tone either in music or in nature.
3Wholesome and untainted by immorality, especially that of a sexual nature.
our fondness for each other is pure and innocent
Example sentencesExamples
- But Lincoln gets no credit for the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, because he didn't do it out of the pure goodness of his heart?
- She smelled like sorrow, and bitterness, and pain had never touched her, leaving her pure and untainted.
- This is where the deepest transformation can take place, untainted and pure.
- It can only be banished by a maiden of pure heart and the daughter of Zeus so Rena must be present
- We need to be morally upright, like chaste virgins before God, pure and clean.
- Our country needs men with ‘clean’ hands, pure hearts and a vision for the future, clearly written in honesty and integrity.
- Why the attraction to athletes who are still pure and untainted and don't have big, you know, contracts?
- Rather, they represent a genuine science of mind, a science of insight that uncovers the pure nature of the mind and world that we experience.
- Children are just the best thing there ever can be, the essence of innocence, their pure little hearts and minds not yet infected by our corrupt cold world.
- What I do know within my heart is that the light from the source is untainted and pure, and I call it divine love.
- From this standpoint, rural people and their culture represent a negation of everything that is wholesome and pure about nature.
- Unicorns are renowned for their pickiness, only allowing human and elfin maidens of pure heart to ride them.
- Give us courage, O Lord, in the face of danger, keep us pure in heart, clean in mind, and strong in purpose.
- It is possible even in the midst of intense illness and the dying process to contact this fundamentally pure and wholesome state of mind.
- My heart is pure and unsullied by such base, unromantic notions.
- Your father was a handsome well-built man, pure of heart.
- This spell is the ultimate technique that can be used only by those who have a pure and untainted soul.
- Though he was not stupid, nor naïve, I told myself that he was like a child, ears, heart and mind pure and untainted with the thought of bloodshed and abuse.
- Power always brings the need to compromise one's ideals, so what right had Benn to claim after the event that he remained pure and untainted?
- He personified the pure, blissful soul nature they sought and sensed as the center of themselves.
Synonyms
virtuous, moral, ethical, good, righteous, angelic, saintly, pious, honourable, reputable, wholesome, clean, honest, upright, upstanding, exemplary, above reproach, irreproachable, innocent
chaste, pure as the driven snow, virginal, maidenly
decent, worthy, noble, blameless, guiltless, sinless, stainless, spotless, unsullied, unblemished, unspoilt, unaffected, uncorrupted, undefiled, anti-corruption
informal squeaky clean
Christianity immaculate, impeccable
4(of a subject of study) dealing with abstract concepts and not practical application.
a theoretical discipline such as pure physics
Compare with applied
Example sentencesExamples
- The more think tanks become concerned about shaping the political agenda, the less time they can focus on pure research.
- It was a platform both for engineering and systems development studies and for pure scientific research.
- Prosser studied pure maths at Aberystwyth and might have gone into teaching if the money had not persuaded him to become an actuary like his brother.
- I believe in both the pure research & practical application of encryption theory.
- The intervening years had seen advances in the study of pure biology at the microscopic level in parallel with advances in genetics.
- There is always a tension between the pursuit of pure academic research and the demands of society at large.
- I tend to think that the separation of application and pure research is the hallmark of poor ethics.
- I've done a small amount of summer research in physics and I'm uncertain if pure physics research is something I'd enjoy doing for another 3 or 4 years.
- Much of university research was pure research that had no obvious application at all at the time of its funding.
- But I operate in the sphere of practical politics not pure economic theory.
- The pure mathematician abstracts from physical situations certain quantitative aspects of bodies and their relations, and deals exclusively with these aspects.
- Pure academic research and big science attract an even different personality type.
Synonyms
theoretical, abstract, conceptual, academic, hypothetical, philosophical, speculative, conjectural, non-practical, non-technical
informal blue-sky
5attributive Involving or containing nothing else but; sheer (used for emphasis)
a shout of pure anger
an outcome which may be a matter of pure chance
it was revenge, pure and simple
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘Good,’ she continued sweetly, and then he blinked as her expression morphed into pure and utter anger.
- He saw it in his eyes, the pure utter anger that Noriel had for his son, and suddenly he felt it.
- He appears to be unable to grasp the difference between receiving money through pure chance and through inheritance.
- Then began three months of hard work, and long nights mixed with sheer panic and pure delight that this project was becoming a reality.
- And what he saw to his sheer amazement was pure anger.
- Finding your golf ball in there is quite simply a case of pure chance.
- Like all caricatures, this book overstates its case about the contribution of pure chance to scientific breakthroughs.
- I found it by pure chance and I ask you all humbly to please go read and consider helping this man in a time of real need.
- Arendri who had never raised his voice like that in pure absolute anger had just bit the head off of the one person they all despised.
- For a moment, his anger concentrated on pure, soulless insatiable carnal hunger and desire, which was the cause of all his suffering.
- By pure chance, I also received a letter from the UK today.
- My face, I'm sure, is that of pure terror and anger right now.
- To ignore this is to run your business on a wing and a prayer, which is pure chance and takes your destiny out of your own hands.
- An inquiry launched by Barnsley health chiefs concluded there was no link between the deaths and it appeared to be pure chance that the cluster had appeared.
- It is in fact just a chain of events, brought about by pure chance that forms the raison d' être for this result.
- Two escapees once stumbled upon the oasis by a sheer chance and pure luck, thus becoming the parents of the somber population.
- They have done so as a result of pure graft and sheer talent.
- Kimberley gaped in disbelief and what looked like pure fury at the sheer bitchiness of the other girl in the room, and Clay was seeing red as I stood up.
- It's way more punk, way more lyrical, but more than all, it's rooted in despair and sheer rage and pure joy in celebrating humanity.
- On my first day at work, by pure chance my work was having a ‘think tank’ conference for the day at a conference centre in the city.
Synonyms
sheer, utter, simple, absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, complete, thorough, total, perfect, consummate, unmitigated, unqualified, palpable, patent
archaic arrant
6Phonetics
(of a vowel) not joined with another to form a diphthong.
Example sentencesExamples
- You will sound fairly good if your teacher's modeling elicits a free sound that is well-focused on pure vowels.
- While "pure" vowels, or monophthongs, are said to have one target tongue position, diphthongs have two target tongue positions.
- There are 14 pure [uncombined] vowels in English.

Derivatives

pureness

noun ˈpjʊənəsˈpjʊrnəs

The pureness of the colour white carried for him an oracle of ‘love-life-death’.
Example sentencesExamples
- Arguably, one could hardly have improved on the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, with its weight, pureness of timbre, and intrinsic sympathy for the material.
- There is a pureness about free climbing as the climber relies solely on the use of his or her own skills to ascend a rock face.
- He sings with a clarity, a pureness, that is so very human.
- He has a pureness about him that I wish more people had.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French pur 'pure', from Latin purus.

Rhymes

abjure, adjure, allure, amour, assure, Bahawalpur, boor, Borobudur, Cavour, coiffure, conjure, couture, cure, dastur, de nos jours, doublure, dour, embouchure, endure, ensure, enure, gravure, immature, immure, impure, inure, Jaipur, Koh-i-noor, Kultur, liqueur, lure, manure, moor, Moore, Muir, mure, Nagpur, Namur, obscure, parkour, photogravure, plat du jour, Pompadour, procure, rotogravure, Ruhr, Saussure, secure, simon-pure, spoor, Stour, sure, tour, Tours, velour, Yom Kippur, you're

Definition of pure in US English:

pure

adjectivepjʊrpyo͝or

1Not mixed or adulterated with any other substance or material.
cars can run on pure alcohol
the jacket was pure wool
Example sentencesExamples
- The analysis revealed that iron constituted less than 1 percent of the material, indicating essentially pure rhodochrosite.
- All of these markets have exacting requirements for pure uncontaminated raw material.
- For pure wool it's also lovely and soft and I won't have to wear anything underneath to stop scratchiness.
- The term extinction coefficients describes the absorbance spectra of a single pure substance at known concentrations.
- The Hantex showroom has a big collection of kasavu saris, dhotis, furnishing materials as well as pure cotton products at affordable prices.
- White-sand soil is almost pure quartz material derived from sediments that are more than 570 million years old.
- I said I worked on semiconductor materials, where very pure crystals of, for example, silicon, are grown.
- Primary standards are usually aqueous-based and consist of weighed-in amounts of pure materials.
- When a solid is made up of a pure substance and forms slowly, it can become a crystal.
- The material felt like pure silk, completely smooth.
- Thin films are simply not as good as pure bulk materials, even if they are cheaper, so it's incredibly important to make sure that the very most is made of the incoming light.
- When examined, the container was found to contain 32 pallets each containing four, 45-gallon drums of pure alcohol.
- Both the wild and the cultivated balsams are found in varied colours such as red, blue, yellow, pink, purple and white, either in a pure or mixed form.
- The material was a pure iron that had been embedded in the plants while the iron was still molten.
- As for material, pure cotton is a very good choice for a tropical climate.
- The British drink two gallons of pure alcohol per person per year: more than almost all other Westerners.
- Liquor sales as measured in pure alcohol have increased by three per cent during the first nine months of the trial aimed at reducing grog related harm in Alice Springs.
- This tactile, sensual experience was made more poignant by the knowledge that these substances were pure, unalloyed, irreducible.
- As it is today, this is pure sit-com material and most respectable sit-com writers would shy away from such clichéd and hackneyed situations.
- One popular extinguisher material is pure carbon dioxide.
Synonyms
unmixed, unalloyed, unadulterated, unblended, uncontaminated, sterling, solid, refined, one hundred per cent, 100%
1. 1.1 Without any extraneous and unnecessary elements.
  the romantic notion of pure art devoid of social responsibility
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is predominantly an adaptation of Cotswold vernacular architecture with pure arts and crafts embellishments.
  I do believe video games are sort of at the heart of a cancer that's eating away at this culture, turning every popular art form into a pure service industry.
  The plot elements partake of pure melodrama, but the treatment raises the story to another level.
  The 1970s were the first decade after films went from pure entertainment to art.
  Yet Widayanto has succeeded in treading the fine line between his pure art creations and his more commercial products.
  Hitler and the Nazis did it effectively, brutally waging war against decadent surrealists and any other artists or writers they considered an aberration from the pure Aryan ideal of art.
  Often a piece resembles a pure collage until elements settle into a discernible rhythm pattern or a drumbeat will emerge to anchor the noises swirling around it.
  When light passes through a spectroscope it breaks into bands of unique colors that represent pure elements.
  But though it may be trivial in the face of war's absurd brutality, perhaps nothing makes as much sense as the pure beauty of Japanese art.
  I reach the insane conclusion that mathematics is pure art and I know that it isn't.
  But, of the pieces I've seen, the pure graphic element doesn't do much on a gut level for me, at least not yet.
  His action scenes are beautiful capsules of pure kinetic art and grace, fusing his camera movement and his physical choreography into a singular performance.
  Although not pure art deco, its houses incorporated many of the elements of the style and large whitewashed villas now grace the south side.
  Such scenes work on the level of stylization and pure martial arts action, and may be appreciated wholly out of context, but the essence of heroism remains elusive.
  This is pure classic fairy-tale material, and what it may lack in gritty complexity it makes up in primal symbolic resonance.
  No longer a pure art, it would come to the people as a ruling class ‘art’, conditioned according to some political or religious design.
  Because her paintings are so artificial and so plainly painted, the viewer can appreciate pure art without the weight of hidden messages.
  If a person does only judo it seemed that their art turned into pure sport.
  It's pure art to handle the ‘questioner’ who in fact is giving a mini-speech.
  Deeply embedded within her mind is a node of pure Elemental energy.
  Synonyms
  sheer, utter, simple, absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, complete, thorough, total, perfect, consummate, unmitigated, unqualified, palpable, patent
2. 1.2 Free of any contamination.
  the pure, clear waters of Montana
  Example sentencesExamples
  I still haven't got to the bottom of it, but my guess is that it was the heady combination of utterly pure water and deliciously clean air.
  You start with water and end with water, pure and unpolluting.
  Care was taken to use pure water in the chamber because most contaminants tend to lower the water vapor pressure.
  Valerie and Noel Trezise will offer you a wide range of pure sweet natural honey free of additives or preservatives.
  In the 17th century a well was discovered on Ilkley Moor, according to folklore, by a shepherd who bathed his injured leg in the water and the pure water cleaned the wound and cured him!
  Where is the crystal clear, pure, unpolluted water that once characterized the river as well as most shallow wells in the area?
  If the water has strange smell, you should use pure bottled water.
  In a new bowl, place one pound of sugar with pure clean water.
  He adopted a mostly vegetarian diet, cutting out sugar and saturated fat, taking antioxidants, herbal and soy supplements and drinking tons of pure water and green tea.
  The success of destroying all microorganisms capable of growing in canned food is based on the temperature obtained in pure steam, free of air, at sea level.
  It is very important to find quality water filters so that you can drink clean and pure water.
  Growing wild in the pure and unpolluted waters of W. Ireland, the watercress is of exceptional quality.
  The Government schemes to provide pure drinking water has not benefited the people living in the remote villages.
  Its light began to fade away, and kept fading until they were just looking at a pail full of pure, unpolluted water.
  Announce prizes like free tankers of pure water till the end of summer and free coaching for IIT foundation and medicine foundation.
  Organic meat is from animals that have been raised on a pure organic diet feed and pasture.
  One of the psychics passed around a canteen full of clean, pure water, which Veon accepted gratefully.
  While driving along the winding and narrow Norwegian roads alongside a fjord we came to a massive glacier towering across the clearest expanse of pure turquoise water.
  He fought tenaciously for pure water, clean air, and the free use of condoms on the NHS.
  Thousands of restoration projects in rural areas need millions of trees to provide clean air, pure water, and improved wildlife habitat.
  Synonyms
  clean, clear, fresh, crisp, refreshing, sparkling, unpolluted, untainted, unadulterated, uncontaminated
3. 1.3 Wholesome and untainted by immorality, especially that of a sexual nature.
  our fondness for each other is pure and innocent
  Example sentencesExamples
  My heart is pure and unsullied by such base, unromantic notions.
  Your father was a handsome well-built man, pure of heart.
  Unicorns are renowned for their pickiness, only allowing human and elfin maidens of pure heart to ride them.
  It can only be banished by a maiden of pure heart and the daughter of Zeus so Rena must be present
  Though he was not stupid, nor naïve, I told myself that he was like a child, ears, heart and mind pure and untainted with the thought of bloodshed and abuse.
  She smelled like sorrow, and bitterness, and pain had never touched her, leaving her pure and untainted.
  Rather, they represent a genuine science of mind, a science of insight that uncovers the pure nature of the mind and world that we experience.
  This is where the deepest transformation can take place, untainted and pure.
  What I do know within my heart is that the light from the source is untainted and pure, and I call it divine love.
  But Lincoln gets no credit for the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, because he didn't do it out of the pure goodness of his heart?
  Children are just the best thing there ever can be, the essence of innocence, their pure little hearts and minds not yet infected by our corrupt cold world.
  This spell is the ultimate technique that can be used only by those who have a pure and untainted soul.
  From this standpoint, rural people and their culture represent a negation of everything that is wholesome and pure about nature.
  He personified the pure, blissful soul nature they sought and sensed as the center of themselves.
  Power always brings the need to compromise one's ideals, so what right had Benn to claim after the event that he remained pure and untainted?
  Our country needs men with ‘clean’ hands, pure hearts and a vision for the future, clearly written in honesty and integrity.
  Why the attraction to athletes who are still pure and untainted and don't have big, you know, contracts?
  We need to be morally upright, like chaste virgins before God, pure and clean.
  It is possible even in the midst of intense illness and the dying process to contact this fundamentally pure and wholesome state of mind.
  Give us courage, O Lord, in the face of danger, keep us pure in heart, clean in mind, and strong in purpose.
  Synonyms
  virtuous, moral, ethical, good, righteous, angelic, saintly, pious, honourable, reputable, wholesome, clean, honest, upright, upstanding, exemplary, above reproach, irreproachable, innocent
4. 1.4 (of a sound) perfectly in tune and with a clear tone.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sieden and Baker sing with pure tone and true, perhaps a bit naïve, fostering the illusion that they're just very good local soloists.
  Intent upon moving beyond notes and creating pure sound, he borrowed from African, Indian, and Middle Eastern sources.
  Though Carter hasn't lost his love of the lyric as pure sound, the sentiments here come from the heart more than the head.
  It's the deep, dark keening sound of the cello, the twilight voicings of the piano and the perfect, pure pitch of Paula Morelenbaums creamy voice.
  It's not related to the band because it isn't music in any shape or form, just anguished, terrifying pure sound.
  The pure, high tones of the sopranos were ravishing.
  At only 23 she already produces a pure clear sound which soared above the orchestra, refusing to be overpowered.
  In fact, he had invented an amazing type of speaker that really allowed pure sound to come through.
  A few of the audience may have wandered away with the feeling that too little of this gave us a pure, beguiling Monteverdi sound.
  Levy's glistening cascades of tonal warmth were pure instrumental bel canto.
  One may disregard or actively listen for the words, feel how they combine with the music, but it is hard not to hear them as something other and more than pure musical sound.
  ‘I wanted a nice bass sound - something that's in your face and not the sweet and pure sound of the traditional harp,’ she said.
  Anthony Marwood is perfectly suited to tackle these two contrasting works, displaying a tone and intonation that is pure and sensitive.
  In fact, I'm so glad you asked me that question because that's another thing that would concern people is the fact that I'm not making a pure sound.
  Each section was totally integrated, the sounds were pure and precise.
  We rarely hear a pure fundamental tone either in music or in nature.
  I couldn't tell what the guy vocalist's words were, but the tone quality was amazing, a full and pure sound.
  Yet, unlike Mahler, you chose not pure orchestral Lieder performed by a singer.
  The width of the bore and the large diameter of the tone holes gives it a strong, pure sound, invaluable to the military band and to the swing and dance big bands.
  The tune was so pure, it reminded Katrina of all the good things in life.
5. 1.5 (of an animal or plant) of unmixed origin or descent.
  the pure Charolais is white or light wheat in the coat
  Example sentencesExamples
  Didi is a registered pure-bred gold schipperke, the colour of a golden fox, with foxy ears and a pointy foxy snout.
  They showed six-year-old Folds Veronica - one of six pure-bred Cleveland Bay mares they keep at their farm in Godshill.
  Last year the club reared and released into natural environments over 400 pure-bred mallard duck and 1,000 pheasant.
  Scheduled for March 23, the international program features seven races worth a total of $15,250,000, a figure that includes $250,000 for a pure-bred Arabian race.
  If the alpaca is indeed a descendant of the vicuna, geneticists might be able to identify pure-bred alpacas and guide new breeding programs to improve the quality of alpaca fleece.
  Xiao Yan's favorite pet is a pure-bred cat, which she purchased for 16,000 RMB. ‘Each month, I have to spend a few hundred dollars on essential care for the cat,’ she said.
  If you're showing, check any relevant breed society guidelines first - pure-bred Arabs and natives should be shown with full, unplaited manes, whilst part-breds should have their manes pulled and plaited.
  The seed project was started last year to produce different varieties of quality, pure-bred mahangu (pearl millet), sorghum, maize, groundnut and cowpea seed, adapted to the needs of local farmers.
  She now has her own horse, Luke, a pure-bred Arab, and trains on him three times a week.
  Of course he was pure puppy to Mr. Comolli, but we knew that Spook wanted our flesh in chunky pieces hanging from his slavering jaws.
  The piglets are the first pure-bred Gloucesters to be born on the farm - one of the north west's top tourist attractions - for nearly 10 years.
  The 28 student judges identified 16 matches out of the 25 pure-bred dogs, but they could not match mixed-breed dogs and their masters.
  The family also had the supreme and reserve pens of pure-bred Texels and took the best single butcher's lamb award.
  Some does are ‘strategically’ mated, but most just spend an afternoon in a private stall with one of the farm's many thick-nosed, pure-bred bucks.
  In 1876, William and his wife returned to Bell Block where he started his celebrated model farm on Corbett Road, breeding pure-bred Jersey cattle.
  A Laois family of doglovers is searching for their pure-bred Springer Spaniel and say they would pay anything to get him back.
  A record 80 pure-bred stallions were on parade and the biggest turnout of vintage tractors and other vehicles were on show.
  With pure-bred pups selling for as much as £500, dealing involving Labradors, Shih Tzus, German Shepherds, Spaniels and other breeds brought in from Ireland and Eastern Europe is a growing, multimillion-pound business.
  We also compared the mean expression level in hybrids relative to pure species between male-specific genes and all other genes.
  Iceland has these pure-bred horses that haven't changed in 900 years.
  Synonyms
  pedigree, thoroughbred, full, full-bred, pure-blooded, blooded, pedigreed, genuine
6. 1.6 (of a subject of study) dealing with abstract concepts and not practical application.
  a theoretical discipline such as pure physics
  Compare with applied
  Example sentencesExamples
  Much of university research was pure research that had no obvious application at all at the time of its funding.
  I tend to think that the separation of application and pure research is the hallmark of poor ethics.
  The intervening years had seen advances in the study of pure biology at the microscopic level in parallel with advances in genetics.
  There is always a tension between the pursuit of pure academic research and the demands of society at large.
  Prosser studied pure maths at Aberystwyth and might have gone into teaching if the money had not persuaded him to become an actuary like his brother.
  But I operate in the sphere of practical politics not pure economic theory.
  I believe in both the pure research & practical application of encryption theory.
  The pure mathematician abstracts from physical situations certain quantitative aspects of bodies and their relations, and deals exclusively with these aspects.
  It was a platform both for engineering and systems development studies and for pure scientific research.
  The more think tanks become concerned about shaping the political agenda, the less time they can focus on pure research.
  I've done a small amount of summer research in physics and I'm uncertain if pure physics research is something I'd enjoy doing for another 3 or 4 years.
  Pure academic research and big science attract an even different personality type.
  Synonyms
  theoretical, abstract, conceptual, academic, hypothetical, philosophical, speculative, conjectural, non-practical, non-technical
7. 1.7Phonetics (of a vowel) not joined with another to form a diphthong.
  Example sentencesExamples
  There are 14 pure [uncombined] vowels in English.
  You will sound fairly good if your teacher's modeling elicits a free sound that is well-focused on pure vowels.
  While "pure" vowels, or monophthongs, are said to have one target tongue position, diphthongs have two target tongue positions.
8. 1.8attributive Involving or containing nothing else but; sheer (used for emphasis)
  a shout of pure anger
  an outcome that may be a matter of pure chance
  Example sentencesExamples
  They have done so as a result of pure graft and sheer talent.
  He saw it in his eyes, the pure utter anger that Noriel had for his son, and suddenly he felt it.
  It is in fact just a chain of events, brought about by pure chance that forms the raison d' être for this result.
  For a moment, his anger concentrated on pure, soulless insatiable carnal hunger and desire, which was the cause of all his suffering.
  And what he saw to his sheer amazement was pure anger.
  ‘Good,’ she continued sweetly, and then he blinked as her expression morphed into pure and utter anger.
  It's way more punk, way more lyrical, but more than all, it's rooted in despair and sheer rage and pure joy in celebrating humanity.
  My face, I'm sure, is that of pure terror and anger right now.
  Like all caricatures, this book overstates its case about the contribution of pure chance to scientific breakthroughs.
  I found it by pure chance and I ask you all humbly to please go read and consider helping this man in a time of real need.
  On my first day at work, by pure chance my work was having a ‘think tank’ conference for the day at a conference centre in the city.
  Two escapees once stumbled upon the oasis by a sheer chance and pure luck, thus becoming the parents of the somber population.
  To ignore this is to run your business on a wing and a prayer, which is pure chance and takes your destiny out of your own hands.
  An inquiry launched by Barnsley health chiefs concluded there was no link between the deaths and it appeared to be pure chance that the cluster had appeared.
  He appears to be unable to grasp the difference between receiving money through pure chance and through inheritance.
  Kimberley gaped in disbelief and what looked like pure fury at the sheer bitchiness of the other girl in the room, and Clay was seeing red as I stood up.
  Then began three months of hard work, and long nights mixed with sheer panic and pure delight that this project was becoming a reality.
  By pure chance, I also received a letter from the UK today.
  Finding your golf ball in there is quite simply a case of pure chance.
  Arendri who had never raised his voice like that in pure absolute anger had just bit the head off of the one person they all despised.
  Synonyms
  sheer, utter, simple, absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, complete, thorough, total, perfect, consummate, unmitigated, unqualified, palpable, patent

Phrases

pure and simple

And nothing else (used for emphasis)
it was revenge, pure and simple
Example sentencesExamples
- This is rock music, pure and simple, and they were very much a rock band.
- It's glam rock, pure and simple, and at high risk of sounding like everyone's dad, it was better the first time.
- But the film he was in showed his intent and interests pure and simple.
- This is not a war of ideas, but a one-sided game where liberals allow the right to get away with anything pure and simple.
- There was no physical abuse, but it was intimidation, pure and simple.
- Misogynism, pure and simple, played a large part in it.
- This isn't health policy, this is just politics, pure and simple.
- Where post-punk was arty, difficult, and challenging, new wave was pop music, pure and simple.
- Patents serve the research and development strategies of big corporations, pure and simple.
- What is now a tolerable sweep into disputed territory would be denounced in the U.N. as invasion pure and simple.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French pur ‘pure’, from Latin purus.

单词	pure
释义	Definition of pure in English: pure adjective pjʊəpjʊr 1Not mixed or adulterated with any other substance or material. cars can run on pure alcohol the jacket was pure wool Example sentencesExamples This tactile, sensual experience was made more poignant by the knowledge that these substances were pure, unalloyed, irreducible. The term extinction coefficients describes the absorbance spectra of a single pure substance at known concentrations. Liquor sales as measured in pure alcohol have increased by three per cent during the first nine months of the trial aimed at reducing grog related harm in Alice Springs. I said I worked on semiconductor materials, where very pure crystals of, for example, silicon, are grown. As for material, pure cotton is a very good choice for a tropical climate. When a solid is made up of a pure substance and forms slowly, it can become a crystal. The material felt like pure silk, completely smooth. As it is today, this is pure sit-com material and most respectable sit-com writers would shy away from such clichéd and hackneyed situations. The analysis revealed that iron constituted less than 1 percent of the material, indicating essentially pure rhodochrosite. Primary standards are usually aqueous-based and consist of weighed-in amounts of pure materials. Both the wild and the cultivated balsams are found in varied colours such as red, blue, yellow, pink, purple and white, either in a pure or mixed form. All of these markets have exacting requirements for pure uncontaminated raw material. One popular extinguisher material is pure carbon dioxide. The material was a pure iron that had been embedded in the plants while the iron was still molten. When examined, the container was found to contain 32 pallets each containing four, 45-gallon drums of pure alcohol. The British drink two gallons of pure alcohol per person per year: more than almost all other Westerners. The Hantex showroom has a big collection of kasavu saris, dhotis, furnishing materials as well as pure cotton products at affordable prices. White-sand soil is almost pure quartz material derived from sediments that are more than 570 million years old. For pure wool it's also lovely and soft and I won't have to wear anything underneath to stop scratchiness. Thin films are simply not as good as pure bulk materials, even if they are cheaper, so it's incredibly important to make sure that the very most is made of the incoming light. Synonyms unmixed, unalloyed, unadulterated, unblended, uncontaminated, sterling, solid, refined, one hundred per cent, 100% clarified, clear, filtered, distilled, processed, neat, straight, undiluted flawless, perfect, genuine, authentic, real, actual, bona fide, veritable, pukka, true 1.1 Without any extraneous and unnecessary elements. the romantic notion of pure art devoid of social responsibility Example sentencesExamples Often a piece resembles a pure collage until elements settle into a discernible rhythm pattern or a drumbeat will emerge to anchor the noises swirling around it. When light passes through a spectroscope it breaks into bands of unique colors that represent pure elements. Hitler and the Nazis did it effectively, brutally waging war against decadent surrealists and any other artists or writers they considered an aberration from the pure Aryan ideal of art. His action scenes are beautiful capsules of pure kinetic art and grace, fusing his camera movement and his physical choreography into a singular performance. The plot elements partake of pure melodrama, but the treatment raises the story to another level. Such scenes work on the level of stylization and pure martial arts action, and may be appreciated wholly out of context, but the essence of heroism remains elusive. But though it may be trivial in the face of war's absurd brutality, perhaps nothing makes as much sense as the pure beauty of Japanese art. Yet Widayanto has succeeded in treading the fine line between his pure art creations and his more commercial products. Although not pure art deco, its houses incorporated many of the elements of the style and large whitewashed villas now grace the south side. No longer a pure art, it would come to the people as a ruling class ‘art’, conditioned according to some political or religious design. This is pure classic fairy-tale material, and what it may lack in gritty complexity it makes up in primal symbolic resonance. The 1970s were the first decade after films went from pure entertainment to art. But, of the pieces I've seen, the pure graphic element doesn't do much on a gut level for me, at least not yet. I reach the insane conclusion that mathematics is pure art and I know that it isn't. I do believe video games are sort of at the heart of a cancer that's eating away at this culture, turning every popular art form into a pure service industry. Because her paintings are so artificial and so plainly painted, the viewer can appreciate pure art without the weight of hidden messages. It is predominantly an adaptation of Cotswold vernacular architecture with pure arts and crafts embellishments. Deeply embedded within her mind is a node of pure Elemental energy. It's pure art to handle the ‘questioner’ who in fact is giving a mini-speech. If a person does only judo it seemed that their art turned into pure sport. Synonyms sheer, utter, simple, absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, complete, thorough, total, perfect, consummate, unmitigated, unqualified, palpable, patent 1.2 Free of any contamination. the pure, clear waters of Scotland Example sentencesExamples If the water has strange smell, you should use pure bottled water. The success of destroying all microorganisms capable of growing in canned food is based on the temperature obtained in pure steam, free of air, at sea level. He adopted a mostly vegetarian diet, cutting out sugar and saturated fat, taking antioxidants, herbal and soy supplements and drinking tons of pure water and green tea. While driving along the winding and narrow Norwegian roads alongside a fjord we came to a massive glacier towering across the clearest expanse of pure turquoise water. It is very important to find quality water filters so that you can drink clean and pure water. Announce prizes like free tankers of pure water till the end of summer and free coaching for IIT foundation and medicine foundation. In the 17th century a well was discovered on Ilkley Moor, according to folklore, by a shepherd who bathed his injured leg in the water and the pure water cleaned the wound and cured him! I still haven't got to the bottom of it, but my guess is that it was the heady combination of utterly pure water and deliciously clean air. Valerie and Noel Trezise will offer you a wide range of pure sweet natural honey free of additives or preservatives. Growing wild in the pure and unpolluted waters of W. Ireland, the watercress is of exceptional quality. He fought tenaciously for pure water, clean air, and the free use of condoms on the NHS. Organic meat is from animals that have been raised on a pure organic diet feed and pasture. In a new bowl, place one pound of sugar with pure clean water. Where is the crystal clear, pure, unpolluted water that once characterized the river as well as most shallow wells in the area? The Government schemes to provide pure drinking water has not benefited the people living in the remote villages. Care was taken to use pure water in the chamber because most contaminants tend to lower the water vapor pressure. You start with water and end with water, pure and unpolluting. Its light began to fade away, and kept fading until they were just looking at a pail full of pure, unpolluted water. One of the psychics passed around a canteen full of clean, pure water, which Veon accepted gratefully. Thousands of restoration projects in rural areas need millions of trees to provide clean air, pure water, and improved wildlife habitat. Synonyms clean, clear, fresh, crisp, refreshing, sparkling, unpolluted, untainted, unadulterated, uncontaminated wholesome, natural, healthy, health-giving, healthful, good for you salubrious, sanitary, uninfected, disinfected, germ-free, sterile, sterilized, pasteurized, aseptic 1.3 (of an animal or plant) of unmixed origin or descent; pedigree. the pure Charolais is white or light wheat in the coat 80 pure-bred stallions were on parade Example sentencesExamples Didi is a registered pure-bred gold schipperke, the colour of a golden fox, with foxy ears and a pointy foxy snout. If the alpaca is indeed a descendant of the vicuna, geneticists might be able to identify pure-bred alpacas and guide new breeding programs to improve the quality of alpaca fleece. The 28 student judges identified 16 matches out of the 25 pure-bred dogs, but they could not match mixed-breed dogs and their masters. She now has her own horse, Luke, a pure-bred Arab, and trains on him three times a week. We also compared the mean expression level in hybrids relative to pure species between male-specific genes and all other genes. The piglets are the first pure-bred Gloucesters to be born on the farm - one of the north west's top tourist attractions - for nearly 10 years. With pure-bred pups selling for as much as £500, dealing involving Labradors, Shih Tzus, German Shepherds, Spaniels and other breeds brought in from Ireland and Eastern Europe is a growing, multimillion-pound business. A Laois family of doglovers is searching for their pure-bred Springer Spaniel and say they would pay anything to get him back. The family also had the supreme and reserve pens of pure-bred Texels and took the best single butcher's lamb award. A record 80 pure-bred stallions were on parade and the biggest turnout of vintage tractors and other vehicles were on show. In 1876, William and his wife returned to Bell Block where he started his celebrated model farm on Corbett Road, breeding pure-bred Jersey cattle. Last year the club reared and released into natural environments over 400 pure-bred mallard duck and 1,000 pheasant. If you're showing, check any relevant breed society guidelines first - pure-bred Arabs and natives should be shown with full, unplaited manes, whilst part-breds should have their manes pulled and plaited. The seed project was started last year to produce different varieties of quality, pure-bred mahangu (pearl millet), sorghum, maize, groundnut and cowpea seed, adapted to the needs of local farmers. Some does are ‘strategically’ mated, but most just spend an afternoon in a private stall with one of the farm's many thick-nosed, pure-bred bucks. They showed six-year-old Folds Veronica - one of six pure-bred Cleveland Bay mares they keep at their farm in Godshill. Scheduled for March 23, the international program features seven races worth a total of $15,250,000, a figure that includes $250,000 for a pure-bred Arabian race. Iceland has these pure-bred horses that haven't changed in 900 years. Of course he was pure puppy to Mr. Comolli, but we knew that Spook wanted our flesh in chunky pieces hanging from his slavering jaws. Xiao Yan's favorite pet is a pure-bred cat, which she purchased for 16,000 RMB. ‘Each month, I have to spend a few hundred dollars on essential care for the cat,’ she said. Synonyms pedigree, thoroughbred, full, full-bred, pure-blooded, blooded, pedigreed, pure, genuine 2(of a sound) perfectly in tune and with a clear tone. these small cymbals produce a quiet but high pitched and very pure note Example sentencesExamples At only 23 she already produces a pure clear sound which soared above the orchestra, refusing to be overpowered. I couldn't tell what the guy vocalist's words were, but the tone quality was amazing, a full and pure sound. A few of the audience may have wandered away with the feeling that too little of this gave us a pure, beguiling Monteverdi sound. Sieden and Baker sing with pure tone and true, perhaps a bit naïve, fostering the illusion that they're just very good local soloists. The width of the bore and the large diameter of the tone holes gives it a strong, pure sound, invaluable to the military band and to the swing and dance big bands. Each section was totally integrated, the sounds were pure and precise. It's not related to the band because it isn't music in any shape or form, just anguished, terrifying pure sound. Yet, unlike Mahler, you chose not pure orchestral Lieder performed by a singer. Though Carter hasn't lost his love of the lyric as pure sound, the sentiments here come from the heart more than the head. The tune was so pure, it reminded Katrina of all the good things in life. It's the deep, dark keening sound of the cello, the twilight voicings of the piano and the perfect, pure pitch of Paula Morelenbaums creamy voice. One may disregard or actively listen for the words, feel how they combine with the music, but it is hard not to hear them as something other and more than pure musical sound. In fact, he had invented an amazing type of speaker that really allowed pure sound to come through. Anthony Marwood is perfectly suited to tackle these two contrasting works, displaying a tone and intonation that is pure and sensitive. ‘I wanted a nice bass sound - something that's in your face and not the sweet and pure sound of the traditional harp,’ she said. Intent upon moving beyond notes and creating pure sound, he borrowed from African, Indian, and Middle Eastern sources. In fact, I'm so glad you asked me that question because that's another thing that would concern people is the fact that I'm not making a pure sound. Levy's glistening cascades of tonal warmth were pure instrumental bel canto. The pure, high tones of the sopranos were ravishing. We rarely hear a pure fundamental tone either in music or in nature. 3Wholesome and untainted by immorality, especially that of a sexual nature. our fondness for each other is pure and innocent Example sentencesExamples But Lincoln gets no credit for the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, because he didn't do it out of the pure goodness of his heart? She smelled like sorrow, and bitterness, and pain had never touched her, leaving her pure and untainted. This is where the deepest transformation can take place, untainted and pure. It can only be banished by a maiden of pure heart and the daughter of Zeus so Rena must be present We need to be morally upright, like chaste virgins before God, pure and clean. Our country needs men with ‘clean’ hands, pure hearts and a vision for the future, clearly written in honesty and integrity. Why the attraction to athletes who are still pure and untainted and don't have big, you know, contracts? Rather, they represent a genuine science of mind, a science of insight that uncovers the pure nature of the mind and world that we experience. Children are just the best thing there ever can be, the essence of innocence, their pure little hearts and minds not yet infected by our corrupt cold world. What I do know within my heart is that the light from the source is untainted and pure, and I call it divine love. From this standpoint, rural people and their culture represent a negation of everything that is wholesome and pure about nature. Unicorns are renowned for their pickiness, only allowing human and elfin maidens of pure heart to ride them. Give us courage, O Lord, in the face of danger, keep us pure in heart, clean in mind, and strong in purpose. It is possible even in the midst of intense illness and the dying process to contact this fundamentally pure and wholesome state of mind. My heart is pure and unsullied by such base, unromantic notions. Your father was a handsome well-built man, pure of heart. This spell is the ultimate technique that can be used only by those who have a pure and untainted soul. Though he was not stupid, nor naïve, I told myself that he was like a child, ears, heart and mind pure and untainted with the thought of bloodshed and abuse. Power always brings the need to compromise one's ideals, so what right had Benn to claim after the event that he remained pure and untainted? He personified the pure, blissful soul nature they sought and sensed as the center of themselves. Synonyms virtuous, moral, ethical, good, righteous, angelic, saintly, pious, honourable, reputable, wholesome, clean, honest, upright, upstanding, exemplary, above reproach, irreproachable, innocent chaste, pure as the driven snow, virginal, maidenly decent, worthy, noble, blameless, guiltless, sinless, stainless, spotless, unsullied, unblemished, unspoilt, unaffected, uncorrupted, undefiled, anti-corruption informal squeaky clean Christianity immaculate, impeccable 4(of a subject of study) dealing with abstract concepts and not practical application. a theoretical discipline such as pure physics Compare with applied Example sentencesExamples The more think tanks become concerned about shaping the political agenda, the less time they can focus on pure research. It was a platform both for engineering and systems development studies and for pure scientific research. Prosser studied pure maths at Aberystwyth and might have gone into teaching if the money had not persuaded him to become an actuary like his brother. I believe in both the pure research & practical application of encryption theory. The intervening years had seen advances in the study of pure biology at the microscopic level in parallel with advances in genetics. There is always a tension between the pursuit of pure academic research and the demands of society at large. I tend to think that the separation of application and pure research is the hallmark of poor ethics. I've done a small amount of summer research in physics and I'm uncertain if pure physics research is something I'd enjoy doing for another 3 or 4 years. Much of university research was pure research that had no obvious application at all at the time of its funding. But I operate in the sphere of practical politics not pure economic theory. The pure mathematician abstracts from physical situations certain quantitative aspects of bodies and their relations, and deals exclusively with these aspects. Pure academic research and big science attract an even different personality type. Synonyms theoretical, abstract, conceptual, academic, hypothetical, philosophical, speculative, conjectural, non-practical, non-technical informal blue-sky 5attributive Involving or containing nothing else but; sheer (used for emphasis) a shout of pure anger an outcome which may be a matter of pure chance it was revenge, pure and simple Example sentencesExamples ‘Good,’ she continued sweetly, and then he blinked as her expression morphed into pure and utter anger. He saw it in his eyes, the pure utter anger that Noriel had for his son, and suddenly he felt it. He appears to be unable to grasp the difference between receiving money through pure chance and through inheritance. Then began three months of hard work, and long nights mixed with sheer panic and pure delight that this project was becoming a reality. And what he saw to his sheer amazement was pure anger. Finding your golf ball in there is quite simply a case of pure chance. Like all caricatures, this book overstates its case about the contribution of pure chance to scientific breakthroughs. I found it by pure chance and I ask you all humbly to please go read and consider helping this man in a time of real need. Arendri who had never raised his voice like that in pure absolute anger had just bit the head off of the one person they all despised. For a moment, his anger concentrated on pure, soulless insatiable carnal hunger and desire, which was the cause of all his suffering. By pure chance, I also received a letter from the UK today. My face, I'm sure, is that of pure terror and anger right now. To ignore this is to run your business on a wing and a prayer, which is pure chance and takes your destiny out of your own hands. An inquiry launched by Barnsley health chiefs concluded there was no link between the deaths and it appeared to be pure chance that the cluster had appeared. It is in fact just a chain of events, brought about by pure chance that forms the raison d' être for this result. Two escapees once stumbled upon the oasis by a sheer chance and pure luck, thus becoming the parents of the somber population. They have done so as a result of pure graft and sheer talent. Kimberley gaped in disbelief and what looked like pure fury at the sheer bitchiness of the other girl in the room, and Clay was seeing red as I stood up. It's way more punk, way more lyrical, but more than all, it's rooted in despair and sheer rage and pure joy in celebrating humanity. On my first day at work, by pure chance my work was having a ‘think tank’ conference for the day at a conference centre in the city. Synonyms sheer, utter, simple, absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, complete, thorough, total, perfect, consummate, unmitigated, unqualified, palpable, patent archaic arrant 6Phonetics (of a vowel) not joined with another to form a diphthong. Example sentencesExamples You will sound fairly good if your teacher's modeling elicits a free sound that is well-focused on pure vowels. While "pure" vowels, or monophthongs, are said to have one target tongue position, diphthongs have two target tongue positions. There are 14 pure [uncombined] vowels in English. Derivatives pureness noun ˈpjʊənəsˈpjʊrnəs The pureness of the colour white carried for him an oracle of ‘love-life-death’. Example sentencesExamples Arguably, one could hardly have improved on the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, with its weight, pureness of timbre, and intrinsic sympathy for the material. There is a pureness about free climbing as the climber relies solely on the use of his or her own skills to ascend a rock face. He sings with a clarity, a pureness, that is so very human. He has a pureness about him that I wish more people had. Origin Middle English: from Old French pur 'pure', from Latin purus. Rhymes abjure, adjure, allure, amour, assure, Bahawalpur, boor, Borobudur, Cavour, coiffure, conjure, couture, cure, dastur, de nos jours, doublure, dour, embouchure, endure, ensure, enure, gravure, immature, immure, impure, inure, Jaipur, Koh-i-noor, Kultur, liqueur, lure, manure, moor, Moore, Muir, mure, Nagpur, Namur, obscure, parkour, photogravure, plat du jour, Pompadour, procure, rotogravure, Ruhr, Saussure, secure, simon-pure, spoor, Stour, sure, tour, Tours, velour, Yom Kippur, you're Definition of pure in US English: pure adjectivepjʊrpyo͝or 1Not mixed or adulterated with any other substance or material. cars can run on pure alcohol the jacket was pure wool Example sentencesExamples The analysis revealed that iron constituted less than 1 percent of the material, indicating essentially pure rhodochrosite. All of these markets have exacting requirements for pure uncontaminated raw material. For pure wool it's also lovely and soft and I won't have to wear anything underneath to stop scratchiness. The term extinction coefficients describes the absorbance spectra of a single pure substance at known concentrations. The Hantex showroom has a big collection of kasavu saris, dhotis, furnishing materials as well as pure cotton products at affordable prices. White-sand soil is almost pure quartz material derived from sediments that are more than 570 million years old. I said I worked on semiconductor materials, where very pure crystals of, for example, silicon, are grown. Primary standards are usually aqueous-based and consist of weighed-in amounts of pure materials. When a solid is made up of a pure substance and forms slowly, it can become a crystal. The material felt like pure silk, completely smooth. Thin films are simply not as good as pure bulk materials, even if they are cheaper, so it's incredibly important to make sure that the very most is made of the incoming light. When examined, the container was found to contain 32 pallets each containing four, 45-gallon drums of pure alcohol. Both the wild and the cultivated balsams are found in varied colours such as red, blue, yellow, pink, purple and white, either in a pure or mixed form. The material was a pure iron that had been embedded in the plants while the iron was still molten. As for material, pure cotton is a very good choice for a tropical climate. The British drink two gallons of pure alcohol per person per year: more than almost all other Westerners. Liquor sales as measured in pure alcohol have increased by three per cent during the first nine months of the trial aimed at reducing grog related harm in Alice Springs. This tactile, sensual experience was made more poignant by the knowledge that these substances were pure, unalloyed, irreducible. As it is today, this is pure sit-com material and most respectable sit-com writers would shy away from such clichéd and hackneyed situations. One popular extinguisher material is pure carbon dioxide. Synonyms unmixed, unalloyed, unadulterated, unblended, uncontaminated, sterling, solid, refined, one hundred per cent, 100% 1.1 Without any extraneous and unnecessary elements. the romantic notion of pure art devoid of social responsibility Example sentencesExamples It is predominantly an adaptation of Cotswold vernacular architecture with pure arts and crafts embellishments. I do believe video games are sort of at the heart of a cancer that's eating away at this culture, turning every popular art form into a pure service industry. The plot elements partake of pure melodrama, but the treatment raises the story to another level. The 1970s were the first decade after films went from pure entertainment to art. Yet Widayanto has succeeded in treading the fine line between his pure art creations and his more commercial products. Hitler and the Nazis did it effectively, brutally waging war against decadent surrealists and any other artists or writers they considered an aberration from the pure Aryan ideal of art. Often a piece resembles a pure collage until elements settle into a discernible rhythm pattern or a drumbeat will emerge to anchor the noises swirling around it. When light passes through a spectroscope it breaks into bands of unique colors that represent pure elements. But though it may be trivial in the face of war's absurd brutality, perhaps nothing makes as much sense as the pure beauty of Japanese art. I reach the insane conclusion that mathematics is pure art and I know that it isn't. But, of the pieces I've seen, the pure graphic element doesn't do much on a gut level for me, at least not yet. His action scenes are beautiful capsules of pure kinetic art and grace, fusing his camera movement and his physical choreography into a singular performance. Although not pure art deco, its houses incorporated many of the elements of the style and large whitewashed villas now grace the south side. Such scenes work on the level of stylization and pure martial arts action, and may be appreciated wholly out of context, but the essence of heroism remains elusive. This is pure classic fairy-tale material, and what it may lack in gritty complexity it makes up in primal symbolic resonance. No longer a pure art, it would come to the people as a ruling class ‘art’, conditioned according to some political or religious design. Because her paintings are so artificial and so plainly painted, the viewer can appreciate pure art without the weight of hidden messages. If a person does only judo it seemed that their art turned into pure sport. It's pure art to handle the ‘questioner’ who in fact is giving a mini-speech. Deeply embedded within her mind is a node of pure Elemental energy. Synonyms sheer, utter, simple, absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, complete, thorough, total, perfect, consummate, unmitigated, unqualified, palpable, patent 1.2 Free of any contamination. the pure, clear waters of Montana Example sentencesExamples I still haven't got to the bottom of it, but my guess is that it was the heady combination of utterly pure water and deliciously clean air. You start with water and end with water, pure and unpolluting. Care was taken to use pure water in the chamber because most contaminants tend to lower the water vapor pressure. Valerie and Noel Trezise will offer you a wide range of pure sweet natural honey free of additives or preservatives. In the 17th century a well was discovered on Ilkley Moor, according to folklore, by a shepherd who bathed his injured leg in the water and the pure water cleaned the wound and cured him! Where is the crystal clear, pure, unpolluted water that once characterized the river as well as most shallow wells in the area? If the water has strange smell, you should use pure bottled water. In a new bowl, place one pound of sugar with pure clean water. He adopted a mostly vegetarian diet, cutting out sugar and saturated fat, taking antioxidants, herbal and soy supplements and drinking tons of pure water and green tea. The success of destroying all microorganisms capable of growing in canned food is based on the temperature obtained in pure steam, free of air, at sea level. It is very important to find quality water filters so that you can drink clean and pure water. Growing wild in the pure and unpolluted waters of W. Ireland, the watercress is of exceptional quality. The Government schemes to provide pure drinking water has not benefited the people living in the remote villages. Its light began to fade away, and kept fading until they were just looking at a pail full of pure, unpolluted water. Announce prizes like free tankers of pure water till the end of summer and free coaching for IIT foundation and medicine foundation. Organic meat is from animals that have been raised on a pure organic diet feed and pasture. One of the psychics passed around a canteen full of clean, pure water, which Veon accepted gratefully. While driving along the winding and narrow Norwegian roads alongside a fjord we came to a massive glacier towering across the clearest expanse of pure turquoise water. He fought tenaciously for pure water, clean air, and the free use of condoms on the NHS. Thousands of restoration projects in rural areas need millions of trees to provide clean air, pure water, and improved wildlife habitat. Synonyms clean, clear, fresh, crisp, refreshing, sparkling, unpolluted, untainted, unadulterated, uncontaminated 1.3 Wholesome and untainted by immorality, especially that of a sexual nature. our fondness for each other is pure and innocent Example sentencesExamples My heart is pure and unsullied by such base, unromantic notions. Your father was a handsome well-built man, pure of heart. Unicorns are renowned for their pickiness, only allowing human and elfin maidens of pure heart to ride them. It can only be banished by a maiden of pure heart and the daughter of Zeus so Rena must be present Though he was not stupid, nor naïve, I told myself that he was like a child, ears, heart and mind pure and untainted with the thought of bloodshed and abuse. She smelled like sorrow, and bitterness, and pain had never touched her, leaving her pure and untainted. Rather, they represent a genuine science of mind, a science of insight that uncovers the pure nature of the mind and world that we experience. This is where the deepest transformation can take place, untainted and pure. What I do know within my heart is that the light from the source is untainted and pure, and I call it divine love. But Lincoln gets no credit for the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, because he didn't do it out of the pure goodness of his heart? Children are just the best thing there ever can be, the essence of innocence, their pure little hearts and minds not yet infected by our corrupt cold world. This spell is the ultimate technique that can be used only by those who have a pure and untainted soul. From this standpoint, rural people and their culture represent a negation of everything that is wholesome and pure about nature. He personified the pure, blissful soul nature they sought and sensed as the center of themselves. Power always brings the need to compromise one's ideals, so what right had Benn to claim after the event that he remained pure and untainted? Our country needs men with ‘clean’ hands, pure hearts and a vision for the future, clearly written in honesty and integrity. Why the attraction to athletes who are still pure and untainted and don't have big, you know, contracts? We need to be morally upright, like chaste virgins before God, pure and clean. It is possible even in the midst of intense illness and the dying process to contact this fundamentally pure and wholesome state of mind. Give us courage, O Lord, in the face of danger, keep us pure in heart, clean in mind, and strong in purpose. Synonyms virtuous, moral, ethical, good, righteous, angelic, saintly, pious, honourable, reputable, wholesome, clean, honest, upright, upstanding, exemplary, above reproach, irreproachable, innocent 1.4 (of a sound) perfectly in tune and with a clear tone. Example sentencesExamples Sieden and Baker sing with pure tone and true, perhaps a bit naïve, fostering the illusion that they're just very good local soloists. Intent upon moving beyond notes and creating pure sound, he borrowed from African, Indian, and Middle Eastern sources. Though Carter hasn't lost his love of the lyric as pure sound, the sentiments here come from the heart more than the head. It's the deep, dark keening sound of the cello, the twilight voicings of the piano and the perfect, pure pitch of Paula Morelenbaums creamy voice. It's not related to the band because it isn't music in any shape or form, just anguished, terrifying pure sound. The pure, high tones of the sopranos were ravishing. At only 23 she already produces a pure clear sound which soared above the orchestra, refusing to be overpowered. In fact, he had invented an amazing type of speaker that really allowed pure sound to come through. A few of the audience may have wandered away with the feeling that too little of this gave us a pure, beguiling Monteverdi sound. Levy's glistening cascades of tonal warmth were pure instrumental bel canto. One may disregard or actively listen for the words, feel how they combine with the music, but it is hard not to hear them as something other and more than pure musical sound. ‘I wanted a nice bass sound - something that's in your face and not the sweet and pure sound of the traditional harp,’ she said. Anthony Marwood is perfectly suited to tackle these two contrasting works, displaying a tone and intonation that is pure and sensitive. In fact, I'm so glad you asked me that question because that's another thing that would concern people is the fact that I'm not making a pure sound. Each section was totally integrated, the sounds were pure and precise. We rarely hear a pure fundamental tone either in music or in nature. I couldn't tell what the guy vocalist's words were, but the tone quality was amazing, a full and pure sound. Yet, unlike Mahler, you chose not pure orchestral Lieder performed by a singer. The width of the bore and the large diameter of the tone holes gives it a strong, pure sound, invaluable to the military band and to the swing and dance big bands. The tune was so pure, it reminded Katrina of all the good things in life. 1.5 (of an animal or plant) of unmixed origin or descent. the pure Charolais is white or light wheat in the coat Example sentencesExamples Didi is a registered pure-bred gold schipperke, the colour of a golden fox, with foxy ears and a pointy foxy snout. They showed six-year-old Folds Veronica - one of six pure-bred Cleveland Bay mares they keep at their farm in Godshill. Last year the club reared and released into natural environments over 400 pure-bred mallard duck and 1,000 pheasant. Scheduled for March 23, the international program features seven races worth a total of $15,250,000, a figure that includes $250,000 for a pure-bred Arabian race. If the alpaca is indeed a descendant of the vicuna, geneticists might be able to identify pure-bred alpacas and guide new breeding programs to improve the quality of alpaca fleece. Xiao Yan's favorite pet is a pure-bred cat, which she purchased for 16,000 RMB. ‘Each month, I have to spend a few hundred dollars on essential care for the cat,’ she said. If you're showing, check any relevant breed society guidelines first - pure-bred Arabs and natives should be shown with full, unplaited manes, whilst part-breds should have their manes pulled and plaited. The seed project was started last year to produce different varieties of quality, pure-bred mahangu (pearl millet), sorghum, maize, groundnut and cowpea seed, adapted to the needs of local farmers. She now has her own horse, Luke, a pure-bred Arab, and trains on him three times a week. Of course he was pure puppy to Mr. Comolli, but we knew that Spook wanted our flesh in chunky pieces hanging from his slavering jaws. The piglets are the first pure-bred Gloucesters to be born on the farm - one of the north west's top tourist attractions - for nearly 10 years. The 28 student judges identified 16 matches out of the 25 pure-bred dogs, but they could not match mixed-breed dogs and their masters. The family also had the supreme and reserve pens of pure-bred Texels and took the best single butcher's lamb award. Some does are ‘strategically’ mated, but most just spend an afternoon in a private stall with one of the farm's many thick-nosed, pure-bred bucks. In 1876, William and his wife returned to Bell Block where he started his celebrated model farm on Corbett Road, breeding pure-bred Jersey cattle. A Laois family of doglovers is searching for their pure-bred Springer Spaniel and say they would pay anything to get him back. A record 80 pure-bred stallions were on parade and the biggest turnout of vintage tractors and other vehicles were on show. With pure-bred pups selling for as much as £500, dealing involving Labradors, Shih Tzus, German Shepherds, Spaniels and other breeds brought in from Ireland and Eastern Europe is a growing, multimillion-pound business. We also compared the mean expression level in hybrids relative to pure species between male-specific genes and all other genes. Iceland has these pure-bred horses that haven't changed in 900 years. Synonyms pedigree, thoroughbred, full, full-bred, pure-blooded, blooded, pedigreed, genuine 1.6 (of a subject of study) dealing with abstract concepts and not practical application. a theoretical discipline such as pure physics Compare with applied Example sentencesExamples Much of university research was pure research that had no obvious application at all at the time of its funding. I tend to think that the separation of application and pure research is the hallmark of poor ethics. The intervening years had seen advances in the study of pure biology at the microscopic level in parallel with advances in genetics. There is always a tension between the pursuit of pure academic research and the demands of society at large. Prosser studied pure maths at Aberystwyth and might have gone into teaching if the money had not persuaded him to become an actuary like his brother. But I operate in the sphere of practical politics not pure economic theory. I believe in both the pure research & practical application of encryption theory. The pure mathematician abstracts from physical situations certain quantitative aspects of bodies and their relations, and deals exclusively with these aspects. It was a platform both for engineering and systems development studies and for pure scientific research. The more think tanks become concerned about shaping the political agenda, the less time they can focus on pure research. I've done a small amount of summer research in physics and I'm uncertain if pure physics research is something I'd enjoy doing for another 3 or 4 years. Pure academic research and big science attract an even different personality type. Synonyms theoretical, abstract, conceptual, academic, hypothetical, philosophical, speculative, conjectural, non-practical, non-technical 1.7Phonetics (of a vowel) not joined with another to form a diphthong. Example sentencesExamples There are 14 pure [uncombined] vowels in English. You will sound fairly good if your teacher's modeling elicits a free sound that is well-focused on pure vowels. While "pure" vowels, or monophthongs, are said to have one target tongue position, diphthongs have two target tongue positions. 1.8attributive Involving or containing nothing else but; sheer (used for emphasis) a shout of pure anger an outcome that may be a matter of pure chance Example sentencesExamples They have done so as a result of pure graft and sheer talent. He saw it in his eyes, the pure utter anger that Noriel had for his son, and suddenly he felt it. It is in fact just a chain of events, brought about by pure chance that forms the raison d' être for this result. For a moment, his anger concentrated on pure, soulless insatiable carnal hunger and desire, which was the cause of all his suffering. And what he saw to his sheer amazement was pure anger. ‘Good,’ she continued sweetly, and then he blinked as her expression morphed into pure and utter anger. It's way more punk, way more lyrical, but more than all, it's rooted in despair and sheer rage and pure joy in celebrating humanity. My face, I'm sure, is that of pure terror and anger right now. Like all caricatures, this book overstates its case about the contribution of pure chance to scientific breakthroughs. I found it by pure chance and I ask you all humbly to please go read and consider helping this man in a time of real need. On my first day at work, by pure chance my work was having a ‘think tank’ conference for the day at a conference centre in the city. Two escapees once stumbled upon the oasis by a sheer chance and pure luck, thus becoming the parents of the somber population. To ignore this is to run your business on a wing and a prayer, which is pure chance and takes your destiny out of your own hands. An inquiry launched by Barnsley health chiefs concluded there was no link between the deaths and it appeared to be pure chance that the cluster had appeared. He appears to be unable to grasp the difference between receiving money through pure chance and through inheritance. Kimberley gaped in disbelief and what looked like pure fury at the sheer bitchiness of the other girl in the room, and Clay was seeing red as I stood up. Then began three months of hard work, and long nights mixed with sheer panic and pure delight that this project was becoming a reality. By pure chance, I also received a letter from the UK today. Finding your golf ball in there is quite simply a case of pure chance. Arendri who had never raised his voice like that in pure absolute anger had just bit the head off of the one person they all despised. Synonyms sheer, utter, simple, absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, complete, thorough, total, perfect, consummate, unmitigated, unqualified, palpable, patent Phrases pure and simple And nothing else (used for emphasis) it was revenge, pure and simple Example sentencesExamples This is rock music, pure and simple, and they were very much a rock band. It's glam rock, pure and simple, and at high risk of sounding like everyone's dad, it was better the first time. But the film he was in showed his intent and interests pure and simple. This is not a war of ideas, but a one-sided game where liberals allow the right to get away with anything pure and simple. There was no physical abuse, but it was intimidation, pure and simple. Misogynism, pure and simple, played a large part in it. This isn't health policy, this is just politics, pure and simple. Where post-punk was arty, difficult, and challenging, new wave was pop music, pure and simple. Patents serve the research and development strategies of big corporations, pure and simple. What is now a tolerable sweep into disputed territory would be denounced in the U.N. as invasion pure and simple. Origin Middle English: from Old French pur ‘pure’, from Latin purus. adj.1 phr.
随便看	the wet the wet the wheel the wheel the wheel the wheel the wheel of fortune the wheel of fortune the wherewithal the wherewithal the while the while the whip the whip the whip hand the whip hand the whole the whole the whole amount the whole ball of wax the whole ball of wax the whole caboodle the whole caboodle" or "the whole kit and caboodle the whole caboodle" or "the whole kit and caboodle the whole enchilada