Definition of semi-permanent in English:
semi-permanent
adjectivesɛmɪˈpəːm(ə)nənt
Not permanent, but involving some stability or endurance.
the company employs him on a semi-permanent basis
Example sentencesExamples
- An examination of the shelves at my local organic supermarket yielded several options for both permanent and semi-permanent dyes.
- Since I've been over here on this semi-permanent basis, I have found almost universal kindness and politeness.
- It is now on display at the National Trust office in Coleshill on a semi-permanent basis.
- I live in Alaska and I'm preparing to move to Thailand on a semi-permanent basis.
- A colored film forms over each hair and washes off with shampoo - a safe way to test out a hair color before plunging into the realm of semi-permanent and permanent dyes.
- The proposed could accommodate 11 taxis at any one time - eight permanent spaces and three semi-permanent.
- It is significant to see that amongst the illustrations that he offered is the case of permanent or semi-permanent mental disorder calling for a wider range of care.
- In the warmer months of spawning season longear sunfish are generally found in shallower, warmer headwaters of streams which have numerous pools with permanent or semi-permanent flow.
- The patient has a tube inserted through the abdominal wall into the peritoneal cavity, and this remains in place on a semi-permanent basis.
- Since the Middle Ages, the British army and its antecedents consisted of both a part-time force and a permanent or semi-permanent component.
- First, it contains permanent, or semi-permanent, tax cuts when the need is for temporary one-time tax relief.
- This week, they announced they will close another 800 on a semi-permanent basis due to staff shortages.
- As a hunter-gatherer society, the Cahuilla established a number of permanent and semi-permanent settlements within the valley.
- But where the state of affairs is permanent or semi-permanent, as may be so in the case of a mentally disordered person, there is no point in waiting to obtain the patient's consent.
- Both options suggest that Africa should be given two permanent or semi-permanent seats.
- Settlements were semi-permanent or permanent hamlets and villages, often in river valleys and at intervals of about 20 km.
- Scientists have been trying for half a century to figure out a way to get us there on at least a semi-permanent basis, to no avail.
- Winter hairstyles should contain warm colours, she informed me, so a chocolate-brown semi-permanent colour was used throughout, complemented by honey-coloured permanent highlights.
- Permanent and semi-permanent homes resembling igloos were built of sticks and branches plastered with mud, and with cow dung on the roofs.
- A large majority of those people will be living in semi-permanent or permanent houses in two years, the United Nations said.
Derivatives
adverb
Photography is often associated with death - that is, a photograph semi-permanently records the image of a person whose death is inevitable.
Example sentencesExamples
- The cars are semi-permanently connected by drawbars instead of couplers, so the noise of banging buffer plates and diaphragms is eliminated.
- The males jealously defend sizeable territories within which small herds of related females and young may reside semi-permanently.
- Some psychologists have even attempted to demonstrate that members of teams who are extremely successful develop semi-permanently elevated levels of adrenalin.
- Thus there has been an increase in importance for this type of product amongst Brits, either resident in the UK or semi-permanently expatriate.