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单词 perfect year
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perfect /pûrˈfekt or -fikt/

adjective
  1. Done thoroughly or completely
  2. Completed
  3. Mature
  4. Complete
  5. Having all organs in a functional condition
  6. Having androecium and gynaeceum in the same flower (botany)
  7. Completely skilled or versed
  8. Thoroughly known or acquired
  9. Exact
  10. Exactly conforming to definition or theory
  11. Without flaw, blemish or fault
  12. Having every moral excellence
  13. Sheer, utter
  14. Absolute
  15. Completely contented (Shakespeare)
  16. Denoting completed action (grammar)
  17. Certain, convinced (Shakespeare)
  18. Of the simpler kind of consonance (music)
  19. Triple (old music; applied to time)
noun
  1. The perfect tense
  2. A verb in the perfect tense
transitive verb /pər-fektˈ or pûrˈ/
  1. To make perfect
  2. To finish
  3. To teach fully, to make fully skilled in anything
  4. To print the second side of (a sheet of paper)
ORIGIN: ME parfit, from OFr parfit; assimilated to L perfectus, pap of perficere, from pfx per- thoroughly, and facere to do

perfectāˈtion noun (rare)

perfectˈer (or /pûrˈ/) noun

perfectˈi /-ī/ plural noun

A body of Catharists in the 12c and 13c, living very strict lives

perfectibilˈian noun

A believer in the perfectibility of mankind

perfectˈibilism noun

The belief that man is capable of becoming perfect or of progressing indefinitely towards perfection

perfectˈibilist noun

perfectibilˈity noun

  1. Capability of becoming perfect
  2. Perfectibilism

perfectˈible adjective

Capable of becoming or being made perfect

perfecˈtion noun

  1. The state of being perfect
  2. The process of making or becoming perfect
  3. A quality in perfect degree
  4. The highest state or degree
  5. An embodiment of the perfect
  6. Loosely, a degree of excellence approaching the perfect

perfecˈtionate transitive verb

To bring to perfection

perfecˈtionism noun

perfecˈtionist noun

  1. A person who claims to be perfect
  2. A person who aims at or calls for nothing short of perfection
  3. Someone who holds some doctrine concerning perfection
  4. Someone who thinks that moral perfection can be attained in this life
  5. (with cap) one of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers, a small American sect founded by JH Noyes (1811–86), which settled at Oneida in 1848, holding that the gospel if accepted secures freedom from sin

perfectionistˈic adjective

  1. Seeking to attain perfection
  2. Being a perfectionist

perfectˈive adjective

  1. Tending to make perfect
  2. (of a verb aspect) denoting completed action (grammar)

perfectˈively adverb

perˈfectly adverb

perˈfectness noun

  1. The state or quality of being perfect
  2. Completeness

perfectˈo noun (pl perfectˈos)

(Sp, perfect) a large tapering cigar

perfectˈor noun

  1. Someone who perfects
  2. A machine for printing both sides at once

perfect binding noun

An unsewn bookbinding in which the backs of the gathered sections are sheared off and the leaves held in place by glue

perfect cadence noun (music)

One passing from the chord of the dominant to that of the tonic

perfect competition noun (economics)

Free competition for the sale of a commodity

perfect fifth noun (music)

The interval between two sounds whose vibration frequencies are as 2 to 3

perfect fluid noun

An ideal fluid, incompressible, of uniform density, and offering no resistance to distorting forces

perfect fourth noun (music)

The interval between sounds whose vibration frequencies are as 3 to 4

perfect game noun (baseball)

A game in which a pitcher does not allow any batter to reach base

perfect gas same as ideal gas (see under ideal).

perfect insect noun

The imago or completely developed form of an insect

perfect interval noun (music)

The fourth, fifth, or octave

perfect market noun (economics)

A market where there are many buyers and sellers, none of whom can influence prices individually

perfect metals plural noun

Noble metals

perfect number noun (mathematics)

A number equal to the sum of its factors (including unity), as 6=1+2+3 and 28=1+2+4+7+14

perfect pitch noun (music)

  1. The pitch of a note as determined by the number of vibrations per second
  2. The ability to identify or remember a note accurately
  3. A term often used for absolute pitch (see under absolute)

perfect square noun

A square number (qv)

perfect storm noun

  1. A particularly violent storm caused by the simultaneous occurrence of various intense meteorological phenomena
  2. The disastrous effect of a combination of adverse events

perfect tense noun

A tense signifying action completed in the past (eg I have said) or at the time spoken of (as in the past perfect or pluperfect, eg I had said, and the future perfect, eg I shall have left by then)

perfect year see year

to perfection

Perfectly

year /yēr or yûr/

noun (pl years or, used adjectivally with a preceding numeral, year, eg a three-year period)
  1. The time taken by the earth to orbit the sun, approx 365 days 6 hours but varying slightly according to the method of measurement (see anomalistic year, astronomical year, etc below)
  2. The time taken by any specified planet to revolve round the sun or, eg in science fiction, round any star
  3. The period of time beginning on 1 January and ending on 31 December, consisting of 365 days (except in a leap year, when one day is added to February, making the number 366), the present legal, civil or calendar year (see below)
  4. A space of twelve calendar months, or a period within each twelve-month space characterized by a particular activity, etc
  5. Students, etc as a group at the same stage of their education
  6. (in pl) a period of time or a person's life
  7. (in pl) a person's age
  8. (in pl) old age (archaic or poetic)
  9. (in pl) a very long time
ORIGIN: OE gēar; Ger Jahr, ON ār, Gr hōrā season

yearˈling noun

  1. An animal a year old
  2. A racehorse one year old, as calculated from 1 January of its year of foaling
  3. A bond maturing after one year (finance)
adjective
  1. A year old
  2. Maturing after one year (finance)

yearˈly adjective

  1. Happening every year
  2. Lasting a year
  3. For a year
adverb
  1. Once a year
  2. From year to year
noun

A publication appearing, an event occurring, etc, once a year

yearˈbook noun

A book published annually, reviewing the events of the past year

year-endˈ noun

The end of the (esp financial) year (also adjective)

yearˈlong adjective

Lasting a year

year-on-yearˈ adjective (economics)

Of figures, set against figures for the equivalent period in the previous year

yearˈ-round adjective

Existing, lasting, open, etc throughout the year

anomalistic year

A year as measured by the earth's time of passage from perihelion to perihelion, ie 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, 49 seconds

astronomical year

A year as measured by the time between two occurrences of the same equinox or solstice, ie the time taken for one complete mean apparent circuit of the ecliptic by the sun, ie 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46 seconds (also called the equinoctial, natural, solar or tropical year)

calendar year same as legal year below.

canicular year

The Sothic year (see under Sothic)

civil year same as legal year below.

ecclesiastical year

The year as arranged in the ecclesiastical calendar, with the saints' days, festivals, etc

embolismic year

A year of thirteen lunar months (384 days) occurring in a lunisolar calendar such as that of the Jews

equinoctial year see astronomical year above.

financial year see under finance

fiscal year see under fiscal

great year see Platonic year below.

Hebrew year

A lunisolar year, of 12 or 13 months of 29 or 30 days (in every cycle of nineteen years the 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th and 19th having thirteen months instead of twelve)

Julian year

The year according to the Julian calendar (introduced by Julius Caesar, modified by Augustus; superseded by the Gregorian calendar), a period of 3651/4 days, longer than an astronomical year by about 11 minutes (see also style)

leap year see above.

legal year

The year by which dates are reckoned (it has begun on different dates at different periods in history, and for six centuries before 1752 it began in England on 25 March since when (earlier in Scotland) it has begun on 1 January)

lunar year

A period of twelve lunar months or 354 days

natural year see astronomical year above.

Platonic year

A cycle of years at the end of which the heavenly bodies were supposed to be again in the same place as at the Creation (also called great or perfect year)

sabbatical year see under Sabbath

sidereal year

The period required by the sun to move from a given star to the same star again, having a mean value of 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, 9.6 seconds

solar or tropical year see astronomical year above.

the year dot see under dot1

the Year of Grace, or of our Lord

A formula used in stating any particular year since Christ's birth

year in, year out

  1. (happening, done, etc) every year
  2. With monotonous regularity

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