Found 2 hits - Term: imperfect tense, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
imperfect \imper"fect\, a. l. imperfectus: pref. im- not +
perfectus perfect: cf. f imparfait, whence oe. imparfit. see
perfect.
1. not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a
part; deective; deficient.
1913 webster
something he left imperfect in the state. --shak.
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why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. --shak.
1913 webster
2. wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to
successful or normal activity.
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he . . . stammered like a child, or an amazed,
imperfect person. --jer. taylor.
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3. not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not
conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste
or conscience; esthetically or morally defective.
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nothing imperfect or deficient left
of all that he created. --milton.
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then say not man's imperfect, heaven in fault;
say rather, man's as perfect as he ought. --pope.
1913 webster
imperfect arch, an arch of less than a semicircle; a skew
arch.
imperfect cadence mus., one not ending with the tonic,
but with the dominant or some other chord; one not giving
complete rest; a half close.
imperfect consonances mus., chords like the third and
sixth, whose ratios are less simple than those of the
fifth and forth.
imperfect flower bot., a flower wanting either stamens or
pistils. --gray.
imperfect interval mus., one a semitone less than
perfect; as, an imperfect fifth.
imperfect number math., a number either greater or less
than the sum of its several divisors; in the former case,
it is called also a defective number; in the latter, an
abundant number.
imperfect obligations law, obligations as of charity or
gratitude, which cannot be enforced by law.
imperfect power math., a number which can not be produced
by taking any whole number or vulgar fraction, as a
factor, the number of times indicated by the power; thus,
9 is a perfect square, but an imperfect cube.
imperfect tense gram., a tense expressing past time and
incomplete action.
1913 webster
see also:
perfect imperfect arch imperfect cadence imperfect consonances imperfect flower imperfect interval
imperfect number defective number abundant number imperfect obligations imperfect power
imperfect tense
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
imperfect tense
n : a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
syn: progressive, progressive tense, imperfect, continuous
tense
see also:
progressive progressive tense imperfect continuous tense
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