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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intact
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
largely
▪ And it did so in a way that allowed the traditional culture to remain largely intact.
▪ Peel the pearl onions, but leave the root largely intact so the onions hold together.
▪ Piazza Duomo suffered terribly, although the cathedral itself remained largely intact.
▪ Only in this case, the bridge was not destroyed, but was largely intact when discovered downstream.
less
▪ There were good reasons why the nucleated village should survive more or less intact.
▪ As it turns out, Magellan escaped more or less intact.
▪ The accuracy of selection, if the system was to be maintained more or less intact, was of the highest importance.
▪ The lump is more or less intact, though crumbs of it stick to Perry's fringe.
▪ After a lot of hard work, they found they were uncovering a more or less intact skeleton.
▪ In reforms where large estates are turned into cooperatives the operational size of the farm is usually kept more or less intact.
▪ Nothing today remains of Fonthill Abbey, though Strawberry Hill is still more or less intact.
perfectly
▪ A place where a certain set of responses still lies perfectly intact.
▪ Not only was the body found perfectly intact, but the robes in which it had been buried had suffered no decay.
▪ Googol glanced perplexedly at the door, which was perfectly intact.
still
▪ The walls of the mill, first mentioned in 1343, are still intact.
▪ I touched my belly to make sure I was still intact.
▪ Fragile protuberances like zygomatic processes and ascending rami were found to be broken, but most bones were still intact.
▪ His long body was still intact even as they noticed a dramatic loss of shape.
▪ And, as to the bereaved, their words glowed with the grateful confidence that their own worlds were still intact.
▪ I was surprised that the tongue was still intact.
▪ However, it is much more difficult to ensure that media which are remote from a computer are still intact and safe.
▪ The Soviet government. although weakened, confused, and groping toward an uncertain future, was still intact.
virtually
▪ The original building remains virtually intact and is now the administrative block of the North Wing.
▪ Our striking power remained virtually intact.
▪ Members in Ireland have tracked down the original carriage; it was acting as a holiday home, and was virtually intact!
▪ In the end, the Tory majority remained virtually intact.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Despite the bombing, the house was still intact.
▪ Our furniture survived the long journey more or less intact.
▪ Somehow his reputation survived the scandal intact.
▪ The package arrived intact.
▪ The toys have to be intact in their original boxes or they're not worth anything.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intact

Intact \In*tact"\, a. [L. intactus; pref. in- not + tactus, p. p. of tangere to touch: cf. F. intact. See In- not, and Tact, Tangent.] Untouched, especially by anything that harms, defiles, or the like; uninjured; undefiled; left complete or entire.
--Buckle.

When all external differences have passed away, one element remains intact, unchanged, -- the everlasting basis of our common nature, the human soul.
--F. W. Robertson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intact

mid-15c., from Latin intactus "untouched, uninjured, undefiled," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + tactus, past participle of tangere "to touch" (see tangent (adj.)).

Wiktionary
intact

a. Untouched, especially by anything that harms, defiles, or the like; uninjured; whole; undefiled; left complete or entire; not damaged.

WordNet
intact
  1. adj. constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged; "a local motion keepeth bodies integral"- Bacon; "was able to keep the collection entire during his lifetime"; "fought to keep the union intact" [syn: integral, entire]

  2. not impaired or diminished in any way; "emerged from the trial with his prestige intact"; "the blast left his hearint intact"

  3. (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken; "she was intact, virginal" [syn: inviolate]

  4. (used of domestic animals) sexually competent; "an entire horse" [syn: entire]

  5. undamaged in any way; whole; "the vase remained intact despite rough handling"

Wikipedia
Intact

Intact can refer to:

  • An entire building, generally in good condition not dilapidated or ruins
  • Intact (group of companies), a Romanian media trust
  • Intact (album) and "Intact" (song) by Ned's Atomic Dustbin
  • Intacto, a film
  • Entire (animal), describing an animal that has not been spayed or neutered
  • Genital integrity
  • IntAct, a database of protein interaction data
  • Intact Financial, a Canadian insurance company

Usage examples of "intact".

The hymen was not intact, and abrasions along the vaginal wall were visible.

An appendage abutting upon a loop at right angles between the shoulders is considered to spoil the loop, while an appendage which flows off smoothly is considered to leave the recurve intact.

Even a bit drunk, Jill was agile, and she got through the dancing with her purity intact.

I concentrated on keeping the trail intact so that Alder could find it.

His cutting out the tangle of abnormal vessels, the capsular angioma that he suspected, while leaving the rest of the anatomy intact, was so tricky the operation itself could further destroy neurons, making her worse off and possibly killing her.

For the same reason, artichokes in Italy are sold with their stems and outer leaves, tomatoes are still attached to their vines, and zucchini are displayed with their flowers intact.

An axon which has degenerated through injury or disease can sometimes be regenerated, provided its neurilemma has remained intact.

Vanessa unpacks the picnic basket while I run around trying to find intact baobab pods so that we can crack open their hairy shells and suck the sour white powder off the seeds.

Only the outer wall remained intact, except where the barbican had been exploded.

So it was also that the bimbashi went back to his regiment with all his limbs intact.

Charles piped, putting down his chokabola with its ice still intact and a big brown mustache of chok on his face.

On the left of the plan will be seen a small room or storage cist still intact.

Father Balbi looked like a peasant, but he was in better condition than I, his clothes were not torn to shreds or covered with blood, his red flannel waistcoat and purple breeches were intact, while my figure could only inspire pity or terror, so bloodstained and tattered was I.

I therefore made the examination as modestly as I could, and I found her to be intact.

The biosphere remains essentially intact on Wessex as it does on the other New48.