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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
perfect
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a classic/perfect/prime example (=very typical)
▪ This is a classic example of how not to run a business.
▪ The pot is a perfect example of the Marine Style.
▪ This is a prime example of government incompetence.
a complete/perfect/total stranger (=used to emphasize that you do not know the person)
▪ Really, I don't know why I'm revealing all this to a complete stranger.
a flawless/perfect complexion (=perfect and with no marks or spots)
▪ Foundation is meant to give the illusion of a flawless complexion.
a good/perfect/wonderful companion
▪ For older people a pet cat can be a very good companion.
a perfect couple (=a couple that seem very suitable for each other)
▪ Emily and John seemed a perfect couple.
a perfect/cast-iron/unshakeable etc alibi
▪ He had a perfect alibi and the police let him go.
a perfect/ideal setting
▪ The castle was a perfect setting for the wedding.
be in good/perfect/full etc working order
▪ The car was old, but the engine was still in good working order.
clear/perfect/good etc diction
▪ She had perfect diction.
future perfect
glorious/beautiful/perfect
▪ It was glorious weather, so we decided to go for a picnic.
good/perfect
▪ She smiled, showing a mouthful of perfect teeth.
good/perfect/true etc likeness
happy/perfect/surprise etc ending
▪ a story with a happy ending
in perfect/complete accord
▪ It is important to the success of any firm that its partners should be in complete accord.
past perfect
perfect fit
▪ The dress was a perfect fit.
perfect foil
▪ The simple stone floor is the perfect foil for the brightly coloured furnishings.
perfect gentleman
▪ Martin – always the perfect gentleman – got to his feet when my mother walked in.
perfect harmony
▪ As producer and director, the Coen brothers work together in perfect harmony.
perfect participle
perfect pitch
▪ She’s got perfect pitch.
perfect pitch
perfect
▪ She's in her seventies, but her eyesight is still perfect.
perfect
▪ We have a perfect description of the man we are looking for.
perfect
▪ Babies aren’t born with perfect vision.
perfect/good/bad etc timing
▪ He was just walking into the restaurant when we got there. Perfect timing.
perfect/impeccable manners
▪ Suddenly, his perfect manners were gone.
perfect/pure/sheer happiness (=happiness that is as good as it can be)
▪ The birth of my child was a moment of sheer happiness.
present perfect
right/perfect
▪ I’m just waiting for the right moment to tell her.
▪ The moment is not quite right just yet.
the best/perfect/ideal solution
▪ Locking people in prison is not necessarily the ideal solution.
the ideal/perfect opportunity
▪ I'd been wanting to try sailing, and this seemed like the ideal opportunity.
the perfect answer
▪ I think I have the perfect answer to the problem.
the perfect excuse
▪ The phone call gave me the perfect excuse to leave.
the perfect/ideal gift for sb
▪ This book is the perfect gift for anybody who’s interested in birds.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ She had flawless olive skin, huge dark eyes, an almost perfect profile.
▪ With the economy behaving in almost perfect fashion, stock prices enjoyed some of their strongest gains in years.
▪ I've taken it upon myself to assure the count that you're almost perfect.
▪ His spelling, which had baffled Silverstein, was almost perfect.
▪ The inlet is an almost perfect semi-circle backed by huge cliffs whose vegetation-hung rocks defy their position.
▪ Next, cancer samples were hidden under bandages on a volunteer, and Pickel still reported an almost perfect record for George.
▪ An almost perfect portrait of him.
▪ And for much of the play, it looks like an almost perfect fit.
more
▪ He said he had never come across a clearer, more perfect case, with so many vital details so well remembered.
▪ A more perfect ski day had not yet been minted.
▪ And among his other antiques he had this chalcedony which was more perfect than anything I had ever seen.
▪ I have never stood on a more perfect beach.
▪ We don't have to be taller, shorter, slimmer or more perfect before he loves us.
▪ The slates have more perfect planar partings and are so fine grained that individual minerals can not easily be seen.
▪ Something that was eternal was more perfect than something that had to be created.
▪ What I tried to do was obliterate this life and replace it with another, a more perfect one.
most
▪ Amativeness, that is, love, and the nervous system, are in the most perfect mutual sympathy.
▪ At that point she suddenly realized that she had the most perfect, most gorgeous, most responsive baby in the world.
▪ Debbie explained that even the most perfect love affairs sometimes have sell-by dates and she had reached hers.
▪ There are people who consider this arrangement as being the most perfect construction yet devised for ships of medium size.
▪ Idealist philosophers saw the human body as the most perfect expression of the vertebrate form.
▪ For sev-eral months I have the most perfect job of my life.
near
▪ In the latter case the specimen is of near perfect geometry for a torsion test.
▪ Conclusions: The velvet cloth is a near perfect black, but more expensive and less readily available than the other materials.
▪ Unfortunately, strong winds curtailed the sport on a near perfect river level carrying about four inches extra, but fining off.
▪ In the main, larval control would have to be near perfect in its efficiency and to allow very few adults to survive.
▪ In this chapter, I look at what would happen if the acoustic-phonetic front-end did achieve near perfect performance.
so
▪ It's so perfect that they should effortlessly spawn the very stuff which facilitates the clicking of needles and clucking of tongues.
▪ Everything was so artificial and so perfect.
▪ Maybe she's not so perfect.
▪ Well, everything's just so perfect for me now that my ideal man would have to be, too.
▪ The fairways look so perfect, so uniform that the whole course looks carpeted.
▪ It seems so natural and pure, so perfect.
▪ Cake is always so perfect with coffee at supper time.
▪ So tiny, so perfect, and all that dark hair!
■ NOUN
balance
▪ In such leaders, competence, vision, and virtue exist in nearly perfect balance.
▪ But a simple squat can exercise most of the muscles in the body and yet keep it in perfect balance.
▪ The perfect balance of arrogance and vulnerability.
▪ Even the stables were in perfect balance.
▪ Patrick went on to build irregular, non-symmetrical shapes with the connector rods that maintained perfect balance.
▪ The lack of perfect balance and coil symmetry also allows some of the fundamental switching frequency to leak through.
▪ Harold was flexing his muscles for the perfect balance, teeth bared, knife poised over his head.
competition
▪ The need to relax the assumptions of perfect competition, and that the economy has attained equilibrium, is apparent.
▪ Integrating transport costs into a general equilibrium trade model is a messy affair even with constant returns and perfect competition.
▪ The great claim made for perfect competition is that it leads to efficiency.
▪ The reason for this is probably that it implies oligopolies that behave in a way intermediate between perfect competition and monopoly.
▪ While learning this, the novice student also learns that perfect competition does not exist.
▪ Still central to much of contemporary price theory is the model of perfect competition.
▪ What happens under perfect competition to the after-tax distribution of income may therefore be ambiguous.
▪ Hence with our present framework perfect competition does not necessarily imply an efficient set of firms.
condition
▪ The Clio reaches us in perfect condition, excepting a few scuffs on the steel wheel trims.
▪ A tangerine-and-lime brocade formal in perfect condition comes to mind.
▪ The storage buildings are specially designed and are equipped with sophisticated temperature and humidity controls to keep the potatoes in perfect condition.
▪ His fur shone and his claws and teeth were in perfect condition.
▪ The perfect condition of everything had somewhat disguised the extreme age of the place, but now it was obvious.
▪ It was a warm and sunny day; perfect conditions for hillwalking and camping.
▪ Revelling in the perfect conditions, Neath replied immediately to Bradshaw's score with a counter-attack from the half-way line.
▪ The test for ammonia and nitrite shows perfect conditions every time, and disease and fish fatalities are rare.
day
▪ We ended a perfect day sipping sangria at a cliffside restaurant, relaxing in the spectacular sunset.
▪ The eggshell-blue sky - the colour of the end of a perfect day.
▪ The perfect end to a perfect day.
▪ We are reassured that summer still exists by a perfect day at Camber Sands.
▪ We agreed that it was indeed a fine day - a perfect day.
▪ Just for a short while let this be the most perfect day of my life.
▪ The evening sun of a perfect day was painting the wall above the chest of drawers in such a pretty soft way.
example
▪ My hon. Friend may be that perfect example of a person who never has Mr. Wilkinson No.
▪ SurfWatch Software is a perfect example.
▪ Follow Sartre, and call them a perfect example of free-association from a pre-Freudian couch.
▪ Dry white Gascogne wines are perfect examples of wines that must be drunk young.
▪ The caterwauling of an aggressive cat is a perfect example of a single signal that takes many different forms.
▪ There are few, if any, political systems that are perfect examples of democracy or its opposites.
▪ It was a perfect example of sheer brazen cheek.
▪ The massive deinstitutionalization of mental patients in favor of community-based treatment during the 1970s was a perfect example.
fit
▪ Johnson is a perfect fit for Mississippi State.
▪ Sharp young coach and a perfect fit for a brand new team bursting with demographics.
▪ If we have a perfect fit between what we want and what we get we do not bother about priorities.
▪ I wanted him back because I thought he was a perfect fit for David as far as being vocal.
▪ The priorities are obviously included in the perfect fit.
▪ And for much of the play, it looks like an almost perfect fit.
▪ It's also the same height as your kitchen units for a perfect fit.
▪ Ogden and Arizona seem a perfect fit.
foil
▪ His work makes a perfect foil to Brown's insane language games.
▪ The bright flavor of paprika, in combination with sour cream, is a perfect foil for the succulent meat of rabbit.
▪ A simple round neck style with wrist length sleeves it makes the perfect foil for a favourite scarf or piece of jewellery.
▪ The intensely flavored, spicy mole, with chocolate as its base, is the perfect foil for wild turkey.
gentleman
▪ Now that he was being the perfect gentleman in not pursuing her, at last she began to breathe more easily.
▪ My own whip was a perfect gentleman, but it was really other colleagues who got really nasty.
▪ Everybody envied Evelyn; her husband was always such a perfect gentleman.
▪ He always had been a perfect gentleman.
▪ You might say she behaved like a perfect gentleman.
match
▪ As far as our school was concerned the timing of this initiative was a perfect match with our stage of development.
▪ Not that it was a perfect match.
▪ A perfect match my sister used to say.
▪ Salmon, with its reddish color, is a perfect match, as is ahi tuna.
▪ His body, as though accustomed to her shape, her rhythm, accommodated itself to hers in perfect match.
▪ But in a sense Helmsman is the perfect match for him.
▪ All in all it is a perfect match reel.
opportunity
▪ This match must have seemed the perfect opportunity for him to display his undoubted pace.
▪ For Joseph LaRue, it was the perfect opportunity to do some growing up.
▪ Charles had a perfect opportunity to show the world that the Waleses are a family reunited.
▪ My phone call was a perfect opportunity for you to go public with the information.
▪ Slightly puzzled, he decided to wait for the perfect opportunity.
▪ Car rides, like mealtimes, can be perfect opportunities for conversations.
▪ So here was the perfect opportunity for the profession as a whole to look decisive and effective.
▪ A visit to West Dorset also offers a perfect opportunity to try your hand at windsurfing.
order
▪ His papers were in perfect order.
▪ Maskelyne argued, then acceded that they were by all appearances in perfect order, and affixed his signature.
▪ Everything was in perfect order, as if the place was waiting patiently for its occupants to arrive.
▪ There were spiderwebs everywhere, but otherwise everything was in perfect order.
▪ It means in simple terms that Reay is able to keep the looms running in perfect order.
▪ Perfect discipline, perfect order, perfect cleanliness.
▪ Who, she wondered, as she went to look at the kitchen, had kept the house in such perfect order?
▪ The electricians were apprised so that all electrical appliances could be in perfect order.
person
▪ I believe that I have found the perfect person.
▪ In short, he was the perfect person to produce the replica.
▪ In many ways Bateson was the perfect person to oversee a transformation of this kind.
pitch
▪ In essays on whisky-tasting, sheath knives, deer hunting, he has a kind of perfect pitch.
▪ I have neither perfect pitch nor a head for mathematics, and anyway who wants to compute the speed of history?
▪ You had perfect pitch, my love.
▪ In pastoral terms, the program had perfect pitch.
▪ Computer games that require a player to recognise perfect pitch might also help, Saffran says.
▪ But the five people in Saffran's group with perfect pitch had started learning aged four.
▪ The woodwind maintained a perfect pitch and, like the strings and brass, produced a consistently voluptuous sound.
▪ Tom had perfect pitch and a wonderful recall and he could sing whole passages from Boccherini's aviary music.
place
▪ The perfect place for a family visit followed by a walk and picnic.
▪ It was also a perfect place to dream.
▪ She was in his mind's eye now, like a fugitive from some more perfect place.
▪ It was a perfect place to kill some one, he thought.
▪ And many would say Oxford is the perfect place to set it.
▪ For fantasies, the Great Plains are in many respects the perfect place.
▪ It is an island full of contrasts, with the perfect place for everyone.
▪ The Big A was the perfect place for Robinson a decade ago.
right
▪ I've a perfect right to my feelings.
▪ If I want to move the television, I've got a perfect right to do so.
▪ They have a perfect right to object to it.
▪ It had got up Rufus's nose a bit, though Adam had a perfect right to do this.
sense
▪ To a Yek accomplished in the ways of the court the whole scheme would make perfect sense however.
▪ Her ending works because it makes perfect sense.&038;.
▪ But it does make perfect sense in context.
▪ Brown makes perfect sense, but Hobbs said he deserves to start ahead of Jett.
▪ And with the slow-going afternoon the world all at once can make perfect sense.
▪ The wonderful thing is that in the Hansard parliamentary records Mr Prescott's words will make perfect sense.
▪ Once you understand the panic attack problem, these particular fears of public places make perfect sense.
setting
▪ Lain's Barn is the perfect setting for Midwinter merchants, selling everything from weapons to costume.
▪ It made a perfect setting for Murder in the Dark.
▪ Long and narrow frames make the perfect setting for such sophisticated pressed flower designs as this one.
▪ Occasionally archery competitions are held here - a perfect setting for such an event.
▪ The perfect setting for relaxing and soaking up the sun.
solution
▪ It seemed to be the perfect solution - contraception without constraining the fountain of male pleasure.
▪ Even if a perfect solution is not found, the child goes from being passive to planning a strategy and eventually acting.
▪ Sensitive skins need the gentle touch - Moistura fragrance Free products from Cyclax provide the perfect solution.
▪ There are no perfect solutions in a world where most parents work and most kids get sick.
▪ Alternet is the perfect solution for 10BaseT users who want the flexibility that thin coax provides.
▪ A mix of black and gold separates is a perfect solution.
▪ No doubt the perfect solution is to fly down in your own plane.
▪ Then, in a flash, the perfect solution occurred to her.
stranger
▪ Again he was a person, no longer a perfect stranger.
▪ Some oranges in a commune, like perfect strangers, dwell upon their own navels, untransformed.
▪ A year before he had, but that year had changed him, eliminated the sentiment and made him a perfect stranger.
▪ Asked to stand guard over good or treasure, they would good-naturedly hand everything over to a perfect stranger.
▪ They put money on the table, too, perfect strangers expressing unmistakable monetary interest in the Tonelli Nation.
▪ I was then to ask what people thought about being smiled at by a perfect stranger.
▪ She turned into an expert at coaxing food and lodging invitations out of perfect strangers.
time
▪ It was a perfect time for the launch of Black Dwarf, but there too there were problems.
▪ But the beginning of a second term is a perfect time for a rejuvenating administration shake-up.
▪ It is the perfect time to stand back and look at how the beauty of nature can enhance your surroundings.
▪ The Cats had found themselves at the absolute perfect time.
▪ The Sergeant-Major had said that like all other legionnaires we would learn to sing in perfect time, so sing we would.
▪ Management felt this was the perfect time to rethink the business, when there was no crisis.
▪ Now so many knitters can use it this seems the perfect time to elaborate upon it.
▪ Our weightless feet beat perfect time through city streets and wooded ravines.
way
▪ A perfect way to begin her day.
▪ It seemed the perfect way to spend their retirement, and the couple quickly applied.
▪ Creamy, blue-veined Dolcelatte is the perfect way to round off your meals and delicious to nibble in between.
▪ Couples say that running is a perfect way to increase their time together.
▪ A perfect way to end a perfect cruise day.
▪ The stylish hand held Ultratone Facial unit is the perfect way to achieve tone and lift, keeping your face looking good.
▪ It was argued that the rule of having only Yorkshire-born players was the perfect way of keeping out the non-whites.
world
▪ But we don't live in a perfect world.
▪ Each had its own impossible plan for a perfect world, usually either socialist or Zionist.
▪ In a perfect world, he would simply stuff the paper straight into his pocket.
▪ In a perfect world, presidential campaigns should leave the judiciary alone.
▪ This was an unusual arrangement which might have worked in a perfect world.
▪ In a perfect world, there would be a single universal e-mail directory.
▪ But this is not a perfect world.
▪ What her daddy may have felt was the crushing weight of building a perfect world for his baby.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
keep perfect/good etc time
▪ But like a single gear in a mechanical clock, timeless can not keep good time all by itself.
▪ Nothing unusual - clocks behaving as before, keeping good time and continuing to emit their light beams.
▪ Running in a clump through a crowded station, like the Bash Street Kids, keeping perfect time with chant and clap.
near perfect/impossible etc
▪ Colin was fulsome in his praise of the role of finance directors in delivering a near impossible set of financial reforms.
▪ Comets therefore tend to explode into vapor with near perfect efficiency and devastating power on impact.
▪ Conclusions: The velvet cloth is a near perfect black, but more expensive and less readily available than the other materials.
▪ In the latter case the specimen is of near perfect geometry for a torsion test.
▪ In the main, larval control would have to be near perfect in its efficiency and to allow very few adults to survive.
▪ So everything seemed okay: the barn was secure, the food supply was better than good and the terrain near perfect.
▪ That doesn't stop Hedley from dreaming of owning a video store, even though it seems near impossible.
▪ Unfortunately, strong winds curtailed the sport on a near perfect river level carrying about four inches extra, but fining off.
practice makes perfect
▪ Finally, Mr Shapiro points out, practice makes perfect.
▪ Whatever caulk you use, remember that practice makes perfect.
the future perfect
the perfect crime
▪ There is no such thing as the perfect crime.
the present perfect
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "How was your holiday?'' "Oh, just perfect!''
▪ perfect weather for a picnic
▪ A dry white wine is perfect with any fish dish.
▪ Beth and Martin always seemed to be the perfect couple.
▪ Cindy's been a perfect angel all morning.
▪ How could you have given that confidential information to a perfect stranger?
▪ It was a perfect day out.
▪ Michiko's English is perfect.
▪ My mother's in perfect health, even though she's nearly 80.
▪ That's a perfect example of what I was talking about.
▪ That sounds like the perfect job for you.
▪ The meal was absolutely perfect.
▪ The quilt is in nearly perfect condition.
▪ They seem to have a perfect marriage.
▪ This church is a perfect example of Gothic architecture.
▪ This dress will be perfect for the summer.
▪ We had perfect weather the whole trip.
▪ We had a wonderful vacation - the weather was perfect.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And many would say Oxford is the perfect place to set it.
▪ But it's cattle you should think of in this country, perfect dairy pasture, rich it is.
▪ His heroes are true heroes, but not perfect human beings.
▪ I peeled off her leather jacket and jeans and I really began to appreciate how perfect her body is.
▪ Moreover, as we shall see presently, the wheel is not one that revolves with perfect smoothness.
▪ Partnering the experienced Allen up front, in place of the suspended Trevor Morley, Jones supplied a perfect cross just before the interval.
▪ The perfect condition of everything had somewhat disguised the extreme age of the place, but now it was obvious.
▪ The aide reported to Daley that he was a perfect choice.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
art
▪ After 50 years of experience we have perfected the art of passenger hospitality on long flights.
▪ I perfect the art of seductive banter.
▪ This means that the only opportunity for perfecting the art of sentencing is by practising on actual offenders.
▪ Nancy Reagan perfected the art of the adoring smile.
▪ But she had spent many years perfecting the art of the memo.
▪ Typically McGeechan will do more work with the whole squad before the forwards go off to perfect their blacker arts.
▪ So they perfect the art of inhibited assault.
skill
▪ Reagan had no record to defend and had spent years perfecting the skills required to project an effective personal image.
▪ In perfecting their skills, they have to give up habits and responses that impede their performance.
▪ It is also time to perfect the skills of the historian.
technique
▪ A clinic has perfected a £3,500 technique to help make them fathers again.
▪ So they have perfected the technique of doorstep delivery, using women instead of men to provide the needed counseling.
▪ He had perfected the technique of not being noticed to a fine art.
▪ Milan and Jovana have been perfecting their technique.
▪ Before you try it on your garment, knit a test piece of band so that you can perfect the technique.
▪ One enthusiast has constructed a gallows-like contraption in order to perfect his technique.
▪ He spent a further two years perfecting his technique at Colorado University.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After eighteen years of marriage to Gemma, Ronald had perfected the art of keeping the peace.
▪ Dom Perignon perfected the art of blending wines from many different vineyards.
▪ James was out on the ski slope, trying to perfect his short turns.
▪ Luke perfected his cooking skills after he got married.
▪ The best way to perfect your Spanish is to live in a country where it's spoken.
▪ The Chief Executive of the company said that they had spent ten years on perfecting the product.
▪ The only way to perfect your accent is to go and live in France.
▪ This technique was perfected by the Ancient Egyptians.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the engineers say it will be 10 years before they perfect the technology to make this possible.
▪ Do not try to perfect your normal eating routine.
▪ In perfecting their skills, they have to give up habits and responses that impede their performance.
▪ It was stated at the outset that this system would not be here, and at once, perfected.
▪ Over the last couple of decades, managing such funds has become a pretty well perfected science.
▪ The stunt took two years to perfect, and the team used a series of remote cameras to film every breath-taking second.
▪ This can be instinctive and it can also be perfected and developed.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perfect

Perfect \Per"fect\, a. [OE. parfit, OF. parfit, parfet, parfait, F. parfait, L. perfectus, p. p. of perficere to carry to the end, to perform, finish, perfect; per (see Per-) + facere to make, do. See Fact.]

  1. Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.

    My strength is made perfect in weakness.
    --2 Cor. xii. 9.

    Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun.
    --Shak.

    I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
    --Shak.

    O most entire perfect sacrifice!
    --Keble.

    God made thee perfect, not immutable.
    --Milton.

  2. Well informed; certain; sure.

    I am perfect that the Pannonains are now in arms.
    --Shak.

  3. (Bot.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.

    Perfect cadence (Mus.), a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant.

    Perfect chord (Mus.), a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave, fifth, and fourth; a perfect consonance; a common chord in its original position of keynote, third, fifth, and octave.

    Perfect number (Arith.), a number equal to the sum of all its divisors; as, 28, whose aliquot parts, or divisors, are 14, 7, 4, 2, 1. See Abundant number, under Abundant.
    --Brande & C.

    Perfect tense (Gram.), a tense which expresses an act or state completed.

    Syn: Finished; consummate; complete; entire; faultless; blameless; unblemished.

Perfect

Perfect \Per"fect\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perfected; p. pr. & vb. n. Perfecting.] [L. perfectus, p. p. of perficere. See Perfect,

  1. ] To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.

    God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us.
    --1 John iv. 12.

    Inquire into the nature and properties of the things, . . . and thereby perfect our ideas of their distinct species.
    --Locke.

    Perfecting press (Print.), a press in which the printing on both sides of the paper is completed in one passage through the machine.

    Syn: To finish; accomplish; complete; consummate.

Perfect

Perfect \Per"fect\, n. The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
perfect

early 15c. alteration of Middle English parfit (c.1300), from Old French parfit "finished, completed, ready" (11c.), from Latin perfectus "completed, excellent, accomplished, exquisite," past participle of perficere "accomplish, finish, complete," from per- "completely" (see per) + facere "to perform" (see factitious). Often used in English as an intensive (perfect stranger, etc.).

perfect

"to bring to full development," late 14c., parfiten, from perfect (adj.). Related: Perfected; perfecting.

Wiktionary
perfect

Etymology 1

  1. 1 Fitting its definition precisely. 2 Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose. 3 Without fault or mistake; thoroughly skilled or talented. 4 Excellent and delightful in all respects. 5 (lb en grammar of a tense or verb form) Representing a completed action. 6 (lb en biology) Sexually mature and fully differentiated. 7 (lb en botany) Of flowers, having both male (stamens) and female (carpels) parts. 8 (lb en analysis) Of a set, that it is equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set ''A'' is perfect if ''A''=A'. 9 (lb en music) Describing an interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones. 10 (lb en of a cocktail) Made with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth. 11 (lb en obsolete) Well informed; certain; sure. n. (context grammar English) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense. Etymology 2

    v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To make perfect; to improve or hone. 2 (context legal English) To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.

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WordNet
perfect

n. a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) [syn: perfective, perfective tense, perfect tense]

perfect

v. make perfect or complete; "perfect your French in Paris!" [syn: hone]

perfect

  1. adj. being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish; "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day" [ant: imperfect]

  2. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a)]

  3. precisely accurate or exact; "perfect timing"

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Wikipedia
Perfect (disambiguation)

Perfection is a philosophical concept.

Perfect may also refer to:

Perfect (The Smashing Pumpkins song)

"Perfect" is a song by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. It was the second single from their fourth album, Adore (1998). It was the final commercial single from the album, although " Crestfallen" and "To Sheila" were subsequently released as promotional singles.

Perfect (Simple Plan song)

"Perfect" is the fourth and final single taken from Simple Plan's debut album, No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls.

The acoustic version of the song was featured on the soundtrack of the 2004 comedy film Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen which stars Lindsay Lohan. The album version was featured in the game Karaoke Revolution Volume 2.

Perfect (Princess Superstar song)

"Perfect" is a single by Princess Superstar. It is the only single from her album My Machine with a music video.

Perfect (film)

Perfect is a 1985 American drama film directed by James Bridges and starring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis.

The film was based on a series of articles that appeared in Rolling Stone magazine in the late 1970s, chronicling the popularity of Los Angeles health clubs amongst single people.

Perfect (band)

Perfect is a Polish rock band founded in 1977 by drummer Wojciech Morawski, bass guitar player Zdzisław Zawadzki and lead guitar player Zbigniew Hołdys. They are one of the all-time most popular rock bands from/in Poland.

The band's most popular songs are: Autobiografia ("Autobiography"), Nie płacz Ewka ("Don't Cry, Eve"), Kołysanka dla nieznajomej ("A Lullaby for a Stranger"), Chcemy być sobą ("We Want to be Ourselves").

Perfect (grammar)

The perfect tense or aspect is a verb form that indicates that an action or circumstance occurred earlier than the time under consideration, often focusing attention on the resulting state rather than on the occurrence itself. An example of a perfect construction is I have made dinner: although this gives information about a prior action (my making the dinner), the focus is likely to be on the present consequences of that action (the fact that the dinner is now ready). The word perfect in this sense means "completed" (from Latin perfectum, which is the perfect passive participle of the verb perficere "to complete").

In traditional Latin and Ancient Greek grammar, the perfect is a particular conjugated verb form considered to be one of the tenses. Modern analyses view the perfect constructions of these languages as combining elements of grammatical tense (such as time reference) and grammatical aspect. The Greek perfect contrasted with the aorist and the imperfect, and referred specifically to completed events with present consequences; its meaning was thus similar to that of the English construction "have/has (done something)". The Latin perfect contrasted only with the imperfect (used for past incomplete actions or states), and was thus used to mean both "have/has done something" and "did something" (the preterite use). Other related forms are the pluperfect, denoting an event prior to a past time of reference, and the future perfect, for an event prior to a future time of reference.

In the grammar of some modern languages, particularly of English, the perfect may be analyzed as an aspect that is independent of tense – the form that is traditionally just called the perfect ("I have done") is then called the present perfect, while the form traditionally called the pluperfect ("I had done") is called the past perfect. (There are also additional forms such as future perfect, conditional perfect, and so on.) The formation of the perfect in English, using forms of an auxiliary verb (have) together with the past participle of the main verb, is paralleled in a number of other modern European languages.

The perfect can be denoted by the glossing abbreviation or . It should not be confused with the perfective aspect, which refers to the viewing of an action as a single (but not necessarily prior) event. To avoid confusion with the perfective, the perfect is occasionally called the retrospective .

Perfect (Fairground Attraction song)

"Perfect" is a song by British band Fairground Attraction, which was released as a single in March 1988. The words and music of the song are written by Mark Nevin.

The single reached number one on 14 May 1988 on the UK Singles Chart, where it stayed for one week, and stayed in the chart for a total of thirteen weeks. It also reached number one in South Africa as well as in Australia for three weeks in August and September 1988. In the UK, it was released as a 7" single, 12" single, cassette single and CD single. The song was included on the band's first album, The First of a Million Kisses, released later the same year. A copy of the song using another singer was used in television advertising for Asda in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was re-released as a single in 1993 after it had reappeared on the compilation album Celtic Heart.

The song achieved crossover onto the US Hot Country Singles, peaking at number 85 in two weeks. It also reached number 80 on the Billboard Hot 100. Additionally, the song reached number 23 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, the song's only Top 40 entry on any Billboard chart.

"Perfect" won the award for Best Single at the 1989 BRIT Awards.

It was the last number-one single on the NME singles chart, on 14 May 1988.

Perfect (Exceeder)

"Perfect (Exceeder)" is a collaboration between Dutch band Mason and American rapper Princess Superstar. The track is a mashup of Mason's 2006 instrumental dance track " Exceeder" and Princess Superstar's 2005 single " Perfect". It was used in television commercials for the film Brüno, as well as being featured in the game Wipeout HD. It has also been covered by edinburgh's indie electro band "Epic26". The song has been sampled by 813 in their track "Sunny Lemonade".

Perfect (Darin song)

"Perfect" is a song recorded by Swedish singer Darin. It was released as the first single from Darin's third studio album Break the News in Sweden on October 18, 2006.

Perfect (Sara Evans song)

"Perfect" is a song written by Tom Shapiro, Tony Martin, and co-written and recorded by American country music artist Sara Evans. It was released in September 2003 as the second single for her album Restless. The song was Evans' fifth Top 10 hit on the US Country Charts.

Perfect (musician)

Greg Rose (born 26 March 1980), better known by his stage name Perfect Giddimani, Mr. Perfect or simply Perfect is a Jamaican reggae singer. Who has gained worldwide recognition for his reggae hit "Hand Cart Bwoy" which entered the Jamaican charts in 2004 and created a wave of support for local peddlers who ply their wares in the markets and on the streets.

Perfect (Vanessa Amorosi song)

"Perfect" is the Platinum selling single from Vanessa Amorosi's album Somewhere in the Real World. The single was released digitally on 5 April 2008 and physically on 26 April 2008.

Amorosi co-wrote "Perfect" with Australian song writer and conservative blogger David Franj and they each brought a different perspective to the theme of love, resulting in a powerful tune. "He was in love with his girlfriend, so his take on it was she's perfect, everything about her is so magnificent. And I'm the other side of love where I'm like that's obsessive and there's hard work in love and what you see as perfect is not necessarily going to be perfect in 20 years time."

Amorosi says "Perfect" is "really a love story by two totally different people. That's my interpretation of it. I mean, it's open to anyone's interpretation but for me love is ... I find it to be quite obsessive. I love the imperfections in a person more so than the perfect things about them. Love can come in different shapes and forms and that's what it's really going on about."

"Perfect" was the most played song by an Australian artist on the 2008 National Airplay Chart (The Music Network – 22 December 2008). The track also hit #1 on the Australian iTunes Store on 6 June 2008.

Before release as a single, "Perfect" was featured in promotions by the Seven Network for the American show Bionic Woman. It will also be used in a commercial campaign for jeans by Calvin Klein in Australia.

Perfect (Hedley song)

"Perfect" is a song by Canadian band Hedley. It was released in February 2010 as the third single from their third album, The Show Must Go.

Perfect (American band)

Perfect was an American alternative rock group formed in 1995 by Tommy Stinson, formerly of The Replacements, in Minneapolis, Minnesota following the breakup of previous group, Bash & Pop. It released an EP in 1996 and their debut album, recorded in 1997, was issued in 2004 nearly seven years following the group's breakup in 1998.

Perfect (album)

Perfect is the second studio album by Dutch band Intwine. It was released on September 27, 2004 by V2.

Perfect (Hopkins novel)

Perfect is a young adult novel written by American author Ellen Hopkins. Like all of Ellen Hopkin's works, the novel is unusual for its free verse format. Perfect is the sequel to Impulse.

Perfect (PJ & Duncan song)

"Perfect" is the ninth single by PJ & Duncan and the third to be taken from their second album Top Katz.

Perfect (One Direction song)

"Perfect" is a song written and recorded by English-Irish boy band One Direction. Released 16 October 2015, as the second single from their albums Made in the A.M. and Perfect EP 2015, it debuted at number one in Ireland, and reached the top 10 in several countries, including the UK, US, France, New Zealand and Australia. Written by members Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, along with regular collaborators, Julian Bunetta and John Ryan among others, the up-tempo pop hit was released to positive critical acclaim.

Perfect (Half Japanese album)

Perfect is the fifteenth full-length studio album by the art punk band Half Japanese. It was released by Joyful Noise Recordings on January 22, 2016.

Perfect (server framework)

Perfect, also termed Server-Side Swift, is an application server, web and server framework written in the programming language Swift. It provides tools for developing web and other representational state transfer (REST) services in Swift, and web server and datasource connectors, providing default structures for developers working with databases, web services, and web pages. Its imain focus is to make mobile development easier by using the Swift language on both sides of the client–server model, the client mobile device, and the server, where it competes with other server-side development tools such as Node.js and Python. It is open-source software, released under an Apache License.

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Usage examples of "perfect".

The perfect expression of thought requires the physical accompaniments of language, gesture, etc.

She also had a contralto voice of much feeling and sympathy and came to me for vocal lessons in 1896 and was my accompanist in the studio for a year, when she decided to visit England and perfect herself on the organ.

Omar expresses in their tongue the perfect accomplishment of wickedness and impiety.

Ben Glisan, the accounting superstar who was a Fastow favorite, hit on the perfect idea-Chewco.

In other words, Aristotle understood very well and very accurately the Perfect One as the Good, but not at all the manifestation of that One as Goodness or creative Plenitude.

For the first half hour after leaving the Rocking B, Roland and Jake rode east toward the smallholds in silence, their horses ambling side by side in perfect good fellowship.

Nothing at first can appear more difficult to believe than that the more complex organs and instincts should have been perfected, not by means superior to, though analogous with, human reason, but by the accumulation of innumerable slight variations, each good for the individual possessor.

Arecibo dish would be a perfect antenna to capture Soviet signals as they drifted into space, bounced off the moon, and were reflected back to earth.

But as the account between the monarch and the subject was perpetually open, and as the renewal of the demand anticipated the perfect discharge of the preceding obligation, the weighty machine of the finances was moved by the same hands round the circle of its yearly revolution.

He told the crew there was a lake of oil under there a mile wide, a mile deep and five miles long and that it was on a perfect anticline and would flow for years with never a chance for anybody to suck it out from under them.

We will relate the leading circumstances of the case, as they were told us with perfect simplicity and frankness by the subject of an affection which, if classified, would come under the general head of Antipathy, but to which, if we give it a name, we shall have to apply the term Gynophobia, or Fear of Woman.

And so the days came and went, and the girl Antonomasia reached the age of fourteen, with a beauty so perfect that nature could do nothing to improve it.

Yoshida was apotheosized soon afterward as one of the heroes of modern Japan, a perfect symbol of purity of purpose and tragic sacrifice.

Consequently, it behooved all things appertaining to glory, whether they regard the soul, as the perfect fruition of God, or whether they regard the body, as the glorious resurrection, to be first in Christ as the author of glory: but that grace should be first in those that were ordained unto Christ.

We, however, must be careful to bring the appropriately convincing principles to the discussion of the Unity, of perfect Being: we must hold to the Intellectual principles which alone apply to the Intellectual Order and to Real Being.