What's the difference between deep and perfectionist?

Deep


Definition:

  • (superl.) Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea.
  • (superl.) Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep.
  • (superl.) Low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as, a deep valley.
  • (superl.) Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot.
  • (superl.) Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.
  • (superl.) Profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy; heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep horror.
  • (superl.) Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson.
  • (superl.) Of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy.
  • (superl.) Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads.
  • (adv.) To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply.
  • (n.) That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth.
  • (n.) That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Four showed bronchodilation after a deep breath, indicating that this response can occur after extrinsic pulmonary denervation in man.
  • (2) The deep cerebellar nuclei were moderately labeled at birth and gradually decreased in density thereafter.
  • (3) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
  • (4) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
  • (5) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
  • (6) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
  • (7) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
  • (8) It is concluded that the transcutaneous ultrasound technique provides a reliable, rapidly available, non-invasive method to confirm the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis.
  • (9) After permeabilization, with attendant partial extraction, the preparation can be fixed, then viewed by either deep-etch replication, or by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy, with structure of interest revealed in deep view.
  • (10) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.
  • (11) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
  • (12) The periodic pattern was assumed as subclinical focal seizure discharges from the right anterior temporal deep structures.
  • (13) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
  • (14) "She was a beautiful woman, she had beautiful, deep green eyes.
  • (15) On taking office Lansley admitted this was not a deep enough cut.
  • (16) Since he was created, he has appeared at several robotic fairs across China, but spends most of his time in deep meditation on an office shelf in Longquan.
  • (17) However, the typically deep invasion of the former tumors and their histologic features indicate that they are highly aggressive neoplasms.
  • (18) This was followed firstly by superficial and then by deep ulceration of the mucosa.
  • (19) In deep forms of acne, particularly acne conglobata, Akne-Mycyna may be a valuable supplementation of systemic treatment.
  • (20) The soleus, deep portions of the vastus lateralis, and superficial portions of the vastus lateralis muscles were examined to represent slow-twitch-oxidative, fast-twitch-oxidative-glycolytic, and fast-twitch-glycolytic skeletal muscle fiber types, respectively.

Perfectionist


Definition:

  • (n.) One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Even so, the perfectionist in Mourinho will have pinpointed the areas that still need work before Arsenal’s arrival at Stamford Bridge.
  • (2) Murray’s first double fault at deuce brought an angry response - and a pair of aces to hold for 2-1 - from one of the game’s most demanding perfectionists.
  • (3) The American author Jonathan Franzen might justly be called a perfectionist: his latest opus, Freedom, took nine years of painstaking effort to complete inside a spartan writing studio – and is now being widely acclaimed as a modern masterpiece.
  • (4) Then later on, when you could see that this film almost bankrupted Titanus Films, who were the producers, it was costing so much money, and he was a perfectionist, and he wouldn't give up, and he used to stand with his hand behind his back.
  • (5) Equally, in every situation, Mason was the defender of Ophuls, a high-strung, stylistic perfectionist who was having a hard time in Hollywood.
  • (6) Lynch, a recruitment consultant, has had a rough ride with viewers for his matter-of-fact manner and sometimes apparently humourless approach: he has proved himself a perfectionist with a wide repertoire, but sometimes less-than-camera-friendly manner.
  • (7) It's very attractive and polished, it's giving this ideal, perfectionist view of the world as told by Abercrombie & Fitch."
  • (8) Meeting the demands of the show's perfectionist creator Matthew Weiner and its sharp-eyed fans can be tricky.
  • (9) Some widespread recurring clinical features of the various studies include; a premorbid history of perfectionistic traits, an apparently minor precipitating event; and pain involving the head, face and musculoskeletal system.
  • (10) I’m an emotional perfectionist – I just want things to feel as good as they possibly can for the people who are experiencing them.” He did have another vegan restaurant, in New York, called TeaNY , which he opened in 2002, with his then girlfriend.
  • (11) Lionel was a perfectionist; in the end, he had to clean up the original soundtrack and use that.
  • (12) Trump under fire: will 'perfectionist' fold at debate without polling lead?
  • (13) Typically, the perfectionist director was far from pleased with the movie.
  • (14) Nineteen studios and umpteen engineers could not satisfy guitarist Kevin Shields, who was either a perfectionist sociopath or on a lot of drugs (or both).
  • (15) The well-trained athlete, however, may also have a personality that is somewhat rigid, strongly goal oriented, and perfectionist.
  • (16) Depressed children are described as being anxious, tense, perfectionistic, and unassertive, displaying a low level of self-esteem.
  • (17) Put another way, he argued, in opposition to utilitarian, perfectionist and communitarian principles, that the first duty of the liberal state was to safeguard the individual's basic civil liberties, and that "the loss of freedom for some" can never be "made right by a greater good shared by others".
  • (18) With all the drugs, the psychological pressure and physical pain, the psyche-scouring, the perfectionist production values, the pints of gin and tonic, has Shields ever worried that he might lose his mind?
  • (19) Disturbed behavior at birth may also be related to many other affects which often, but not always, are secondary to anxiety or designed to defend against it: retentive, annoyed, perfectionistic, poor in contact, worried, inactive or confused behavior at birth.
  • (20) Riggall was clearly a fan, an auto-quoter; also a perfectionist, bothered, as we walked, that the writing on the side of a yellow school bus didn't look quite 1955 enough.

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