(a.) Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient.
(a.) Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
(a.) 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.
(n.) The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the imperfect tense.
(v. t.) To make imperfect.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spin-spin relaxation time T2 may be estimated using multiecho pulse sequences, but the accuracy of the estimate is dependent on the fidelity of the spin-echo amplitudes, which may be severely compromised by rf pulse and static field imperfections.
(2) Politicians must make decisions every day with imperfect knowledge, knowing that many of those choices may turn out to be ineffective.
(3) The quality of reduction is often imperfect and the techniques of surgical repair are very difficult and time consuming.
(4) An important source of failure in markets and justification for government intervention in the health sector of LDCs is imperfect information.
(5) It is suggested that absence or imperfect function of this reductase enzyme is the primary lesion in this disease.
(6) Dual aspects, crystallite size and lattice imperfection related to the crystallinity were analyzed by the process of Variance and Fourier analysis based on the X-ray diffraction line profiles.
(7) The membranous portion of the interventricular septum was thickened, and the aortic valve was thickened and had imperfect coaptation.
(8) Results reveal that while dental markets are imperfectly competitive, it is unclear whether prices exceed competitive levels.
(9) What we are witnessing is the collision of two imperfect storms: the Conservative party’s turmoil over the future of taxation, and the transformation of the economy.
(10) The mechanisms underlying the initial interaction between killer cell and target and the subsequent lytic event are imperfectly understood.
(11) It is shown that imperfect correlations between proficiency and preference measures, and J-shaped distributions of preference, can be predicted by such a model.
(12) We conclude that the liver may be viewed as an imperfectly mixed compartment with regard to the availability of the metabolite which is generated from a precursor.
(13) The theory of imperfect recanalization, the theory of vascular insufficiency, and studies which have been performed to validate each of these theories were reviewed.
(14) The results of this investigation indicate that the posttransplanted deterioration of metabolic levels were possibly caused by the imperfect oxygenation due to cellular edema after blood reflow.
(15) It would be easy to efficiently cut him down with the word “rapist”, particularly when I will not face any reprimands for my own imperfect behaviour during the relationship.
(16) "We had been doing exactly as any responsible, professional journalist would – recording and trying to make sense of the unfolding events with all the accuracy, fairness and balance that our imperfect trade demands."
(17) To stand virtuously in the grandstand looking down upon a world whose best efforts in inevitably imperfect times can never match your own exalted standards is a definition of irrelevance, not virtue.
(18) Les Misérables is a game with destiny: it dramatises the gap between the imperfections of human judgments, and the perfect patterns of the infinite.
(19) Association of radiological changes with imperfection of lungs' ventilating reserve of restrictive type was found in one man who was removed from the work in exposure to beryllium, as a person with an increased risk of falling ill.
(20) Reviewing it for the Guardian , Gillian Slovo described it as "a pained examination of the difficulties posed by a freedom that was won by imperfect human beings."
Lame
Definition:
(superl.) Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.
(superl.) To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man.
(1) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
(2) Five horses raced successfully and lowered the lifetime race records, 1 horse was sound and trained successfully, but died of colic, and 1 horse was not lame in early training.
(3) The highest cost for veterinary services related to episodes of disease were for dystocia, lameness, and ocular carcinoma.
(4) The LDET biopsies resulted in little discomfort whereas the SFT biopsies led to temporary lameness.
(5) Three dogs admitted for evaluation of lameness were determined to be infected with a neutrophilic strain of Ehrlichia.
(6) The main symptom "incoordination" (ataxia, asynergy, paresis, paralysis) is used by us more precisely only in case of impairment of nervous system by neoplastic infiltrations and does not signify as possible symptoms of general physical weakness, for example faltering, staggering, tumbling or lameness.
(7) Historically, both horses had intermittent lameness that had responded to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and brief rest periods.
(8) Analgesic potency of aspirin was decreased to the level of sodium salicylate by injection of prostaglandin E2 into the inflamed rat paw in the adjuvant-induced lameness test.
(9) Specific clinical signs of disease such as nervous disorders and lameness were also observed.
(10) Children were examined for lameness in the Danfa Project district of rural Ghana to assess the impact of endemic poliomyelitis and to test a widely held hypothesis that paralytic poliomyelitis is relatively rare in such districts (less than 1 per 1000 children affected).
(11) Seven horses, 2 to 4 years of age, were examined because of moderate-to-severe forelimb lameness, mild effusion of the middle carpal joint (3 horses), and pain on palpation of the origin of the suspensory ligament (4 horses).
(12) Fourteen dogs were using the treated limb within 1 day and eight dogs within 2 days, although some lameness may have persisted for several weeks.
(13) Six of the orally infected P. maniculatus developed clinical signs including ruffled hair coat, inappetence, reluctance to move, and lameness in the rear legs.
(14) In two cases, the detachment occurred unilaterally; one was a gilt showing severe lameness which precluded mating and the other was a uniparous sow which showed only slight lameness.
(15) Disseminated aspergillosis attributable to Aspergillus deflectus was diagnosed in a Springer Spaniel with lethargy, lameness, anorexia, weight loss, pyrexia, lymphadenopathy, hematuria, and urinary incontinence.
(16) Congenital malformation of the carpal joint in a young dog resulted in a progressive lameness.
(17) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
(18) Normal and osteochondrotic humeri and femurs were obtained from five normal and ten lame adolescent boars to study cartilage proteoglycans.
(19) Among his many recommendations, Laming called for improvements in the exchange of information between the various authorities.
(20) A female juvenile rhesus monkey experienced a 3-wk period of vague lameness and limb disuse, followed by a severe attack of acute polyarthritis resulting in marked radiographic changes.