What's the difference between per and perv?

Per


Definition:

  • (prep.) Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for each; as, per annum; per capita, by heads, or according to individuals; per curiam, by the court; per se, by itself, of itself. Per is also sometimes used with English words.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
  • (2) The proportion of teeth per child with calculus was approximately 8 percent for supragingival and 4 percent for subgingival calculus.
  • (3) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
  • (4) Increased dietary protein intake led to increased MDA per nephron, increased urinary excretion of MDA, and increased MDA per milligram protein in subtotally nephrectomized animals, and markedly increased the glutathione redox ratio.
  • (5) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
  • (6) The results demonstrated that K2PtCl4 was bound to a greater degree than CDDP in this system with 3-5 and 1-2 platinum atoms respectively, bound per transferrin molecule.
  • (7) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
  • (8) The data suggest that major differences may exist between ruminants and non-ruminants in the response of liver metabolism both to lactation per se and to the effects of growth hormone and insulin.
  • (9) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
  • (10) Eighty-two per cent of patients with falciparum malaria had recently returned from Africa whereas 82% with vivax malaria had visited Asia.
  • (11) Binding data for both ligands to the enzyme yielded nonlinear Scatchard plots that analyze in terms of four negatively cooperative binding sites per enzyme tetramer.
  • (12) In more than 70 per cent of these, brain injury is the decisive lethal factor.
  • (13) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
  • (14) High-grade and low-grade candidemia were defined as 25 colony-forming units or more per 10 ml and 10 colony-forming units or fewer per 10 ml of blood, respectively.
  • (15) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
  • (16) Average fluoroscopy time per procedure was 27.8 minutes of which 15.1 minutes were for nephrostomy tube insertion and 12.7 minutes were for calculi extraction.
  • (17) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
  • (18) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
  • (19) Freshly isolated sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles contain 0.05 mol of tightly bound ADP and 0.03 mol of tightly bound ATP per mol of Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3).
  • (20) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.

Perv


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Acquaintance with a teenaged girl of roughly qualifying age is not essential, but probably helpful, when it comes to appreciating the degree to which Uncle Rupert's views on women, as still reflected in Page 3 , have not progressed since his executives started perving over snaps of their favourite teens.
  • (2) More from Behind the joke • James Acaster: 'Normal people perv solo' • Phil Wang: impossibly wise or offensively stupid • Holly Walsh: 'I build my comedy block-by-block like Lego'
  • (3) More people are doing it: violinist Mia Matsumiya, for example, has recently launched her Perv Magnet tumblr, which shows some of the thousands of suggestive and abusive messages she has received online over the last decade.
  • (4) More from Behind the joke • Sarah Kendall: the worst heckle I ever received – and what I did with it • James Acaster: 'Normal people perv solo' • Phil Wang: impossibly wise or offensively stupid
  • (5) You'll fill up everyone's Facebook with maps and distances and stats, when all they want is to be racist and perv over people they went to school with.
  • (6) Last year, the Republican nominee said Weiner was a “perv” and a security risk due to his proximity to Clinton, through Abedin.
  • (7) Theirs, though, was not the sort of solidarity paraded by the "perv-hunters".
  • (8) That has changed Then there’s Prince (“The Purple Perv”) who admires Patterson’s shoes.
  • (9) It's the grubbiness of it, the apparent acceptability of the leer, that makes Page 3 so outdated, embodying as it does the "just a cheeky bit of perving" flippancy of 1970s seaside postcard.

Words possibly related to "per"

Words possibly related to "perv"