(a.) 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.
(a.) Well informed; certain; sure.
(a.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.
(n.) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
(a.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his interview, Smith accepts that the EA's response to the flooding has not been perfect.
(2) Selective catheterisation enabled opacification under pressure in more than 80 p. cent of cases, with perfect visualisation of the entire tubes and significant peritoneal passage.
(3) In fact the deep femoral artery represents an exceptional and privileged route for anastomosis that is capable of replacing almost perfectly an obstructed superficial femoral artery and also in a more limited way femoro-popliteal arteries with extensive obstructions.
(4) In 9 other patients studied 2-7 years after transplantation the mean level of parathormone was lower than in the previous group but levels above normal were noted in half of the patients, some of which had perfect renal function and normal serum phosphorus.
(5) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(6) as well as nauseatingly hipster titbits – "They came up with the perfect theme (and coined a new term!
(7) Also bear in mind that this request is just that, you are asking the club to place you on the transfer list, which they are perfectly entitled to reject.
(8) Diana of the sapphire eyes was rated more perfect than Botticelli's Venus and attracted Bryan Guinness, heir to the brewing fortune, as soon as she was out in society.
(9) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
(10) However, a region containing pixels that are perfectly synchronous on average would still yield a finite distribution of calculated Fourier coefficients due to the propagation of stochastic pixel noise into the calculated values.
(11) I’m perfectly aware of the import of your question, and what we have done, very firmly for all sorts of good reasons, since September 2013, is not comment on operational matters because every time we comment on operational matters we give information to our enemies,” he said.
(12) The arrest warrant, which came into effect in 2004, was not perfect, but it was immediately useful, leading to the swift extradition of one of London’s would-be bombers in July 2005, Hussain Osman, from Italy, where he had fled.
(13) • Democratic senators were angry at what they saw as a House attempt to "torpedo" – Harry Reid's word – what they saw as a perfectly viable, bipartisan Senate agreement.
(14) Michael Grade told ITV staff today that it was the "perfect time" to hand over to a new chief executive, who would inherit a "revitalised" broadcaster.
(15) But I have heard from other people who have lost spouses in this way, and fathers and mothers, and anger is perfectly appropriate.
(16) In most cases the fingerprints of duplicates of the same cell line remained perfectly preserved even after long-time passaging.
(17) Incorporation of prosthodontics are expected to depend not only on technical perfection.
(18) That idea may seem irrelevant to those of us who live a broadband lifestyle, but Justin Smith – who tracks the company's movements on the Inside Facebook blog – says that it makes perfect sense.
(19) These late paintings were deemed too perfect, not "badly done" enough, perhaps, and unchallenging: there was in them a marked absence of painterly lavishness.
(20) Fifty percent of the amino acids are perfectly conserved in all these proteins as well as in two homologous sequences from the distantly related wolffish.
Proper
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to one; one's own; individual.
(a.) Belonging to the natural or essential constitution; peculiar; not common; particular; as, every animal has his proper instincts and appetites.
(a.) Befitting one's nature, qualities, etc.; suitable in all respect; appropriate; right; fit; decent; as, water is the proper element for fish; a proper dress.
(a.) Becoming in appearance; well formed; handsome.
(a.) Pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the whole; not appellative; -- opposed to common; as, a proper name; Dublin is the proper name of a city.
(a.) Rightly so called; strictly considered; as, Greece proper; the garden proper.
(a.) Represented in its natural color; -- said of any object used as a charge.
(adv.) Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(2) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
(3) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(4) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
(5) Photoreactions induced in that proper sensitizer molecules absorb UV-light or visible light.
(6) The importance of proper disinfection of such equipment cannot be overemphasized.
(7) A good understanding of upper gastrointestinal physiology is required to properly understand the pathophysiological events in various diseases or after operations on the upper gastrointestinal tract.
(8) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
(9) Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.
(10) Proper function of proteinases such as PA may require focusing of activity on a cellular level.
(11) Total excisional biopsy is necessary to properly assess an adenoma microscopically.
(12) With attention to proper performance and patient selection, spinal and epidural anaesthesia are safe and efficacious options when choosing anaesthetic technique.
(13) For some proteins, properly folded protein may be obtained by secretion from E. coli; however, secretion does not ensure correct folding and protection from proteolytic degradation.
(14) These signals can be used as indicators of the proper binding of cAMP because they are not observed on the addition of cGMP or 2'-deoxy-cAMP.
(15) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
(16) Proper education of both managment and labor can result in successful hearing conservation programs.
(17) Proper treatment of postoperative atelectasis requires adequate patient assessment and knowledge of the therapeutic options.
(18) Proper spinal fluid examination, anticonvulsant drug administration, management of increased intracranial pressure, and correct choice of antibiotics are essential to achieve optimal therapy.
(19) So PC.1 is properly classified as a differentiation alloantigen.
(20) He sends a low ball into the middle, in the general direction of Fabregas, but the former Arsenal captain can't get ahead of Lahm, who is making a proper nuisance of himself.