--- title: P — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 19 description: The 1498 words of the English dictionary under P, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / P # P — The English dictionary · page 19 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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*Everyday, meaning 1:* A pram: a small carriage on wheels in which a baby is pushed along by a nurse.[↗](../../perambulator/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse looks away.[↗](../../perambulator/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **perceive** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To notice or become aware of something through the senses: perceive a sound.[↗](../../perceive/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To understand or think of something in a certain way.[↗](../../perceive/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* She was perceived as shy.[↗](../../perceive/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Some animals can perceive sounds we cannot hear.[↗](../../perceive/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Bats perceive objects by echoes.[↗](../../perceive/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He perceived a change in her voice.[↗](../../perceive/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The plan was perceived as unfair.[↗](../../perceive/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Colour is perceived by cells in the eye.[↗](../../perceive/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · How do others perceive our school?[↗](../../perceive/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The Ant, perceiving his design, stung him in the foot.[↗](../../perceive/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Moreover, he failed to perceive that according to the Sefer Yetzirali, there are ten double letters and not only seven.[↗](../../perceive/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../perceive/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The first to perceive that max means vowels was Dunash Ibn 'J'amim \*'), who explained that by the three mother letters tPOS the Sefer Yczirah meant the three vowel letters "x.[↗](../../perceive/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../perceive/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · He passeth on also, but I perceive Him not.[↗](../../perceive/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.9.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perceive/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Behold, I go forward, but He is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive Him; (Writings JOB.23.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perceive/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Go from the presence of a foolish man, for thou wilt not perceive the lips of knowledge.[↗](../../perceive/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.14.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perceive/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **perceived** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Noticed or became aware of something, by seeing, hearing or understanding.[↗](../../perceived/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (formal) Understood or thought of someone or something in a certain way: «He was perceived as shy.».[↗](../../perceived/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (adjective) Believed to be so, though perhaps not really: a perceived danger.[↗](../../perceived/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She perceived a faint smell of smoke.[↗](../../perceived/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He was perceived as the cleverest boy in class.[↗](../../perceived/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The owl perceived the mouse in the dark.[↗](../../perceived/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The perceived danger was bigger than the real one.[↗](../../perceived/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · How the colour is perceived depends on the light.[↗](../../perceived/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Subsequently, the scientist perceived a pattern in the results.[↗](../../perceived/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · After a while he perceived both giants.[↗](../../perceived/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the horn, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off.[↗](../../perceived/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.20.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perceived/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And after that our father Abraham had perceived.[↗](../../perceived/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../perceived/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The Ten ineffable Sephiroth have the appearance of the Lightning flash", their origin is unseen and no end is perceived.[↗](../../perceived/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../perceived/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And I also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.[↗](../../perceived/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings ECC.2.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perceived/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.[↗](../../perceived/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.14.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perceived/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, for his kingdom was exalted exceedingly, for His people Israel's sake.[↗](../../perceived/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 1CH.14.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perceived/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **percent** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Out of every hundred; a part of 100.[↗](../../percent/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") The sign is %.[↗](../../percent/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") «50 percent» means 50 out of 100, which is a half.[↗](../../percent/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Fifty percent of 20 is 10.[↗](../../percent/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The shop has 30 percent off all toys.[↗](../../percent/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My tablet battery is at 15 percent.[↗](../../percent/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · There's a 70 percent chance of rain tomorrow.[↗](../../percent/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She got 90 percent on the spelling test.[↗](../../percent/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · I'm a hundred percent sure\![↗](../../percent/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Ten percent of the class walk to school.[↗](../../percent/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **percentage** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (maths) A percentage is a number written as a part of 100, using the sign %, as 25% means 25 out of every 100.[↗](../../percentage/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A percentage is a part or share of something, as in «a large percentage of the class».[↗](../../percentage/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (informal) There's no percentage in it means there's no benefit.[↗](../../percentage/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Fifty percent is the same as a half.[↗](../../percentage/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · What percentage of the class has a pet?[↗](../../percentage/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The percentage of water in the human body is about 60%.[↗](../../percentage/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A 20% discount on £10 saves £2.[↗](../../percentage/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A small percentage of pupils walk to school.[↗](../../percentage/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We turned our test scores into percentages.[↗](../../percentage/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The battery is at a low percentage, so charge it.[↗](../../percentage/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **perceptible** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Able to be seen, heard, felt or noticed, even if only just.[↗](../../perceptible/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* There was a barely perceptible smile on her face.[↗](../../perceptible/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The change in temperature was hardly perceptible.[↗](../../perceptible/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The sound was too quiet to be perceptible to humans, but the dog heard it.[↗](../../perceptible/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · There has been a perceptible improvement in your handwriting.[↗](../../perceptible/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The earthquake was perceptible as a faint shake.[↗](../../perceptible/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Without a microscope, the cells were not perceptible.[↗](../../perceptible/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · "No, no," answered his comrades, snuffing the air, in which the scent from the palace kitchen was now very perceptible.[↗](../../perceptible/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **perceptibly** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* In a way that can be noticed or seen, even if only a little.[↗](../../perceptibly/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "It grew perceptibly colder."[↗](../../perceptibly/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* It grew perceptibly darker as the clouds came.[↗](../../perceptibly/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Her voice shook perceptibly.[↗](../../perceptibly/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The plant had grown perceptibly in one week.[↗](../../perceptibly/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He relaxed perceptibly when the test was over.[↗](../../perceptibly/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The water level rose perceptibly during the storm.[↗](../../perceptibly/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The train slowed perceptibly before the station.[↗](../../perceptibly/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **perception** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Noticing and understanding things with your senses — seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling.[↗](../../perception/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The way a person thinks about or understands something; their view or impression.[↗](../../perception/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Being good at noticing things that others miss: «a girl of great perception».[↗](../../perception/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Owls have amazing depth perception at night.[↗](../../perception/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Optical illusions fool our perception.[↗](../../perception/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Her perception of the new teacher changed after a week.[↗](../../perception/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The detective's sharp perception solved the case.[↗](../../perception/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Our perception of time speeds up when we are having fun.[↗](../../perception/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Smell is an important part of our perception of taste.[↗](../../perception/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · People's perception of the beach was that it was dirty.[↗](../../perception/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The test checks your perception of colours.[↗](../../perception/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · I have a clear perception of everything as if I were wide awake.[↗](../../perception/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Understand this wisdom, and be wise in the perception.[↗](../../perception/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../perception/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · These Seven Double Letters He designed, produced, and combined, and formed with them the Planets (stars) of this Universe, the Days of the Week, and the Gates of the soul (the orifices of perception) in Man.[↗](../../perception/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../perception/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · These Seven Double Letters He designed, pro- duced, and combined, and formed with them the Planets (stars) of this Universe, the Days of the Week, and the Gates of the soul (the orifices of perception) in Man.[↗](../../perception/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../perception/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **perch** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A perch is a branch, bar or stick where a bird sits.[↗](../../perch/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To perch means to sit on something high or narrow, the way a bird does.[↗](../../perch/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To perch something is to put it in a high or wobbly place.[↗](../../perch/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A perch is also a freshwater fish with spiny fins that people catch and eat.[↗](../../perch/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The parrot hopped onto its wooden perch.[↗](../../perch/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A robin perched on the garden fence.[↗](../../perch/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · I perched on the edge of the bed, waiting for news.[↗](../../perch/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · His glasses were perched on the end of his nose.[↗](../../perch/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The castle was perched on top of a steep hill.[↗](../../perch/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad caught three perch at the lake.[↗](../../perch/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Owls watch for mice from a high perch.[↗](../../perch/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The raven perched upon a tree very joyfully.[↗](../../perch/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **perchance** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Perhaps; possibly, by chance.[↗](../../perchance/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Well, my lord King, were you frightened, perchance?[↗](../../perchance/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Was he thinking, perchance, of his fair young wife?[↗](../../perchance/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · I also will walk contrary unto them, and bring them into the land of their enemies; if then perchance their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then be paid the punishment of their iniquity; (Torah LEV.26.41, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perchance/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Then said David to Jonathan: 'Who shall tell me if perchance thy father answer thee roughly?'[↗](../../perchance/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1SA.20.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perchance/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The image perchance, which the craftsman hath melted, and the goldsmith spread over with gold, the silversmith casting silver chains?[↗](../../perchance/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.40.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perchance/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **percussion** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Percussion means musical instruments that you play by hitting, shaking or scraping them, such as drums, tambourines, triangles, cymbals and xylophones.[↗](../../percussion/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The percussion is the part of an orchestra or band that plays these instruments.[↗](../../percussion/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Percussion means the hitting of one thing against another, a sharp knock (formal).[↗](../../percussion/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The drum is a percussion instrument.[↗](../../percussion/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · In music we played percussion with shakers and drums.[↗](../../percussion/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The percussion section sits at the back of the orchestra.[↗](../../percussion/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A xylophone is tuned percussion, because it plays notes.[↗](../../percussion/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Clap and stamp for body percussion.[↗](../../percussion/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My brother has percussion lessons on Saturdays.[↗](../../percussion/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **perdition** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (church, old) Perdition is everlasting punishment after death, often meaning hell, in old Christian language.[↗](../../perdition/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (old, formal) Complete ruin or disaster.[↗](../../perdition/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The preacher warned against the road to perdition.[↗](../../perdition/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · In the old story, the pirate feared eternal perdition.[↗](../../perdition/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Old hymns sometimes speak of perdition.[↗](../../perdition/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Gambling led him to perdition.[↗](../../perdition/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Christians believe Jesus came to save people from perdition.[↗](../../perdition/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The book calls greed the path to perdition.[↗](../../perdition/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **peregrine** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A peregrine, or peregrine falcon, is a bird of prey that dives at amazing speed to catch other birds in the air.[↗](../../peregrine/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (formal, old) Peregrine means travelling or wandering from place to place.[↗](../../peregrine/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Peregrine is also a boy's name (a name).[↗](../../peregrine/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A peregrine falcon nests on top of the city cathedral.[↗](../../peregrine/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The peregrine dived out of the sky and caught a pigeon.[↗](../../peregrine/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Peregrines are the fastest animals on Earth when they dive.[↗](../../peregrine/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We watched the peregrine chicks on a webcam.[↗](../../peregrine/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The word «peregrine» comes from Latin for «a traveller from abroad».[↗](../../peregrine/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Peregrines nearly died out, but now they are back in many cities.[↗](../../peregrine/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A female peregrine is bigger than the male.[↗](../../peregrine/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **peremptory** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* Strict and not allowing any argument or delay.[↗](../../peremptory/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* he answered and said to Arioch the king's captain: 'Wherefore is the decree so peremptory from the king?'[↗](../../peremptory/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.[↗](../../peremptory/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings DAN.2.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../peremptory/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Therefore because the king's commandment was peremptory, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.[↗](../../peremptory/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings DAN.3.22, JPS 1917)[↗](../../peremptory/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") **perfect** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Perfect means with no mistakes or faults at all.[↗](../../perfect/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Perfect means exactly right for something, like the perfect present.[↗](../../perfect/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Perfect can mean complete, as in a perfect stranger (someone you don't know at all).[↗](../../perfect/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To perfect something is to make it as good as it can be, often by practising.[↗](../../perfect/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* In grammar, the perfect tense uses have or has, like "I have finished".[↗](../../perfect/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She got a perfect score on her spelling test.[↗](../../perfect/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · It's a perfect day for the beach.[↗](../../perfect/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Nobody's perfect — we all make mistakes.[↗](../../perfect/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · That hat is a perfect fit.[↗](../../perfect/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · 16 is a perfect square because 4 × 4 = 16.[↗](../../perfect/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He practised every day to perfect his dive.[↗](../../perfect/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Practice makes perfect.[↗](../../perfect/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Here she found everything in perfect order.[↗](../../perfect/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice; a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is He.[↗](../../perfect/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.32.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perfect/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.[↗](../../perfect/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.25.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perfect/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · The system of points in writing Hebrew was not perfected until the seventh century, and even then was not in constant use.[↗](../../perfect/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../perfect/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · So the house of the LORD was perfected.[↗](../../perfect/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 2CH.8.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perfect/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold; (Writings 2CH.4.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perfect/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · The mind stayed on Thee Thou keepest in perfect peace; because it trusteth in Thee.[↗](../../perfect/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.26.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perfect/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **perfection** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The state of being perfect, with no faults at all.[↗](../../perfection/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Something or someone that is perfect, an ideal example.[↗](../../perfection/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "The cake was perfection."[↗](../../perfection/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* The act of making something perfect.[↗](../../perfection/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "the perfection of a skill".[↗](../../perfection/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The chips were cooked to perfection.[↗](../../perfection/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Nobody can reach perfection, so do your best.[↗](../../perfection/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The gymnast's routine was close to perfection.[↗](../../perfection/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Practice helps, but perfection is not the goal.[↗](../../perfection/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · "This lemonade is perfection!" said Mum.[↗](../../perfection/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He spent years on the perfection of his magic trick.[↗](../../perfection/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Rudy and Babette felt that they had never seen the Alpine glow in such perfection before.[↗](../../perfection/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The Twenty-eighth Path is the Natural Intelligence, and is so called because through it is consummated and perfected the nature of every existent being under the orb of the Sun, in perfection.[↗](../../perfection/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../perfection/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The Twenty-seventh Path is the Exciting Intelli- gence, and it is so called because through it is consum- mated and perfected the nature of every existent being under the orb of the Sun, in perfection.[↗](../../perfection/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../perfection/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The Thirtieth Path is the Collecting Intelligence, and is so-called because Astrologers deduce from it the judgment of the Stars, and of the celestial signs, and the perfections of their science, according to the rules of their resolutions.[↗](../../perfection/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../perfection/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.[↗](../../perfection/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.50.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perfection/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem: 'Is this the city that men called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?'[↗](../../perfection/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings LAM.2.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perfection/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **perfectly** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Perfectly means in a perfect way, without any mistakes.[↗](../../perfectly/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Perfectly means completely or very: «perfectly safe», «perfectly fine».[↗](../../perfectly/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She sang the song perfectly.[↗](../../perfectly/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The jigsaw pieces fit perfectly.[↗](../../perfectly/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Stand perfectly still.[↗](../../perfectly/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The ice is perfectly safe to skate on — the guard checked.[↗](../../perfectly/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · You know perfectly well what you did.[↗](../../perfectly/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · I'm perfectly fine, thanks.[↗](../../perfectly/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The cake turned out perfectly.[↗](../../perfectly/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · But the Weasel was perfectly content.[↗](../../perfectly/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The anger of the LORD shall not return, until He have executed, and till He have performed the purposes of His heart; in the end of days ye shall consider it perfectly.[↗](../../perfectly/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.23.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perfectly/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/) … [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/18/) **19** [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/20/) … [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/77/) - ← previous: [page 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/18/) - next →: [page 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/20/) - ↑ back to [The English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/)