perfect : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future
  future perfect.
  
  • `I will have finished' is an example of the future perfect

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• noun a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future
  future perfect.
  
  • `I will have finished' is an example of the future perfect

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• adjective satellite correct to the last detail; especially being in or following the exact words
  letter-perfect.
  
  • a letter-perfect rendition of the soliloquy
  • she was word-perfect in her part

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• noun a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
  past perfect; pluperfect tense; pluperfect.
  
  • `I had finished' is an example of the past perfect

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• noun a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
  past perfect; pluperfect tense; pluperfect.
  
  • `I had finished' is an example of the past perfect

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• (Mus.), a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant.

Webster 1913

• (Mus.), a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave, fifth, and fourth; a perfect consonance; a common chord in its original position of keynote, third, fifth, and octave.

Webster 1913

• noun a game in which a pitcher does not allow any opposing player to reach base
  

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• noun a hypothetical gas with molecules of negligible size that exert no intermolecular forces
  ideal gas.
  

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• (Arith.), a number equal to the sum of all its divisors; as, 28, whose aliquot parts, or divisors, are 14, 7, 4, 2, 1. See Abundant number, under Abundant. Brande & C.

Webster 1913

• noun a participle that expresses completed action
  past participle.
  

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• noun the ability to identify the pitch of a tone
  absolute pitch.
  

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• noun a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
  perfect; perfective; perfective tense.
  

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• (Gram.), a tense which expresses an act or state completed. = perfective

Webster 1913

• (Print.), a press in which the printing on both sides of the paper is completed in one passage through the machine.

Webster 1913

• noun a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present
  present perfect.
  
  • `I have finished' is an example of the present perfect

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• noun a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present
  present perfect.
  
  • `I have finished' is an example of the present perfect

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• adjective satellite correct to the last detail; especially being in or following the exact words
  letter-perfect.
  
  • a letter-perfect rendition of the soliloquy
  • she was word-perfect in her part

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