Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lasting or remaining without essential change: "the universal human yearning for something permanent, enduring, without shadow of change” ( Willa Cather).
- adj. Not expected to change in status, condition, or place: a permanent address; permanent secretary to the president.
- n. Any of several long-lasting hair styles usually achieved by chemical applications which straighten, curl, or wave the hair.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Lasting or intended to last indefinitely; fixed or enduring in character, condition, state, position, occupation, use, or the like; remaining or intended to remain unchanged or unremoved; not temporary or subject to change; abiding: as, a permanent building; permanent colors; permanent employment; permanent possession.
- In zoology, always present in a species or group.
- n. In the plural, a general name for light cotton cloth, sometimes glazed and generally dyed in bright colors.
Wiktionary
- adj. Without end, eternal.
- adj. Lasting for an indefinitely long time.
- n. A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.
- n. linear algebra, combinatorics Given an matrix , the sum over all permutations of .
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place
- adj. not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition
- n. a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals
Etymologies
- Used in English since 15th century, from Middle French permanent, from Latin permanens, from permanēo ("I stay to the end"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin permanēns, permanent-, present participle of permanēre, to endure : per-, throughout; see per- + manēre, to remain; see men-3 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The _true stories_ of the pioneer wives and mothers are often as interesting as any work of fiction, and need no embellishment from the imagination of a writer, because they are crowded with incidents and situations as thrilling as those which form the staple out of which novels are fabricated; love and adventure, hair-breadth escapes, heart-rending tragedies on the frontier, are thus woven into a narrative of absorbing and permanent interest, _permanent_ because it is part of the history and biography of America.”
“The phrase 'permanent record' seems to be taking on a whole new meaning nowadays.”
The Huffington Post: Susannah Meyer: Privacy Rights in the Digital Age
“He quickly became "interim" CEO, making the title permanent a few years later in 2000.”
The Huffington Post: William Bradley: Steve Jobs: Hardly a Perfect Person, Perhaps a Perfect Icon
“The wording of any ETA statement will be scrutinized for commitments to disarm since the group has used the term "permanent" ceasefire in the past, then returned to violence.”
“3. The term "permanent CEO" is almost an oxymoron at Hewlett Packard, a company whose board has fired three CEOs in six years.”
“ETA Monday declared what it calls a permanent cease-fire that it says can be internationally verified.”
“There have been suggestions that the misunderstanding was born of the manager misconstruing the meaning of the word "permanent".”
“He stressed that the key to winning was what he called a "permanent pedagogy" to convince people that the war on the cartels is "a necessary fight, not a partisan cause.”
“The marketing obsession with instant gratification and self-glorification has led to a culture of what I call permanent adolescence.”
“Iran's telecommunications agency announced what it described as a permanent suspension of Google's e-mail services, saying instead that a national e-mail service for Iranian citizens would soon be rolled out," the Journal reports.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘permanent’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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SCIE - mathematics
The most frequent words in the titles of mathematical books and journals (www.sciencedirect.com)
surface, administration, project, motion, machine, medical, vision, solid, shape, scheme, income, proceed and 205 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Vocab.5
adequate, administer, agitate, capitulate, citrus, disrupt, hovel, illiterate, indifferent, menial, permanent, respite and 3 more...
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Vocab5
adequate, administer, agitate, capitulate, citrus, disrupt, hovel, illiterate, indifferent, menial, permanent, respite and 3 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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-ent
salient, sentient, sentiment, prominent, eminent, apparent, fervent, placement, predicament, malevolent, maleficent, beneficent and 89 more...
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hairstyles
bun, bobtail, ponytail, cornrow, odango*, updo, bouffant, plait, braid, bunches, buzzcut, combover and 331 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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