imperfect

imperfect englannista suomeksi

1. epätäydellinen, vajavainen

2. imperfekti

3. puutteellinen

1. vajavainen, epätäydellinen

1. Substantiivi

2. sekunda

3. imperfekti

3. Verbi

imperfect englanniksi

1. not perfect

(syn)

(ant)

2. (RQ:Shakespeare King Lear)

3. (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)

4. (RQ:Pope Essay on Man)

5. unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.

6. known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a taxon.

7. lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.

8. (RQ:Taylor Twenty-five Sermons)

9. belonging to a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous

10. something having a minor flaw

11. a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous

12. to make imperfect

13. 1651, (w), Letter to (w), in ''Letters to Severall Persons of Honour'', edited by Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr., New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1910,https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37387/37387.txt

I write to you from the ''Spring Garden'', whither I withdrew my self to think of this; and the intensenesse of my thinking ends in this, that by my help Gods work should be imperfected, if by any means I resisted the amasement.

14. 1716, (w), ''(w)'', 2nd edition edited by (w), London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 43,https://archive.org/details/christianmorals01browgoog

Time, which perfects some things, imperfects also others.

15. 1962, Alec Harman and (w), ''Man and His Music: The Story of Musical Experience in the West'', Oxford University Press, Part I, Chapter 5, p. 126,https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.156593

(..) such was their desire for greater rhythmic freedom that composers began to use red notes as well. (..) Their value was (..) restricted at first, for redness implies the imperfecting of a note which is perfect if black (..)

16. (l)