Permanent
['pɜːm(ə)nənt] or ['pɝmənənt]
Definition
(adj.) continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place; 'permanent secretary to the president'; 'permanent address'; 'literature of permanent value' .
(adj.) not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition; 'permanent brain damage' .
Typist: Loretta--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression.
Editor: Lois
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Lasting, abiding, fixed, enduring, continuing, durable, stable, steadfast, unchangeable, immutable, perpetual, invariable, constant, persistent.
Typist: Silvia
Definition
adj. lasting: durable: not subject to change: not to be removed: (zool.) always present.—ns. Per′manence Per′manency state or quality of being permanent: continuance in the same state position &c.: unlikelihood of change: duration.—adv. Per′manently.—Permanent way the finished road of a railway.
Inputed by Jesse
Examples
- The result is a permanent image--a negative. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In some cases freckles are permanent, but in most cases they disappear with the coming of cold weather. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This gave a clear, but not a permanent, light. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Central incisors 5 to 8 months Lateral incisors 7 to 10 months First molars 12 to 16 months Canines 15 to 20 months Second molars 20 to 36 months _Permanent Teeth. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Perhaps its effects are not so permanent; but they are, while they last, as violent and intense. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- St. John was not a man to be lightly refused: you felt that every impression made on him, either for pain or pleasure, was deep-graved and permanent. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Nevertheless, these central regions of the world remain central, and their welfare and participation is necessary to the permanent peace of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In this you are right; but as to the restored tranquillity of the neighbourhood, as to the permanent good effect of your charitable fund, I doubt. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But a permanent relation between a man and a woman isn't the last word--it certainly isn't. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They formed an essential and permanent middle class. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A drugged, almost sinister religious expression became permanent on her face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Remember that four of the permanent double teeth come in at the age of six years. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Every invention made is another permanent gift to posterity. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- All the obnoxious characters of change and diversity thus attach themselves to doing while knowing is as permanent as its object. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Inside that bar there are several permanent magnets, packed on each side of the ends of the coil of wire, the poles of those on one side being the opposite of those on the other. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
Edited by Edith