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Definition: Perfect Tense |
Perfect TenseNoun1. A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Perfect TenseSynonyms: perfect (n), perfective (n), perfective tense (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Perfect Tense |
| English words defined with "perfect tense": future perfect tense ♦ past perfect tense, pluperfect, present perfect tense. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "perfect tense": Flee, Fly. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "perfect tense": Affidavit. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expressions using "perfect tense": future perfect tense ♦ past perfect tense ♦ present perfect tense ♦ the perfect tense. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
present perfect tense | 30 |
future perfect tense | 8 |
perfect tense | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "perfect tense"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | perfekt (complete, perfect, perfectly, settled, thorough, ultimate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρακείμενος (adjacent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 完了時制 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | か"りょうじせい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | emshir chaie (imperfect tense, past tense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erfectpay ensetay pretérito perfecto (present perfect tense), tiempo perfecto. (various references) perfekt (consummate, essential, mint, perfect, perfectly, pukka, the perfect tense, tiptop, to a turn). (various references) tamamlanmış geçmiş zaman. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-e-f-n-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: perfectest. | |
-3 letters: enfetters, presentee, pretences, recentest. | |
-4 letters: enfetter, percents, perfects, precents, prefects, presence, preteens, pretence, pretense, refences, terpenes. | |
-5 letters: centers, centres, entrees, fencers, fetters, netters, pectens, penster, percent, perfect, pertest, petters, precent, prefect, present, preteen, pretest, recepts, refects, refence, repents, respect, retenes, scepter, sceptre, secrete, serpent, specter, spectre, spencer, steepen, steeper, teeners, teepees, teeters. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 72 66 65 63 74 54 65 6E 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110010 01100110 01100101 01100011 01110100 00100000 01010100 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e r f e c t   T e n s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0072 0066 0065 0063 0074 0054 0065 006E 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5071847271698625471808571 |
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