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UNPERFECT

Definition: UNPERFECT

UNPERFECT

Adjective

1. Imperfect.

Transitive verb

1. To mar or destroy the perfection of.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "UNPERFECT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Commercial Usage: UNPERFECT

Domain	Title
Books	The Unperfect Poet: Another Way of Speaking (reference) The unperfect society: beyond the new class (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: UNPERFECT

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
unperfect	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: UNPERFECT

Language		Translations for "UNPERFECT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Farsi		ناکامل (Imperfect), ناقص (Half, Halfbaked, Imperfect, Incomplete, Incorrect, Malformed, Mutilate, Rudimentary, Sketchy, Skimpy, Violator), ناشی (Awkward, Gauche, Ill, Jackleg, Laity, Maladroit, Muff, Rube), نابلد, غیرکامل (Uncomplimentary). (various references)

Pig Latin		erfectunpay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: UNPERFECT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-n-p-r-t-u"
	-2 letters: percent, perfect, precent, prefect.
	-3 letters: center, centre, fencer, neuter, pecten, precut, punter, recent, recept, refect, refute, repent, repute, retune, tenrec, tenure, tureen, unfree.
	-4 letters: centu, creep, crepe, crept, cruet, curet, cuter, enter, enure, erect, eruct, erupt, fence, pence, peter, preen, prune, puree, recut, rente, rupee, terce, terne, treen, truce, tuner.
	-5 letters: cent, cepe, cere.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-n-p-r-t-u"
	+2 letters: superinfect.
	+3 letters: superinfects.
	+4 letters: superinfected.
	+5 letters: premanufacture, respectfulness, superconfident, superefficient, superinfecting, superinfection.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: UNPERFECT

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 4E 50 45 52 46 45 43 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..- -. .--. . .-. ..-. . -.-. -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01001110 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000110 01000101 01000011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#80 &#69 &#82 &#70 &#69 &#67 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0050 0045 0052 0046 0045 0043 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

554850395240393754

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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