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Imperfective

Definition: Imperfective

Imperfective

Noun

1. Aspect without regard to the beginning or completion of the action of the verb.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Imperfective

Synonym: imperfective aspect (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Imperfective

English words defined with "imperfective": imperfective aspect. (references)

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Expression: Imperfective

Expression using "imperfective": imperfective aspect. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: Imperfective

Language Translations for "imperfective"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

Несвършен. (various references)

   

Czech

  

Imperfektivní, Nedokonavý. (various references)

   

French

  

Non Accompli. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Folyamatos (consecutive, continuous, perpetual, persistent, running, sequential, uninterrupted). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

未然形 (imperfective form), 已然形 (old name for imperfective form). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いぜ"けい (old name for imperfective form), みぜ"けい (imperfective form). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

imperfectiveay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

estado incompleto. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

несовершенный (defective, imperfect). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

trajan (abiding, continuous, durable, fast, lasting, livelong, perdurable, permanent), nesvršen (imperfect, incomplete, undone, unfinished). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Imperfective

Derivations

Words beginning with "imperfective": imperfectives. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Imperfective

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-f-i-i-m-p-r-t-v"

-2 letters: perfective.

-3 letters: imperfect, receptive, timepiece.

-4 letters: epimeric, erective, eremitic, perceive.

-5 letters: creepie, emeriti, empiric, emptier, epeiric, epimere, eremite, evictee, fictive, perfect, picrite, preemie, prefect, premeet, receipt, receive, viremic.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-f-i-i-m-p-r-t-v"
 

+1 letter: imperfectives.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Imperfective


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

49 6D 70 65 72 66 65 63 74 69 76 65

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)

01001001 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100110 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#109 &#112 &#101 &#114 &#102 &#101 &#99 &#116 &#105 &#118 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006D 0070 0065 0072 0066 0065 0063 0074 0069 0076 0065

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

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

437982718472716986758871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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