pure
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈpjʊə/]
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Senses
1. pure (adj) — sense 1
Definition: Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
Example: Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.
2. pure (adj) — sense 2
Definition: Free of foreign material or pollutants.
Example: A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.
3. pure (adj) — sense 3
Definition: Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
Example: Laye hondes sodenly on no man nether be part taker of wother mens synnes. Kepe thy silfe pure.
Concept: Чистота
4. pure (adv) — sense 4
Definition: to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
Example: You’re pure busy.
5. pure (verb) — sense 5
Definition: To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately.
Example: Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.
6. pure (verb) — sense 6
Definition: To cleanse; to refine.
7. pure (noun) — sense 7
Definition: One who, or that which, is pure.
Example: ... the establishment of an inferior College, and the consequent connexion of the many thousands of British practitioners in medicine and surgery with a subordinate institution, and one that should be subservient to the government of the pures.
Structure of the word
Roots:- pewh (Proto-Indo-European)
Connections
Polarities
Mixture ↔ Simplicity — concept «Чистота»
Sanctity ↔ Degradation — concept «Чистота»
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