pure meaning
EN[pjʊə] [pjɔː] [-ʊə(r)] [-ɔː(ɹ)] [pjɔɹ] [pjʊɚ] [pjɝ]US
WPure
- Pure may refer to:
FR pure
- AdjectiveCOMpurerCOMmore pureSUPpurestSUPmost pureSUF-ure
- Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
- Free of foreign material or pollutants.
- Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
- (of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
- The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
- (phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
- (of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
- Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
- AdverbCOMpurerCOMmore pureSUPpurestSUPmost pure
- (Liverpudlian) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
- You’re pure busy.
- (Liverpudlian) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- We find new restrictions on the Hilbert space of pure gravity by imposing invariance under large diffeomorphisms and normalizability of the wave function.
- Only in 2007 they are less about pure socialism than a kind of suburbanized version of it.
- A study with pure prodelphinidin B3 and C2 showed that they inhibit the growth of prostate cancer cells through cell cycle arrest and caspase-3 activation.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of pure in English Dictionary
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