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adverb

maybe; possibly: Perhaps the package will arrive today.

Origin:
1520–30; earlier perhappes, perhapis by haps. See per, hap¹, -s¹

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Perhaps is always a great word to know.

So is bezoar. Does it mean:

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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The living room needs a new coat of paint, perhaps a fresh start for both of you.

These items have the potential to impress the committee and perhaps even set you apart from other candidates.

And perhaps now another box can be checked: the practice of bribing one's way onto the charts.

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The living room needs a new coat of paint, perhaps a fresh start for both of you.

These items have the potential to impress the committee and perhaps even set you apart from other candidates.

And perhaps now another box can be checked: the practice of bribing one's way onto the charts.

Just how easily new mental skills can evolve is perhaps best illustrated by dogs.

Ozone is perhaps best known for its role in protecting the earth from solar radiation.

Perhaps the doctor did ask her permission, but she didn't say anything to her husband or family.

If you think you know one bigger in any species listed, you can nominate it, and perhaps unseat the reigning champ.

Some will argue that perhaps he never really understood why his films resonated with an entire generation so profoundly.

The library will look and operate differently, and perhaps provide a different kind of experience for students and faculty.

Perhaps the ceaseless vigilance of the police has dramatically reduced the availability of drugs on the street.

They may be pecking for a meal in search of insects or larvae, or perhaps hammering out a nest.

Perhaps farming them industrially is somewhat more efficient than say fish farming or cattle.

Much ecological research provides a simple slice in time, perhaps a few years of data.

Perhaps it's the growing interest in cheeses in general.

But as the ceremony today shows, the probe's symbolic importance perhaps rivals its scientific value.

Perhaps this is because the whole thing seems so obvious.

Perhaps half of all hedge funds will go out of business.

Perhaps they also steer by visual landmarks, he said.

Perhaps they set out in search of food, or maybe it was simply wanderlust.

They are not related to foxes, except perhaps for their cunning nature.

The salt technique is new to me and perhaps you, too.

Perhaps best of all in terms of accessibility are the voice-controlled menus.

So the profession's growth continues, perhaps tempered by the global economic slide.

Perhaps a daughter is deemed to join another family on marriage and you want someone to care for you when you are old.

When it comes to cultivating a green thumb, gardeners perhaps need only look to their urinals and fireplaces.

Now perhaps you can show us the science you did to prove your hypothesis.

Coal will no longer be dug, except perhaps with the object of transforming it into bread or meat.

Perhaps the oldest and easiest form of food preservation is sun-drying.

Perhaps as a child you made a wish on a falling star, and perhaps as a parent you've encouraged your young ones to do the same.

Or perhaps you're a librarian or an academic publisher.

Perhaps misinterpretation is a strong word but to be stuck in dogma in the years to come is perhaps futile.

Or perhaps the stick-and-slip mechanism was simply an accident of evolutionary history.

However, perhaps you can also think of times when anger wasn't so bad.

It seems that the concern over what footage was played when is perhaps exagerated in importance.

Or plant a portion of your existing garden, perhaps an island bed, with a cottage-style mix of perennials and roses.

Perhaps the strangest part about any occupation is the bureaucracy that is created around it.

Perhaps you think you don't need to go over this old ground again.

He wants to go further, perhaps by collaborating on programmes.

The resulting footage has shed light on rarely seen mating behavior, captured on film perhaps for the first time.

Lucid dreaming is useful for treating chronic nightmares and perhaps even anxiety.

Perhaps they represented ancestors, or heroes, or gods or goddesses from some spirit world.

Perhaps this is the fault of the postal service, but either way, it's a disappointment.

Perhaps they're gritting their teeth instead of looking away.

Perhaps both opponents and the press should spend more time looking beyond the leaders.

Perhaps he could be part of one of the studies on hatred.

Perhaps this is a relationship that merits more thoughtful exploration.

And perhaps you'll be graced with a jar of honey after the beekeeper has settled the bees in a new home.

Perhaps the slide-out, rather than the folding-style double screen, could be an improvement though.

Once conservationists uncover such details, perhaps they will be able to head off the next invasion.

Perhaps a multicuberculate-a variety of small mammal that became extinct many millions of years ago-dug out such a hole.

To strengthen a wall, and perhaps a corner as well, add ladder wire every other course and under the top course.

Perhaps their successes weren't due to skill at all.

Perhaps two tyrannosaurs were fighting and one bit the other on the face, losing a tooth in the process.

Or perhaps we've got a drone that's been fed royal jelly all his life.

Perhaps the owner turned back before taking all her supplies to the summit.

Perhaps the trend of keeping backyard bees isn't as popular as the not-so-bogus backyard chicken trend.

To the list of wonders of the ancient world, perhaps another should be added: nanotechnology.

Perhaps more than anything else, it is the extraordinary architecture that takes a visitor's breath away.

But perhaps it will be enough to tempt you to tuck a few dahlias tubers in the ground this spring.

Perhaps the aliens have the opposite convention, in which they point their magnetic flow lines the other way.

Perhaps they could have compared notes on the famous aviators.

Perhaps they could also use this to find a target unique to all strains of staph and then engineer a phage to exploit it.

The wolves probably floated to the islands on ice or logs or perhaps walked over a glacier.

Perhaps solar power can match the retail price of supplying electricity to a home, but only during bright sunshine.

Perhaps a wedding that went terriby wrong for some reason.

Perhaps that is because, before he ever sent a dress down a catwalk, this self-taught designer was creating.

He challenges what is perhaps the sacred statistic cited by economists who defend college:.

Magnetically stimulating the brain could lift depression and perhaps even boost creativity, but questions remain.

Perhaps a candidate cannot formally declare a re-election bid via ballpoint pen, notepad and mouse pad.

Or perhaps they are the same only if the senior in question has buddha-nature.

Soot, a prime culprit in smog and the bane of inner-city dwellers, has been fingered as perhaps the second.

Broadway babies are enthusiastic about musicals and perhaps will become composers, lyricists and choreographers themselves.

Or perhaps there are people you haven't met personally but whose work you are familiar with.

Yet it follows you, putting up more racy pictures, perhaps even the offer of a discount.

They would be perhaps used often for, say, displaying food in feasts or displaying other objects.

The cosmic missile, with a head perhaps a few miles.

Though perhaps not as aggressive as is commonly believed.

Perhaps your style is more impulsive than either of the two described so far.

Experts warned then that a pocket of the virus would someday evolve to infect humans, perhaps setting off a global.

Perhaps when a television show staff member began kneeling to put the star's shoes on her.

Elaborate roots grip lakebeds, though perhaps not as strongly as they did the forest floor.

Perhaps these designations derive not so much from geography as from spelling.

Perhaps when she first had a bathtub molded to fit her body.

At the time, there were few part-timers or adjuncts and perhaps the rationale made sense.

So perhaps the scales of the birds' ancestors had stretched out, generation after generation.

Many, perhaps all, people harbor a small number of cells from genetically different individuals--from.

Perhaps a new fig tree grows for four winters, untouched by freezes, bearing big crops each summer.

Perhaps it was because nobody could fit a tub the size of a mobile-suit robot into their bathroom.

Science, perhaps even more than tourism, could turn out to be big.

Their relationships are interdependent, or perhaps codependent.

Perhaps he thought it would be preferable to have the incendiary chief.

But polar explorer is perhaps his best known and hardest-won.

Perhaps civilization possesses signature features of nature in order to squeeze.

Perhaps you didn't realize that dollhouse miniature brothels are a collectors' item.

Perhaps there is a hive somewhere in the neighborhood.

It's a familiar refrain for those caught up in this recurring environmental nightmare, perhaps more familiar than you think.

We are trying to develop a health care system, perhaps it is time they reform their education system.

Perhaps you're ready to move into a smaller house, a condominium or a retirement home.

Now, as an immunologist, he's dismantling perhaps the most.

Perhaps they were primed by the sweetness to expect a burst of calories, and when that didn't follow, they kept eating and eating.

Perhaps it enables them to learn something about themselves that they hadn't yet realized.

So perhaps it was inevitable that these two intoxicants would be combined in a single.

Perhaps people soon realized they could perhaps use the felines to control these pests.

So perhaps it is fitting that physicists are turning to a large.

The question of its three-dimensional molecular structure interested perhaps a dozen people.

Perhaps this explains my fascination with capturing bees for this month's photos.

Perhaps there were larger coil springs, hidden inside the tambours, that would drive the cart.

Perhaps your husband is going through something similar.

E-mail, blogging, social networking and tweeting were expected to surge in importance and perhaps to decide the race.

There's hope for gardening yetjust on different terms, perhaps.

Perhaps these posters have been chastised, by a self appointed moderator, for not searching on a topic before they posted.

Yet perhaps he must take some of the blame for the new cacophony.

People might easily eat it in a potion," he added-or perhaps apply it in a lotion.

May be it can help to find hidden old cities in the jungle, perhaps mayan and inca's cities.

Perhaps more important, his colorful, tragic life has overshadowed his accomplishments as an.

Perhaps we've got a biological oddity growing in our hives.

Or perhaps committee members focus myopically on hiring and pay little or no attention to the.

Or perhaps the opposite effect prevailed: it may have made some people more sceptical that the original stimulus did any good.

Perhaps they believe it's time to move to the sidelines.

Perhaps modern biology is in need of a fundamental revision.

The sun did not shine through for perhaps a year because of a killing cloud cover of dust.

To no one's surprise, except perhaps that of the regents themselves, this proposal was greeted with a.

Perhaps the toxicity of the current environment will lead the rules to be changed again.

Archaeologists think these trays and tubes were used to inhale herbs, perhaps ceremonially.

Perhaps the complexities of great ape social relationships selected for large brains.

My need to understand the city is perhaps inescapable.

Perhaps in another week it will behave as well as the vanilla.

Perhaps that is because senior scholars were tenured at a time when the expectations for the profession were different.

Labour-market reform is perhaps the toughest of all.

Cuba's revolution ages, perhaps mellows, but keeps its grip on this island nation.

Perhaps the bats are chasing water droplets and not insects.

If it gets built, plans call for a se- ries of perhaps as many as eight smaller dams.

Perhaps faculty members have failed to communicate a belief in these students.

Perhaps the tighter requirements for loans have pushed potential buyers out of the market.

Shamans told stories of people turning to stone, which perhaps helped explain ancient stone figures erected much earlier.

Perhaps the contestant has a seizure and can't remember his original choice.

If anyone else seemed particularly helpful or nice then perhaps one to them as well.

Perhaps this will put a damper on those who advocate against the use of antibiotics for strep throat.

Perhaps the editors might choose a different picture for the article next time.

Perhaps because the concept of imaginary numbers was so hard for me to comprehend.

Three things must be accomplished to colonize mars beyond perhaps a few thousand people.

Flipping the bird, or sticking out the middle finger, is perhaps the oldest insulting gesture on earth.

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World English Dictionary

perhaps (pəˈhæps, (informal) præps)

—*adv*
1.	a. possibly; maybe
	b. (as sentence modifier): he'll arrive tomorrow, perhaps; perhaps you'll see him tomorrow

—*sentence substitute*
2.	it may happen, be so, etc; maybe

[C16 perhappes, from per by + happes chance, hap¹]

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Word Origin & History

perhaps

1528, formed from M.E. per, par "by, through" + plural of hap "chance" (see happen), on model of peradventure, perchance, etc. which now have been superseded by this word.

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