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permanently

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adjective

existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.

intended to exist or function for a long, indefinite period without regard to unforeseeable conditions: a permanent employee; the permanent headquarters of the United Nations.

long-lasting or nonfading: permanent pleating; permanent ink.

noun

Also called permanent wave. a wave or curl that is set into the hair by the application of a special chemical preparation and that remains for a number of months.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin permanent- (stem of permanēns), present participle of permanēre to remain. See per-, remain, -ent

Related forms

per·ma·nent·ly, adverb

per·ma·nent·ness, noun

non·per·ma·nent, adjective

non·per·ma·nent·ly, adverb

pseu·do·per·ma·nent, adjective

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qua·si-per·ma·nent, adjective

qua·si-per·ma·nent·ly, adverb

sub·per·ma·nent, adjective

sub·per·ma·nent·ly, adverb

un·per·ma·nent, adjective

un·per·ma·nent·ly, adverb

COLLAPSE

Synonyms
1. stable, invariable, constant.

Antonyms
1. temporary; inconstant.

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Example Sentences

The arrangement would permanently curtail the powers of the current legislative minorities with respect to ethics enforcement.

It would severely complicate, if not permanently compromise, your ability to obtain future gumbo.

Both were monstrously self-centred, permanently grumpy and capable of astonishing rudeness.

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The arrangement would permanently curtail the powers of the current legislative minorities with respect to ethics enforcement.

It would severely complicate, if not permanently compromise, your ability to obtain future gumbo.

Both were monstrously self-centred, permanently grumpy and capable of astonishing rudeness.

Afghan people laugh a lot, and many are in permanently good humor.

One probable goal of the mission will be to carefully delineate the permanently shadowed areas at the moon¿s.

Scientists hope to learn whether ice exists in permanently shadowed craters near the poles.

Or, if you prefer, you can connect it permanently to your main water source.

E-mails are even harder to permanently erase, because they often reside in many locations along a computer network.

Roubini gives the impression of being permanently pained, as if the burden of what he knows is almost too much for him to bear.

The health care system can be permanently changed in a fell swoop by federal legislation.

Those permanently so confined often suffer urinary, respiratory.

To remove the photo permanently from the desktop, locate the photo on the hard drive and drag it to the trash.

In order to permanently win the cup, he would be obliged to win it three times in separate years.

So they redesigned them to have permanently aloft ears.

The process permanently marks each digital audio or video frame with noise that is supposedly undetectable by human ears or eyes.

Its objective is to temporarily support incomes in a downturn so there is no reason to permanently extend it.

The real question is whether students permanently drop out due to financial problems.

It would be permanently flooded if the dam is built.

The conservancy believes feral felines should be removed permanently from the environment and taken to shelters.

We have to build automatic space probes who will stay in space permanently keeping doing shutle flight from jupiter to earth.

Rising temperatures are rapidly reducing the ice that permanently caps high mountains around the world.

Your brain will then work harder to permanently store the original information.

The new law also bars foreign journalists from working permanently in the country.

Actually it's normally related to where you permanently reside and whether your permanent residency state has an income tax.

Government regulators can be said to be permanently in need of plumbers.

Challenge students to see if they can find items in their house from each of the six permanently inhabited continents.

Other parts will be permanently removed due to safety concerns.

The accident permanently impaired his long-distant vision and depth perception.

He found that for his work he needed a stage permanently at his.

She agreed, and a year later, the university offered her the job permanently.

If there is no long-term trade-off, low inflation does not permanently choke growth.

Phenomena are carried to new areas by people who permanently leave.

Because the high laser power permanently changes the dye, this format can be written only once.

The only sure way to permanently erase sensitive material is to overwrite the disk space with new data.

Because keys were often lost, armoires and desks were either permanently locked or permanently open.

It paid adequately, but not enough make me want to stay permanently.

Except that there is a growing body of evidence that some of those people have their behaviour permanently changed.

There is a drug-free option to permanently eliminate chronic muscle and joint pain.

It sticks onto the body using a sheet of adhesive film, and stays attached permanently.

The lesson from this is not to avoid departmental politics altogether or become a permanently amoral academic.

As their livelihood vanishes, they are more likely to fuel the ranks of the temporarily or permanently displaced.

The environment has natural mechanisms to maintain a balance, and quick fixes might disrupt those mechanisms, maybe permanently.

When you think of wallpaper, you might think of granny, lace doilies and a couch permanently covered with plastic wrap.

They become tainted, and possibly a permanently disenfranchised minority.

Risk seemed to have been reduced to a permanently lower level.

Which has since become permanently attached to my left hand.

Can't do that if the model is permanently stuck together.

Better to share jobs than to have some fully employed and some permanently on the dole.

Stare at at ten watt laser for one second and your retinas will be permanently burned.

At the time, the phone was conceived of as a business machine that would connect two offices with a permanently open line.

The same was said of razor blades that stayed permanently sharp and car tyres that never wore out.

It then could be compressed and stored permanently underground to prevent it from reaching the atmosphere, he said.

He is the first researcher to be permanently barred from ever receiving federal research grants again.

The neighbourhoods in which they live end up permanently destabilised by the frequent circulation of adults in and out of prison.

None of them can permanently stave off the system s inherent tendency to crisis.

He hopes to one day permanently affix artificial legs to the bones of horses and other creatures.

The state's prison agency is permanently at war with the union and accuses it of obstructing reform.

Glands, organs, and systems can be permanently altered.

Priests note in the register that the flock member has permanently strayed.

Immigrant communities then, are permanently first generation.

The daguerreotype became the first truly widespread method for permanently fixing a projected image.

While the case itself remains permanently attached to your iPhone, the battery is removable.

But the nomads do not want to remain permanently dependent on handouts, so many have settled down and started to grow maize.

Looking into the sum may relatively quickly permanently damage your vision.

The maps are pre-loaded onto the phone and reside there permanently.

She believes global warming has permanently reduced its flow.

They become uncontrollably and sometimes permanently depressed in the face of this kind of treatment.

If real interest rates are permanently lower, this could justify higher prices in relation to incomes.

It plugs permanently into an existing double-socket and duplicates the two outlets.

However, there would be no requirement to have a list of permanently trusted issuers baked into browser software.

The advance of technology may put an increasing percentage of the population out of work, permanently.

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World English Dictionary

permanent (ˈpɜːmənənt)

—*adj*
1.	existing or intended to exist for an indefinite period: a permanent structure
2.	not expected to change for an indefinite time; not temporary: a permanent condition

[C15: from Latin permanens continuing, from permanēre to stay to the end, from per- through + manēre to remain]

'permanently

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

permanent

early 15c., from M.Fr. permanent (14c.), from L. permanentem (nom. permanens) "remaining," prp. of permanere "endure, continue, stay to the end," from per- "through" + manere "stay" (see mansion).

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