Sekirov Dictionary

permanent

UK /ˈpɜː.mə.nənt/US /ˈpɝ.mə.nənt/

adjective 2
noun 3
verb 1
forms 5
phrases 1

adjective2

•
still there or still true many years later, with no end that anyone can see
- The countries are now locked in a permanent state of conflict.
•
Without end, eternal.
- Nothing in this world is truly permanent.

noun3

•
A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.
- She had pewter-coloured hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak and large moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones. — 1943
A card whose effects persist beyond the turn on which it is played.
Given an n×n matrix a_ij,, the sum over all permutations π, of ∏ᵢ₌₁ⁿa_iπ(i).

verb1

(old-fashioned) To perm (the hair).

forms

permanented · permanenting · permanents · more permanent · most permanent

Phrases with permanent

permanent shave
A throat-slitting.

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