PURE
\pjˈʊ͡ə], \pjˈʊə], \p_j_ˈʊə]\
Definitions of PURE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied; "pure science"
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not mixed; "pure oxygen"
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(of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or gray or black
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used of persons or behaviors; having no faults; sinless; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow"
By Princeton University
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concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied; "pure science"
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not mixed; "pure oxygen"
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(of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or gray or black
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used of persons or behaviors; having no faults; sinless; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.
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Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons.
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Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions.
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Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.
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Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Purely.
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Pureness.
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(comp. PURER, superl. PUREST), Clean, unsoiled: unmixed: not adulterated: real: free from guilt or defilement: chaste: modest: mere: that and that only.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
