Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: perfected
IPA transcription: [pɚf'ɛktəd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: perfected
    Meaning: (of plans, ideas, etc.) perfectly formed; "a graceful but not yet fully perfected literary style"
Usage examples
  • "'Aerial communication isn't perfected yet then?' I said mischievously.
  • And accordingly, whatever passes from potentiality to act, may be said to be passive, even when it is perfected.
  • It is reasonable to hope that before iron ore has become extremely scarce, a cheap and practicable method of extracting aluminium from clay will have been perfected.
  • He had succeeded; he had created a thing new to the world, an explosive which would be more powerful than the deadliest in existence; he had perfected the work of a week's exquisite danger; he had won.
  • It should be stated, however, that between the outline and the filling in of the details there was an enormous amount of hard work, study, patient plodding, and endless experiments before Edison finally perfected his quadruplex system in the year 1874.
  • The article then treats of Edison's investigations into means for supporting and making electrical connection with the active materials, showing some of the difficulties encountered and the various discoveries made in developing the perfected cell, after which the writer continues his description of the "A" type cell, as follows: