pertain
— Verb
– English
~ be a part or attribute of
pertainym
— Noun
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~ meaning relating to or pertaining to
perth
— Noun
– English
~ the state capital of Western Australia
pertinacious
— Adjective
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~ stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
pertinaciously
— Adverb
– English
~ in a dogged and pertinacious manner; "he struggled pertinaciously for the new resolution"
pertinacity
— Noun
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~ persistent determination
pertinence
— Noun
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~ relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand
pertinency
— Noun
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~ relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand
pertinent
— Adjective
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~ having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand; "a list of articles pertinent to the discussion"; "remarks that were to the point"
pertinent
— Adjective
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~ being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply"
pertinently
— Adverb
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~ in a pertinent way; "what is singular about his use of them is that no other artist, of his time or any other, has painted them so directly, intimately and pertinently"
pertly
— Adverb
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~ in an impudent or impertinent manner; "a lean, swarthy fellow was peering through the window, grinning impudently"
pertness
— Noun
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~ quality of being lively and confident; "there was a pertness about her that attracted him"
pertness
— Noun
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~ inappropriate playfulness
perturb
— Verb
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~ cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull; "The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet"
perturb
— Verb
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~ disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"
perturb
— Verb
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~ disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom; "The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion"
perturb
— Verb
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~ throw into great confusion or disorder; "Fundamentalists threaten to perturb the social order"
perturbation
— Noun
– English
~ the act of causing disorder
perturbation
— Noun
– English
~ (physics) a secondary influence on a system that causes it to deviate slightly