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单词 pure
释义

pure

See also: puré, purè, purê, and püré

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English pure, pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus (“clean, free from dirt or filth, unmixed, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Displaced native Middle English lutter (“pure, clear, sincere”) (from Old English hlūtor, hluttor), Middle English skere (“pure, sheer, clear”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr), Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr), Middle English smete, smeate (“pure, refined”) (from Old English smǣte; compare Old English mǣre (“pure”)).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpjʊə/, /ˈpjɔː/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpjʊɹ/, /ˈpjoɹ/, /ˈpjɚ/
  • (cure–nurse merger, rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈpjɝ/
  • (cure–nurse merger, non-rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈpjɜː/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)

Adjective

pure (comparative purer or more pure, superlative purest or most pure)

  1. Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
    • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 7, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
      Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.
  2. Free of foreign material or pollutants.
    • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, OCLC 1325830848:
      A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.
  3. Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
    • c. 1530, William Tyndale (translator), Bible, 1 Timothy, 5:22,
      Laye hondes sodely[suddenly] on no man nether be partaker of other mes[men's] synnes: kepe thy silfe pure.
  4. Mere; that and that only.
    That idea is pure madness!
  5. (of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
    • 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
      The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
  6. (phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
  7. (of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
  8. (Bermuda, slang) A lot of.
    • 2013 April 12, “Exclusive: Meet Derpuntae - Bermuda's first meme”, in The Bermuda Sun‎, archived from the original on 2022-12-12:
      Well when ah's youngah, ah'd just light a candle rahn de dinna table play pure crazy 8s and spades vif my brotha til we lot dozed off...
Synonyms
  • (free of flaws): see Thesaurus:pure
  • (free of foreign material): see Thesaurus:raw
  • (free of immoral behavior): innocent
Antonyms
  • (free of flaws): dirty, flawed, impure
  • (free of foreign material): contaminated, impure
  • (free of immoral behavior): corrupt, guilty, sinful
  • (done for its own sake): applied
Derived terms
  • pure finder
  • as pure as the driven snow
  • purification
  • purify
  • purity
  • puritan
  • puritanism
  • purist
  • purism
Translations
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Adverb

pure (not comparable)

  1. (Liverpudlian, Scotland) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
    You’re pure busy.
    • 1996, Trainspotting (film)
      I just get pure shy with the interview cats.
Translations

Verb

pure (third-person singular simple present pures, present participle puring, simple past and past participle pured)

  1. (golf) to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately
    Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To cleanse; to refine.

Noun

pure (countable and uncountable, plural pures)

  1. One who, or that which, is pure.
    • 1845, The Lancet, page 187:
      ... the establishment of an inferior College, and the consequent connexion of the many thousands of British practitioners in medicine and surgery with a subordinate institution, and one that should be subservient to the government of the pures.
    • c. 1870, D. K. Gavan, Rocky Road to Dublin:
      Took a drop of the pure, to keep my spirits from sinking, […]
    • 1998, Christopher Leigh Connery, The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 30:
      All interpretive frames will impose their categories on the object of historical analysis, and I am not proposing that this narrative of the "pures"; be rejected in favor of some phantasmatic framework that claims to derive more purely from the sources themselves. I will show in chapter 3 that, since the "pures" possibly did not even exist […]

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pjʊə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /pjʊɹ/
  • Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

Noun

pure (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of puer (“dung (e.g. of dogs)”)
    • 1851, H. Mayhew, London Labour and the London poor, vII. 142/1:
      […] Dogs'-dung is called ‘Pure’, from its cleansing and purifying properties.
    • 2001, Wendy Lawton, The Tinker's Daughter, ch. 8:
      Mary smelled the rancid odor of the tannery on the right side of the road. […]
      "What is that, Mary?" Jake asked.
      "'Tis a bag for collecting pure. That is going to be your job, Jake. You are to collect pure."
      "Pure? What is pure?"
      "Pure is another word for dung," Mary answered.
    • 2013, Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam, p. 28:
      […] surely there was something better for him than chasing the pure (footnote: A term, technically speaking, for dog muck, much prized by the tanneries.) […]

Further reading

  • pure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • pure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Anagrams

  • Peru, Pre-U, Prue, Pu'er, Rupe, pu'er, puer, re-up, reup

Danish

Etymology 1

From Latin pūre, the adverb of pūrus (“clean, pure”); or the definite form of pur (“pure”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /puːrə/, [ˈpʰuːɐ̯]

Adjective

pure

  1. complete
  2. (adverbial) completely
Inflection
Inflection of pure
PositiveComparativeSuperlative
Common singularpure——2
Neuter singularpure——2
Pluralpure——2
Definite attributive1pure——
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Etymology 2

From French purée (“puree”).

Alternative forms

  • puré

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pyre/, [pʰyˈʁæ]

Noun

pure c (singular definite pureen, plural indefinite pureer)

  1. puree
Inflection
Declension of pure
common
gender		SingularPlural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativepurepureenpureerpureerne
genitivepurespureenspureerspureernes

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /puːrə/, [ˈpʰuːɐ̯]

Adjective

pure

  1. definite of pur
  2. plural of pur

Esperanto

Adverb

pure

  1. purely

Finnish

Verb

pure

  1. inflection of purra:
    1. indicative present connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative present/present connegative

Anagrams

  • Peru, peru

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pyʁ/
  • Homophones: pur, purs, pures
  • Rhymes: -yʁ

Adjective

pure

  1. feminine singular of pur

Anagrams

  • peur
  • puer
  • repu
  • rupe, rupé

German

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)

Adjective

pure

  1. inflection of pur:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpu.re/
  • Rhymes: -ure
  • Hyphenation: pù‧re

Adjective

pure

  1. feminine plural of puro

Etymology 2

From Latin pūrē, the adverb of pūrus.[1]

Adverb

pure

  1. too, also, as well
    Synonym: anche
  2. well, surely
  3. please, by all means
  4. if you like; if you want (etc.)
    Parli pure (with third-person subjunctive) ― let him speak if he likes
    Parla pure (with imperative) ― Speak if you like
    Lei parli pure (with formal subjunctive-imperative) ― Speak if you like

Conjunction

pure

  1. even though, even if, although
  2. nevertheless

References

  1. Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951; headword pure

Anagrams

  • Perù, prue, rupe

Latin

Etymology 1

From pūrus (“clean; pure”) and -e (“-ly, -ily”).

Adverb

pūrē (comparative pūrius, superlative pūrissimē)

  1. clearly, brightly, cleanly
  2. correctly, faultlessly, perfectly, purely
    Loqui pure.
    To speak correctly.
Synonyms
  • (correctly): ēmendātē

Noun

pūre

  1. ablative singular of pūs

References

  • “pure”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pure”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
    • (ambiguous) astronomy: astrologia (pure Latin sidera, caelestia)

Anagrams

  • puer, rūpe

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • pur, puyr, pore, poure, peure, puȝr, puir, puire, puyre

Etymology

From Old French pur, from Latin pūrus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /piu̯r/

Adjective

pure (comparative purer, superlative purest)

  1. pure, unadulterated, undiluted, untarnished
  2. entire, total, all
  3. perfect, wonderful, unflawed
  4. morally clean, pure, or upstanding
  5. chaste
  6. true, real, genuine, not counterfeit
  7. clear, obvious, simple

Descendants

  • Scots: puir, pure
  • English: pure
  • → Cornish: pur

References

  • “pūr(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

pure m (definite singular pureen, indefinite plural pureer, definite plural pureene)

  1. alternative spelling of puré

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʉˈreː/

Noun

pure m (definite singular pureen, indefinite plural purear, definite plural pureane)

  1. alternative spelling of puré

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²pʉː.rə/

Adjective

pure

  1. definite singular of pur
  2. plural of pur

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *pule.

Noun

pure

  1. cowrie

Swedish

Adjective

pure

  1. absolute definite natural masculine singular of pur.

Anagrams

  • Peru
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