Former vs Pervious - What's the difference?
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
(senseid) First of aforementioned two items. Used with the , often without a noun.
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Someone who forms something; a maker; a creator or founder.
An object used to form something, such as a template, gauge, or cutting die.
(chiefly, British, used in combinations) Someone in, or of, a certain form (class).
Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
* Alexander Pope
Accepting of new ideas.
Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
* (Jeremy Taylor)
(obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
(zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds
As adjectives the difference between former and pervious
is that former is previous while pervious is admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.As a noun former
is someone who forms something; a maker; a creator or founder.former
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* (l)Etymology 1
From (etyl) former, comparative of . Parallel to (m) (via Latin), as comparative form from same Proto-Indo-European root. Related to (m) and (m) (thence (m)), from Proto-Germanic.Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* (previous) anterior, erstwhile, previous, prior, quondam, ex- * See alsoAntonyms
* latterEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Dave was the former of the company.
- ''The brick arch was built using a wooden former .
- ''Fifth-former
- Sixth-former .
Derived terms
* pan formerStatistics
*Anagrams
* reform ----pervious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- a pervious soil
- [Doors] pervious to winds, and open every way.
- God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.
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