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Permafrozen vs Permanently - What's the difference?

permafrozen | permanently |

Permanently is a derived term of permafrozen.



As an adjective permafrozen

is permanently frozen.

As an adverb permanently is

in a permanent manner; lastingly.

permafrozen

English

Adjective

(-)
  • permanently frozen
  • * 2006 , Terri Farley, Phantom Stallion #21 , p. 210
  • Piece of cake? her mind screeched. Piece of ten-million-year-old permafrozen glacier, maybe.
  • * 2001 , Graham Taylor and R.A. Eggleton, Regolith Geology and Geomorphology , p. 239
  • Pingos form by the penetration of unfrozen but saturated sands to the surface through a layer of permafrozen ground.
  • * 1980 , Robert Auty, Companion to Russian Studies: An Introduction to Russian History , p. 11
  • With the very long winter, permafrozen soil, and low evaporation, the soil is waterlogged.

    permanently

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a permanent manner; lastingly.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.}}
  • Forever.
  • Derived terms

    * permafrozen