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Sifting vs Permanent - What's the difference?

sifting | permanent |

As verbs the difference between sifting and permanent

is that sifting is while permanent is (dated) to perm (the hair).

As nouns the difference between sifting and permanent

is that sifting is the act by which something is sifted while permanent is a chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.

As an adjective permanent is

without end, eternal.

sifting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is sifted.

    • Anagrams

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    permanent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Without end, eternal.
    • Nothing in this world is truly permanent .
  • Lasting for an indefinitely long time.
    • The countries are now locked in a permanent state of conflict.

    Antonyms

    * impermanent, temporary

    Derived terms

    * permanently * permanent marker * permanent wave * permanent way

    Related terms

    * permafrost * permatemp

    Noun

    (wikipedia permanent) (en noun)
  • A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.
  • * 1943 , (Raymond Chandler), The High Window , Penguin 2005, p. 8:
    • She had pewter-coloured hair set in a ruthless permanent , a hard beak and large moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones.
  • (linear algebra, combinatorics) Given an n \times n matrix a_{ij} \,, the sum over all permutations \pi \, of \prod_{i=1}^n{a_{i\pi(i)}}.

    • See also

    * determinant * ephemeral * relaxer * temporary

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) To perm (the hair).

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