Word Finder - permanent

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A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.

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Given an n \times n matrix a_{ij} \,, the sum over all permutations \pi \, of \prod_{i=1}^n{a_{i\pi(i)}}.

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(trading card games) A card whose effects persist beyond the turn on which it is played.

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To perm (the hair).

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Without end, eternal.

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Nothing in this world is truly permanent.

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Lasting for an indefinitely long time.

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The countries are now locked in a permanent state of conflict.

She wanted a permanent relationship with him - marriage.

Maybe he didn't want a permanent relationship.

Their bond felt permanent, and she had no idea what to do about it.

There was no permanent damage to head or elbow but Dean was beginning to feel his years.

Woman, in her wasted life, in her hurried death, here stands appealing to the society that degrades her, with a combination of eloquence and poetry, of forms of art at once instantaneous and permanent, and with great metrical energy and variety.

To them, it's permanent like this tattoo.

Without one, she had existed in a state of sentience without feeling, a world of permanent grey.

It has not acquired one permanent wrinkle after all its ripples.

Having established his daughter Margaret as regent for Charles in the Netherlands, Maximilian met the diet at Constance in 1507, when the imperial chamber (Reichskammergericht) was revised and took a more permanent form, and help was granted for an expedition to Italy.

The alternative was irreparable and too permanent for my taste.

We're going to have permanent custody!

It's part of their permanent collection and I wasn't supposed to even take it out, but I'm sure if you explain about the book your brother is writing, they'll let you make a copy of it.

When I get married it will be because I'm ready to put the effort into a permanent relationship.

Dan's going to move you somewhere safe today to one of our permanent sites.

Above sea-level, the climate is hot, humid and unhealthy, and the conditions for permanent settlement are apparently unfavourable.

An energy crop could be a permanent forest of trees that convert sunlight to liquid fuel and deliver the fuel directly through their roots to a network of underground pipelines.

There was an old treadle sewing machine with carved drawers and even a grandfathers' clock, stating the permanent time of three p.m.

She frowned at his tone, as if he considered her the newest, permanent member of his organization and not the guest she was.

She had to figure out what she was missing fast and how permanent it was to be an Immortal mate.

Deidre couldn't understand the relationship and how permanent he claimed it was.

Evelyn made it sound permanent, as though Kiera would just pick up and leave for another country.

His dismissal felt permanent, and she hoped whatever business he had with her, it was now done.

I have a feeling this will be permanent.

The first permanent settlements in Matto Grosso seem to have been made in 1718 and 1719, in the first year at Forquilha and in the second at or near the site of Cuyaba, where rich placer mines had been found.

He tried to appease the Norfolk detective by saying no permanent harm had been done and even Mrs. Byrne seemed to have made it through the ordeal.

Changes undergone in the immortal world normally weren't permanent, once they returned to their world for twenty-four hours.

Far stronger than boys many years older than he was, he bent and lifted her, carrying her to her permanent resting place.

The people led an ambulatory life, living in tents, with no permanent residence.

Whatever she did sounded permanent.

Alarmed by emotions Dusty had warned her were permanent, she took a step away.

It has not, however, been possible to transform a typical top yeast into a permanent typical bottom yeast.

But the Christian states in Spain were becoming too well organized to be overrun by the Mahommedans, and the Muwahhadis made no permanent advance against them.

The insurgents were defeated again and again; Chait Sing took to flight, and an augmented permanent tribute was imposed upon his successor.

In the palace there are various permanent exhibitions, while special exhibitions are held from time to time, also concerts, winter pantomimes and other entertainments.

In his absence the administration was entrusted to a justiciar, a regent or lieutenant of the kingdom; and the convenience being once ascertained of having a minister who could in the whole kingdom represent the king, as the sheriff did in the shire, the justiciar became a permanent functionary."

The output is to-day relatively small in comparison with that of many other fields, but there are one or two permanent gold mines of great value working low-grade ore.

At close to seven feet with eyes and hair blacker than night and a permanent scowl, he was what most expected Death to look like.

Dean spent the afternoon busying himself with the chores of Bird Song, partially out of guilt for having dumped the morning duties on Fred and in part to take his mind off the ever-present feeling he'd caused long term or, heaven forbid, permanent damage to his seven-month marriage.

The leg wound from Shipton's flailing ice ax had been an eight-stitcher of no permanent consequence.

But then, he wasn't looking for a permanent relationship, and Lori wouldn't be nudging him to get married.

You're officially now detailed to the VP's staff; however, you'll remain a permanent member of my staff.

He had a permanent partner now, and he thought these nights together were special.

That gave them time to make more permanent plans for the room that would become Jonathan's bedroom.

It is permanent in dry air, but in the finely divided state it rapidly combines with oxygen, the compact metal requiring a strong heating to bring about this combination.

Finding their comrades did not return, Irala and his companions determined to descend the river, and on their downward journey opposite the mouth of the river Pilcomayo, finding a suitable site for colonizing, they founded (1536) what proved to be the first permanent Spanish settlement in the interior of South America, the future city of Asuncion (15th August 1536).

What they especially praise is the ethos or permanent moral level of his works as compared with those of the later "pathetic" school.

Though the permanent menu is short, only offering two appetizers, three entrees and two desserts, there is a fantastic "verbal" menu that changes nightly.

When she signed the adoption papers she was told that it was permanent.

Tests revealed normal brain function, and there was no indication of any permanent damage.

Dean often wondered to himself why their romantic attraction to one another never grew to something permanent.