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Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th
pure
pure (pyo͝or)adj. pur·er, pur·est 1. Having a homogeneous or uniform composition; not mixed: pure oxygen. 2. Free from adulterants or impurities: pure chocolate. 3. Free of dirt, defilement, or pollution: “A memory without blot or contamination must be... an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment” (Charlotte Brontë). 4. Free of foreign elements. 5. Containing nothing inappropriate or extraneous: a pure literary style. 6. Complete; utter: pure folly. 7. Having no faults; sinless: “I felt pure and sweet as a new baby” (Sylvia Plath). 8. Chaste; virgin. 9. Of unmixed blood or ancestry. 10. Genetics. Produced by self-fertilization or continual inbreeding; homozygous: a pure line. 11. Music. Free from discordant qualities: pure tones. 12. Linguistics. Articulated with a single unchanging speech sound; monophthongal: a pure vowel. 13. Theoretical: pure science. 14. Philosophy. Free of empirical elements: pure reason. [Middle English pur, from Old French, from Latin pūrus. See peuə- in Indo-European Roots.] pureʹly adv.pureʹness n. Synonyms: pure, absolute, sheer2, simple, unadulterated These adjectives mean free of extraneous elements: pure gold; absolute oxygen; sheer alcohol; a simple substance; unadulterated coffee.
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