Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Open to passage or entrance; permeable.
- adjective Open to arguments, ideas, or change; approachable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being penetrated or permeated by something else: affording entrance, admission, or passage; penetrable; permeable.
- Pervading; permeating.
- Open; patent; patulous; perforate: applied in anatomy and zoölogy to organs which may be impervious at some time, or under some circumstances.
- In botany, possessing an opening or passageway.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
- adjective rare Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
- adjective obsolete Capable of penetrating or pervading.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Open; -- used synonymously with
perforate , as applied to the nostrils or birds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Admitting
passage ; capable of beingpenetrated by another body or substance;permeable . - adjective Accepting of new ideas.
- adjective Capable of being
penetrated , or seen through, byphysical ormental vision . - adjective obsolete Capable of penetrating or pervading.
- adjective zoology
open ;perforate , as applied to thenostrils ofbirds
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective admitting of passage or entrance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Page 392, "Sir John Herschel's previous communication": 'pervious' in original.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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He said "we have seen tremendous results from our pervious sidewalks and driveways over the past three years."
Susan Buchanan: Permeable Concrete Tested To Reduce City Street Flooding Susan Buchanan 2011
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President John Bernard said "water seeps through a pervious parking lot, almost as if it were grass, and the owners don't need to invest in a storm drain on the lot."
Susan Buchanan: Permeable Concrete Tested To Reduce City Street Flooding Susan Buchanan 2011
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He said with pervious concrete, an urban drainage system can handle a larger rainfall.
Susan Buchanan: Permeable Concrete Tested To Reduce City Street Flooding Susan Buchanan 2011
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He said pervious concrete is a mixture of coarse aggregates of uniform size, along with water, cement and a polymer or reinforcing agent.
Susan Buchanan: Permeable Concrete Tested To Reduce City Street Flooding Susan Buchanan 2011
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Next to that facility, Chinese contractors poured miles of colored, pervious concrete in parking lots, sidewalks and streets--all of which have held up well in weather extremes.
Susan Buchanan: Permeable Concrete Tested To Reduce City Street Flooding Susan Buchanan 2011
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It's unclear if the alleged conspiracy is directly linked to the pervious terrorism warnings, however.
German Authorities Intensify Search for Terrorist Suspects David Crawford 2011
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Magee cited several benefits of permeable concrete, saying that in addition to eliminating expenses for drains and underlying drainage, pervious parking lots remove the need for water-retention ponds that are often required at lots at big box stores and suburban shopping malls.
Susan Buchanan: Permeable Concrete Tested To Reduce City Street Flooding Susan Buchanan 2011
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The walls were even more pervious to a driving rain.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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On North Prieur Street, eight inches of pervious pavement and eight inches of base were used for most of the block.
Susan Buchanan: Permeable Concrete Tested To Reduce City Street Flooding Susan Buchanan 2011
yarb commented on the word pervious
The windows of my room faced the lattice of a lady living opposite: but the street was narrow, and her blinds pervious to the eye.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 9 ch. 6
October 8, 2008
whichbe commented on the word pervious
Having a pervy quality.
December 17, 2008
sarra commented on the word pervious
Does impervious thus mean totally innocent?
December 17, 2008
whichbe commented on the word pervious
That makes logical sense except that nothing is totally innocent.
December 17, 2008
hekate101 commented on the word pervious
Not in this age of Internet, anyway.
December 18, 2008