Perfect vs. Prefect: What's the Difference?

Lacking nothing essential to the whole; complete of its nature or kind.

Any of several high military or civil officials in ancient Rome.

Being without defect or blemish

The chief of police of Paris, France.

Thoroughly skilled or talented in a certain field or area; proficient.

A chief administrative official of a department of France.

Completely suited for a particular purpose or situation

The administrator in charge of discipline at a Jesuit school.

Completely corresponding to a description, standard, or type

A student monitor or officer, especially in a private school.

Accurately reproducing an original

(historical) An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.

Complete; thorough; utter

The head of a department in France.

Pure; undiluted; unmixed

The head of a county in Albania or Romania.

Excellent and delightful in all respects

The head of a prefecture in Japan.

(Botany) Having both stamens and pistils in the same flower; monoclinous.

(British) A school pupil in a position of power over other pupils.

Capable of sexual reproduction. Used of fungi.

A commander.

(Grammar) Of, relating to, or constituting a verb form expressing action completed prior to a fixed point of reference in time.

A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person.

(Music) Designating the three basic intervals of the octave, fourth, and fifth.

A superintendent of a department who has control of its police establishment, together with extensive powers of municipal regulation.

(Grammar) The aspect of a verb that expresses action completed prior to a fixed point of reference in time.

In the Greek and Roman Catholic churches, a title of certain dignitaries below the rank of bishop.

A verb or verb form having this aspect.

A chief officer or chief magistrate;

To bring to perfection or completion

Fitting its definition precisely.

Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.

Without fault or mistake; thoroughly skilled or talented.

Excellent and delightful in all respects.

(mathematics) Of a number: equal to the sum of its proper divisors.

Representing a completed action.

(biology) Sexually mature and fully differentiated.

(botany) Of flowers, having both male parts (stamens) and female parts (carpels).

(analysis) Of a set: equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set A is perfect if A=A.

(music) Describing an interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.

(of a cocktail) Made with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth.

(obsolete) Well informed; certain; sure.

(obsolete) Innocent, guiltless.

(grammar) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

(video games) A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.

A leader of the Cathar movement.

(transitive) To make perfect; to improve or hone.

(legal) To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.

Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.

Well informed; certain; sure.

Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; - said of flower.

The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.

A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

Make perfect or complete;

Being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish;

Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;

Precisely accurate or exact;