Definition of Per

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Definition of Per
	Per Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for each; as, per annum; per capita, by heads, or according to individuals; per curiam, by the court; per se, by itself, of itself. Per is also sometimes used with English words. Related Definitions: According, Agency, Also, As, By, Capita, Court, Each, English, For, Is, Itself, Of, Or, Per, Sometimes, The, Through, To, Used, With

Per Quotations

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
Jerry Garcia

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
Dave Barry

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.
David Ogilvy

I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.
Lee Trevino

Carpe per diem - seize the check.
Robin Williams

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Jean-Luc Godard

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.
Will Ferrell

In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
David Foster Wallace

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Robert Benchley

Per Translations

per in Afrikaans is op, in, per, binne
per in Dutch is in, te, binnen, per
per in French is dans
per in Italian is al, tramite
per in Portuguese is por, em
per in Spanish is en, por

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