obsolete |
1. adj. (of words, equipment, etc.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often by preference for something newer, which replaces the subject). | |
It is speculated that, within a few years, the Internet's speedy delivery of news worldwide will make newspapers obsolete. | |
2. adj. (biology) Imperfectly developed; not very distinct. | |
3. v. (transitive, US) To cause to become obsolete. | |
This software component has been obsoleted. | |
We are in the process of obsoleting this product. | |
an |
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound | |
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable | |
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable | |
4. conj. (archaic) If | |
5. conj. (archaic) So long as. | |
An it harm none, do what ye will. | |
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though. | |
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri). | |
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per. | |
I was only going twenty miles an hour. | |
example |
1. n. Something that is representative of all such things in a group. | |
2. n. Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule. | |
3. n. Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example). | |
4. n. A person punished as a warning to others. | |
5. n. A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model. | |
6. n. An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule. | |
7. v. To be illustrated or exemplified (by). | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
typical |
1. adj. Capturing the overall sense of a thing. | |
2. adj. Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type. | |
3. adj. Normal, average; to be expected. | |
4. n. Anything that is typical, normal, or standard. | |
Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals. | |
Among the moths, typicals were more common than melanics. | |
instance |
1. n. (obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence. | |
2. n. (obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication. | |
It sends some precious instance of itself/ After the thing it loves. Hamlet IV. v. ca. 1602 | |
3. n. (obsolete) That which is urgent; motive. | |
4. n. Occasion; order of occurrence. | |
5. n. A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example. | |
6. n. One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same. | |
7. n. (obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something). | |
8. n. (computing) In object-oriented programming: a created object, one that has had memory allocated for local data storage; an instantiation of a class. | |
9. n. (massively multiplayer online games) A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area | |
10. n. (massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area. | |
11. v. To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite | |
to instance a fact | |
12. v. (intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify. | |