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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.
comparable
1. adj. (often with to) Able to be compared (to).
An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus.
You can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable.
2. adj. (often with to) Similar (to); like.
3. adj. (mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.
Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not.
4. adj. (grammar) Said of an adjective that has a comparative and superlative form.
"Big" is a comparable adjective, since it can take the forms "bigger" and "biggest"; but "unique" is not comparable, except in disputed, but common, usage.
5. n. Something suitable for comparison.
bearing
1. v. present participle of bear
2. adj. (in combination) That bears (some specified thing).
a gift-bearing visitor
3. adj. Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.
That's a bearing wall.
4. n. A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.
5. n. (navigation, nautical) The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction.
6. n. Relevance; a relationship or connection.
That has no bearing on this issue.
7. n. One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
She walks with a confident, self-assured bearing.
8. n. (in the plural) Direction or relative position.
9. n. (architecture) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
A lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.
10. n. (architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
11. n. (architecture, proscribed) The unsupported span.
The beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
12. n. (heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
bear
1. n. A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae.
2. n. (figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
3. n. (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
4. n. (slang) A state policeman (short for smokey bear).
5. n. (slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
6. n. (engineering) A portable punching machine.
7. n. (nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
8. n. (cartomancy) The fifteenth Lenormand card.
9. v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
to bear a railroad stock
to bear the market
10. adj. (finance, investments) Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices will fall.
The great bear market starting in 1929 scared a whole generation of investors.
11. v. To support or sustain; to hold up.
This stone bears most of the weight.
12. v. To carry something.
13. v. To be equipped with (something).
the right to bear arms
14. v. To wear or display.
The shield bore a red cross.
15. v. (transitive, with witness) To declare as testimony.
The jury could see he was bearing false witness.
16. v. To put up with something.
I would never move to Texas—I can't bear heat.
Please bear with me as I try to find the book you need.
17. v. To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).
In Troy she becomes Paris’ wife, bearing him several children, all of whom die in infancy.
18. v. To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
19. v. (intransitive) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
The harbour bears north by northeast.
By my readings, we're bearing due south, so we should turn about ten degrees east.
Great Falls bears north of Bozeman.
We are bearing toward the north side of the island.
20. v. (intransitive) To veer slightly in one direction (left or right, usually at a fork in the road)
21. v. (intransitive) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
22. v. (intransitive) To endure with patience; to be patient.
23. v. (intransitive, usually with on, upon, or against) To press.
24. v. (intransitive military, usually with on or upon) Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target.
25. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.
to bring arguments to bear
How does this bear on the question?
26. v. To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
27. v. (transitive, obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).
28. v. To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
29. v. To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
30. v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain or win.
31. v. To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
32. v. To carry on, or maintain; to have.
33. v. To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
34. v. (reflexive, transitive) To behave or conduct (oneself).
35. v. To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
36. n. (colloquial) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
That window can be a bear to open.
37. n. alternative spelling of bere barley.
comparison
1. n. The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them
2. n. An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each-other.
He made a careful comparison of the available products before buying anything.
3. n. With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
There really is no comparison between the performance of today's computers and those of a decade ago.
4. n. (grammar) The ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees, as in hot, hotter, hottest.
5. n. That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
6. n. (rhetoric) A simile.
7. n. (phrenology) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.

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