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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.
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
render
1. v. (ditransitive) To cause to become.
The shot rendered her immobile.
2. v. To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully.
3. v. To translate into another language.
to render Latin into English
4. v. To pass down.
render a verdict (i.e., deliver a judgment)
5. v. To make over as a return.
They had to render the estate.
6. v. To give; to give back; to deliver.
render aid; render money
to render an account of what really happened
7. v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
8. v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
rendering images
9. v. To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
10. v. To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
rendering of fat into soap
11. v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
Bacon is very fatty when raw; however, most of the fat will render during cooking.
12. v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
to render with stucco
13. v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
A rope renders well, that is, passes freely.
14. v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
15. v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
16. v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
17. n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
18. n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
A low-resolution render might look blocky.
19. n. (obsolete) A surrender.
20. n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
21. n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
22. n. One who rends.
null
1. n. A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
2. n. Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
3. n. Something that has no force or meaning.
4. n. (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (sc=Latinx, ␀), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
5. n. (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null.
6. n. One of the beads in nulled work.
7. n. (statistics) null hypothesis
8. adj. Having no validity; "null and void".
9. adj. Insignificant.
10. adj. Absent or non-existent.
11. adj. (mathematics) Of the null set.
12. adj. (mathematics) Of or comprising a value of precisely zero.
13. adj. (genetics, of a mutation) Causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
14. v. (transitive, archaic) To nullify; to annul.
15. v. To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe.
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
void
1. adj. Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
2. adj. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
3. adj. Being without; destitute; devoid.
4. adj. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
5. adj. Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
null and void
6. adj. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
7. adj. (computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value.
8. n. An empty space; a vacuum.
Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
9. n. (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies
10. n. (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
11. n. (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
12. v. To make invalid or worthless.
He voided the check and returned it.
13. v. (transitive, medicine) To empty.
void one’s bowels
14. v. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
to void excrement
15. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw, depart.
16. v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
to void a table
17. n. (now rare, historical) A voidee.

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