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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.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
contortion
1. n. The act of contorting, twisting or deforming something, especially oneself.
2. n. A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
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.
twist
1. n. A twisting force.
2. n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
3. n. The form given in twisting.
4. n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
5. n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
6. n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
7. n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
8. n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
9. n. (authorship) An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
10. n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Wikipedia:Twist (dance)
11. n. A rotation of the body when diving.
12. n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
13. n. (obsolete) A twig.
14. n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
15. n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
16. n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
Damascus twist
17. n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
18. n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
19. n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
a twist toward fanaticism
20. v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
21. v. To join together by twining one part around another.
22. v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
23. v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
24. v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
25. v. To turn a knob etc.
26. v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
27. v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
28. v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
29. v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
30. v. To cause to rotate.
31. v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
32. v. To coax.
33. v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

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