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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.
dramatic
1. adj. Of or relating to the drama.
2. adj. Striking in appearance or effect.
3. adj. Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.
performance
1. n. The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.
the performance of an undertaking or a duty
2. n. That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character.
3. n. (arts) A live show or concert.
4. n. The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc.
Better performance means more work accomplished in shorter time and/or using fewer resources.
by
1. prep. Near or next to.
The mailbox is by the bus stop.
2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval.
Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July.
3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of.
The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour.
4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare
5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of.
6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of.
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination.
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight.
8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed.
I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.
9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of.
Our stock is up by ten percent.
10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches.
11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to.
He cheated by his own admission.
12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of.
By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.
13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm.
14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.
15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker.
I watched as it passed by.
16. adv. In the vicinity, near.
There was a shepherd close by.
The shop is hard by the High Street.
17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
I'll stop by on my way home from work.
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave.
18. adv. Aside, away.
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.
19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary.
20. n. (card games) A pass
21. interj. alternative spelling of bye
actors
1. n. plural of actor
actor
1. n. A person who performs in a theatrical play or film.
2. n. One who acts; a doer.
3. n. One who takes part in a situation.
4. n. (legal) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
5. n. (legal) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.
6. n. (policy debate) One who enacts a certain policy action.
7. n. (software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
masks
1. n. plural of mask
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of mask
mask
1. n. A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask
2. n. That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
3. n. A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade
4. n. A person wearing a mask.
5. n. (obsolete) A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
6. n. (architecture) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.
7. n. (fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
8. n. (fortification) A screen for a battery
9. n. (zoology) The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
10. n. (Puebloan, anthropology) A ceremonial object used in Puebloan kachina cults that resembles a Euro-American masks. (The term is objected as an appropriate translation by Puebloan peoples as it emphasiz
11. n. (computing, programming) A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
12. n. (computer graphics) A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.
13. n. (heraldiccharge) The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
14. v. To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.
15. v. To disguise; to cover; to hide.
16. v. (transitive, military) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
17. v. (transitive, military) To cover or keep in check.
to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out
18. v. (intransitive) To take part as a masker in a masquerade
19. v. (intransitive) To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way
20. v. (transitive, computing) To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.
21. v. (transitive, computing) To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by unsetting the associated bit.
22. n. A mesh.
23. n. (UK dialectal, Scotland) The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.
24. n. (UK dialectal) Mash.
25. v. (transitive, UK dialectal) To mash.
26. v. (transitive, UK dialectal) (brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.
27. v. (transitive, Scotland dialectal) To be infused or steeped.
28. v. (UK dialectal, Scotland) To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.
29. v. (transitive, UK dialectal) To bewilder; confuse.
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.
mask
1. n. A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask
2. n. That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
3. n. A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade
4. n. A person wearing a mask.
5. n. (obsolete) A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
6. n. (architecture) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.
7. n. (fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
8. n. (fortification) A screen for a battery
9. n. (zoology) The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
10. n. (Puebloan, anthropology) A ceremonial object used in Puebloan kachina cults that resembles a Euro-American masks. (The term is objected as an appropriate translation by Puebloan peoples as it emphasiz
11. n. (computing, programming) A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
12. n. (computer graphics) A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.
13. n. (heraldiccharge) The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
14. v. To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.
15. v. To disguise; to cover; to hide.
16. v. (transitive, military) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
17. v. (transitive, military) To cover or keep in check.
to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out
18. v. (intransitive) To take part as a masker in a masquerade
19. v. (intransitive) To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way
20. v. (transitive, computing) To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.
21. v. (transitive, computing) To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by unsetting the associated bit.
22. n. A mesh.
23. n. (UK dialectal, Scotland) The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.
24. n. (UK dialectal) Mash.
25. v. (transitive, UK dialectal) To mash.
26. v. (transitive, UK dialectal) (brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.
27. v. (transitive, Scotland dialectal) To be infused or steeped.
28. v. (UK dialectal, Scotland) To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.
29. v. (transitive, UK dialectal) To bewilder; confuse.

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