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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.
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.
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