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. | |
array |
1. n. Clothing and ornamentation. | |
2. n. A collection laid out to be viewed in full. | |
3. n. An orderly series, arrangement or sequence. | |
4. n. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle. | |
drawn up in battle array | |
5. n. A large collection. | |
We offer a dazzling array of choices. | |
6. n. (mathematics) Common name for matrix. | |
7. n. (programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may b | |
8. n. (legal) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court. | |
9. n. (military) A militia. | |
10. n. A group of hedgehogs.(cite, url=http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/collective/h/?view=uk, title=AskOxford: H, accessdate=2019-12-23, work=archived copy of Collective Terms for Groups of Animals, p | |
11. n. A microarray. | |
12. v. To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire. | |
He was arrayed in his finest robes and jewels. | |
13. v. To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal. | |
14. v. (legal) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time. | |
order |
1. n. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence. | |
2. n. A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence. | |
3. n. The state of being well arranged. | |
The house is in order; the machinery is out of order. | |
4. n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet. | |
to preserve order in a community or an assembly | |
5. n. A command. | |
6. n. A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods. | |
7. n. A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles | |
St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537. | |
8. n. An association of knights | |
the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath. | |
9. n. any group of people with common interests. | |
10. n. A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity. | |
11. n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank. | |
Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales. | |
12. n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort. | |
the higher or lower orders of society | |
talent of a high order | |
13. n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural. | |
to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry | |
14. n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic featu | |
15. n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order. | |
16. n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc. | |
a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter. | |
17. n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products. | |
18. n. (set theory) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set. | |
19. n. (group theory, of an element of a group) For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gn = e, where e is the id | |
20. n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph. | |
21. n. (order theory) A partially ordered set. | |
22. n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set. | |
23. n. (algebra) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial. | |
A quadratic polynomial,a x^2 + b x +c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2. | |
24. v. To set in some sort of order. | |
25. v. To arrange, set in proper order. | |
26. v. To issue a command to. | |
to order troops to advance | |
He ordered me to leave. | |
27. v. To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order. | |
to order groceries | |
28. v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry. | |
arrangement |
1. n. The act of arranging. | |
2. n. The manner of being arranged. | |
3. n. A collection of things that have been arranged. | |
4. n. A particular way in which items are organized. | |
5. n. (in the plural) Preparations for some undertaking. | |
6. n. An agreement. | |
7. n. (music) An adaptation of a piece of music for other instruments, or in another style. | |
dress |
1. n. An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist. | |
Amy and Mary looked very pretty in their dresses. | |
2. n. Apparel, clothing. | |
He came to the party in formal dress. | |
3. n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone. | |
4. n. A dress rehearsal. | |
5. v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready. | |
6. v. To adorn, ornament. | |
It was time to dress the windows for Christmas again. | |
7. v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when "dressed full", the signal flags and pennants are added. | |
8. v. To treat (a wound, or wounded person). | |
9. v. To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it. | |
10. v. To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone). | |
He was dressed in the latest fashions. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes. | |
I rose and dressed before daybreak. It's very cold out. Dress warm. | |
12. v. (sports) To put on the uniform and equipment necessary to play the game. | |
Due to a left ankle sprain, Kobe Bryant did not dress for the game against Indiana | |
13. v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other within the trousers. | |
Does sir dress to the right or the left? | |
14. v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready. | |
to dress leather or cloth; to dress a garden; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them | |
15. v. To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber). | |
16. v. To bolt or sift flour. | |
17. v. (military, ambitransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align. Sometimes an imperative command. | |
to dress the ranks | |
Right, dress! | |
18. v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal. | |