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. | |
knowledge |
1. n. The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc. | |
His knowledge of Iceland was limited to what he'd seen on the Travel Channel. | |
2. n. Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something. | |
3. n. Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information. | |
Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions. | |
4. n. Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc. | |
Does your friend have any knowledge of hieroglyphs, perchance? | |
A secretary should have a good knowledge of shorthand. | |
5. n. (philosophical) Justified true belief | |
6. n. (archaic, or legal) Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge). | |
7. n. (obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice. | |
8. n. The total of what is known; all information and products of learning. | |
His library contained the accumulated knowledge of the Greeks and Romans. | |
9. n. Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science. | |
10. n. (obsolete) Acknowledgement. | |
11. n. (obsolete) Notice, awareness. | |
12. n. (informal) The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England. | |
13. v. (obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge. | |
formed |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of form | |
form |
1. n. To do with shape.: | |
2. n. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person. | |
3. n. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold. | |
4. n. (dated) A long bench with no back. | |
5. n. (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. | |
6. n. (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. | |
7. n. (social) To do with structure or procedure. | |
8. n. An order of doing things, as in religious ritual. | |
9. n. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula. | |
10. n. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system. | |
a republican form of government | |
11. n. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality. | |
a matter of mere form | |
12. n. (archaic) A class or rank in society. | |
13. n. (UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area). | |
14. n. (education) A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form). | |
15. n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. | |
To apply for the position, complete the application form. | |
16. n. Level of performance. | |
The team's form has been poor this year. | |
The orchestra was on top form this evening. | |
17. n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech. | |
participial forms; verb forms | |
18. n. The den or home of a hare. | |
19. n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box. | |
20. n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank. | |
21. n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase. | |
22. n. (geometry) A quantic. | |
23. n. (sports) A specific way of performing a movement. | |
24. v. To assume (a certain shape or visible structure). | |
When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies. | |
25. v. To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person. | |
Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet. | |
26. v. (intransitive) To take shape. | |
When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy. | |
27. v. To put together or bring into being; assemble. | |
The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government. | |
Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960. | |
28. v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation. | |
By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective. | |
29. v. To constitute, to compose, to make up. | |
Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders. | |
30. v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline. | |
Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality. | |
31. v. To provide (a hare) with a form. | |
32. v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead pero | |
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. | |
advance |
1. v. To promote or advantage. | |
2. v. To help the progress of (something); to further. | |
3. v. To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote. | |
4. v. To move forward in space or time. | |
5. v. To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully. | |
6. v. To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To move forwards; to approach. | |
8. v. To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend. | |
9. v. To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose. | |
10. v. (intransitive) To make progress; to do well, to succeed. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To move forward in time; to progress towards completion. | |
12. v. To raise, be raised. | |
13. v. (transitive, now archaic) To raise; to lift or elevate. | |
14. v. To raise or increase (a price, rate). | |
15. v. To increase (a number or amount). | |
16. v. (intransitive) To make a higher bid at an auction. | |
17. n. A forward move; improvement or progression. | |
an advance in health or knowledge | |
an advance in rank or office | |
18. n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement. | |
19. n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value. | |
an advance on the prime cost of goods | |
20. n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature. | |
21. adj. Completed before need or a milestone event. | |
He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith. | |
22. adj. Preceding. | |
The advance man came a month before the candidate. | |
23. adj. Forward. | |
The scouts found a site for an advance base. | |
foresight |
1. n. The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future. | |
Having the foresight to prepare an evacuation plan may have saved their lives. | |
2. n. the front sight on a rifle or similar weapon | |
3. n. (surveying) a bearing taken forwards towards a new object | |
presaging |
1. v. present participle of presage | |
2. n. A premonition or prognostication. | |
My presagings of his downfall soon proved accurate. | |
presage |
1. n. A warning of a future event; an omen. | |
2. n. An intuition of a future event; a presentiment. | |
3. v. To predict or foretell something. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To make a prediction. | |
5. v. To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow. | |