| 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. | |
| passage |
| 1. n. A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning. | |
| passage of scripture | |
| She struggled to play the difficult passages. | |
| 2. n. Part of a path or journey. | |
| He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers. | |
| 3. n. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament. | |
| The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act. | |
| 4. n. (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works. | |
| 5. n. A passageway or corridor. | |
| 6. n. (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide. | |
| 7. n. (euphemistic) The vagina. | |
| 8. n. The act of passing | |
| 9. v. (medicine) To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium | |
| He passaged the virus through a series of goats. | |
| After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate. | |
| 10. v. (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross | |
| They passaged to America in 1902. | |
| 11. n. (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working tro | |
| 12. v. (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement | |
| route |
| 1. n. A course or way which is traveled or passed. | |
| The route was used so much that it formed a rut. | |
| You need to find a route that you can take between these two obstacles. | |
| 2. n. A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation. | |
| We live near the bus route. | |
| Here is a map of our delivery routes. | |
| 3. n. A road or path; often specifically a highway. | |
| Follow Route 49 out of town. | |
| 4. n. (figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something. | |
| 5. n. (historical) One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits. | |
| 6. n. (Computing) A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives. | |
| 7. v. To direct or divert along a particular course. | |
| All incoming mail was routed through a single office. | |
| 8. v. (Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet. | |
| 9. v. (computing, transitive) To send (information) through a router. | |
