| 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. | |
| seminal |
| 1. adj. Of or relating to seed or semen. | |
| 2. adj. Creative or having the power to originate. | |
| 3. adj. Highly influential, especially in some original way, and providing a basis for future development or research. | |
| "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was a seminal work in the modern philosophy of science. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) A seed. | |
| State |
| 1. n. A current governing polity. | |
| 2. n. (often with definite article) The current governing polity under which the speaker lives. | |
| 3. n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. | |
| a state of being; a state of emergency | |
| 4. n. (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system. | |
| 5. n. (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle. | |
| In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus. | |
| 6. n. (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation. | |
| The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far. | |
| 7. n. (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation. | |
| A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint. | |
| 8. n. (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating | |
| 10. n. High social standing or circumstance. | |
| 11. n. Pomp, ceremony, or dignity. | |
| The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol. | |
| 12. n. Rank; condition; quality. | |
| 13. n. Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance. | |
| 14. n. A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself. | |
| 15. n. (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince. | |
| 16. n. (obsolete) Estate, possession. | |
| 17. n. A polity. | |
| 18. n. Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government. | |
| 19. n. A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States or Germany; (by extension, informal, US) any provi | |
| 20. n. (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy. | |
| 21. n. (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government. | |
| 22. n. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process. | |
| 23. v. To declare to be a fact. | |
| He stated that he was willing to help. | |
| 24. v. To make known. | |
| State your intentions. | |
| 25. adj. (obsolete) stately | |
| 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. | |
| polity |
| 1. n. (politics) An organizational structure of the government of a state, church, etc. | |
| 2. n. (political science) A politically organized unit; a state. | |
| Different nations have different forms of polities, from provinces and states to territories and municipalities. | |
