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. | |
to |
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
I want to leave. | |
He asked me what to do. | |
I don’t know how to say it. | |
I have places to go and people to see. | |
2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
I have to do laundry today. | |
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
We are walking to the shop. | |
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
He devoted himself to education. | |
They drank to his health. | |
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
one to one = 1:1 | |
ten to one = 10:1. | |
I have ten dollars to your four. | |
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
Three to the power of two is nine. | |
Three to the second is nine. | |
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
I gave the book to him. | |
12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
Please push the door to. | |
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
17. adv. misspelling of too | |
render |
1. v. (ditransitive) To cause to become. | |
The shot rendered her immobile. | |
2. v. To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of. | |
The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully. | |
3. v. To translate into another language. | |
to render Latin into English | |
4. v. To pass down. | |
render a verdict (i.e., deliver a judgment) | |
5. v. To make over as a return. | |
They had to render the estate. | |
6. v. To give; to give back; to deliver. | |
render aid; render money | |
to render an account of what really happened | |
7. v. to give up; to yield; to surrender. | |
8. v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media. | |
rendering images | |
9. v. To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially. | |
10. v. To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct. | |
rendering of fat into soap | |
11. v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking. | |
Bacon is very fatty when raw; however, most of the fat will render during cooking. | |
12. v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. | |
to render with stucco | |
13. v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc. | |
A rope renders well, that is, passes freely. | |
14. v. (nautical) To yield or give way. | |
15. v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore. | |
16. v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite. | |
17. n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls). | |
18. n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model. | |
A low-resolution render might look blocky. | |
19. n. (obsolete) A surrender. | |
20. n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent. | |
21. n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement. | |
22. n. One who rends. | |
null |
1. n. A non-existent or empty value or set of values. | |
2. n. Zero quantity of expressions; nothing. | |
3. n. Something that has no force or meaning. | |
4. n. (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (sc=Latinx, ␀), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator. | |
5. n. (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value. | |
Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null. | |
6. n. One of the beads in nulled work. | |
7. n. (statistics) null hypothesis | |
8. adj. Having no validity; "null and void". | |
9. adj. Insignificant. | |
10. adj. Absent or non-existent. | |
11. adj. (mathematics) Of the null set. | |
12. adj. (mathematics) Of or comprising a value of precisely zero. | |
13. adj. (genetics, of a mutation) Causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic. | |
14. v. (transitive, archaic) To nullify; to annul. | |
15. v. To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe. | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
void |
1. adj. Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled. | |
2. adj. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc. | |
3. adj. Being without; destitute; devoid. | |
4. adj. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain. | |
5. adj. Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification. | |
null and void | |
6. adj. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul. | |
7. adj. (computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value. | |
8. n. An empty space; a vacuum. | |
Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go. | |
9. n. (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies | |
10. n. (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice. | |
11. n. (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation. | |
12. v. To make invalid or worthless. | |
He voided the check and returned it. | |
13. v. (transitive, medicine) To empty. | |
void one’s bowels | |
14. v. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge. | |
to void excrement | |
15. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw, depart. | |
16. v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave. | |
to void a table | |
17. n. (now rare, historical) A voidee. | |