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Definition of obsolete in English: obsoleteadjective ˈɒbsəliːtˌɑbsəˈlit 1No longer produced or used; out of date. the disposal of old and obsolete machinery the phrase was obsolete after 1625 Example sentencesExamples - Indeed, it's fairly normal to find that many lines in opening books are dated and obsolete even before the book hits the stores!
- What's different now, though, is that feminism appears not so much dead as obsolete.
- By the time you purchase your new laptop - it's probably already obsolete or out of date.
- He is appealing for help from members of the public who own obsolete machines so he can unlock archaic files.
- Two surgeries in the York area have made a huge investment in state-of-the-art machinery which will help to make obsolete the much-feared dentist's drill.
- Isn't it time to declare all such vessels outmoded, obsolete and a danger to peace?
- There is the inevitable small, unvisited museum, with its obsolete heavy American machine guns and twisted bits of aeroplane.
- He feared that she might choose to go back to Casey and that their evening and the date might become obsolete.
- This will provide a boost for farm investment and encourage the replacement of obsolete and unsafe machinery.
- The dumping of obsolete machinery and technology in the third world, especially in India, is destabilising the very economy.
- So here we stand, out in the pasture in very much the same way as the outdated and obsolete horse.
- The meaning of traditional astrological texts is frequently obscured by the use of archaic or obsolete terms.
- Indeed, does the love for sequels indicate that the very idea of artistic newness has become old-fashioned, obsolete?
- Anything that has become obsolete must be discarded and replaced with some thing new and novel.
- Several people - advocates and detractors alike - said rather oddly that in a hundred years time the dams will be obsolete, their machinery exhausted.
- There were widespread concerns that the machines and the equipment they carried were at best old-fashioned and at worst obsolete.
- Apparently the delay is due to some of the components being ancient and obsolete (dating back as far as 1999).
- One minute, happy and in love, the next he felt like a wet newspaper, out of date, obsolete, discarded in the rain.
- When today's technologies are obsolete, the old-fashioned soldier will remain essential.
- If, like me, you'd rather gargle drain cleaner than watch anything to do with our outmoded, obsolete head of state, there are only a few escape routes.
Synonyms out of date, outdated, outmoded, old-fashioned no longer in use, disused, fallen into disuse, superannuated, outworn, antiquated, antediluvian, anachronistic, discarded, discontinued, old, dated, antique, archaic, ancient, fossilized, extinct, defunct, dead, bygone, out of fashion, out, behind the times French démodé, passé, vieux jeu informal old hat, out of the ark, geriatric, prehistoric British informal past its sell-by date 2Biology
(of a part or characteristic of an organism) less developed than formerly or in a related species; rudimentary; vestigial. Example sentencesExamples - In the other three families the maxillary palps are vestigial or obsolete.
- In most other insects the occiput is either obsolete or soldered to the hind part of the epicranium.
Synonyms rudimentary, undeveloped, incomplete, embryonic, immature
verb ˈɒbsəliːtˌɑbsəˈlit [with object]US Cause (a product or idea) to become obsolete by replacing it with something new. we're trying to stimulate the business by obsoleting last year's designs Example sentencesExamples - What happens if the car still has plenty of life in it, which today's high quality almost guarantees, but the electronic technology quickly obsoletes today's whizbang gadgets?
- So what is this magic surveillance technology that confused him and obsoleted the court?
- But even those changes are not being made for the sake of obsoleting anything.
- Obsoleting products such as cell phones purely on the basis of their ‘coolness’ or lack of it will, of course, send the environmentally conscious into a mood of black despair.
- So Dalton declared: ‘the focus is to show not only the progression of the technology but also that customers who have invested in it aren't obsoleting their product.’
- It absolutely obsoletes the conventional automobile if we're right, and if we can get to those cost goals.
- We credit Moore's Law with improving new computers while obsoleting old ones in less time than it takes to grow a crop of asparagus.
- The marriage of edge devices and applications to broadband pipes sold to an increasingly mobile workforce obsoletes legacy voice models.
- Although it has a new chassis, the computer company isn't obsoleting its current systems.
- It's not as if one technology were totally obsoleting the other.
- Ideas about storage architectures are obsoleting long held sacred tenets and myths about backup and archiving.
- ‘We think technology that changes the design of the shoe rather than just the function, like our pump that obsoletes laces, is where the breakthroughs come,’ says Chief Marketing Officer Baldwin.
- It's difficult not to be really impressed with a product that is so improved over its predecessors it obsoletes them.
- From now on, the merged entity will be known as ‘SRCAM ’, obsoleting the old ticker symbols.
- But the roll-out obsoletes the current system in one spectacular sweep, and is particularly aggressive, even for that company.
- They point out that, for customers, obsoleting an investment is not an ‘escape’ but a ‘closed door.’
- Were talking about obsoleting advertising as we know it.
- This single 31 ounce device virtually obsoletes whole families of current bulky (by comparison), radio equipment.
- The company wisely prefers this approach to obsoleting whole regiments of functions, and in fact hasn't carried out a serious purge almost a decade ago.
- There is no current proposal for a multi-phase move that would eventually relocate public safety agencies to the 700 MHz band, thus obsoleting all existing public safety 800 MHz equipment.
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin obsoletus 'grown old, worn out', past participle of obsolescere 'fall into disuse'. Definition of obsolete in US English: obsoleteadjectiveˌɑbsəˈlitˌäbsəˈlēt 1No longer produced or used; out of date. the disposal of old and obsolete machinery the phrase was obsolete after 1625 Example sentencesExamples - When today's technologies are obsolete, the old-fashioned soldier will remain essential.
- This will provide a boost for farm investment and encourage the replacement of obsolete and unsafe machinery.
- One minute, happy and in love, the next he felt like a wet newspaper, out of date, obsolete, discarded in the rain.
- So here we stand, out in the pasture in very much the same way as the outdated and obsolete horse.
- There were widespread concerns that the machines and the equipment they carried were at best old-fashioned and at worst obsolete.
- Indeed, it's fairly normal to find that many lines in opening books are dated and obsolete even before the book hits the stores!
- Isn't it time to declare all such vessels outmoded, obsolete and a danger to peace?
- Indeed, does the love for sequels indicate that the very idea of artistic newness has become old-fashioned, obsolete?
- The meaning of traditional astrological texts is frequently obscured by the use of archaic or obsolete terms.
- Apparently the delay is due to some of the components being ancient and obsolete (dating back as far as 1999).
- Several people - advocates and detractors alike - said rather oddly that in a hundred years time the dams will be obsolete, their machinery exhausted.
- Two surgeries in the York area have made a huge investment in state-of-the-art machinery which will help to make obsolete the much-feared dentist's drill.
- He feared that she might choose to go back to Casey and that their evening and the date might become obsolete.
- The dumping of obsolete machinery and technology in the third world, especially in India, is destabilising the very economy.
- If, like me, you'd rather gargle drain cleaner than watch anything to do with our outmoded, obsolete head of state, there are only a few escape routes.
- By the time you purchase your new laptop - it's probably already obsolete or out of date.
- Anything that has become obsolete must be discarded and replaced with some thing new and novel.
- There is the inevitable small, unvisited museum, with its obsolete heavy American machine guns and twisted bits of aeroplane.
- He is appealing for help from members of the public who own obsolete machines so he can unlock archaic files.
- What's different now, though, is that feminism appears not so much dead as obsolete.
Synonyms out of date, outdated, outmoded, old-fashioned 2Biology
(of a part or characteristic of an organism) less developed than formerly or in a related species; rudimentary; vestigial. Example sentencesExamples - In most other insects the occiput is either obsolete or soldered to the hind part of the epicranium.
- In the other three families the maxillary palps are vestigial or obsolete.
Synonyms rudimentary, undeveloped, incomplete, embryonic, immature
verbˌɑbsəˈlitˌäbsəˈlēt [with object]US Cause (a product or idea) to be or become obsolete by replacing it with something new. we're trying to stimulate the business by obsoleting last year's designs Example sentencesExamples - ‘We think technology that changes the design of the shoe rather than just the function, like our pump that obsoletes laces, is where the breakthroughs come,’ says Chief Marketing Officer Baldwin.
- The marriage of edge devices and applications to broadband pipes sold to an increasingly mobile workforce obsoletes legacy voice models.
- But the roll-out obsoletes the current system in one spectacular sweep, and is particularly aggressive, even for that company.
- So what is this magic surveillance technology that confused him and obsoleted the court?
- Ideas about storage architectures are obsoleting long held sacred tenets and myths about backup and archiving.
- This single 31 ounce device virtually obsoletes whole families of current bulky (by comparison), radio equipment.
- From now on, the merged entity will be known as ‘SRCAM ’, obsoleting the old ticker symbols.
- What happens if the car still has plenty of life in it, which today's high quality almost guarantees, but the electronic technology quickly obsoletes today's whizbang gadgets?
- We credit Moore's Law with improving new computers while obsoleting old ones in less time than it takes to grow a crop of asparagus.
- Obsoleting products such as cell phones purely on the basis of their ‘coolness’ or lack of it will, of course, send the environmentally conscious into a mood of black despair.
- It absolutely obsoletes the conventional automobile if we're right, and if we can get to those cost goals.
- It's difficult not to be really impressed with a product that is so improved over its predecessors it obsoletes them.
- They point out that, for customers, obsoleting an investment is not an ‘escape’ but a ‘closed door.’
- The company wisely prefers this approach to obsoleting whole regiments of functions, and in fact hasn't carried out a serious purge almost a decade ago.
- But even those changes are not being made for the sake of obsoleting anything.
- It's not as if one technology were totally obsoleting the other.
- Were talking about obsoleting advertising as we know it.
- There is no current proposal for a multi-phase move that would eventually relocate public safety agencies to the 700 MHz band, thus obsoleting all existing public safety 800 MHz equipment.
- So Dalton declared: ‘the focus is to show not only the progression of the technology but also that customers who have invested in it aren't obsoleting their product.’
- Although it has a new chassis, the computer company isn't obsoleting its current systems.
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin obsoletus ‘grown old, worn out’, past participle of obsolescere ‘fall into disuse’. |