Old Definition–adjective | 1. | far advanced in the years of one's or its life: an old man; an old horse; an old tree. | | 2. | of or pertaining to the latter part of the life or term of existence of a person or thing: old age. | | 3. | as if or appearing to be far advanced in years: Worry had made him old. | | 4. | having lived or existed for a specified time: a man 30 years old; a century-old organization. | | 5. | having lived or existed as specified with relation to younger or newer persons or things: Jim is our oldest boy. | | 6. | having been aged for a specified time: This whiskey is eight years old. | | 7. | having been aged for a comparatively long time: old brandy. | | 8. | long known or in use: the same old excuse. | | 9. | overfamiliar to the point of tedium: Some jokes get old fast. | | 10. | belonging to the past: the good old days. | | 11. | having been in existence since the distant past: a fine old family. | | 12. | no longer in general use: This typewriter is an old model. | | 13. | acquired, made, or in use by one prior to the acquisition, making, or use of something more recent: When the new house was built, we sold the old one. | | 14. | of, pertaining to, or originating at an earlier period or date: old maps. | | 15. | prehistoric; ancient: There may have been an old land bridge between Asia and Alaska. | | 16. | (initial capital letter ) (of a language) in its oldest known period, as attested by the earliest written records: Old Czech. | | 17. | experienced: He's an old hand at welding. | | 18. | of long standing; having been such for a comparatively long time: an old and trusted employee. | | 19. | (of colors) dull, faded, or subdued: old rose. | | 20. | deteriorated through age or long use; worn, decayed, or dilapidated: old clothes. | | 21. |
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Physical Geography. (of landforms) far advanced in reduction by erosion or the like. | | 22. | sedate, sensible, mature, or wise: That child seems old beyond his years. | | 23. | (used to indicate affection, familiarity, disparagement, or a personalization): good old Bob; that dirty old jalopy. | | 24. | Informal. (used as an intensive) great; uncommon: a high old time. | | 25. | former; having been so formerly: a dinner for his old students. | –noun | 26. | (used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually prec. by the): appropriations to care for the old. | | 27. | a person or animal of a specified age or age group (used in combination): a class for six-year-olds; a horse race for three-year-olds. | | 28. | old or former time, often time long past: days of old. | |
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School Definition–noun | 1. | an institution where instruction is g
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iven, esp. to persons under college age: The children are at school. | | 2. | an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field. | | 3. | a college or university. | | 4. | a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction: summer school. | | 5. | a session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school. | | 6. | the activity or process of learning under instruction, esp. at a school for the young: As a child, I never liked school. | | 7. | one's formal education: They plan to be married when he finishes school. | | 8. | a building housing a school. | | 9. | the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution: The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium. | | 10. | a building, room, etc., in a university, set apart for the use of one of the faculties or for some particular purpose: the school of agriculture. | | 11. | a particular faculty or department of a university having the right to recommend candidates for degrees, and usually beginning its program of instruction after the student has completed general education: medical school. | | 12. | any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything. | | 13. | the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.: the Platonic school of philosophy. | | 14. | Art. | a. | a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence: the modern school; the Florentine school. | | b. | the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity: the French school. | | | 15. | any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs. | | 16. | Military, Navy. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual (school of the soldier), the squad (school of the squad), or the like. | | 17. | Australian and New Zealand Informal. a group of people gathered together, esp. for gambling or drinking. | | 18. | schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university. | | 19. | Obsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university. | –adjective | 20. | of or connected with a school or schools. | | 21. | Obsolete. of the schoolmen. | –verb (used with object) | 22. | to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train. | | 23. | Archaic. to reprimand. | From DictionaryHip Definition–noun | 1. | the projecting part of each side of the body formed by the side of the pelvis and the upper part of the femur and the flesh covering them; haunch. | | 3. | Architecture. the inclined projecting angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end, or of two adjacent sloping sides, of a roof. | | 4. | Furniture. knee (def. 6). | –adjective | 5. | (esp. of a garment) extending to the hips; hiplength: hip boots. | –verb (used with object) | 6. | (esp. of livestock) to injure or dislocate the hip of. | | 7. | Architecture. to form (a roof) with a hip or hips. | —Idioms | 8. | shoot from the hip, Informal. to speak or act bluntly or rashly, without deliberation or pr
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udence: Diplomats are trained to conduct themselves with discretion, and not to shoot from the hip. | | 9. | smite hip and thigh, to attack unmercifully; overcome. Judg. 15:8. | |
From DictionaryHop Definition–verb (used without object) | 1. | to make a short, bouncing leap; move by leaping with all feet off the ground. |
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| 2. | to spring or leap on one foot. | | 3. | Informal. to make a short, quick trip, esp. in an airplane: He hopped up to Boston for the day. | | 4. | Informal. to travel or move frequently from one place or situation to another (usually used in combination): to island-hop; to job-hop. | –verb (used with object) | 6. | to jump over; clear with a hop: The sheep hopped the fence. | | 7. | Informal. to board or get onto a vehicle: to hop a plane. | | 8. | Informal. to cross in an airplane: We hopped the Atlantic in five hours. | –noun | 9. | an act of hopping; short leap. | | 11. | a journey, esp. a short trip by air. | | 12. | Informal. a dance or dancing party. | | 13. | a bounce or rebound of a moving object, as a ball: She caught the ball on the first hop. | —Idiom | 14. | hop to it, Informal. to begin to move, become active, or do something immediately: You'd better hop to it if you intend to buy groceries before the market closes. Also, hop to. | |
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