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312. Obsolete - GRE Vocabulary - Obsolete / Obsolescent

by 정이로운 잉여생활 2022. 10. 14.
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Obsolete : 더 이상 쓸모가 없는, 한물간, 구식의, (미국)더 이상 쓸모없게 만들다, 못 쓰게 하다, (생물학 진화등에 의해)사용되지 않는

Obsolescent :  구식의, 쇠퇴해가는, 사용되지 않는, 퇴행성의, 폐퇴성의

Obsolescence : 노후화, 진부화, 구식화

Build-in obsolescence : 내장된 노후화 (냉장고 식기세척기 등 기계의 수명을 내장시켜둔것)

 

1)

If something is obsolete, it's something that's not in use anymore

something that is replaced by something new, by something better, by soemthing fashionable

lamps, candles has been obsolete since the invention of electricity and electric lights

the invention of tractor made the horse nearly obsolete

old things become obsolete by developying new technologies

typewriter is now obsolete by inventing keyboard

something that is obsolescent, it's no longer used

it's in disuse

an obsolescent steam engine, nowadays they use diesel electric trains

obsolete, antiiquated, no longer used, outmoded, gone out of fashion

obsolete technologies

obsolete words

obsolete farming methods

vestigial something from the past that no longer happens

obsolete equipment

obsolete products

 

2)

I heard, American peopl used this word obsolete as a verb, to obsolete

we are obsoleting this product, we are going to stop using it

 

3)

you can also use it obsolete in biology

to talk about some characteristic, a species and a group of animals used to have

we no longer have tails, I think the tail become obsolete

 

4)

build-in obsolescence, where you buy a fridge or a washing machine

this phrase commonly used for obsolescence

 

 

Formality : 5 - 5.5

 

 

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