off-color : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

   obsolesce
         v 1: become obsolete, fall into disuse; "This word has not
               obsolesced, although it is rarely used"

English Dictionary: off-color	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
obsolescence n the process of becoming obsolete; falling into disuse or becoming out of date; "a policy of planned obsolescence"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
obsolescent adj becoming obsolete
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
obsolete adj no longer in use; "obsolete words" [syn: disused, obsolete]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
obsoleteness n the property of being out of date and not current [syn: obsoleteness, superannuation]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
obviously adv unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn" Synonym(s): obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plain
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
off-color adj in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke" Synonym(s): indelicate, off-color, off-colour humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language" Synonym(s): bawdy, off-color, ribald
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
off-colour adj in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke" Synonym(s): indelicate, off-color, off-colour
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
officeholder n someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust; "he is an officer of the court"; "the club elected its officers for the coming year" Synonym(s): officeholder, officer the official who holds an office Synonym(s): incumbent, officeholder
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
official adj having official authority or sanction; "official permission"; "an official representative" Antonym(s): unofficial of or relating to an office; "official privileges" verified officially; "the election returns are now official" conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline; "in prescribed order" Synonym(s): official, prescribed (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution n a worker who holds or is invested with an office [syn: official, functionary] someone who administers the rules of a game or sport; "the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
official document n (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right Synonym(s): legal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
official emissary n a member of a legation Synonym(s): legate, official emissary
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
official immunity n personal immunity accorded to a public official from liability to anyone injured by actions that are the consequence of exerting official authority
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
officialdom n people elected or appointed to administer a government Synonym(s): government officials, officialdom
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
officialese n the style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscure
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
officialise v make official; "We officialized our relationship" [syn: officialize, officialise]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
officialize v make official; "We officialized our relationship" [syn: officialize, officialise]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
officially adv in an official role; "officially, he is in charge"; "officially responsible" Antonym(s): unofficially with official authorization; "the club will be formally recognized" Synonym(s): formally, officially
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
opaquely adv in an opaque manner; "he referred opaquely to her recent past"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ophioglossaceae n a family of succulent ferns of order Ophioglossales; cosmopolitan in distribution Synonym(s): Ophioglossaceae, family Ophioglossaceae
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ophioglossales n coextensive with the family Ophioglossaceae [syn: Ophioglossales, order Ophioglossales]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ophioglossum n the type genus of the fern family Ophioglossaceae [syn: Ophioglossum, genus Ophioglossum]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ophioglossum pendulum n epiphytic fern with straplike usually twisted fronds of tropical Asia and Polynesia and America Synonym(s): ribbon fern, Ophioglossum pendulum
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obsolesce \Ob`so*lesce"\, v. i. [L. obsolescere. See {Obsolescent}.] To become obsolescent. [R.] --Fitzed. Hall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obsolescence \Ob`so*les"cence\, n. [See {Obsolescent}.] The state of becoming obsolete.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obsolescent \Ob`so*les"cent\, a. [L. obsolescens, -entis, p. pr. of obsolescere, to wear out gradually, to fall into disuse; ob (see {Ob-}) + solere to use, be wont.] Going out of use; becoming obsolete; passing into desuetude.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obsolete \Ob"so*lete\, v. i. To become obsolete; to go out of use. [R.] --Fitzed. Hall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obsolete \Ob"so*lete\, a. [L. obsoletus, p. p. of obsolescere. See {Obsolescent}.] 1. No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances. 2. (Biol.) Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive. Syn: Ancient; antiquated; old-fashioned; antique; old; disused; neglected. See {Ancient}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obsoletely \Ob"soletely\, adv. In an obsolete manner.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obsoleteness \Ob"soleteness\, n. 1. The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude. 2. (Biol.) Indistinctness; want of development.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obsoletism \Ob"soletism\, n. A disused word or phrase; an archaism. --Fitzed. Hall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obvious \Ob"vious\, a. [L. obvius; ob (see {Ob-}) + via way. See {Voyage}.] 1. Opposing; fronting. [Obs.] To the evil turn My obvious breast. --Milton. 2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. [Obs.] [bd]Obvious to dispute.[b8] --Milton. 3. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark. Apart and easy to be known they lie, Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye. --Pope. Syn: Plain; clear; evident. See {Manifest}. -- {Ob"viously}, adv. -- {Ob"vious-ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
9. (Chem.) A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formul[91] by a short line or dash. See Diagram of {Benzene nucleus}, and {Valence}. {Arbitration bond}. See under {Arbitration}. {Bond crediter} (Law), a creditor whose debt is secured by a bond. --Blackstone. {Bond debt} (Law), a debt contracted under the obligation of a bond. --Burrows. {Bond} ([or] {lap}) {of a slate}, the distance between the top of one slate and the bottom or drip of the second slate above, i. e., the space which is covered with three thicknesses; also, the distance between the nail of the under slate and the lower edge of the upper slate. {Bond timber}, timber worked into a wall to tie or strengthen it longitudinally. Syn: Chains; fetters; captivity; imprisonment.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Color \Col"or\, n. [Written also {colour}.] [OF. color, colur, colour, F. couleur, L. color; prob. akin to celare to conceal (the color taken as that which covers). See {Helmet}.] 1. A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc. Note: The sensation of color depends upon a peculiar function of the retina or optic nerve, in consequence of which rays of light produce different effects according to the length of their waves or undulations, waves of a certain length producing the sensation of red, shorter waves green, and those still shorter blue, etc. White, or ordinary, light consists of waves of various lengths so blended as to produce no effect of color, and the color of objects depends upon their power to absorb or reflect a greater or less proportion of the rays which fall upon them. 2. Any hue distinguished from white or black. 3. The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. Give color to my pale cheek. --Shak. 4. That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors. 5. That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance. They had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. --Acts xxvii. 30. That he should die is worthy policy; But yet we want a color for his death. --Shak. 6. Shade or variety of character; kind; species. Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. --Shak. 7. A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey). In the United States each regiment of infantry and artillery has two colors, one national and one regimental. --Farrow. 8. (Law) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. --Blackstone. Note: Color is express when it is averred in the pleading, and implied when it is implied in the pleading. {Body color}. See under {Body}. {Color blindness}, total or partial inability to distinguish or recognize colors. See {Daltonism}. {Complementary color}, one of two colors so related to each other that when blended together they produce white light; -- so called because each color makes up to the other what it lacks to make it white. Artificial or pigment colors, when mixed, produce effects differing from those of the primary colors, in consequence of partial absorption. {Of color} (as persons, races, etc.), not of the white race; -- commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. {Primary colors}, those developed from the solar beam by the prism, viz., red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, which are reduced by some authors to three, -- red, green, and violet-blue. These three are sometimes called {fundamental colors}. {Subjective} [or] {Accidental color}, a false or spurious color seen in some instances, owing to the persistence of the luminous impression upon the retina, and a gradual change of its character, as where a wheel perfectly white, and with a circumference regularly subdivided, is made to revolve rapidly over a dark object, the teeth of the wheel appear to the eye of different shades of color varying with the rapidity of rotation. See {Accidental colors}, under {Accidental}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sale \Sale\, n. [Icel. sala, sal, akin to E. sell. See {Sell}, v. t.] 1. The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money. 2. Opportunity of selling; demand; market. They shall have ready sale for them. --Spenser. 3. Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction. --Sir W. Temple. {Bill of sale}. See under {Bill}. {Of sale}, {On sale}, {For sale}, to be bought or sold; offered to purchasers; in the market. {To set to sale}, to offer for sale; to put up for purchase; to make merchandise of. [Obs.] --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Office \Of"fice\, n. [F., fr. L. officium, for opificium; ops ability, wealth, holp + facere to do or make. See {Opulent}, {Fact}.] 1. That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices. I would I could do a good office between you. --Shak. 2. A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office. 3. A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new. Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office. --Rom. xi. 13. 4. That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent beings. They [the eyes] resign their office and their light. --Shak. Hesperus, whose office is to bring Twilight upon the earth. --Milton. In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms. --Sir I. Newton. 5. The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office. 6. The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office. 7. pl. The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. [Eng.] As for the offices, let them stand at distance. --Bacon. 8. (Eccl.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service. This morning was read in the church, after the office was done, the declaration setting forth the late conspiracy against the king's person. --Evelyn. {Holy office}. Same as {Inquisition}, n., 3. {Houses of office}. Same as def. 7 above. --Chaucer. {Little office} (R.C.Ch.), an office recited in honor of the Virgin Mary. {Office bearer}, an officer; one who has a specific office or duty to perform. {Office copy} (Law), an authenticated or certified copy of a record, from the proper office. See {Certified copies}, under {Copy}. --Abbott. {Office-found} (Law), the finding of an inquest of office. See under {Inquest}. {Office holder}. See {Officeholder} in the Vocabulary
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Officeholder \Of"fice*hold"er\, n. An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Official \Of*fi"cial\, n. [L. officialis a magistrate's servant or attendant: cf.F. official. See {Official}, a., and cf. {Officer}.] 1. One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant. 2. An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction. --Blackstone.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Official \Of*fi"cial\, a. [L. officialis: cf. F. officiel. See {Office}, and cf. {Official}, n.] 1. Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine. That, in the official marks invested, you Anon do meet the senate. --Shak. 2. Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; as, an official statement or report. 3. (Pharm.) Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacop[d2]ia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. {Officinal}. 4. Discharging an office or function. [Obs.] The stomach and other parts official unto nutrition. --Sir T. Browne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Officialily \Offi`cial`i*ly\, n. See {Officialty}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Officialism \Offi"cialism\, n. The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. --Smiles.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Officially \Offi"cially\, adv. By the proper officer; by virtue of the proper authority; in pursuance of the special powers vested in an officer or office; as, accounts or reports officially vertified or rendered; letters officially communicated; persons officially notified.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Officialty \Offi"cialty\, n. [Cf.F. officialit[82].] The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. --Ayliffe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Opacular \Opac"ular\, a. Opaque. [Obs.] --Sterne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ophicleide \Oph"i*cleide\, n. [F. ophicl[82]ide, fr. Gr. 'o`fis a serpent + [?], gen. [?], a key. So named because it was in effect the serpent, an old musical instrument, with keys added.] (Mus.) A large brass wind instrument, formerly used in the orchestra and in military bands, having a loud tone, deep pitch, and a compass of three octaves; -- now generally supplanted by bass and contrabass tubas. --Moore (Encyc. of Music).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Snakewood \Snake"wood`\, n. (Bot.) (a) An East Indian climbing plant ({Strychnos colubrina}) having a bitter taste, and supposed to be a remedy for the bite of the hooded serpent. (b) An East Indian climbing shrub ({Ophioxylon serpentinum}) which has the roots and stems twisted so as to resemble serpents. (c) Same as {Trumpetwood}. (d) A tropical American shrub ({Plumieria rubra}) which has very fragrant red blossoms. (e) Same as {Letterwood}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Opposal \Op*pos"al\, n. Opposition. [R.] --Sir T. Herbert.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Opposeless \Op*pose"less\, a. Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. [Obs.] [bd]Your great opposeless wills.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Opuscle \Opus"cle\, Opuscule \Opus"cule\, n. [L. opusculum, dim. of opus work: cf. F. opuscule.] A small or petty work.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Opusculum \[d8]Opus"culum\, n.; pl. {Opuscula}. [L.] An opuscule. --Smart.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Opuscle \Opus"cle\, Opuscule \Opus"cule\, n. [L. opusculum, dim. of opus work: cf. F. opuscule.] A small or petty work.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ovicell \O"vi*cell`\, n. [Ovum + cell.] (Zo[94]l) One of the dilatations of the body wall of Bryozoa in which the ova sometimes undegro the first stages of their development. See Illust. of {Chilostoma}.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
Of Slang, Jargon, and Techspeak Linguists usually refer to informal language as `slang' and reserve the term `jargon' for the technical vocabularies of various occupations. However, the ancestor of this collection was called the `Jargon File', and hacker slang is traditionally `the jargon'. When talking about the jargon there is therefore no convenient way to distinguish it from what a _linguist_ would call hackers' jargon -- the formal vocabulary they learn from textbooks, technical papers, and manuals. To make a confused situation worse, the line between hacker slang and the vocabulary of technical programming and computer science is fuzzy, and shifts over time. Further, this vocabulary is shared with a wider technical culture of programmers, many of whom are not hackers and do not speak or recognize hackish slang. Accordingly, this lexicon will try to be as precise as the facts of usage permit about the distinctions among three categories: * `slang': informal language from mainstream English or non-technical subcultures (bikers, rock fans, surfers, etc). * `jargon': without qualifier, denotes informal `slangy' language peculiar to or predominantly found among hackers -- the subject of this lexicon. * `techspeak': the formal technical vocabulary of programming, computer science, electronics, and other fields connected to hacking. This terminology will be consistently used throughout the remainder of this lexicon. The jargon/techspeak distinction is the delicate one. A lot of techspeak originated as jargon, and there is a steady continuing uptake of jargon into techspeak. On the other hand, a lot of jargon arises from overgeneralization of techspeak terms (there is more about this in the {Jargon Construction} section below). In general, we have considered techspeak any term that communicates primarily by a denotation well established in textbooks, technical dictionaries, or standards documents. A few obviously techspeak terms (names of operating systems, languages, or documents) are listed when they are tied to hacker folklore that isn't covered in formal sources, or sometimes to convey critical historical background necessary to understand other entries to which they are cross-referenced. Some other techspeak senses of jargon words are listed in order to make the jargon senses clear; where the text does not specify that a straight technical sense is under discussion, these are marked with `[techspeak]' as an etymology. Some entries have a primary sense marked this way, with subsequent jargon meanings explained in terms of it. We have also tried to indicate (where known) the apparent origins of terms. The results are probably the least reliable information in the lexicon, for several reasons. For one thing, it is well known that many hackish usages have been independently reinvented multiple times, even among the more obscure and intricate neologisms. It often seems that the generative processes underlying hackish jargon formation have an internal logic so powerful as to create substantial parallelism across separate cultures and even in different languages! For another, the networks tend to propagate innovations so quickly that `first use' is often impossible to pin down. And, finally, compendia like this one alter what they observe by implicitly stamping cultural approval on terms and widening their use. Despite these problems, the organized collection of jargon-related oral history for the new compilations has enabled us to put to rest quite a number of folk etymologies, place credit where credit is due, and illuminate the early history of many important hackerisms such as {kluge}, {cruft}, and {foo}. We believe specialist lexicographers will find many of the historical notes more than casually instructive.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Objlog A {frame}-based language combining {object}s and {Prolog II} from {CNRS}, Marseille, France. ["The Inheritance Processes in Prolog", C. Chouraki et al, GRTC/187bis/Mars 1987 (CNRS)]. E-mail: . (1994-10-28)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Official Production System (OPS) The first {production system} (i.e. rule based) programming language, developed at {CMU} in 1970 and used for building {expert systems}. OPS was originally written in {Franz Lisp} and later ported to other {LISP} dialects. (2003-04-05)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
OOPSLA Conference on Object-oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications.