What's the difference between lode and obsolete?

Lode


Definition:

  • (n.) A water course or way; a reach of water.
  • (n.) A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3 Turn left to follow the path, keeping Monk's Lode on your left.
  • (2) A 1971-72 study of the Nevada Carson River drainage system by the Geological Survey, U.S. Department of Interior, revealed substantial amounts of mercury from pre-1900 gold and silver milling operations of the Comstock Lode.
  • (3) Isolated in Ivory Coast: S. dabou (8,20:Z4,Z23,l,W), S. elokate (9,12:c:1,7), S. assinie (3,10:1,w:Z5), S. anna (13,23:Z35:e,n,Z16), S. mpouto (16:m,t:-), S. banco (28:r:1,7), S. abidjan (38:b:l,w); in Senegal: S. bignona (17:b:e,n,Z15), S. lode (17:r:1,2), S. derkle (52,e,h:1,7); in Tchad: S. moussoro (1,6,14,25:i:e,n,Z15), S. drogana (1,4,12,27:r,i:e,n,Z15); in Algeria: S. hydra (21:c:1,6); in Haute-Volta S. farakan (28:Z10:1,5); in Republique Centrafricaine: S. babili (28:Z35:1,7).
  • (4) The samples of 2 lode quartz and 4 sand quartz originated from different mines in Poland were used for the experiment.
  • (5) This valuable lode of research findings offers a basis for comparing the developmental neurobehavioral toxicity of lead across species and for assessing the validity of animal models of developmental neurotoxicity.
  • (6) Shrubs and trees are on your left; the reed-edged water of Wicken Lode is on your right – take care to stay on the paths.
  • (7) Gachapon machines are found all over Japan, but the mother lode is at Akihabara's Gachapon Kaikan where more than 450 machines are lined up inside a warehouse-like space.
  • (8) The sheer size of the haul – described by one official recently as a mother lode of intelligence – has slowed the flow of information, however.
  • (9) "OK, so Kilfenora is the home, the mother lode, for Father T**.
  • (10) It is understood that British computer forensics experts at GCHQ are on standby to help sift through what one US official described as "the mother lode of intelligence" to the Politico website.
  • (11) 2 After 450m follow the path round to the left, and then turn right across the footbridge of Monk's Lode.
  • (12) The A. have then lodeed for the correlation that should exist, in series of both sexes in France and Congo: a more hallow plantar arch = a stronger T.F.T.
  • (13) Each of us chooses to seek a different "mother lode," up a different stream.

Obsolete


Definition:

  • (a.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances.
  • (a.) Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive.
  • (v. i.) To become obsolete; to go out of use.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Individual tests and batteries of tests should be standardized, employ positive controls, generate results capable of quantitative analyses that may make dichotomous classification as "positive" and "negative" obsolete, be interpreted in light of mechanisms of action, and be cost-effective on a grand scale.
  • (2) This study suggests that pneumoencephalography may be obsolete and that the diagnosis of olivopontocerebellar degeneration may be established by abnormalities seen during computerized tomography (CT) and by abnormal responses to auditory-evoked potentials (AEPs).
  • (3) Genomic mapping is proceeding at such a rapid pace that any printed version of the anatomy of the human genome is immediately obsolete.
  • (4) Handheld computers may make bedside terminals obsolete.
  • (5) The ambulatory 24 hour pH test may have rendered the AP test obsolete in the assessment of GORD as the cause of NCCP.
  • (6) Rather than becoming obsolete by 2030, as its designers thought, the barrier will not need to be replaced until 2070, the agency said today.
  • (7) Will Netflix make traditional TV channels obsolete?
  • (8) Ratified in 1980, the document is widely seen as obsolete and part of what she hopes to change with her "democratic revolution" – a plan she says could be financed by higher corporation taxes and which works within the boundaries of a constitutional democracy.
  • (9) The advent of high-resolution contrast CT will probably make obsolete the use of contrast media.
  • (10) The time needed to review and publish an article or a book dictates that by the time it is published, any statements about current hardware will be obsolete.
  • (11) The term "fibrositis" for generalized tendomyopathia that can still be found in Anglo-American literature is obsolete.
  • (12) In all other patients the PAVS is a very valuable instrument in the surgical management of hydrocephalus because it makes shunt revisions for inadequate valve pressure obsolete in individual patients.
  • (13) The secondary nasal skin envelope asymmetries were studied after unilateral cleft lip repair using the original (obsolete) rotation-advancement (Millard I) and the triangular flap techniques (Bardach's modification).
  • (14) Gradually these young men and their would-be families become functionally obsolete in society.
  • (15) Finally, it is imperative that the obsolete Nigerian Children and Young Person's Law be updated.
  • (16) I do not accept that the great achievements of the left – unionisation, social security – are obsolete.
  • (17) Some daggers have already been drawn – François Rebsamen , said the revelations showed the entire idea of "première dame", was obsolete, adding that scrapping of the office of the first lady would be progress for democracy.
  • (18) Here we describe a new method of synthesizing an immunogenic peptide antigen, referred to as multiple antigenic peptide (MAP), which may render the need for a carrier protein obsolete.
  • (19) The TRH stimulation test is virtually obsolete for the diagnosis of thyrotoxicosis but remains of much interest in the investigation of psychiatric syndromes.
  • (20) It should be kept in mind that recent changes in OC formulations and use patterns render epidemiologic data now available obsolete.