(superl.) Not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived till toward the end of the ordinary term of living; as, an old man; an old age; an old horse; an old tree.
(superl.) Not new or fresh; not recently made or produced; having existed for a long time; as, old wine; an old friendship.
(superl.) Formerly existing; ancient; not modern; preceding; original; as, an old law; an old custom; an old promise.
(superl.) Continued in life; advanced in the course of existence; having (a certain) length of existence; -- designating the age of a person or thing; as, an infant a few hours old; a cathedral centuries old.
(superl.) Long practiced; hence, skilled; experienced; cunning; as, an old offender; old in vice.
(superl.) Long cultivated; as, an old farm; old land, as opposed to new land, that is, to land lately cleared.
(superl.) Worn out; weakened or exhausted by use; past usefulness; as, old shoes; old clothes.
(superl.) More than enough; abundant.
(superl.) Aged; antiquated; hence, wanting in the mental vigor or other qualities belonging to youth; -- used disparagingly as a term of reproach.
(superl.) Old-fashioned; wonted; customary; as of old; as, the good old times; hence, colloquially, gay; jolly.
(superl.) Used colloquially as a term of cordiality and familiarity.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
(2) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
(3) A 61-year-old man experienced four bouts of pancreatitis in 1 year.
(4) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
(5) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
(6) Scatchard analyses of binding data obtained with synaptosomal preparations from 17-day-old embryos revealed two T3 binding sites.
(7) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(8) A specimen of a very early ovum, 4 to 6 days old, shown in the luminal form of imbedding before any hemorrhage has taken place, confirms that the luminal form of imbedding does occur.
(9) Data collection at the old hospital for comparison, however, was not always reliable.
(10) A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium.
(11) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
(12) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
(13) The authors report an ocular luxation of a four-year-old girl after a bicycle accident.
(14) Peak incidence is found among 40 to 49-year-old and 60 to 64-year-old women.
(15) The capillary-adipocyte distances were shorter and the vascularization density was higher in old rats.
(16) Brilliant, old-fashioned speech, from the days before teleprompters became all-dominant.
(17) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(18) He also deals with the incidence, conservative and surgical treatment of osteo-arthrosis in old age and with the possibilities of its prevention.
(19) Sterile, pruritic papules and papulopustules that formed annular rings developed on the back of a 58-year-old woman.
(20) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
Ould
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The US secretary of state, John Kerry , said if Yemen’s opposing sides accepted and moved forward on a ceasefire then the UN special envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, would work through the details and announce when and how it would take effect.
(2) Mohamedou Ould Slahi: “smart, witty, garrulous, and curiously undamaged” Another team inside the plane dragged me and fastened me on a small and straight seat.
(3) He did, however, fully agree with MSF’s plea for lessons to be learned from the crisis: “This time our memories must stay very long and we must remain very mindful of the enormity of the suffering, so we can be ready to apply the lessons even a year or two afterwards, even if this calls for quite a lot of investment in different ways of working or in resources.” Earlier this week, the head of the UN Ebola mission, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed , told the BBC the epidemic would be over by August earlier this week.
(4) The directors, François Margolin and Lemine Ould M Salem, said their aim was to show the reality of life in jihadi-controlled areas under sharia law as well as the ideology of radical Salafism.
(5) I would love to see the selection criteria for that job.’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest From a blindfolded boat ride to threats against his family members and hours shackled to Gitmo floors, Zuley’s interrogation of Mohamedou Ould Slahi shocked investigators.
(6) The UN special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, had appealed for a renewal of the ceasefire , saying humanitarian aid had during the truce reached areas that were earlier inaccessible.
(7) Ivan Ould, F40’s chair, said his group’s enthusiasm for the formula “has to be tempered by an outcome that none of us really anticipated: that some poorly funded authorities will not gain and that many schools, both primary and secondary, within poorly funded authorities will lose out”.
(8) Yet the medical staff at Guantánamo, where he has examined detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi, are “not seen as friendly”, he said.
(9) Mohamedou Ould Slahi was seen as a huge priority for Guantánamo upon his August 2002 arrival.
(10) The UN envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, had called for an open-ended ceasefire from Monday night – though it was unclear whether it would now come into force.
(11) Redactions marked in the text were made by the US government when Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s diary was cleared for public release • Listen to live and recorded readings by Brian Eno, Colin Firth and others, as well as a panel discussion with Slahi’s lawyer and brother about this remarkable account of imprisonment.
(12) Hadi made his remarks during a visit by the UN envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on Saturday.
(13) UN special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the mediator, urged both sides to ensure full respect for the cessation of hostilities that came into force on Tuesday, saying it should “mark the end of military violence in Yemen and the transition to progress based on negotiations, dialogue and consensus”.
(14) Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian Retired headmaster and local historian Salem Ould Elhadje says no one knows where Kankou Moussa – the “king of kings” as he is known in Mali – established his capital, or even if he had one.
(15) "If he continues to throw oil on the fire, we will send him the pictures of dead French hostages in the coming days," said Oumar Ould Hamaha, a spokesman for Islamist group MUJWA, in an apparent reference to four French nationals who were seized in neighboring northern Niger in 2010.
(16) Calcification presenting at least one year after the start of treatment should be considered differently from calcification first seen on presentation, and s,ould be treated in the same way as renal calculi.
(17) Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was returning to the capital, Nouakchott, from his weekend getaway in Tweila on Saturday evening.
(18) "On his way back to Nouakchott, the presidential convoy was shot by a Mauritanian patrol… as they did not recognize his convoy," Communications Minister Hamdi Ould Mahjoub said on television.
(19) By building Djinguereber out of banco, Kankou Moussa bestowed nobility upon the building method,” says Ould Elhadje.
(20) Those were the last words I said to Mohamedou Ould Slahi after I met him in the tiny compound he shared with Tariq al-Sawah in the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay.