(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.
Wrinkly
Definition:
(a.) Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered.
Example Sentences:
(1) I know it might sound awful coming off a pair of old wrinklies, but we’re two halves of a coin.” The memory of informing women that their husbands had been killed haunts Barry more than conflict itself Powles had never been much of a drinker in the army, but he started to drink secretly after he retired, hiding alcohol in the garage.
(2) In his 1986 limited series, Miller brilliantly contrasts a shallow and self-centred, increasingly wrinkly and jaded caped crusader with a Kal-El who remains youthful, noble and good-hearted – yet as boring as dry toast for dinner.
(3) While the oldies carry on running the show, pocketing the cash for their pension funds, tweaking the levers with wrinkly hands.
(4) Writing in the Guardian , Zoe Williams offered wrinklies an update on modern culture.
(5) 800g frozen cleaned baby octopus, defrosted ½ lemon, thinly sliced, plus 1 small lemon, peeled, the flesh chopped Salt and black pepper 100ml olive oil, plus extra to serve 3 tbsp red-wine vinegar ¾ tsp dried oregano 130g cherry tomatoes ¼ tsp caster sugar 150g dried green lentils ½ small red onion, peeled and very thinly sliced 1 medium stick celery, thinly sliced 5g (about 1 tsp) fresh oregano leaves 30g wrinkly black olives, pitted and torn Separate the octopus heads from the tentacles and put both in a medium saucepan with the lemon slices, a teaspoon and a quarter of salt and enough water (probably about 500ml) amply to cover the octopus.
(6) We emerge with wrinkly fingers, while a more recent arrival performs somersaults to assembled applause.
(7) And in that already existing environment, where women are used to being told that they're too fat, too old, too wrinkly, just too much in general, what could be simpler than to add another to the list, in the form of too smelly?
(8) So are fat women and wrinklies taking an unfair share of maternity services?
(9) There seems to be a correspondence between mouse visible skin wrinking (UV-B event) and two histological events: increase in glycosaminoglycans and alteration in collagen.
(10) She still has a screenshot of a tweet he has deleted, calling her a “wrinkly old ginger bird”.
(11) So just because we’re now old and wrinkly doesn’t mean we’ve suddenly turned into Enoch Powell or George Wallace.Racism is indefensible, but so is ageism.
(12) The wrinkly skin syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by wrinkling of the skin of the dorsum of the hands and feet, decreased elastic recoil of the skin, an increased number of palmar and plantar creases, multiple musculoskeletal abnormalities, microcephaly, and mental retardation.
(13) Because instead of just selling us physical insecurity by implying we're fat or wrinkly, beauty companies are now trying to make us feel insecure about our insecurities – all while giving themselves a pat on the back for "empowering" us to feel better (and collecting our money, of course).
(14) But now I just want to live.” The operation will throw her “into early menopause and all the horrible things that go with that - it can affect bone density, make your skin get wrinkly, give you hot flushes.
(15) Here, too, adolescents are routinely sacrificed at the behest of a ruling elite, all the while maintaining their wrinkly grip on the levers of power.