old vs modern vs new vs young
Definitions
adjective
- of a very early stage in development
Examples
She was all cold and bedraggled after falling into the river.
By the time harmony was a few centuries old, it began to shiver and shake from them.
Spending on a perennial effort to expand gambling at race tracks, known as "racino," increased four-fold to about $620,000 in 2010.
Definitions
adjective
- used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
Examples
This antimodernist nativism pervaded the 1920s, but it was particularly visible in the scientific racism of the eugenics movement, the xenophobia of the "100 percent American" movement, the sharp resurgence in the Ku Klux Klan, the post – World War One Red Scare (directed primarily at immigrant radicals), and in a series of draconian immigration restriction acts. 11
Benecken characterized the entire hacking case as "ultramodern" and said that, in a way, it exemplified the "downside" of today's digital age "that can easily been taken advantage of by savvy youths with those skills and a lot of time.
This textbook provides a modern and accessible introduction to magnetohydrodynamics.
