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1. (n.) fossil
any preserved remains or imprint of a living organism, usu. of a former geologic age, as a bone, shell, or leaf impression.
2. fossil
a markedly outdated or old-fashioned person or thing.
3. fossil
an obsolete or archaic word preserved in certain restricted contexts, as nonce in for the nonce, or a construction following a pattern no longer productive in the language, as
So be it.
4. (adj.) fossil
of the nature of a fossil:
fossil insects.
5. fossil
formed from the remains of prehistoric life, as coal or oil:
fossil fuels; fossil resins.
6. fossil
antiquated.
Etymology: (1555–65; < F fossile < L fossilisobtained by digging, der. of fodere to dig)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) dodo, fogy, fogey, fossil
someone whose style is out of fashion
2. (adj) fossil
the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil
3. (adj) fossil
characteristic of a fossil
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1. (noun) fossil
a piece of rock in which a plant or animal from a long time ago is preserved
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) Fossil
dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt
2. (adj) Fossil
like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells
3. (noun) Fossil
a substance dug from the earth
4. (noun) Fossil
the remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living
5. (noun) Fossil
a person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. Fossil
1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in
historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break
compatibility. Example: the retention of octal as default base for string
escapes in C, in spite of the better match of
hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures. See
dusty deck. 2. More restrictively, a feature with past but no present utility.
Example: the force-all-caps (LCASE) bits in the V7 and
BSD Unix tty driver, designed for use with monocase
terminals. (In a perversion of the usual backward-compatibility goal, this
functionality has actually been expanded and renamed in some later USG Unix
releases as the IUCLC and OLCUC bits.)
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Sense: the hardened remains of an animal or vegetable found in rock
Fossils have been found here which may be a million years old.
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 Afrikaans: fossiel |
 Arabic: م��تَحَجِّرَه |
 Bulgarian: вкаменелост |
 Brazilian: fóssil |
 Czech: zkamenělina |
 German: das Fossil |
 Danish: fossil; forstening |
 Greek: απολίθωμα |
 Spanish: fósil |
 Estonian: kivistis |
 Farsi: فسیل |
 Finnish: fossiili |
 French: fossile |
 Hebrew: מְאוּבָּן |
 Hindi: जीवाश्म |
 Croatian: fosil, okamina |
 Hungarian: kövület |
 Indonesian: fosil |
 Icelandic: steingervingur |
 Italian: fossile |
 Japanese: 化石 |
 Korean: 화석 |
 Lithuanian: suakmenėjusi liekana, fos |
 Latvian: fosilija |
 Malay: fosil |
 Dutch: fossiel |
 Norwegian: fossil, forsteining |
 Polish: skamielina |
 Persian: فسیل |
 Pashto: فوسيل، دلرغونې زمانې دحيو |
 Portuguese: fóssil |
 Romanian: fosilă |
 Russian: ископаемое |
 Slovak: skamenelina |
 Slovenian: okamnina |
 Serbian: fosil |
 Swedish: fossil |
 Thai: ซากพืชหรือสัตว์ที่เป็นหิน |
 Turkish: fosil |
 Taiwanese: 化石 |
 Ukrainian: скам'янілість |
 Urdu: متحجر ، پتھرایا ہوا ڈھانچ |
 Vietnamese: vật hoá đá; hoá thạch |
 Chinese: 化石 |
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