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Obsolete vs Nonstandard - What's the difference?

obsolete | nonstandard |

As adjectives the difference between obsolete and nonstandard

is that obsolete is obsolete, deprecated (computing) while nonstandard is not standard.

As a noun nonstandard is

something that is not standard.

obsolete

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often by preference for something newer, which replaces the subject).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete .}}
  • (biology) Imperfectly developed; not very distinct.

    • Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "obsolete" is often applied: word, phrase, equipment, computer, technology, weapon, machine, law, statute, currency, building, idea, skill, concept, custom, theory, tradition, institution.

    Synonyms

    * (no longer in use) ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, disused, neglected, old, old-fashioned, out of date * abortive, obscure, rudimental

    Derived terms

    * obsoleteness

    Verb

    (obsolet)
  • (US) Oxford Dictionary To cause to become obsolete.
    • This software component has been obsoleted .
    We are in the process of obsoleting this product.

    Usage notes

    * (term) is often used in computing and other technical fields to indicate an effort to remove or replace something. * Compare

    Related terms

    * obsolesce * obsolescence * obsolescent * obsoletion

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    nonstandard

    English

    Alternative forms

    * non-standard

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not standard.
  • (linguistics) Not conforming to the language as used by the majority of its speakers.
  • *
    • The resulting sequence of covert wh-pronoun + Complementiser'' has an overt counterpart in nonstandard varieties of English, as the following example (recorded from a BBC radio programme) illustrates:
    (91)      England put themselves in a position [''whereby that     they took a lot of credit for tonight?s game] (Ron Greenwood, BBC radio 4)

    Derived terms

    * nonstandard dialect * nonstandard item * nonstandard method * nonstandard unit

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is not standard.
  • * 2008 , Robert Cowart, Brian Knittel, Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows Vista (page 438)
    • Unlike the TV standard we are all accustomed to, the Web is the wild, wild West of video nonstandards .