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modern
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[ adjective ] belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
Examples "modern art" "modern furniture" "modern history" "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric" Used in print (John R. Sargent, "Where To Aim Your Planning for Bigger...)Companies of all types have made great advances in production capabilities and efficiencies - in modern equipment and new processes , enlarged R_+_D facilities , faster new product development . (Sports Age, 24:9...)Just as modern transportation has outmoded the early Studebaker covered_wagon , the demand of today 's sportsmen and women has necessitated changes in their equipment . The American firearms and ammunition manufacturers through diligent research and technical development have replaced the muzzle_loader and slow firing single shot arms with modern fast firing autoloaders , extremely accurate bolt , lever , and slide_action firearms . And millions of rounds of entirely new and modern small-arms ammunition , designed for today 's hunting and target shooting . And due_to modern resource use and game management practices , there is still game to shoot , even with the ever expanding encroachment on land and water . |
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[ adjective ] relating to a recently developed fashion or style
Synonyms Examples "their offices are in a modern skyscraper" "tables in modernistic designs"; Used in print (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)But here we have a distinctly modern preoccupation ; we want to know why that book has kept_on selling the way it has ; we want_to know what is perennially new about Utopia . But to say that at a moment in history something is new is not necessarily to say that it is modern ; and for this statement the best evidence comes within the five years following the publication of Utopia , when Martin_Luther elaborates a new perception of the nature of the Divine 's encounter with man . New , indeed , is Luther 's perception , but not modern , as anyone knows who has ever tried to make intelligible to modern students what Luther was getting at . It is not the details of Utopian communism that make Utopia modern , it is the spirit , the attitude of mind that informs those details . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)How right he was ; how clearly he saw the cultural defection of experimentation as an escape for those who dare not or prefer not to face the discipline of modern traditionalism . (John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)Neither is primary experience understood according_to the attitude of modern empiricism in which nothing is thought to be received other_than signals of sensory qualities producing their responses in the appropriate sense_organs . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] ahead of the times
Synonyms Examples "the advanced teaching methods" "had advanced views on the subject" "a forward-looking corporation" "is British industry innovative enough?" Used in print (Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)That 's a big step toward a modern state . (Edward Jablonski, Harold Arlen Happy with the Blues....)Thoroughly modern in treatment , they are at_the_same_time , full of simple sincerity which invariably characterizes genuine Negro folk-music and are by_no_means to be confused with the average ' Broadway Spirituals ' which depend for their racial flavor upon sundry allusions to the ' Amen_Corner ' , ' judgement_day ' , ' Gabriel 's horn ' , and a frustrated devil - with a_few random ' Hallelujahs ' thrown_in for_good_measure . (Public Papers of the Presidents of the U.S. D. D....)I have requested the Secretary of Defense to reexamine the roles and missions of the reserve components in_relation_to those of the active forces and in the light of the changing requirements of modern warfare . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a contemporary person
Used in print (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)The kind of religious experience that most moderns seek not_only provides , clarifies , and relates human yearnings , values , ideals , and purposes ; it also provides facilities and incitements for the development of personality , sociality , and creativeness . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (linguistics) used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
Synonyms Examples "Modern English" "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (printing) a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
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