| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In an antique manner.[Websters]
2. In an archaic, olden, ancient, antediluvian or prehistorical manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In an outdated or archaistic manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a decrepit, mature, ripe, old or age-old manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a late or defunct manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a previous or bygone manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In an obsolete, worm-eaten or rococo manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In an immemorial or primeval manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a threadbare or timeworn manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the adjective antique.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (antique) | 1. Made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age; "the beautiful antique French furniture".[Wordnet]. 2. Out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance".[Wordnet]. 3. Belonging to or lasting from times long ago; "the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness".[Wordnet]. 4. Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome.[Websters]. 5. Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe.[Websters]. 6. Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson's "Castle of Indolence.".[Websters]. 7. Odd; fantastic.[Websters]. 8. In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases.[Websters]. 9. Being ancient, old, archaic, olden or elderly.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adjective base of the adverb antiquely.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "ANTIQUELY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: antique
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Business | Antiques are items, other than works of art or collector's items, of an age exceeding 100 years. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| European Union | A work of art, piece of furniture or decorative object made at an earlier period and, according to various customs and laws, at least 100 years ago. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Personal Care & Hotels | A relic or object of ancient times or of an earlier period than the present. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Technology | In papermaking, the unpolished matte finish produced when uncoated paper is not processed through a calendaring machine. Eggshell is a smooth, slightly pitted antique finish. Also refers to a contemporary calf binding designed to imitate an older binding. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: antique
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Anini-y, Antique | Anini-y is a 5th class municipality in the province of Antique, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 19,623 people in 3,610 households. (references) | ||
| Antique Boat Museum | The Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, NY hosts an antique boat show each July. It is the largest freshwater antique boat show in the United States. It is located on the banks of the St. Lawrence River just above Lake Ontario in the region known as the Thousand Islands. (references) | ||
| Antique car | An antique car is generally defined as a car over 25 years of age, this being the definition used by the Antique Automobile Club of America and many other organisations worldwide. (references) | ||
| Antique fruit jar | Glass canning jars, also known as fruit jars or mason jars (named after its inventor not masonry) have been around since the early 1850s and today are eagerly sought after by collectors. There is a section on Ebay devoted to the sale of antique fruit jars, some of which have sold for as high as $30,000. (references) | ||
| Antique furniture | Very early humans were nomads, moving from location to location, and survived from only what nature provided. Furniture to them was no more than a log to sit on. As they learned to cultivate the soil, much of their survival hunting activities ceased and their need for community work grew. They established homes (very crude by today's standards) beside their cultivated land - simple huts of wood and reed, perhaps daubed with clay or mud, and later of stone and baked clay bricks. (references) | ||
| Antique province | Antique P is a province of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. Its capital is San Jose and is located at the western portion of Panay island, bordering Aklan, Capiz, and Iloilo to the east. Antique faces the Sulu Sea to the west. (references) | ||
| Antique software | As its name implies, antique software consists of applications, development tools, and systems software that, while no longer in widespread use, are still of interest. These programs are typically available for download on the Web, sometimes with the blessing of the publisher who still owns the rights. Examples include VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program and, arguably, the world's first "killer application," early versions of Unix, and programming languages both esteemed and vilified, such as BASIC. Software developer David Winer has helped keep alive an entire class of application, outliners, which he worked on in the 1980s. (references) | ||
| Barbaza, Antique | Barbaza is a 5th class municipality in the province of Antique, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 18,597 people in 3,834 households. (references) | ||
| Belison, Antique | Belison is a 5th class municipality in the province of Antique, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 11,621 people in 2,355 households. (references) | ||
| Bugasong, Antique | Bugasong is a 4th class municipality in the province of Antique, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 28,294 people in 5,768 households. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: antique
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Antique binding | Art | A modern binding done in the style of an earlier period, with no intent to mislead prospective buyers as to its actual age. (references) | |
| Moire antique | Industry | A weighted cloth, heavy in feel, which is dyed, glazed and moiré (watermarked) by particularly heavy pressure. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Moire Antique | Literature | (French) is silk, etc. , moiré (watered) in the antique style, or to resemble the material worn in olden times. The figuring of tin like frostwork or scales is called moiré métallique. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Verde antique | Mining | A dark-green rock composed essentially of serpentine (hydrous magnesium silicate) usually crisscrossed with white veinlets of marble. Found in California, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia. Used as an ornamental stone. In commerce, it is often classed as a marble. (references) | |
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