Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make modern in appearance, style, or character; update.
- intransitive verb To accept or adopt modern ways, ideas, or style.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give a modern character or appearance to; adapt to modern persons, times, or uses; cause to conform to modern ideas or style: as, to
modernize the language of an old writer. Also spelledmodernise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To bring something
up to date , or make itmodern instyle orfunction - verb intransitive To become modern in appearance, or adopt modern ways
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to
- verb become technologically advanced
Etymologies
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Examples
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There’s an awful lot of information conveyed as Ruruna and Cain modernize their country, and I’ll likely refer to the list of “Frequently Used SQL Statements” again.
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Chone: For SOA applications, the best way to modernize is to componentize and extend the user experience aspect of the application that will in turn enable the applications composition and mashup.
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Chone: For SOA applications, the best way to modernize is to componentize and extend the user experience aspect of the application that will in turn enable the applications composition and mashup.
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Believers find efforts to "modernize" shallow and patronizing.
Paul Pardi: Religion Is Evolving Before Our Eyes Paul Pardi 2011
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Believers find efforts to "modernize" shallow and patronizing.
Paul Pardi: Religion Is Evolving Before Our Eyes Paul Pardi 2011
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The $58 Billion company, United Parcel Service (UPS), is getting a taxpayer-funded $24 million gift from the State of Illinois to "modernize" a couple distribution facilities.
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The $58 Billion company, United Parcel Service (UPS), is getting a taxpayer-funded $24 million gift from the State of Illinois to "modernize" a couple distribution facilities.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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Furthermore -- in an apparent attempt to secure Republican support for Senate ratification of nuclear disarmament treaties -- the administration began championing a ten-year, $180 billion plan to "modernize" the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.
Lawrence Wittner: What's Next for the Nuclear Disarmament Movement? 2010
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Ms. Staniforth, a longtime friend of Screaming Lord Sutch, was a rising Loony star until she set out to "modernize" the party, proposing, for example, that leaders be limited to five-year terms rather than indefinite tenures.
In the Longest-Running Joke in Politics, Life Imitates Farce 2010
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Ms. Staniforth, a longtime friend of Screaming Lord Sutch, was a rising Loony star until she set out to "modernize" the party, proposing, for example, that leaders be limited to five-year terms rather than indefinite tenures.
In the Longest-Running Joke in Politics, Life Comes to Imitate Farce 2010
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