What Is Obsolescence?

Obsolete is a Chinese word, pronounced guò shí. It means exceeding a certain time limit; after a certain period of time has passed; it means obsolete and out of date. "Book of Rites · Yuzao" and other related records.

[guò shí]

Outdated

guò shí

1. [outmoded; old-fashioned; obsolete;]: obsolete and out of date; past popular time; not in line with the mainstream.

Outdated equipment.

Outdated goods.

This weapon is obsolete.

Outdated concepts.

2. [past the appointed time]: The specified time has passed.

Outdated.

Obsolete. ^[1]

1. Exceeded a certain time limit.

"Book of Rites · Yuzao": "Elders, it's not easy to go out, it's not out of date."

"Taiping Guangji" Volume 218 quotes Tang Likang's "Distinctive Man: Hua Tuo": "There are women who are extremely beautiful and do not marry when they are out of date."

Song Liu Kezhuang's "Fu Yi" poem No. 2: "The Taiwanese are in a hurry this year, and Huang Pafengxiang is out of date."

Seventy-eighth round of "Water Margin" by Shi Naijiao of Ming Dynasty "Ten quarters to discuss Liang Shanbo Song Gongming defeated Gao Weiwei": Now this group of good brothers, like wolf-like tigers, that ten quarters have been It's an outdated person, what a brother ^{[2] is} afraid!

Ming Feng Menglong's "Sister-in-law": "Will marriage be outdated?"

Wang Xiyan's "People's World · Third Neighbor": "Who knows that the anesthetic injections in this public hospital are out of date, so when he was undergoing surgery, he suffered so much that he almost lost his life.

2. After a considerable time has passed.

Song Wang Yinglin, "Primary Beads, Sage Rings and Six Repentances in Primary School": "Kou Lai Gong's" Six Repentance Inscriptions ": official private songs, regrets when lost; rich but not frugal, regret when poor; ; When you do nt learn something, you regret it; when you are drunk, you regret it when you wake up;

3. Popular in the past is not popular now; obsolete is not fashionable.

The fourth act of Hong Shen's "Fan of Little Granny": "But my temper of wearing clothes, these six months, Ziming, you should feel it. Slightly outdated, slightly ugly clothes, should I wear them?"

Ding Ling's "Meng Ke": "The first is that the black linen robe proposed by her cousin is outdated and should be longer." ^[1]