retro
retroactive: retro pay.
of or designating the style of an earlier time: retro clothes.
Origin of retro
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Other definitions for retro- (2 of 2)
a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin meaning “backward” (retrogress); on this model, used in the formation of compound words (retrorocket).
Origin of retro-
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How to use retro in a sentence
In other words, the computing hardware reads retro game-cartridge instructions.
A Game Boy look-alike runs on solar panels and button smashes | Maria Temming | September 15, 2020 | Science NewsAs calls for climate action get louder and the costs associated with airships drop—as the cost of any new technology tends to do with time—we may find ourselves going retro and being ferried across the globe by giant helium-filled balloons.
Airships Are No Longer a Relic of the Past; You Could Ride in One by 2023 | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | August 4, 2020 | Singularity HubOrtiz said so many rows in retro-parks have resulted in a lower rise, pushing back the main concourse and upper decks and drawing fans away from the action.
MLB’s Newest Ballpark Is A Shift Away From Retro-Era Stadiums | Travis Sawchik | July 16, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightWhen fans are permitted to enter, they will find many seats closer to the field than they are in retro parks — and certainly closer than they were in the Rangers’ previous home.
MLB’s Newest Ballpark Is A Shift Away From Retro-Era Stadiums | Travis Sawchik | July 16, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightThe first row of the upper deck at Globe Life Field is nearly 30 feet closer to the playing surface than the Rangers’ previous, retro-era home, according to an overlay of their profiles.
MLB’s Newest Ballpark Is A Shift Away From Retro-Era Stadiums | Travis Sawchik | July 16, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight
“I was delighted to collaborate,” he said in the interview with retro Report.
Familiarity with search-engines helps, a strange quirk of working in this retro medium.
It’s arguably the best film of the ‘90s—a postmodern pop culture smorgasbord awash in nihilism and dripping with retro cool.
The Secrets of ‘Pulp Fiction’: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About the Movie on Its 20th Anniversary | Marlow Stern | October 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST[Laughs] He thought it was some retro-recreation or something.
David Cronenberg: Why Frustrated Novelists Hate the Screenplay | Craig Hubert | October 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhy did you feel the need to spice it up with retro tuneage?
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Filmmaker James Gunn on His Glorious Space Opera and Rise to the A-List | Marlow Stern | August 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFurther to the east, as we shall find in due course, may be seen the low vaulted retro-choir or ambulatory of one bay.
Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey | Thomas PerkinsEast of the retro-choir is the exterior of a staircase leading from the north choir aisle to the clerestory parapet.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle | C. King EleyA stone on the floor of the retro-choir to John Johnson, master and mariner, dated 1737, is crowded with nautical metaphor.
Yorkshire Painted And Described | Gordon HomeSicque duorum solus uictor existens, Danis irrogatam multis retro temporibus infamiam gloriosa uirtute magnifice satis aboleuit.
Beowulf | R. W. ChambersOf course, ground control was to be used only if the astronaut failed to ignite the retro-rockets himself.
Egocentric Orbit | John Cory
British Dictionary definitions for retro (1 of 2)
/ (ˈrɛtrəʊ) /
denoting something associated with or revived from the past: retro dressing; retro fashion
British Dictionary definitions for retro- (2 of 2)
back or backwards: retroactive
located behind: retrolental
Origin of retro-
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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