older

adj 1: advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables);

"aged members of the society"; "elderly residents

could remember the construction of the first

skyscraper"; "senior citizen" [syn: {aged}, {elderly},

{senior}]

2: older and (at least formerly) larger than another though

relative size is not the issue; "big sister" [syn: {big(a)},

{elder}] [ant: {little(a)}]

3: used of the older of two persons of the same name especially

used to distinguish a father from his son; "Bill Adams,

Sr." [syn: {elder}, {sr.}]

4: old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"

[syn: {old}]

folder

A {directory} in the sense of a collection

of computer {files}. The term is more common in systems such

as the {Macintosh} or {Windows 95} which have a {graphical

user interface} and provide a graphical {file browser} in

which directories are traditionally depicted as folders (like

small briefcases).

(1997-03-20)