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  1. adjective Having been made or come into being only a short time ago; recent: a new law.
  2. adjective Still fresh: a new coat of paint.
  3. adjective Never used or worn before now: a new car; a new hat.
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  • The Space Frontier Foundation urged NASA to respect the results of a nationwide contest to name a new waste re-cycling module for the International Space Station —  SpaceRef Top Stories
  • Uninstalling the old and reinstalling the new is the correct way. —  TechSpot
  • New York Mets welcomed young children into their stadium with open arms, but now that they're in a new has been a popular LA-based broadcaster for more than 20 years. —  Deadspin
  • The second one is starting in India next month and our goal is to complete that in a period of about seven plus months, submit the, what they call the new drug application, the NDA to the Food and Drug in the early part in the third quarter of 2009, ask for a priority review as I had mentioned earlier.
  • This new was about meeting strong customer demand.
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  1. Middle English newe, from Old English nīwe, nēowe; see newo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from ME, newe, niwe, nywe, from Anglo-Saxon nīwe, neówe, niówe = Old Saxon niwi, niuwi = OFries. nie = Dutch nieuw = Middle Low German nie, nige, nigge, Low German nij, nije = Old High German niwi, niuwi, Middle High German niuwe, German new = Icelandic ny¯r = Swedish Danish ny = Gothic (Moesogothic) niujis = Welsh newydd = Irish Gaelic nuadh = Breton nevez (Old Celtic, in place-names, Novo-, Novio-) = Latin novus (later Italian nuovo = Spanish nuevo = Portuguese novo = French neuf) = Old Bulgarian novŭ, novui = Russian novuii = Lithuanian naujas = Greek νέος, orig. *νέ#567ος = Persian nau = Sanskrit nava, navya (later Hind, nau), new; cf. Sanskrit nūtana, new; prob. literally ‘that which now is’ or has just appeared, from Sanskrit, etc., nu, Gothic (Moesogothic) nu, Anglo-Saxon nīe, English now: see now. From the L. novus are ult. English novel, novelty, etc., innovate, renovate, etc.
  2. from Middle English newe, from Anglo-Saxon nīwe, nīge (also nīwan, neówan, neón), adverb, newly, from nīwe, adjective, new: see new, adjective
  3. from Middle English newen, from Anglo-Saxon nīwian (= Old Saxon niwian = Old High German niuwōn, niwōn, Middle High German niuwen, niwen = Gothic (Moesogothic), incomp., ana-niujan), make new, from nīwe, new: see new, adjective Cf. renew.
 

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