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prep
conj
noun
- preceding in time
- That which precedes something or someone (e.g. prior events, origin, ancestry).
- The relationship of preceding something in time or order.
- The length of time by which one event or time period precedes another.
- (grammar) The relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent.
- (geology) A geologic process that explains how and why antecedent rivers can cut through mountain systems instead of going around them.
noun
- preceding in time
- status established in order of importance or urgency
- Precedence; superior rank.
- (taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
- The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.
- (transport) Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users.
- A goal of a person or an organisation.
- An item's relative importance.
adj
- of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
- having died recently
- of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages
- (used especially of persons) of the immediate past
- after the expected or usual time; delayed
- being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
- at or toward an end or late period or stage of development
- Near the end of a period of time.
- (not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Generally must be preceded by a possessive or an article, commonly "the"; see usage notes. Can itself only precede the person's name, never follow it.)
- Not having had an expected menstrual period.
- (usually not comparable) Associated with the end of a period.
- Specifically, near the end of the day.
- Not arriving or occurring until after an expected time.
- Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
- Levied as a surcharge on a payment which has not arrived by a specified deadline.
- (astronomy) Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun.
adv
noun
adj
- of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
- new
- Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.
- Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
- (sciences) Particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy: having occurred a relatively short time ago, but still potentially thousands or even millions of years ago.
- Having happened a short while ago.
noun
adj
- earlier in time
- of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body
- (anatomy) Nearer the forward end, especially in the front of the body; nearer the head or forepart of an animal.
- (botany) (of a part of a flower or leaf) Situated further away from the mainstem.
- (phonetics) Pronounced with an obstruction located in front of the palato-alveolar region of the mouth, e.g. b, p, d, t.
- (formal) Coming before or earlier in time or development, prior to, preceding.
noun
adj
- earlier in time
- Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
- More important or significant.
- (Bayesian statistics) Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
noun
- the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot
- An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.
- The head of a priory (“a monastery which is usually a branch of an abbey”), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.
- (by extension) In the rationalsphere: a belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future.
- The elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and South America.
- (Canada, US, law enforcement, chiefly in the plural) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record.
- The head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders.
- In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.
- The head friar of a house of friars.
- A chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence (1115–1569) in what is now Italy.
- (Bayesian statistics) A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
adv
adv
conj
prep
noun
adj
- of the present time and place
- having no intervening medium
- very close or connected in space or time
- immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect
- performed with little or no delay
- Very close; direct or adjacent.
- Manifestly true; requiring no argument.
- Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
- (procedure word, military) An artillery fire mission modifier for two types of fire mission to denote an immediate need for fire: Immediate smoke, all guns involved must reload smoke and fire. Immediate suppression, all guns involved fire the rounds currently loaded and then switch to high explosive with impact fused (unless fuses are specified).
- (procedure word, military) Used to denote that a transmission is urgent.
- (computer science, of an instruction operand) Embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than stored elsewhere (such as a register or memory location).
adv
- up to the present time
- despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession)
- to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons
- within an indefinite time or at an unspecified future time
- used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time
- used after a superlative
- In addition.
- (after 'have' and certain copulative verbs, followed by an infinitive) Not as of the time referenced.
- At some future time; eventually.
- In negative or interrogative use, often with an expectation or potential of something happening in the future.
- In negative imperative use, asking for an action to be delayed.
- (degree) Even.
conj
noun
verb
adj
- earlier than the present time; no longer current
- of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office
- (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
- Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
- (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
- Having already happened; in the past; finished.
noun
adv
prep
adv
adj
- preceding all others in time or space or degree
- serving to set in motion
- highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections
- serving to begin
- ranking above all others
- Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.
- Of or belonging to a first family.
- Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
- Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
noun
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- an honours degree of the highest class
- the first or highest in an ordering or series
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
- the first element in a countable series
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
- (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
- (countable, British, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
- (in combination) A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.
- (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
- (countable, baseball) First base.
- (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
verb
adj
noun
- a flow of electricity through a conductor
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
- a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
- (by extension, South Asia) electricity, power in general.
- The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) ellipsis of ocean current.
- (electricity) Ellipsis of electric current.
- A tendency or a course of events.
- The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.
verb
noun
adj
noun
adv
- Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
- So soon.
- (Singapore, Singlish) Marks a change in state, more or less in the same manner as the inchoative aspect.
- (US, Canada) An intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation.
- (Singapore, Singlish) Indicates the completion of an action (whether past or hypothetical), or more generally, perfective aspect.
- prior to a specified or implied time
noun
- Initialism of human era (“current epoch”).
- Initialism of home economics.
- Initialism of high explosive.
- Initialism of hydrogen embrittlement.
- Initialism of higher education.
- Initialism of health education.
- Initialism of His Excellency / Her Excellency.
- Initialism of home entertainment.
- Abbreviation of hydroelectricity.
- Initialism of His Eminence.
adj
name
phrase
noun
- a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)
- a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws
- an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
- (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
- (law) A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
- An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
- The previous version.
- An established habit or custom.
adj
verb
adj
- Coming before (all) others in time.
- Of the highest rank or position; of the greatest importance; of the highest priority.
- Positioned in front of (all) others in space, most forward.
- (nautical) Closest to the bow.
- preceding all others in spatial position
- situated closest to the bow
- ranking above all others
adv
prefix
- Directly or immediately preceding in time.
- Anterior: the frontal part of a body.
- First in order or sequence.
- Outer: the leading, outward portion of a wave or effort; or a distal part of a body.
- Outward in spatial direction.
- Greater in rank, superior
- (nautical) The fore of a ship.
- Previous or earlier in order or sequence.
- Nearest: the part of the root which is nearest/closest.
- Positioned at or near the front.
- The early stage of the root time period
- Alternative form of for-: outside, out.
- Forward in temporal direction, anticipating.
- Before: the root is happening earlier in time.
- Prominent, most important, foremost or greatest in rank
- Ancestor, ancestral
- Forward in spatial direction.
- Used to indicate error, exclusion, or inadequacy; Alternative form of for-.
- Forepart: the front part of an object or area.
- Near, close to, adjacent in position.
noun
adv
adj
noun
prep
verb
noun
- anything that precedes something similar in time
- a preceding occurrence or cause or event
- the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- (mathematics) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
- (chiefly in the plural) Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.
- (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. p→q, where p is the antecedent, and q is the consequent.
- (logic) The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.
- Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
- (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun or other pro-form.
- An ancestor.
adj
noun
- anything that precedes something similar in time
- something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
- a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
- A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.
- (philately) A postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own.
- (sports) By extension, a non-competitor who leads out the competitors on to the circuit, or who runs/rides the course prior to competitor trials, usually testing or checking the way.
- A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.
- A runner at the front or ahead.
prep
conj
noun
- A cash drawer in a bank, used by a teller.
- A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
- The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
- (chiefly British) A cash register.
- glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
- A vetch; a tare.
- (dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land
- unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together
- a treasury for government funds
- a strongbox for holding cash
verb
- (transitive) To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
- (intransitive) To cultivate soil.
- (transitive) To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).
- work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
adv
- in the immediate past
- used to preface a command or reproof or request
- at the present moment
- in these times
- without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
- (prefatory or transitional) indicates a change of subject or activity
- in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
- At the time reached within a narration.
- Used to indicate a context of urgency.
- (informal) At the present point of a recurring cycle or event.
- (usually emphasized) Used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before.
- Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
- Sometimes; occasionally; used to list a series of often assumed states.
- At the present time.
- (sentential) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
noun
adj
conj
intj
verb
conj
adv
adv
- To an earlier point in time. See also bring forward.
- In the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (nautical) At, near, or towards the bow of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
- In the desired or usual direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively; onwards.
- In the usual order or sequence.
- Into the future.
- So that front and back are in the usual orientation.
- At, near or towards the front of something.
- forward in time or order or degree
- near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane
- at or to or toward the front; forward
- toward the future; forward in time
- in a forward direction
adj
- Situated toward or at the front of something.
- (figuratively) Moving in the desired direction of progress.
- Having the usual order or sequence.
- Prominent, emphasized (or, in combinations, emphasizing).
- Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
- Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
- (of troops, guns etc.) Situated toward or near the enemy lines.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction of travel or movement.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (finance, commerce) Expected or scheduled to take place in the future.
- moving forward
- at or near or directed toward the front
- used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty
- of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle
noun
- (rugby) One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession of the ball (compare back).
- (nautical) The front part of a vessel.
- (ice hockey) An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
- (finance) A direct agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specific point in the future; distinguished from a futures contract in that the latter is standardized and traded on an exchange.
- (basketball) The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers.
- Misspelling of foreword (“preface or introduction”).
- (Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.
- the person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey
- a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team
verb
- (transitive) To advance, promote.
- (transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.
- (transitive, bookbinding) To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.
- (intransitive, Caribbean) To arrive, come.
- send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit
verb
- be earlier in time; go back further
- furnish with a preface or introduction
- come before
- be the predecessor of
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
- (transitive) To have higher rank than (someone or something else).
- (transitive) To go before, go in front of.
- (transitive) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
noun
verb
- be earlier in time; go back further
- come before
- establish something as being earlier relative to something else
- prey on or hunt for
- (transitive) To exist or to occur before something else; to antedate.
- To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)
- (ambitransitive) To prey upon something.
noun
noun
- A point in time.
- the present
- One's companion for social activities or occasions, especially a romantic partner.
- The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
- A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The anus.
- A pre-arranged meeting.
- (rare) An assigned end; a conclusion.
- A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
- The date palm.
- The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
- a participant in a date
- a meeting arranged in advance
- sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
- a particular day specified as the time something happens
- the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred
- the specified day of the month
verb
- (ambitransitive) To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
- (transitive) To determine the age of something.
- (transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
- (intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
- (transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
- (transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
- (transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
- (reciprocal, by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- go on a date with
- stamp with a date
- assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of
- provide with a dateline; mark with a date
det
- The (one) immediately before the present.
- (of days of the week or months of the year) Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
adj
- Lowest in rank or degree.
- Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
- Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
- Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
- Most recent, latest, last so far.
- Being the only one remaining of its class.
- immediately past
- conclusive in a process or progression
- coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining
- occurring at the time of death
- most unlikely or unsuitable
- highest in extent or degree
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- not to be altered or undone
- lowest in rank or importance
adv
noun
- A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
- (shoemaking) A tool in the form of a foot on which an item of footwear (such as a boot or shoe) is placed for shaping while it is being manufactured or repaired.
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
- a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- the last or lowest in an ordering or series
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do
- holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
verb
- (transitive, shoemaking) To shape (an item of footwear such as a boot or shoe) during its manufacture or repair while it is placed on a last (noun etymology 3 sense 1).
- (intransitive, slang, of a man) To purposefully refrain from orgasm
- (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
- (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
- persist for a specified period of time
- continue to live and avoid dying
adv
- To an earlier time.
- At or towards the front; in the direction one is facing or moving.
- So as to be further advanced, either spatially or in an abstract sense; to be superior.
- To a later time.
- In or for the future.
- At an earlier time; beforehand; in advance.
- to a different or a more advanced time (meaning advanced either toward the present or toward the future)
- ahead of time; in anticipation
- toward the future; forward in time
- at or in the front
- leading or ahead in a competition
- to a more advanced or advantageous position
- in a forward direction
adj
noun
- preceding in time
- That which precedes something or someone (e.g. prior events, origin, ancestry).
- The relationship of preceding something in time or order.
- The length of time by which one event or time period precedes another.
- (grammar) The relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent.
- (geology) A geologic process that explains how and why antecedent rivers can cut through mountain systems instead of going around them.
noun
- preceding in time
- status established in order of importance or urgency
- Precedence; superior rank.
- (taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
- The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.
- (transport) Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users.
- A goal of a person or an organisation.
- An item's relative importance.
noun
- Initialism of human era (“current epoch”).
- Initialism of home economics.
- Initialism of high explosive.
- Initialism of hydrogen embrittlement.
- Initialism of higher education.
- Initialism of health education.
- Initialism of His Excellency / Her Excellency.
- Initialism of home entertainment.
- Abbreviation of hydroelectricity.
- Initialism of His Eminence.
adj
name
phrase
noun
- a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)
- a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws
- an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
- (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
- (law) A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
- An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
- The previous version.
- An established habit or custom.
adj
verb
noun
adv
adj
noun
prep
verb
noun
- anything that precedes something similar in time
- a preceding occurrence or cause or event
- the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- (mathematics) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
- (chiefly in the plural) Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.
- (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. p→q, where p is the antecedent, and q is the consequent.
- (logic) The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.
- Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
- (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun or other pro-form.
- An ancestor.
adj
noun
- anything that precedes something similar in time
- something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
- a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
- A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.
- (philately) A postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own.
- (sports) By extension, a non-competitor who leads out the competitors on to the circuit, or who runs/rides the course prior to competitor trials, usually testing or checking the way.
- A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.
- A runner at the front or ahead.
noun
- A point in time.
- the present
- One's companion for social activities or occasions, especially a romantic partner.
- The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
- A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The anus.
- A pre-arranged meeting.
- (rare) An assigned end; a conclusion.
- A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
- The date palm.
- The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
- a participant in a date
- a meeting arranged in advance
- sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
- a particular day specified as the time something happens
- the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred
- the specified day of the month
verb
- (ambitransitive) To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
- (transitive) To determine the age of something.
- (transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
- (intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
- (transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
- (transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
- (transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
- (reciprocal, by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- go on a date with
- stamp with a date
- assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of
- provide with a dateline; mark with a date
adv
- in the immediate past
- used to preface a command or reproof or request
- at the present moment
- in these times
- without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
- (prefatory or transitional) indicates a change of subject or activity
- in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
- At the time reached within a narration.
- Used to indicate a context of urgency.
- (informal) At the present point of a recurring cycle or event.
- (usually emphasized) Used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before.
- Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
- Sometimes; occasionally; used to list a series of often assumed states.
- At the present time.
- (sentential) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
noun
adj
conj
intj
verb
adj
- earlier than the present time; no longer current
- of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office
- (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
- Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
- (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
- Having already happened; in the past; finished.
noun
adv
prep
verb
noun
verb
- be earlier in time; go back further
- furnish with a preface or introduction
- come before
- be the predecessor of
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
- (transitive) To have higher rank than (someone or something else).
- (transitive) To go before, go in front of.
- (transitive) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
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- be earlier in time; go back further
- come before
- establish something as being earlier relative to something else
- prey on or hunt for
- (transitive) To exist or to occur before something else; to antedate.
- To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)
- (ambitransitive) To prey upon something.
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- up to the present time
- despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession)
- to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons
- within an indefinite time or at an unspecified future time
- used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time
- used after a superlative
- In addition.
- (after 'have' and certain copulative verbs, followed by an infinitive) Not as of the time referenced.
- At some future time; eventually.
- In negative or interrogative use, often with an expectation or potential of something happening in the future.
- In negative imperative use, asking for an action to be delayed.
- (degree) Even.
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- preceding all others in time or space or degree
- serving to set in motion
- highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections
- serving to begin
- ranking above all others
- Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.
- Of or belonging to a first family.
- Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
- Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
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- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- an honours degree of the highest class
- the first or highest in an ordering or series
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
- the first element in a countable series
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
- (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
- (countable, British, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
- (in combination) A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.
- (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
- (countable, baseball) First base.
- (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
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- Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
- So soon.
- (Singapore, Singlish) Marks a change in state, more or less in the same manner as the inchoative aspect.
- (US, Canada) An intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation.
- (Singapore, Singlish) Indicates the completion of an action (whether past or hypothetical), or more generally, perfective aspect.
- prior to a specified or implied time
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- in the immediate past
- used to preface a command or reproof or request
- at the present moment
- in these times
- without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
- (prefatory or transitional) indicates a change of subject or activity
- in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
- At the time reached within a narration.
- Used to indicate a context of urgency.
- (informal) At the present point of a recurring cycle or event.
- (usually emphasized) Used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before.
- Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
- Sometimes; occasionally; used to list a series of often assumed states.
- At the present time.
- (sentential) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
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- To an earlier point in time. See also bring forward.
- In the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (nautical) At, near, or towards the bow of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
- In the desired or usual direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively; onwards.
- In the usual order or sequence.
- Into the future.
- So that front and back are in the usual orientation.
- At, near or towards the front of something.
- forward in time or order or degree
- near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane
- at or to or toward the front; forward
- toward the future; forward in time
- in a forward direction
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- Situated toward or at the front of something.
- (figuratively) Moving in the desired direction of progress.
- Having the usual order or sequence.
- Prominent, emphasized (or, in combinations, emphasizing).
- Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
- Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
- (of troops, guns etc.) Situated toward or near the enemy lines.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction of travel or movement.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (finance, commerce) Expected or scheduled to take place in the future.
- moving forward
- at or near or directed toward the front
- used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty
- of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle
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- (rugby) One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession of the ball (compare back).
- (nautical) The front part of a vessel.
- (ice hockey) An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
- (finance) A direct agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specific point in the future; distinguished from a futures contract in that the latter is standardized and traded on an exchange.
- (basketball) The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers.
- Misspelling of foreword (“preface or introduction”).
- (Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.
- the person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey
- a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team
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- (transitive) To advance, promote.
- (transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.
- (transitive, bookbinding) To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.
- (intransitive, Caribbean) To arrive, come.
- send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit
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- To an earlier time.
- At or towards the front; in the direction one is facing or moving.
- So as to be further advanced, either spatially or in an abstract sense; to be superior.
- To a later time.
- In or for the future.
- At an earlier time; beforehand; in advance.
- to a different or a more advanced time (meaning advanced either toward the present or toward the future)
- ahead of time; in anticipation
- toward the future; forward in time
- at or in the front
- leading or ahead in a competition
- to a more advanced or advantageous position
- in a forward direction
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- of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
- having died recently
- of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages
- (used especially of persons) of the immediate past
- after the expected or usual time; delayed
- being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
- at or toward an end or late period or stage of development
- Near the end of a period of time.
- (not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Generally must be preceded by a possessive or an article, commonly "the"; see usage notes. Can itself only precede the person's name, never follow it.)
- Not having had an expected menstrual period.
- (usually not comparable) Associated with the end of a period.
- Specifically, near the end of the day.
- Not arriving or occurring until after an expected time.
- Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
- Levied as a surcharge on a payment which has not arrived by a specified deadline.
- (astronomy) Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun.
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- of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
- new
- Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.
- Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
- (sciences) Particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy: having occurred a relatively short time ago, but still potentially thousands or even millions of years ago.
- Having happened a short while ago.
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- earlier in time
- of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body
- (anatomy) Nearer the forward end, especially in the front of the body; nearer the head or forepart of an animal.
- (botany) (of a part of a flower or leaf) Situated further away from the mainstem.
- (phonetics) Pronounced with an obstruction located in front of the palato-alveolar region of the mouth, e.g. b, p, d, t.
- (formal) Coming before or earlier in time or development, prior to, preceding.
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- earlier in time
- Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
- More important or significant.
- (Bayesian statistics) Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
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- the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot
- An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.
- The head of a priory (“a monastery which is usually a branch of an abbey”), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.
- (by extension) In the rationalsphere: a belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future.
- The elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and South America.
- (Canada, US, law enforcement, chiefly in the plural) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record.
- The head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders.
- In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.
- The head friar of a house of friars.
- A chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence (1115–1569) in what is now Italy.
- (Bayesian statistics) A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
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- of the present time and place
- having no intervening medium
- very close or connected in space or time
- immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect
- performed with little or no delay
- Very close; direct or adjacent.
- Manifestly true; requiring no argument.
- Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
- (procedure word, military) An artillery fire mission modifier for two types of fire mission to denote an immediate need for fire: Immediate smoke, all guns involved must reload smoke and fire. Immediate suppression, all guns involved fire the rounds currently loaded and then switch to high explosive with impact fused (unless fuses are specified).
- (procedure word, military) Used to denote that a transmission is urgent.
- (computer science, of an instruction operand) Embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than stored elsewhere (such as a register or memory location).
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- earlier than the present time; no longer current
- of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office
- (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
- Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
- (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
- Having already happened; in the past; finished.
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- a flow of electricity through a conductor
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
- a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
- (by extension, South Asia) electricity, power in general.
- The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) ellipsis of ocean current.
- (electricity) Ellipsis of electric current.
- A tendency or a course of events.
- The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.
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- a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)
- a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws
- an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
- (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
- (law) A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
- An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
- The previous version.
- An established habit or custom.
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- Coming before (all) others in time.
- Of the highest rank or position; of the greatest importance; of the highest priority.
- Positioned in front of (all) others in space, most forward.
- (nautical) Closest to the bow.
- preceding all others in spatial position
- situated closest to the bow
- ranking above all others