English words for 'a phrase beginning with a preposition'
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noun
- (grammar) Initialism of prepositional phrase.
- (grammar) Initialism of postpositional phrase.
- (video games) Abbreviation of performance points.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of pussy pass.
- Initialism of parish priest.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polypropylene.
- (dance) Initialism of promenade position.
- (sports) Initialism of power play.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of pee-pee (“penis or vagina”).
- (British, Ireland) Initialism of planning permission.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of prone positioning (“proning”).
- (medicine) Initialism of precocious puberty.
- (grammar) Initialism of past participle.
- Initialism of public parking.
name
phrase
pron
- Following a preposition.
- With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition.
- With accusative effect or as a direct object.
- Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
- (slang) A person of elevated skill at a sport, game, or other activity.
- (colloquial, uncommon) As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
- With dative effect or as an indirect object.
noun
pron
- As the object of a preposition.
- Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
- (nonstandard, in apposition) Would be the subject of a copula in standard English, though the copula is omitted; used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.
- (informal, with a conjunction, often proscribed) As the subject of a verb.
- (nonstandard, not with a conjunction) As the subject of a verb. Sometimes used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.
- As the object (direct or indirect) of a verb.
- (colloquial, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.
det
noun
pron
- As the object of a preposition.
- As the object of a verb.
- (fused relative, archaic outside set patterns) The person(s) whom; whomever.
- (informal, especially non-US) Also used with names of collective nouns that are groups of people, especially singularly-named musical groups or sports teams.
- (relative) Used to refer to a previously mentioned person or people.
pron
- Used as the object of a preposition.
- (informal set phrases, dialectal or nonstandard) They or those.
- Used as the indirect object of a verb.
- Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
- Used as the direct object of a verb.
- (nonstandard or colloquial, uncommon) As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
det
verb
- make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
- affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of
- (transitive, grammar) To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
- (transitive, logic) To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
- (transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.
- (transitive, originally US) To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
- (transitive) To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
adj
noun
- one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
- (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula
- (programming) An operator, expression, or function that returns either true or false.
- (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
- (logic) A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.
noun
- the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate
- (grammar) The relationship of a phrase to its predicate
- (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts
- (genetics) The interaction between two genetic units such that an organism can function normally if either one is defective
- (mathematics) The replacement of a set by its complement
noun
- Abbreviation of preposition.
- (countable) Preparation.
- (Australia) Nursery school; preschool.
- (informal, countable) A prep school.
- (informal, countable) A student or graduate of a prep school, a preppy.
- Alternative form of PrEP.
- (UK, chiefly private schools, uncountable) Homework; work set to do outside class time.
- (Philippines) Preparatory level; the last two levels or the fourth and fifth years of preschool; the two levels before first grade.
- (horse racing) A preparatory race or workout.
- (US, slang, chiefly derogatory) A person using the styles and mannerisms (especially in terms of fashion) associated with prep students.
- preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)
verb
noun
- interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
- a change in the units or form of an expression:
- a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown
- act of exchanging one type of money or security for another
- a change of religion
- the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another
- a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life
- an event that results in a transformation
- (American football) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.
- (law) Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.
- (logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
- (mathematics) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
- (chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
- (marketing) An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
- (rugby) A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
- (linguistics) The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.
- (computing) A software product converted from one platform to another.
- Living space in a part of a building that was previously uninhabitable, or the process of constructing such living space.
- The act of converting something or someone.
- (slang, board games) Changing a miniature figure into another character, usually by mixing different parts, or molding the model's parts, or doing both.
adj
noun
adv
noun
verb
adj
- (followed by the preposition to) Having a predilection for something.
- (botany) Subordinate.
- Biased in favor of a person, side, or point of view, especially when dealing with a competition or dispute.
- (crosswording, of a clue) Having a wordplay element, but no definition.
- (computer science) Describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates.
- Existing as a part or portion; incomplete.
- (mathematics) Of or relating to a partial derivative or partial differential.
- (followed by ‘of’ or ‘to’) having a strong preference or liking for
- being or affecting only a part; not total
- constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety
- showing favoritism
noun
- (dentistry) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth
- (bodybuilding) The condition of not exhausting the amplitude during the repetition of an exercise.
- (forensics) An incomplete fingerprint
- (furry fandom) A fursuit that does not fully cover the wearer's body.
- (programming, Internet) A fragment of a template containing markup.
- (mathematics) A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables while holding the other variables constant.
- (music) Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental.
- the derivative of a function of two or more variables with respect to a single variable while the other variables are considered to be constant
- a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
verb
conj
- (law) used before a preposition to clarify that the prepositional phrase restricts the meaning of the sentence; specifically.
- Varying through time in the same proportion that.
- Functioning as a relative conjunction, and sometimes like a relative pronoun: that, which, who. (See usage notes.)
- Expressing concession: though.
- At the same instant or moment that: when.
- At the same time that, during the same time when: while.
- In the (same) way or manner that; to the (same) degree that.
- Being that, considering that, because, since.
- Used to introduce a result: with the result that it is; as to
- Used after so or as to introduce a comparison.
adv
noun
prep
noun
adj
pron
- Referring to a preceding noun.
- Referring to a preceding statement.
- (relative, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) In a restrictive relative clause, referring to a noun previously mentioned.
- (interrogative) What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied).
- (not in common use) The/Any ones that; whichever.
conj
det
adj
verb
noun
- (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate functioning as a part of a complex sentence
- a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)
- (grammar) A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is dependent (subordinate). (Independent clauses can be sentences; they can also be part of a sentence. Dependent clauses can only be part of a sentence.)
- (databases) A constituent (component) of a statement or query.
- (law) A distinct part of a contract, a will or another legal document.
- (grammar) A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.
- (grammar) A group of words that contains a subject and a verb; it may be part of a sentence or may constitute the whole sentence, depending on the syntax in each instance.
verb
adv
- With predicative adjectives.
- With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.
- Coming before the definite article and an attributive superlative.
- With adverbs of manner.
- With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc.
- To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather.
- Before a noun preceded by the definite article.
- With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs.
- Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.)
- Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions.
- With verbs, especially past participles.
- Before a noun preceded by an indefinite article; now often with ironic implications that the noun in question is particularly noteworthy or remarkable.
- of an unusually noticeable or exceptional or remarkable kind (not used with a negative)
- to the greatest extent; completely
- to a degree (not used with a negative)
- actually or truly or to an extreme
intj
noun
noun
- one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
- (linguistics) A construction in a clause consisting of a verb and its internal complements, or modifiers.
- (grammar) A phrase that functions syntactically as a verb, consisting of a main verb and any auxiliaries.
noun
- (linguistics) Initialism of tense phrase.
- (physiology) Initialism of threshold potential.
- (anatomy) Initialism of transverse process.
- Initialism of true positive.
- (medicine) Initialism of trigger point.
- (mathematics) Initialism of transportation problem.
- (engineering) Initialism of true position.
- (networking) Initialism of termination point.
- (baseball) Initialism of triple play.
- (military) Initialism of torpedo boat.
- Initialism of textile paper.
- (colloquial) Initialism of toilet paper.
verb
adj
- (grammar) Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin.
- Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
- Likely or expected to happen or become.
- (medicine, of research) Being a study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future
- Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
- Anticipated in the near or far future.
- of or concerned with or related to the future
noun
noun
- (linguistics) Initialism of noun phrase.
- Initialism of notary public.
- (nanotechnology) Initialism of nanoparticle.
- Initialism of national park.
- Initialism of nurse practitioner.
- (medicine, pathology) Abbreviation of nosocomial pneumonia.
- (computing theory) Abbreviation of nondeterministic polynomial, the complexity class of computational problems that a nondeterministic Turing machine can solve in polynomial time.
- a registered nurse who has received special training and can perform many of the duties of a physician
name
phrase
noun
adj
adv
- (placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.
- Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
- (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.
- A long time (see usage notes).
- For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
- (placed by itself after a positive verb, rare) For a long time.
- for an extended distance
- for an extended time or at a distant time
adj
- (Canada, US, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 13 in.
- (sports, of a ball or shot) Going beyond the intended target.
- (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.
- (informal) Having a long penis.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
- (of weapons fire, landing aircraft, etc.) Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
- Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit
- Having great duration.
- (Philippines, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in.
- (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
- Travelling a great distance.
- Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
- of relatively great height
- having or being more than normal or necessary
- planning prudently for the future
- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
- (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
- good at remembering
- involving substantial risk
noun
- (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
- (prosody) A long syllable.
- (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- Abbreviation of longitude.
- (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
- (linguistics) A long vowel.
verb
noun
- (grammar) Initialism of prepositional phrase.
- (grammar) Initialism of postpositional phrase.
- (video games) Abbreviation of performance points.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of pussy pass.
- Initialism of parish priest.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polypropylene.
- (dance) Initialism of promenade position.
- (sports) Initialism of power play.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of pee-pee (“penis or vagina”).
- (British, Ireland) Initialism of planning permission.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of prone positioning (“proning”).
- (medicine) Initialism of precocious puberty.
- (grammar) Initialism of past participle.
- Initialism of public parking.
name
phrase
noun
- the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate
- (grammar) The relationship of a phrase to its predicate
- (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts
- (genetics) The interaction between two genetic units such that an organism can function normally if either one is defective
- (mathematics) The replacement of a set by its complement
noun
- Abbreviation of preposition.
- (countable) Preparation.
- (Australia) Nursery school; preschool.
- (informal, countable) A prep school.
- (informal, countable) A student or graduate of a prep school, a preppy.
- Alternative form of PrEP.
- (UK, chiefly private schools, uncountable) Homework; work set to do outside class time.
- (Philippines) Preparatory level; the last two levels or the fourth and fifth years of preschool; the two levels before first grade.
- (horse racing) A preparatory race or workout.
- (US, slang, chiefly derogatory) A person using the styles and mannerisms (especially in terms of fashion) associated with prep students.
- preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)
verb
noun
- interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
- a change in the units or form of an expression:
- a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown
- act of exchanging one type of money or security for another
- a change of religion
- the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another
- a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life
- an event that results in a transformation
- (American football) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.
- (law) Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.
- (logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
- (mathematics) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
- (chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
- (marketing) An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
- (rugby) A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
- (linguistics) The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.
- (computing) A software product converted from one platform to another.
- Living space in a part of a building that was previously uninhabitable, or the process of constructing such living space.
- The act of converting something or someone.
- (slang, board games) Changing a miniature figure into another character, usually by mixing different parts, or molding the model's parts, or doing both.
noun
adj
noun
- (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate functioning as a part of a complex sentence
- a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)
- (grammar) A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is dependent (subordinate). (Independent clauses can be sentences; they can also be part of a sentence. Dependent clauses can only be part of a sentence.)
- (databases) A constituent (component) of a statement or query.
- (law) A distinct part of a contract, a will or another legal document.
- (grammar) A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.
- (grammar) A group of words that contains a subject and a verb; it may be part of a sentence or may constitute the whole sentence, depending on the syntax in each instance.
verb
verb
- make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
- affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of
- (transitive, grammar) To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
- (transitive, logic) To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
- (transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.
- (transitive, originally US) To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
- (transitive) To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
adj
noun
- one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
- (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula
- (programming) An operator, expression, or function that returns either true or false.
- (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
- (logic) A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.
noun
- one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
- (linguistics) A construction in a clause consisting of a verb and its internal complements, or modifiers.
- (grammar) A phrase that functions syntactically as a verb, consisting of a main verb and any auxiliaries.
noun
- (linguistics) Initialism of tense phrase.
- (physiology) Initialism of threshold potential.
- (anatomy) Initialism of transverse process.
- Initialism of true positive.
- (medicine) Initialism of trigger point.
- (mathematics) Initialism of transportation problem.
- (engineering) Initialism of true position.
- (networking) Initialism of termination point.
- (baseball) Initialism of triple play.
- (military) Initialism of torpedo boat.
- Initialism of textile paper.
- (colloquial) Initialism of toilet paper.
verb
noun
- (linguistics) Initialism of noun phrase.
- Initialism of notary public.
- (nanotechnology) Initialism of nanoparticle.
- Initialism of national park.
- Initialism of nurse practitioner.
- (medicine, pathology) Abbreviation of nosocomial pneumonia.
- (computing theory) Abbreviation of nondeterministic polynomial, the complexity class of computational problems that a nondeterministic Turing machine can solve in polynomial time.
- a registered nurse who has received special training and can perform many of the duties of a physician
name
phrase
noun
adj
verb
- make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
- affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of
- (transitive, grammar) To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
- (transitive, logic) To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
- (transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.
- (transitive, originally US) To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
- (transitive) To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
adj
noun
- one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
- (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula
- (programming) An operator, expression, or function that returns either true or false.
- (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
- (logic) A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.
adv
noun
verb
adv
- With predicative adjectives.
- With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.
- Coming before the definite article and an attributive superlative.
- With adverbs of manner.
- With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc.
- To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather.
- Before a noun preceded by the definite article.
- With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs.
- Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.)
- Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions.
- With verbs, especially past participles.
- Before a noun preceded by an indefinite article; now often with ironic implications that the noun in question is particularly noteworthy or remarkable.
- of an unusually noticeable or exceptional or remarkable kind (not used with a negative)
- to the greatest extent; completely
- to a degree (not used with a negative)
- actually or truly or to an extreme
intj
noun
adv
- (placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.
- Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
- (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.
- A long time (see usage notes).
- For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
- (placed by itself after a positive verb, rare) For a long time.
- for an extended distance
- for an extended time or at a distant time
adj
- (Canada, US, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 13 in.
- (sports, of a ball or shot) Going beyond the intended target.
- (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.
- (informal) Having a long penis.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
- (of weapons fire, landing aircraft, etc.) Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
- Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit
- Having great duration.
- (Philippines, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in.
- (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
- Travelling a great distance.
- Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
- of relatively great height
- having or being more than normal or necessary
- planning prudently for the future
- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
- (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
- good at remembering
- involving substantial risk
noun
- (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
- (prosody) A long syllable.
- (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- Abbreviation of longitude.
- (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
- (linguistics) A long vowel.
verb
verb
- make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
- affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of
- (transitive, grammar) To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
- (transitive, logic) To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
- (transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.
- (transitive, originally US) To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
- (transitive) To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
adj
noun
- one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
- (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula
- (programming) An operator, expression, or function that returns either true or false.
- (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
- (logic) A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.
adj
noun
adj
- (followed by the preposition to) Having a predilection for something.
- (botany) Subordinate.
- Biased in favor of a person, side, or point of view, especially when dealing with a competition or dispute.
- (crosswording, of a clue) Having a wordplay element, but no definition.
- (computer science) Describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates.
- Existing as a part or portion; incomplete.
- (mathematics) Of or relating to a partial derivative or partial differential.
- (followed by ‘of’ or ‘to’) having a strong preference or liking for
- being or affecting only a part; not total
- constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety
- showing favoritism
noun
- (dentistry) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth
- (bodybuilding) The condition of not exhausting the amplitude during the repetition of an exercise.
- (forensics) An incomplete fingerprint
- (furry fandom) A fursuit that does not fully cover the wearer's body.
- (programming, Internet) A fragment of a template containing markup.
- (mathematics) A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables while holding the other variables constant.
- (music) Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental.
- the derivative of a function of two or more variables with respect to a single variable while the other variables are considered to be constant
- a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
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- (grammar) Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin.
- Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
- Likely or expected to happen or become.
- (medicine, of research) Being a study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future
- Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
- Anticipated in the near or far future.
- of or concerned with or related to the future