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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Existing or coming before another or others in time, place, or sequence; previous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Going before; -- opposed to
following . - adjective (Astron.) In the direction toward which stars appear to move. See
Following , 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Occurring before or in front of something else, in
time ,place ,rank orsequence . - verb Present participle of
precede .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office
- adjective existing or coming before
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Examples
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The term preceding the Commencement of 1799 was especially stormy.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907
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The recognition of Conversion, in fact, requires us to admit that, formally, in a logical proposition, the term preceding the copula is subject and the one following is predicate.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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Label (render the label preceding the above, wrapped in a tag
Planet PHP 2009
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Yet UN officials said this epidemic was unexpected, attempting to excuse their slow response and failure to quarantine the zone where cholera broke out - even as they took credit in preceding months for preventing a postearthquake outbreak of infectious disease.
Crossover Dreams: The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund is Lying to You Crossover Dreams 2010
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Yet UN officials said this epidemic was unexpected, attempting to excuse their slow response and failure to quarantine the zone where cholera broke out - even as they took credit in preceding months for preventing a postearthquake outbreak of infectious disease.
Crossover Dreams: The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund is Lying to You Crossover Dreams 2010
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Now, if you hate writing short stories, most of the preceding is probably irrelevant to you.
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Each passage, let it be noted, solves a problem posed in preceding stanzas.
The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth 2008
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Indiana Jones name shall have very good effect but only on Indiana Jones Fan for some reason if somebody didn't like Indy in preceding films then bam this is a big NO to them
It's All in a Name - Batman: The Dark Knight « FirstShowing.net 2008
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I'd guess most of the contributors to this blog are men, and (from what I've already read in preceding posts) I don't think it's necessary to ask you to set one-on-one time aside for each of your kids.
Youth Sports 2008
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The preceding is an excellent example of the ridiculous hold that “energy independence” maintains over American political discourse.
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- above
- advanced
- aforegoing
- aforementioned
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- antecedence
- antecedency
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- anteposition
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- chief
- ci-devant
- dominion
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- exordial
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- heading
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- heretofore
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- in
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joad.marshal commented on the word preceding
In the context of computer programming, consider using leading instead.
February 16, 2015