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Preignition
- - Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed.
Prelibation
- - A tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste; as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss.
Premonition
- noun - a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"
- an early warning about a future event
Premunition
- - The act of fortifying or guarding against objections.
Prep School
- noun - a private secondary school
Preparation
- noun - (music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord; "the resolution of one dissonance is often the preparation for another dissonance"
- a substance prepared according to a formula; "the physician prescribed a commercial preparation of the medicine"
- activity leading to skilled behavior
- preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)
- the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"
- the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose; "preparations for the ceremony had begun"
- the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening; "his planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties"
- the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (
Prepare For
- verb - prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant
Preposition
- noun - (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached)
- a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word
Press Proof
- - The last proof for correction before sending to press. (b) A proof taken on a press, esp. to show impression, margins, color, etc.
Presumption
- noun - (law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed
- a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming; "his presumption was intolerable"
- an assumption that is taken for granted
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness"