Matching Words
1931 ResultsBelow are the words that matched your query.
Preluding
- verb - play as a prelude
- serve as a prelude or opening to
Premising
- verb - furnish with a preface or introduction; "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"; "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution"
- set forth beforehand, often as an explanation; "He premised these remarks so that his readers might understand"
- take something as preexisting and given
Preparing
- verb - arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"
- create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"
- educate for a future role or function; "He is grooming his son to become his successor"; "The prince was prepared to become King one day"; "They trained him to be a warrior"
- lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord; "prepare the discord in bar 139"
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"
- prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
- to prepare verbal
Prepaying
- verb - pay for something before receiving it
Preposing
- verb - place before another constituent in the sentence; "English preposes the adpositions; Japanese postposes them"
Presaging
- verb - indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
Presiding
- verb - act as president; "preside over companies and corporations"
Pressburg
- noun - capital and largest city of Slovakia
Pressgang
- - See Press gang, under Press.
Presuming
- verb - constitute reasonable evidence for; "A restaurant bill presumes the consumption of food"
- take liberties or act with too much confidence
- take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof; "I assume his train was late"
- take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission;