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Precautions
- noun - a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.; "he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution"; "an insurance policy is a good safeguard"; "we let our guard down"
- judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care"
- the trait of practicing caution in advance
Precautious
- - Taking or using precaution; precautionary.
Precessions
- noun - the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)
- the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone
Precipitous
- adjective - done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
- extremely steep; "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"
Preclusions
- noun - the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively
Predicators
- noun - an expression that predicates
Predictions
- noun - a statement made about the future
- the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
Preemptions
- noun - a prior appropriation of something; "the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests"
- the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
- the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
- the right to purchase something in advance of others
Prehensions
- noun - the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)