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/prɪlˈɪmənˌɛri/ /prilˈɪmənˌɛri/ Listen

Preliminary

adjective

Denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important; designed to orient or acquaint with a situation before proceeding.

noun

(pl. preliminaries)

A minor match preceding the main event. Synonym: prelim.

Something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows. Synonyms: overture, prelude. "Drinks were the overture to dinner"

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... project was made public, in the latter part of 1901, borings were begun in the East River, and a few weeks later in Manhattan and Long Island City. A preliminary base line was measured on the Manhattan side, and temporary transit stations were established on buildings from which all borings in the river were located. The river borings were all wash-borings made from a pile-driver boat. After the results were ...

— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 • Alfred Noble

... its preliminary work in a snappy, finished way that brought frequent applause from the ...

— Baseball Joe Around the World - Pitching on a Grand Tour • Lester Chadwick

... the connection between their remarks was almost lost. However, neither of them made a movement to leave the drawing-room, Savina Grove returned slowly to her chair. "No one, I think, has ever found it out like that." Her remark was without intelligible preliminary, but he grasped her meaning at once. "How you happened to stir it in me I have no idea—" she stopped and looked at him intently. "A terrible accident! I would have done anything, gone any distance, to avoid it. I am unable, with ...

— Cytherea • Joseph Hergesheimer

... that knows no pause. Activities such as these differ with a whole sky from the wage-work of the modern industrial worker. The task in one case is done for its own sake. It is life itself. The other is done only for the sake of the wage it brings. It is, or should be, a mere preliminary to living. ...

— The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice • Stephen Leacock

... preliminary work was completed. His men, an undisciplined body when he took them in hand, had become trained soldiers, but as yet they had not received what Napoleon III. called the "baptism of fire." It is all very well to march and countermarch, and practice the ordinary evolutions like militia-men at a ...

— From Canal Boy to President - Or The Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield • Horatio Alger, Jr.

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