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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
precede
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
immediately before/preceding sth
▪ I can’t remember what happened immediately before the crash.
the previous/preceding chapter
▪ The method is described in the previous chapter.
the previous/preceding generation
▪ He was the equal of any of the previous generation of great explorers.
the previous/preceding month (=the month before)
▪ Sales were lower than in the previous month.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
▪ The well-known symptoms of hypoglycemia almost always precede the loss of consciousness.
▪ The money season always precedes the quality season, as summer precedes fall.
immediately
▪ A representation of the superficial aspects of the immediately preceding text is also used in the interpretation of both kinds of anaphors.
▪ Yet in the days immediately preceding, there still is the feeling that the crowd has not yet arrived.
▪ Far more hoards have survived from both these relatively short periods than from the immediately preceding or succeeding periods.
▪ In other words once the first element has been selected every subsequent choice is determined by the element immediately preceding it.
▪ Adjustments are considered in the light of experience of the immediately preceding cycle.
usually
▪ There was none of the careful preparation and gradual introduction which usually precedes the adoption of a child beyond infancy.
▪ I could feel the pulsing of veins that usually precedes entry into a forbidden, private realm.
▪ Remember that antecedents are events that usually precede the problems and consequences usually follow them.
▪ Those clouds usually precede low-pressure systems..
▪ The act is usually preceded by feelings of anger, self-hatred, and sometimes depression.
▪ The unpleasantness is stressed because it is usually preceded by an enjoyable activity - eating a meal.
■ NOUN
chapter
▪ But the world of chapter 26 is not only familiar to us from the preceding chapters of Genesis.
▪ Could the kinds of experience we have described in the preceding chapters be systematically developed?
▪ Some of those goals have been discussed in the preceding chapter.
▪ The preceding chapters have outlined many of the likely areas of difficulty.
▪ Such entitlement should be included in the plan I have proposed in the preceding chapters.
▪ The orientations of the political culture identified in the preceding chapter remain.
days
▪ Our recommended insurance doesn't cover diving, and please don't dive in the three days preceding your return home.
▪ When I work too hard, my husband reminds me of a moment in the days preceding our marriage.
▪ Yet in the days immediately preceding, there still is the feeling that the crowd has not yet arrived.
death
▪ I wondered if it might be an admission of mortality, an agreement that as birth precedes so death must follow.
▪ He was preceded in death by his parents.
▪ He was preceded in death by sisters, Eunice Benke and Delores Foster.
▪ They were preceded in death by their grandmother, Mae Pilon.
▪ She was preceded in death by a brother, Alvin.
▪ She was preceded in death by sisters, Eleanor and Leona.
event
▪ Remember that antecedents are events that usually precede the problems and consequences usually follow them.
▪ Two events preceded and fed the protests.
▪ These include the events which precede it and the way in which the patient's feelings develop.
▪ I am writing this letter in order to humbly ask your forgiveness for the events preceding my internment here.
▪ The events that immediately precede a strike are more accurately defined as the factors which serve to precipitate the ensuing conflict.
▪ Walking down to the newsagent's in the village I ran through the events of the preceding evening again.
▪ Any single act is embedded in historical events which preceded the act, making such an act possible.
▪ Computed tomography indicates that vascular events can precede the symptoms of multiple sclerosis and that death of nerve fibres occurs considerably later.
meeting
▪ The summit was preceded by a meeting of Foreign Ministers, which had opened on Nov. 8.
month
▪ You had been lawyers on an important case that was tried the month preceding.
▪ In the six months preceding the survey, 40 percent of them had spent £18 or less on textbooks.
▪ Body weight was stable during the three months preceding the study.
period
▪ In Britain these anxieties, warnings and qualifications intensified in the period of debate that preceded the 1867 Reform Act.
war
▪ But in the years preceding the outbreak of war it had become by far the largest single retailer.
week
▪ Entries this year were slightly down, but you wouldn't have known it during the week preceding the start.
▪ It was the week immediately preceding May 21st which interested him.
word
▪ If the source marker precedes the quoted words, the reader is to some extent prepared.
▪ Within the diagram the root index of the word is indicated by preceding the word with £.
years
▪ But in the years preceding the outbreak of war it had become by far the largest single retailer.
▪ A lot of gargoyles have deteriorated more in the last 70-80 years than in the preceding 200 years because of the pollution.
▪ The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute.
▪ That the respondent has deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition.
▪ That the parties have lived apart for at least five years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition.
▪ Annual wage increases for manufacturing workers ran at around 20% for the three years preceding 1990.
▪ Stocking knitting had been removing to the east Midlands from the last years of the preceding century.
■ VERB
follow
▪ To a Marxist-Leninist, control of resources is power; the monopoly of political power follows from this rather than precedes it.
▪ They can be difficult to find, and may follow, rather than precede, a relevant purchase. 4.
▪ Historically, successful monetary unions have followed, not preceded, political union.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A planning session at 11:30 will precede the noon lunch discussion.
▪ In English, the subject precedes the verb.
▪ On vehicle license plates in the UK, the numbers are preceded by a single letter.
▪ The bride and groom preceded the family out of the church.
▪ The fire was preceded by a loud explosion.
▪ The first chapter was preceded by a brief biography of the author.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even preceding events had proven how mistaken they were.
▪ In other words, music precedes the idea.
▪ Intention movements are activities that tend to precede some other activity, which is presumably why they often evolve into signals.
▪ Involvement of other mucosal sites preceded, coincided with, or followed the manifestations of the gastric lymphoma.
▪ It was miraculous that so tender and fragile a creature had emerged from the violence of the preceding day.
▪ Pay attention to the medical cautions that precede each tape.
▪ The preceding discussion suggests that the operation of Keynesian fiscal policy should pose few problems.
▪ There had been intensive campaigning by the proponents of each city over the preceding months.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Precede

Precede \Pre*cede"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Preceded; p. pr. & vb. n. Preceding.] [L. praecedere, praecessum; prae before + cedere to go, to be in motion: cf. F. pr['e]ceder. See Pre-, and Cede.]

  1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. ``Harm precedes not sin.''
    --Milton.

  2. To go before in place, rank, or importance.

  3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object. [R.]

    It is usual to precede hostilities by a public declaration.
    --Kent.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
precede

early 15c., "lead the way; occur before," from Middle French preceder and directly from Latin praecedere "to go before," from prae "before" (see pre-) + cedere "to go" (see cede). Meaning "to walk in front of" is late 15c.; that of "to go before in rank or importance" is attested from mid-15c. Related: Preceded; preceding.

Wiktionary
precede

n. Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay) vb. 1 (context transitive English) To go before, go in front of. 2 (context intransitive English) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce. 3 (context transitive English) To have higher rank than (someone or something else).

WordNet
precede

  1. v. be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools" [syn: predate, forego, antecede, antedate] [ant: postdate]

  2. come before; "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify" [syn: predate]

  3. be the predecessor of; "Bill preceded John in the long line of Susan's husbands" [syn: come before] [ant: succeed]

  4. move ahead (of others) in time or space [syn: lead] [ant: follow]

  5. 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" [syn: preface, premise, introduce]

Usage examples of "precede".

But after the dread feeling of worry and want was finally eradicated from his mind by the abolition of the individual accumulative system, he then began to apply himself carefully to physical development, and as running, jumping and acrobatic work have the best symmetrical effects upon the human form, this kind of exercise was extensively followed, and as each generation succeeded in outdoing the feats of the preceding one, the entire nation finally evolved into one of extraordinary springing propensities.

The operation was preceded by an even greater bombardment by the Allied air.

But as the account between the monarch and the subject was perpetually open, and as the renewal of the demand anticipated the perfect discharge of the preceding obligation, the weighty machine of the finances was moved by the same hands round the circle of its yearly revolution.

The cupellation of large quantities of alloy or of alloys which contain tin, antimony, iron, or any substance which produces a scoria, or corrodes the cupel, must be preceded by a scorification.

To understand the directions then taken in building, it will be helpful to review briefly the general course of architectural development during the preceding century.

Rue Richelieu, at the house of our colleague Grevy, who had been arrested in the Tenth Arrondissement on the preceding day, who was at Mazas.

Sir William Wyndham died the preceding year, deeply regretted as an orator, a patriot, and a man, the constant assertor of British liberty, and one of the chief ornaments of the English nation.

The winter was a much milder one than the preceding, food was less scarce, money more plentiful owing to the issue of assignats, public confidence greatly increased.

Such expressions of course could only have come from men who had succeeded in solving some of the problems of antisepsis that were solved once more in the generation preceding our own.

It is somewhat interesting to compare the platform to which the Democrats assented in 1872 with any they had ever before adopted, or with the record of their senators and representatives in Congress upon all the public questions at issue during the years immediately preceding the Convention.

Bright, who had preceded us and stood in the midst like a General of Division, ordering autocratically and issuing commands for fresh supplies, as if he was going to banquet the southern district en musse.

By this means some notion might be formed of the general direction of the line of barometric pressure preceding or succeeding a storm.

The age of the tomb, however, implied it had preceded the advent of the noble bastardy which lifted the Scorpioni to possession of this ground -or, more strange, that the sepulchre had been brought with them from some other spot, a brooding heirloom.

Senart, formerly President of the Constituent Assembly, Bastide, Laissac, Landrin, had joined the Representatives on the preceding day.

Heron was walking on ahead of him, preceding him by some fifty metres or so, his long legs covering the distances more rapidly than de Batz could follow them.