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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prefix \Pre*fix"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prefixed; p. pr. & vb. n. Prefixing.] [L. praefixus, p. p. of praefigere to fix or fasten before; prae before + figere to fix: cf. F. pr['e]fix fixed beforehand, determined, pr['e]fixer to prefix. See Fix.]
To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement.
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To set or appoint beforehand; to settle or establish antecedently. [Obs.] `` Prefixed bounds. ''
--Locke.And now he hath to her prefixt a day.
--Spenser.
Prefix \Pre"fix\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]fixe.] That which is prefixed; esp., one or more letters or syllables combined or united with the beginning of a word to modify its signification; as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. That which is prefixed; especially one or more letters or syllables added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning; as, ''pre-'' in prefix, ''con-'' in conjure. vb. (label en transitive) To determine beforehand; to set in advance. (from 15thc.)
WordNet
n. an affix that added in front of the word
v. attach a prefix to; "prefixed words" [ant: suffix]
Wikipedia
A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word. Adding it to the beginning of one word changes it into another word. For example, when the prefix un- is added to the word happy, it creates the word unhappy. Particularly in the study of languages, a prefix is also called a preformative, because it alters the form of the words to which it is affixed.
Prefixes, like other affixes, can be either inflectional, creating a new form of the word with the same basic meaning and same lexical category (but playing a different role in the sentence), or derivational, creating a new word with a new semantic meaning and sometimes also a different lexical category. Prefixes, like all other affixes, are usually bound morphemes.
In English, there are no inflectional prefixes; English uses suffixes instead for that purpose.
The word prefix is itself made up of the stem fix (meaning "attach", in this case), and the prefix pre- (meaning "before"), both of which are derived from Latin roots.
A prefix is a part of a word attached to a beginning of a word which modifies the meaning of that stem.
Prefix may also refer to:
- Prefix (computer science), a substring starting at the initial position of a reference string
- Prefix order (mathematics), a generalization of the notion of prefix of a string, and of the notion of a tree
- Numerical prefix, a prefix derived from the words for numbers in various languages, most commonly Greek and Latin
- SI prefix or metric prefix, a name or associated symbol that precedes a unit of measure (or its symbol) to form a decimal multiple or submultiple
- Binary prefix, a name or associated symbol that can precede a unit of measure in computing to indicate multiplication by a power of two
- Prefix code, a type of code in coding theory
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Namespace identifier of a Unique identifier
- Trunk prefix, the initial number to be dialled in a domestic telephone call
- Telephone prefix, the first set of digits in a telephone number not a country code or area code
- Network address prefix, the initial part of a network address, used in address delegation and routing
- ITU prefix, a call sign for radio and television stations.
- Ship prefix, a combination of letters used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship
- Prefix notation or Polish notation, a method of mathematical expression
- Prefix Magazine, an alternative media publication about music*
- Prefix (acoustics), the initial part of the sound, one of J. F. Schouten's five major acoustic parameters
Usage examples of "prefix".
Having stilled its immemorial allocution to the moon, the watch-dog was assisting a negro who, prefixing a team of mules to the plow, was flatting and sharping contentedly at his task.
Those possessing extra-sensory powers sufficiently well-developed to make walking or manipulatory appendages unnecessary were given the prefix V, regardless of size or shape.
Sainte Beuve has prefixed her recovered portrait in an essay marked by his best touches.
Butler was written by an anonymous author, said by William Oldys to be Sir James Astrey, and prefixed to the edition of 1704.
To this edition are prefixed the commendatory verses of Barrow and Marvell.
Alice did come from a noble British house but she could not claim to have Lady prefixed to her name.
As I may, without vanity, presume that the name and official description prefixed to this Proem will secure it, from the sedate and reflecting part of mankind, to whom only I would be understood to address myself, such attention as is due to the sedulous instructor of youth, and the careful performer of my Sabbath duties, I will forbear to hold up a candle to the daylight, or to point out to the judicious those recommendations of my labours which they must necessarily anticipate from the perusal of the title-page.
There are in Gruter inscriptions, wherein he has the title of Semon prefixed, and is also styled Sanctus.
The sky was lit at uneven intervals by waste-gas fires, and the air was foul with the stink of petroleum distillates: aviation kerosene, gasoline, diesel fuel, benzine, nitrogen tetroxide for intercontinental missiles, lubricating oils of various grades, and complex petrochemicals identified only by their alphanumeric prefixes.
Ouemessourit, probably a corruption of their name by the Illinois tribe, with the characteristic Algonquian prefix.
As nowadays a section on the nature of the Christian religion is usually prefixed to a treatise on dogmatics, in order to prepare and introduce the reader, so also the Johannine prologue seems to be intended as an introduction of this kind.
This epistle he prefixed to his poems printed at Kilmarnock in the year 1789: he loved to speak of his early comrade, and supplied Walker with some very valuable anecdotes: he died one of the magistrates of Irvine, on the 2d of May, 1830, at the age of seventy.
He set it on the shelf next to the bulky teleprinter, sat down, and clacked off the prefix and routing instructions, winding a small handle at the side of the machine at the end of each word.
Other verbal stems already prefix the stem-vowel as a kind of intensification, e.
Count Sylvius, but perhaps you would kindly give me my prefix when you address me.