Precursors

Word PRECURSORS
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Definitions and meanings of "Precursors"

What do we mean by precursors?

That which precurses: a forerunner, predecessor, or indicator of approaching events.

One of the compounds that participates in the chemical reaction that produces another compound.

Chemicals used to manufacture crystal meth or crank that you can be arrested for having together or in large quantities. Urban Dictionary

N. Any dangerous activity that might result in a broken neck. Originally used in radical skateboarding it is now used in everyday situations. Also a sexual euphemism. ............................. Urban Dictionary

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The word "precursors" in example sentences

Remember when reducing emissions of acid rain precursors was going to cost so much that a lucrative emissions credit market was going to spring up? joe from Lowell Says: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Foreshocks are basically earthquakes and are identified as precursors only after another quake follows. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Polyps are abnormal tissue growths of the mucus membrane that are frequently identified as precursors of cancer. ❋ David DiSalvo (2011)

One of the precursors was the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights. ❋ Unknown (2005)

This evening, at about this time, there is a meeting at the Baghdad center of UNMOVIC, in which technical discussions are being conducted between experts from both side, the Iraqi sides and UNMOVIC, on the question of verification of the destruction of anthrax and VX, in addition to VX precursors, which is the intermediate products -- intermediate chemical materials. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Throughout the 1990s, UN inspectors in Iraq supervised or verified the destruction of: about 100,000 chemical munitions over 400 tonnes of bulk chemical agents, and over 2,600 tonnes of chemicals, known as precursors, which could have been used to make weapons. ❋ Unknown (2002)

And I will also be anxious to bring to agreement proposals that are in discussion about closer cooperation to combat the international drugs trade, both in the Caribbean area and in regard to what are known as precursors, which are chemicals which are used in the manufacture of drugs. ❋ ITY National Archives (1996)

Recent discoveries in the fossil beds of Nebraska seem also to prove that the horse originated in the Western Hemisphere, for that is the only part of the world where fossil remains have been discovered, showing the various intermediate forms which have been identified as the precursors of the true horse. ❋ W. Scott-Elliot (N/A)

Not all massive earthquakes give warning shots like foreshocks, and even when they do, those may only be identified as precursors to something bigger in hindsight. ❋ Unknown (2011)

SeaWorld employees testified that trainers of killer whales are taught to recognize "precursors" -- odd behaviors that could lead to aggression. ❋ Unknown (2011)

To form red blood cells, large, round cells known as precursors have to become small and disc-shaped, like balls of plasticine squeezed between finger and thumb. ❋ Unknown (2010)

OREGON - band from 70's and 80's, sometimes known as the precursors to the new age music movement, but in actuality they were a free jazz, improv-based group. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The new finding was launched when Banerjee and his team set out to discover why fruit flies had naturally occurring, slightly elevated levels of ROS in their blood cell precursors, which is atypical of most other precursor cells. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Syndicate this column An episode from days ago, comprising merely a compliment or two from a relatively unknown person, opened my eyes as to why words are called the precursors of action ❋ Unknown (2009)

I believe that this issue badly affects all of us Colombians and it is not solely the responsibility of Colombians; it is the responsibility of the consuming countries, the responsibility of the bad governments that we have had in Colombia, the responsibility of the poor policies of the International Monetary Fund and of the banking sector, the responsibility of the countries that produce the chemical precursors, that is to say, in short, the responsibility of the misconceptions of the neoliberal model. ❋ Abhay N (2007)

What is more, if we wish to go on a search after the premises of the logical creation of Marx and Engels, it will not suffice to stop at those who are called the precursors of socialism, Saint Simon for example, and his predecessors, or the philosophers, particularly Hegel, or the economists who had laid bare the anatomy of the society which produces commodities; we must go back to the very formation of modern society, and then at last declare triumphantly that the theory is a plagarism from the things that it explains. ❋ Unknown (1896)

The appendix then deals with a variety of other matters not directly addressed in the main part of the book such as precursors of the Serial Vigilante, crossovers, references and parodies Mengel definitely knows his Wold Newton Universe, female superheroes or spies and the future of the genre. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[anhydrous ammonia],ephedrine,pseudoephedrin, ether, dry ice, lye,[ammonium] nitrate fertilizer,lithium batteries,drain cleaner, muriatic acid, sinus inhalers,red [phosphorus], iodine ❋ The Tweaker (2005)

I'm going to tell the boss where he [can stick] his stupid new ideas for [productivity]. Have you given anyone a spinal fusion precursor before? A couple of times, but [don't change the subject]. ❋ Gnostic1 (2012)

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