Prefixing

Word PREFIXING
Character 9
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Definitions and meanings of "Prefixing"

What do we mean by prefixing?

To determine beforehand; to set in advance.

To put or fix before, or at the beginning of something; to place at the start.

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The word "prefixing" in example sentences

It was a word prefixing the name which he had set there: "MY MARCEL." ❋ Ridgwell Cullum (1905)

I make calls prefixing our callsign with "Aventura" and "Ultralight" until a controller addresses us as ❋ Unknown (2008)

I trust I have as high & as free a spirit as any man; yet, were Earl Buchan to wish to prefix to anything of mine a testimony such as he is desirous of prefixing to your poems, he must write very differently from anything I have seen of his before I should refuse it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A subset of blends is created by aggressive prefixing and suffixing—mixing and matching parts of existing words to make new words. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The fact that prefixing languages are less common than suffixing ones should alone be enough to dissuade people into looking for genuine prefixes in this language until everything else is better understood. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Poor Nicky Campbell had to keep prefixing questions with "some might say" type remarks to show that he personally has no truck with such questions but has to ask otherwise people might think the BBC was totally biased against Israel. ❋ Not A Sheep (2008)

A sturdy module system, made by adding syntax to module and require forms, to provide support for handling name clashes through renaming such as prefixing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The story concerned a Russian who had adopted Islam, prefixing his Slavic name of Anton Stepanenko with a Muslim one, Abdullah. ❋ JDsg (2007)

He eventually began prefixing his posts with “San Diego Fires”. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Unresolved: You should be able to whisper to a channel (the status will show up in your public timeline but will not be sent to your friends who are have not joined the channel) by prefixing your message with a bang (!). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Dawkins speaks of 'selfish' genes and insists that whatever he says about them can be translated back into 'respectable terms', perhaps by replacing that term with 'self-replicating' or by prefixing "illusion of" in front of every teleological term employed. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This is the principle stating that, if a formula A is logically valid, i.e., a logical truth, then its necessitation, that is, the formula obtained by prefixing to it a box or necessity operator, is logically valid, too. ❋ Berto, Francesco (2009)

I never knew you could make discrimination a good thing merely by prefixing it with 'positive'. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You already know that prefixing a command with sudo makes your system execute it with superuser privileges. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That hypothetical disaster relief team shouldn't have to only be friends with each other; either by prefixing a message with a "d groupname ..." or being able to set a target group for subsequent messages with something like a "! set groupname," then they could limit the conversation to needed participants and actually get something done. ❋ Unknown (2007)

His chin, from the same cause, had acquired the grave and imposing form which is generally described by prefixing the word ‘double’ to that expressive feature; and his complexion exhibited that peculiarly mottled combination of colours which is only to be seen in gentlemen of his profession, and in underdone roast beef. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Like the Teutonic language Anglo-Saxon/English is, it has been open to compounding, metaphorizing, alliterating, prefixing and suffixing*, etc., almost as a rule if not actually so, as illustrated in A-S poetry, pre-dating WS by centuries. ❋ Unknown (2007)

However, vectors of characters can be represented more compactly by just enclosing the verbatim character sequence in " characters, after escaping any \ or " characters in the string by prefixing them with \. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Knowledge has many branches, and the other or difference has as many, each of which is described by prefixing the word ‘not’ to some kind of knowledge. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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