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单词 fore-run
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fore-runv.

Brit. /(ˌ)fɔːˈrʌn/, U.S. /fɔ(r)ˈrən/
Etymology: < fore- prefix + run v.
1. intransitive. To run on in front. Old English only.
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c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xx. 4 Se oðer leorning-cniht for-arn [c950 Lindisf. forearn] petrus forne.
2. transitive. To outrun, outstrip. Obsolete exc. figurative.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > gain (ground) upon > catch up or overtake > outstrip > by running
of-runOE
overruna1425
outrunc1460
fore-run1513
to have (also get) the heels of1649
to have the legs of (also on)1861
to give a stone and a beating to1885
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. vi. 61 That thai forryn and gois befor alway Zephirus and Nothus.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. v. xi. f. 61/2 Gyf ye haris had forrun the hundis.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 122 Forerun thy peers.
1879 R. W. Church Spenser v. 119 Even genius..cannot forerun the limitations of its day.
3. To run in front of; hence, to act as harbinger of (a person). Also transferred to precede. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > going first or in front > go in front of [verb (transitive)]
foregoc900
precedec1475
preventa1500
fore-ride1570
fore-run1570
usher1599
huisher1606
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > precede or follow in order [verb (transitive)] > precede in order
to go before ——OE
precedea1552
fore-run1570
prevene1596
frontal1652
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Piv/1 To Forerunne, præcurrere.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 173 They often compassing the sepulcher in a ioynt procession, are fore-run and followed by the people.
1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia i. 7 Chriscrosse fore-runs the Alphabet of loue.
1708 G. Stanhope Paraphr. (1709) IV. 335 And thou, my Child John, shalt fore-tell and immediately fore-run this Saviour.
1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little i. iv. 38 Little Pompey..with three Footmen fore-running his Equipage,..set out in Triumph.
absolute.a1643 W. Cartwright Siedge v. iii, in Comedies (1651) sig. L4v To forerun And lead the way t' Elyzium [is] but a duty She would not thank me for.
4. To be the precursor of (a future event, etc.).
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)]
forecomea1300
precede?a1425
fore-run1590
usher1607
eve1638
to usher in1641
surmounta1647
antevene1655
antedate1664
antecedea1676
anticipate1855
precourse1888
predate1889
precursea1892
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > prefigure [verb (transitive)]
forecomea1300
to say beforec1384
signifyc1384
pretendc1425
prefigurec1429
preostendc1429
prefigurate1530
prefigurate1530
adumbrate1537
promise1556
premonstrate1562
foresignify1565
presignify1570
shadow1574
foreshadow1577
presage1583
fore-run1590
presign1590
fore-read1591
figure1595
type forth, out1596
fore-point1601
foreshow1601
prophesy1608
foretella1616
foretypea1618
forebode1656
harbingera1657
pretypify1658
pretype1659
forespeak1667
to figure out1721
forecast1883
favour1887
precourse1888
precursea1892
1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. C4 Lightning, that beawtifies the Heauen for a blaze but foreruns stormes and thunder.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. iv. 15 These signes forerunne the death or fall of Kings. View more context for this quotation
1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra (1676) v. ii. 487 This felicity was to fore-run the last I now can hope for.
a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 219 A Star..which Eastern Gentiles guess'd was to forerun The wish'd-for Dawn of the Eternal Sun.
1768 Med. Trans. (Royal Coll. of Physicians) 1 434 The symptoms, which forerun the chicken-pox.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 231 The cold wind that foreruns the morn.
5. To anticipate, forestall.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > anticipate, forecast [verb (transitive)]
to cast dangerc1449
forecasta1513
preventa1533
foredeem1542
premeditate1566
foretake1588
fore-run1591
foreprise1597
to lay one's account with (also on, for)1606
foreguess1640
prospect1652
precalculate1840
pre-empt1928
second-guess1941
the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)] > anticipate or forestall
before-takea1382
preventc1425
devance1485
prevenea1500
lurch1530
to take before the bounda1556
to be aforehand with1570
to be beforehand with1574
to meet halfwaya1586
preoccupate1588
forestall1589
fore-run1591
surprise1591
antedate1595
foreprise1597
preoccupy1607
preoccupy1638
pre-act1655
anticipatea1682
obviate1712
to head off1841
beat1847
to beat out1893
pre-empt1957
1591 W. Raleigh Rep. Fight Iles of Açores sig. A3 By anticipating and forerunning false reports.
1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 54 Our Bodies but forerun The spirits duty.
1849 H. W. Longfellow Mrs. Kemble's Readings Shakespeare The great poet who foreruns the ages, Anticipating all that shall be said!

Derivatives

ˈforeˌrunning n. and adj.
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1565 M. Harding Let. to Jewel in J. Strype Ann. Reformation I. App. xxx. 72 Your forerunning sermon.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Advantcourement, forerunning.
1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. (ed. 2) 80 The diabolical forerunning libells.
1690 W. Penn Brief Acct. Rise Quakers (1834) 50 The consummation of the legal, and fore running of the Gospel times.
1818 S. E. Pierce Bk. Psalms II. 460 Sorrows and griefs, forerunning figures of what would befall Messiah.
1872 H. W. Longfellow Div. Trag. Introitus 53 The sublime fore running of their time.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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