precedepre‧cede /prɪˈsiːd/ ●○○ AWL verb [transitive] formal 
a type of cloud that precedes rain Lunch will be preceded by a short speech from the chairman.2to go somewhere before someone else: The guard preceded them down the corridor.
WORD ORIGINprecede
Origin:
1300-1400 French précéder, from Latin praecedere ‘to go in front’VERB TABLE
precede
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | precede |
| he, she, it | precedes | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | preceded |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have preceded |
| he, she, it | has preceded | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had preceded |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will precede |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have preceded |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am preceding |
| he, she, it | is preceding | |
| you, we, they | are preceding | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was preceding |
| you, we, they | were preceding | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been preceding |
| he, she, it | has been preceding | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been preceding |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be preceding |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been preceding |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- 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.
- 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.
Longman Language Activatorbefore someone or something else in a list, line, series etc
before something or someone else in a list, series, or set: · I think you were before me in line, weren't you?· Islington station is one stop before Finsbury Park on the Victoria Line.
to happen or exist before something or someone else: · Churchill was a much stronger leader than the man who came before him.· A planning session at eleven-thirty will precede the noon lunch discussion.be preceded by something: · Witnesses say the fire was preceded by a loud explosion.· In most cases the illness is preceded by vomiting and chills.
before another person in a group of people who are waiting to do something: · The man in front of me looked very familiar.· There were about fifty people ahead of us waiting for tickets.
coming before the one that you are dealing with now: · The previous chapter examined how children learn language.· Each number in the series 2 - 4 - 8 - 16 is twice as large as the previous number.
coming at some time before the one you have just mentioned - use this especially about something that is very different from what is happening now: · He used a lot more color in his earlier paintings.· The play lacks the wit and energy of Jergen's earlier work.
the thing that comes before another in a series: · When you're in prison, every day feels just like the one before.
formal coming before the thing you have just mentioned, or the part of a book where you are now: · The preceding chapters have described several key events in recent French history.· In the preceding section of the poem, Whitman is talking about how important it is to live in the present.
written use this to talk about a person or thing that was mentioned earlier: · Write to the above address for more information.· The above diagram shows a diesel car engine.the above (=the people or things mentioned earlier): · Contact any of the above for more details.
to happen or exist before someone or something else · The paragraph says basically the same thing as the one that came before.come before something · The salad usually comes before the main course.· In the Greek alphabet, the letter delta comes before the letter epsilon.
formal to come just before something else in a pattern or series: · In English, the subject precedes the verb.· On vehicle licence plates in the UK, the numbers are preceded by a single letter.
if one historical event or object predates another, it happened or existed before it: · Many economic systems predate capitalism.predate something by 10/50/200 etc years: · The steam engine predates the internal combustion engine by at least 100 years.
if an event leads up to another event, it comes before it and often causes it to happen: · Monroe still refuses to talk about the events which led up to his resignation.· The book describes some of the events leading up to the First World War.
if one of two events comes first , it happens before the other event: · The rains came first, then the storms.
formal or written if an event is a prelude to a more important event, it happens just before it and often makes people expect it: · The air-strike was just a prelude to the invasion.· The revolution of 1789 was a prelude to a more just and equal society.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES I can’t remember what happened immediately before the crash.
· The method is described in the previous chapter.
· He was the equal of any of the previous generation of great explorers.
I can’t remember what happened immediately before the crash. (=the month before)· Sales were lower than in the previous month.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· 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.
· 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.
· 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· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· The summit was preceded by a meeting of Foreign Ministers, which had opened on Nov. 8.
· 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.
· In Britain these anxieties, warnings and qualifications intensified in the period of debate that preceded the 1867 Reform Act.
· But in the years preceding the outbreak of war it had become by far the largest single retailer.
· 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.
· 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 £.
· 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· 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.
WORD FAMILYnounprecedentadjectiveprecedingverbprecede
1to happen or exist before something or someone, or to come before something else in a series: a type of cloud that precedes rain Lunch will be preceded by a short speech from the chairman.2to go somewhere before someone else: The guard preceded them down the corridor.