precede

Definition:
1. Be earlier in time; go back further.
2. Come before.
3. Be the predecessor of.
4. Move ahead (of others) in time or space.
5. Furnish with a preface or introduction.

Use 'precede' in a sentence:

1. And the player list appears to precede the matches list, even though no such conceptual order is intended.
2. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them.
3. The surety waives in writing the right provided in the preceding paragraph. （
4. Each generation surpasses the preceding one.
5. To literally search for special characters such as the dollar sign, precede them with a backslash (\).
6. Their yawning seems to have nothing to do with sleepiness or boredom—quite the reverse—but it does precede a change in activity level.
7. The new forecasts precede a meeting of the G7 finance ministers this weekend in Rome.
8. Leibniz' notes are limited to early sections of Newton's book, sections that precede the ones in which Newton's calculus concepts and techniques are presented.
9. An upper respiratory tract infection may precede all other symptoms in as many as 68.8% of patients.
10. She preceded her speech with a vote of thanks to the committee.
11. They were preceded by mounted cowboys.
12. To escape the quote, we use a backward slash to precede it.
13. This paragraph doesn't quite hang together with the preceding one.
14. Their plan of seeing a movie together on Friday failed because they had a quarrel on the preceding day.
15. His resignation was preceded by weeks of speculation.
16. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you.
17. Repeat the exercises described in the preceding section.
18. Curiously, the DHTML object model doesn't let you know about the raw content of the tags that precede, such as.
19. Morris, the host, preceded, "To tell the truth, I forgot her name three years ago."
20. Note that the longer option (help) must precede the shorter option (h) for the code to work properly.
21. The land compensation fees shall be 6-10 times the average output value of the three years preceding the requisition of the cultivated land.
22. He gestured to Alice to precede them from the room.
23. This factor must precede an ice age and have the effect of slightly lowering Earth's temperature.
24. Because nodes know nothing about the nodes that precede them, each node is itself the start of a list.
25. Therefore this psychology preceded the inundation of Caudillo politics after independence.
26. This puts the cart before the horse; elections should follow, not precede, agreement on a constitution.
27. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precede all the others is — I will form good habits and become their slave.
28. Whatever the outcome, we must resolutely precede with our objective.
29. The Constitutional principles that Washington alone has the power to "establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization" and that federal laws precede state laws are noncontroversial.
30. For example, "registering a customer" must precede "specifying an order" or "browsing the catalog."
31. Either way, the point is that in JSR Groovy, I have to precede the variable with something.
32. To move to the root of a document, precede your path with a forward slash.
33. Restlessness, anxiety, confusion, and twitching may also precede convulsions.
34. For instance, subjects are given three words such as "age", "mile" and "sand"—and asked to come up with a single word that can precede or follow each of them to form a compound word.
35. The reference must exist in the test and precede the conditional block.
36. The early, simple, capabilities should precede the later ones, which are more complex.
37. Within the tests, the references must precede the code that they affect.
38. A trickle of flowing mud may precede a larger flow.
39. She preceded him out of the room.
40. You can precede it with a line number, range, pattern to match, or enclosed in slashes.
41. In the preceding section we discussed the valence bond ( vb) or electron-pair theory of bonding.
42. Despite the violence that preceded the elections, reports say that polling was orderly and peaceful.
43. The prime word must precede the class word within in a data element name.
44. The examples in the preceding chapter are used again later.
45. Pay has risen sharply for the highly educated, and those people continue to reap rich rewards into old age because these days the educated elderly are more productive than the preceding generation.
46. Industrial orders had already fallen in the preceding months.
47. The linearized analysis given in the preceding dissussion will not be valid for all types of injection pattern.
48. Because node structures go in only one direction, they know nothing about the sequence of nodes that precede them.
49. The Speaker is preceded by the mace-bearer upon his entry to the chamber.
50. Look at the information that precedes the paragraph in question.
51. It is a rule of English that adjectives generally precede the noun they modify.
52. It is a rule of English that adjectives generally precede the noun they modify: we say 'a good cry', not 'a cry good'.
53. In English a noun may be preceded by a monosyllable called an article.
54. See the preceding chapter.
55. Capitalize all proper nouns but not the articles (a, an) that precede them.
56. His testimony contradicted that of the preceding witness.
57. This phrase serves as a connecting link between the preceding and the following.
58. The earthquake was preceded by a loud roar and lasted 20 seconds.