preposition

noun · verbB2

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noun

Plural noun:

prepositionspræposition

1.
(strict sense)(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
2.
(broadly)(grammar, broad sense) An adposition.
3.
(obsolete)A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

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verb

V_es/s

prepositions

V_ing/Gerund

prepositioning

V_ed/pp

prepositionedpre-position

1.
(alt of, alternative, proscribed, sometimes)(sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of pre-position.
It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.

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prepositionhoodprepositionlessintransitive prepositionpreposition of timepreposition of placeprepositional prepositionallyprepositional phrasephrasal prepositionprepose prepositivecircumpositionpostposition preverb

Từ có viền nét liền là đã có mục từ; viền nét đứt là chưa có trong dữ liệu.

Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English preposicioun, from Old French preposicion, from Latin praepositio, praepositionem, from praepono (to place before), equivalent to pre- + position. Compare préposition. So called because it is placed before the word with which it is phrased, as in a bridge of iron, he comes from town, it is good for food, he escaped by running.