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/prɪlˈɪmənˌɛri/ /prilˈɪmənˌɛri/ Listen

Preliminary

adjective

Denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important; designed to orient or acquaint with a situation before proceeding.

noun

(pl. preliminaries)

A minor match preceding the main event. Synonym: prelim.

Something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows. Synonyms: overture, prelude. "Drinks were the overture to dinner"

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... was then securely hitched, and taking all their implements, such as lamps and boards, together with two of the guns and an ample supply of ammunition, descended to the entrance. The boat was at the mouth, and it was suggested that a preliminary survey of the interior should first be made, in order to ascertain how far the boat would have to be carried before ...

— The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns • Roger Thompson Finlay

... people, it is first necessary to fix it; which cannot be done without inducing it to cultivate the soil: the Indians ought in the first place to have been accustomed to agriculture. But not only are they destitute of this indispensable preliminary to civilisation, they would even have great difficulty in acquiring it. Men who have once abandoned themselves to the restless and adventurous life of the hunter, feel an insurmountable disgust for the constant and regular labor which tillage requires. ...

— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al

... already on the lawn surrounded by Hermia's guests and preliminary experiments had proven that all was ready. Hermia climbed into the seat unaided, while Markham stood at one side and watched the propellers started. Faster and faster they flew, the machine held ...

— Madcap • George Gibbs

... him clothed and in his right mind, and make him feel once more that he has sympathy—is regarded as a man full of the noblest possibilities—and so be stimulated to personal effort. But this is only preliminary work, such as any hospital may do. The real work of salvation goes far beyond this; it must be wrought in a higher degree of the soul—even that which we call spiritual. The man must be taught that only in Heaven-given strength is there any safety. He must be led, in his weakness and sense ...

— Danger - or Wounded in the House of a Friend • T. S. Arthur

... Easter Sunday, he met the Rev. Samuel Bishop in the vestry. The organist had already gone to his seat behind the chancel. The first preliminary notes of the voluntary—weak and uncertain, because the organ-blower had come late and as yet there was not sufficient wind in the bellows—were beginning to sound through the building. The two ...

— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston

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