What's the difference between ahead and beforehand?

Ahead


Definition:

  • (adv.) In or to the front; in advance; onward.
  • (adv.) Headlong; without restraint.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8.47pm: Cameron says he believes Britain's best days lie ahead and that he believes in public service.
  • (2) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
  • (3) One is that the issue of whether the World Cup should go ahead in Russia and Qatar still firmly remains on the table.
  • (4) Nor is this political fantasy: at the European elections in May, across 51 authorities in the north-west and north-east, Ukip finished ahead of Labour in 18 and as its main rival in 30.
  • (5) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
  • (6) Hemoglobin A reductively ethylated at the alpha-amino groups eluted on CM-52 ahead of unmodified hemoglobin A, and hemoglobin A reductively ethylated at the epsilon-amino groups.
  • (7) Activists in the country are pushing to get their voices heard ahead of Sunday's race.
  • (8) If Queensland goes ahead and develops and dredges Abbot Point, it may all be for nothing.
  • (9) Looking ahead to next year, voters fully expect the hard times to continue.
  • (10) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
  • (11) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
  • (12) And in the days and months ahead we will be setting out our plans in all these areas."
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
  • (14) He sends a low ball into the middle, in the general direction of Fabregas, but the former Arsenal captain can't get ahead of Lahm, who is making a proper nuisance of himself.
  • (15) It called for an independent, international inquiry as the only way to achieve full accountability, ahead of the March deadline for the Sri Lankan government to report back to the UN Human Rights Council.
  • (16) The deteriorating situation would worsen if ministers pressed ahead with another controversial Lansley policy – that of abolishing the cap on the amount of income semi-independent foundation trust hospitals can make by treating private patients.
  • (17) The minister for health, Mamy Lalatiana Andriamanarivo, says he is determined to push ahead with ambitious plans for universal free healthcare.
  • (18) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
  • (19) Only eye position proved statistically significant; straight-ahead eye position induced more bias than did fixation of the visual stimulus.
  • (20) If we’re going to change the model, we can’t just do it on a whim of government or the people who design these courses.” What he does like about Think Ahead is that participants will be doing “proper social work”, even if, in his view, they will be unprepared for the task.

Beforehand


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with.
  • (adv.) By way of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime.
  • (a.) In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is claimed that Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, was "starstruck" by his association with Eastwood and that the film-maker's speech was not vetted beforehand.
  • (2) The striatal dopaminergic input was extensively destroyed beforehand to preclude the possibility of reinnervation of the striatum by endogenous dopaminergic neurons.
  • (3) Chloroquine may be used as a provocative diagnostic test for patients with a questionably latent PCT but this is safe if phlebotomy is performed beforehand.
  • (4) Beforehand, the claim that the symport of L-glutamate with Na+ is linked to simultaneous antiport with K+ has been confirmed by the demonstration that equilibrium exchange of L-glutamate is inhibited by potassium.
  • (5) In the aortic strips which had been treated with Ca antagonists beforehand, nicorandil at all concentrations tested produced a long lasting relaxation, and the rhythmic contraction did not appear during exposure to nicorandil.
  • (6) Administration of propranolol (a beta-adrenoceptor blocking drug) beforehand did not prevent lipid mobilization.
  • (7) Eight dogs had been treated beforehand with a preparation of flavone extracted from the root of the Chinese medicinal herb Andrographis paniculata (TFAP).
  • (8) The two men walked through the grounds beforehand, and were to meet again on Wednesday.
  • (9) [The Sunday Mirror] ought to have the justification already in place ... One of the things about the code is that newspapers think beforehand,” he told a fringe meeting organised by the Media Standards Trust at the Tory party conference on Tuesday morning.
  • (10) Subodh Chandra, an attorney for Tamir’s mother Samaria, said they had been given no information about the announcement beforehand and had learned it was taking place through a public statement made by the county prosecutor’s office about an hour earlier.
  • (11) Let me know how you get on ... in due course.” His nest had been half empty for a while, in that my mother had died 10 years beforehand, and when I left for university, he was beginning a relationship with the charming woman who became my stepmother.
  • (12) In normotensive patients the filling pressure could often not be sufficiently lowered as a too severe reduction of arterial pressure occurred beforehand.
  • (13) The ability of spermatozoa to survive cryopreservation could not be predicted from the properties of the semen beforehand.
  • (14) Muirfield can "turn around on you in a heartbeat", Scott had warned beforehand, and so it proved once again.
  • (15) Procedures to be followed were carefully explained to all students beforehand.
  • (16) McKeown, the director of west coast operations, and Kirkham, said O’Reilly had in the moments beforehand irritated residents who were trying to put out fires and clear wreckage.
  • (17) was injected intravenously 20 minutes before operation in 4 patients but 24 hours beforehand in the remainder.
  • (18) He said beforehand that it would be "a weight off my shoulders, like going on holiday".
  • (19) A cone-shaped dilator is placed beforehand at the proximal end of the vertical limb of the T tube to facilitate the passage of that end through the stenotic subglottic space.
  • (20) May sound reassuring on the electoral doorstep but likely to be trashed beforehand by weary doctors and political opponents.