(v. t.) To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.
(v. t.) To take up or introduce beforehand, or before the proper or normal time; to cause to occur earlier or prematurely; as, the advocate has anticipated a part of his argument.
(v. t.) To foresee (a wish, command, etc.) and do beforehand that which will be desired.
(v. t.) To foretaste or foresee; to have a previous view or impression of; as, to anticipate the pleasures of a visit; to anticipate the evils of life.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(2) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
(3) However, a recrudescence in both psychotic and depressive symptoms developed as plasma desipramine levels rose 4 times higher than anticipated from the oral doses prescribed.
(4) However, the level of sequence identity between B. nodosus 351 pilin and pilin from strain 265 of serogroup H1 is lower than anticipated for strains within a serogroup and suggests that B. nodosus 265 and B. nodosus 351 should not be classified within the same serogroup.
(5) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
(6) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
(7) The survival time of the lambs was markedly shortened with the bubble oxygenator, although much longer than had been anticipated.
(8) Toxicity has been reported in the fetus of a woman ingesting a huge overdose of digitoxin; the same result would be anticipated with digoxin poisoning.
(9) Early diagnosis and exact resuscitation are the two most important aspects of a plan of treatment which anticipates the need for early surgery.
(10) Intraoperative anesthetic complications can be prevented or minimized if the anesthetist is able to anticipate such problems in the preanesthetic period.
(11) The concept of anticipation, the occurrence of a genetic disorder at progressively earlier ages in successive generations, has been debated from the early years of this century, with myotonic dystrophy as the most striking example.
(12) They anticipated the following scenario: a struggling club fires its manager and enjoys an immediate upsurge.
(13) Thorough knowledge of the modes of ventilatory support and criteria for weaning are essential for the critical care nurse to anticipate patient needs.
(14) We anticipate that Tyr34, whose hydroxyl group is only 5 A from the metal, is involved in the catalytic reaction.
(15) Adjustment of posterior arch width and dental alignment, using semi-rapid maxillary expansion by means of an upper removable appliance, to co-ordinate the anticipated positions for the arches.
(16) The observed degree of efficacy of amoxicillin prophylaxis and of tympanostomy tube insertion must be viewed in light of the fact that study subjects proved not to have been at as high risk for acute otitis media as had been anticipated and in view of the differential attrition rates.
(17) But the bill anticipates the outcome by seeking to widen government powers to enable more people to be given support in the form of direct payments, for services up to and including residential care.
(18) A high incidence of bacteremia and localized bacterial infection should be anticipated in patients with AIDS who receive interleukin-2.
(19) Computerized tomography before anticipated percutaneous stone extraction revealed the colon to be positioned posterior to the left portion of the horseshoe kidney.
(20) If radiation therapy is anticipated, completion of radical hysterectomy followed by radiation therapy appears to offer no advantage over radiation therapy with the uterus in place in patients with early-stage invasive cervical cancer and pelvic lymph node involvement.
Foretaste
Definition:
(n.) A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
(v. t.) To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.
(v. t.) To taste before another.
Example Sentences:
(1) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
(2) Abnormal events such as Hurricane Sandy , which cost $65bn (£40bn) and the 2011-12 US drought, which cost $35bn (£21bn) may be just foretasters of the price to be paid.
(3) Viewers in Scotland, deprived of some of its big dramas, are experiencing a foretaste of a watered-down version.
(4) The suspension of children's heart surgery at Leeds general infirmary and the subsequent battle to restart operations is a foretaste of what will become a familiar chain of events in the NHS post Mid-Staffordshire.
(5) To obtain the bailout, Hollande, who insisted he inherited the debts from the right, has had to oversee local cuts and budgetary "rigour", a foretaste, perhaps, of what is to come if he finds himself handling the country's public spending deficit.
(6) As a foretaste, discussions over the justice and home affairs opt-back-in were delayed because Spain raised objections connected to the status of Gibraltar – just the kind of tricky subject that goes unnoticed when everyone is part of the same EU and then becomes extremely awkward when someone decides unilaterally to change the rules of the game.
(7) The criticism he offered last Tuesday offers a foretaste of a line of attack against Clinton that has served him so well already in the campaign.
(8) That means unemployment is going to get a lot worse next year and today's rises are merely a foretaste of things to come.
(9) If these exchanges were any foretaste of the televised debates that will inevitably happen, they might prove to be less than enlightening.
(10) But in saying that he "expects" the two parties to campaign separately at the next general election , he was providing a foretaste of a nightmare for most of Clegg's foot soldiers – come 2015, those Lib Dem MPs who cling to their seats will do so thanks to Cameron's largesse.
(11) "Fifty years after the March on Washington and the 'I have a dream' speech, obviously we've made enormous strides," the president said on Friday, in a foretaste of his speech.
(12) If Dave was having trouble convincing Siemens of his brilliance, it was only a foretaste of the stick he will face from some of his backbenchers.
(13) A foretaste of the arguments likely to erupt came from Guthrie, who told the Guardian: "It was a totally unnecessary war.
(14) Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year's inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc.
(15) The brief tabloid fury that followed was a foretaste of the storm that would later break over Jonathan Ross.
(16) Yesterday's package was only a foretaste, but was nonetheless instructive, not least because easy cuts to things like IT programmes represented only a modest proportion of the total.
(17) It is a frightening foretaste of the Tory manifesto and the assault on liberty that could follow an outright Conservative win in 2015, and yet even now – under a coalition with avowed liberals – the bartering away of ancient freedoms is picking up pace, as we will see with today's crunch Commons votes on plans to plunge public courtrooms into darkness.
(18) The criticism aimed at Mark Carney, the Bank’s governor, for his comments during the Scottish and EU referendums are merely a foretaste of what it can expect if another crisis erupts in the next few years.
(19) These cries are a mere foretaste of the horrors ahead, as a close reading of the bill confirms.
(20) Scotland and north-western England are receiving a foretaste of the change, with heavy rain and thunder increasing on Tuesday, and severe weather amber alerts – meaning "be aware" – issued for the whole of Scotland and Northern Ireland.