What's the difference between beforehand and foremeant?

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.

Foremeant


Definition:

  • (a.) Intended beforehand; premeditated.

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