(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.
Offhand
Definition:
(a.) Instant; ready; extemporaneous; as, an offhand speech; offhand excuses.
(adv.) In an offhand manner; as, he replied offhand.
Example Sentences:
(1) Victims have told the charity of offhand and dismissive reactions from police, and am impression that crimes are less serious if they are committed against a disabled person.
(2) As a result, there exists a tendency to dismiss almost offhandedly the entire concept of using material incentives to further contraceptive practice before any have been adequately tried.
(3) The list of films from the last couple years is long and includes The International , where the enemy is a bank, to comedies such as The Other Guys and Despicable Me where offhand jokes skewer banks and bankers even in children's films.
(4) He initially aspired to a career in medicine but an offhand comment from his year 8 teacher changed that.
(5) Turkish police used teargas, plastic bullets and water cannon to disperse hundreds of demonstrators who gathered on Friday at the scene of the country's worst industrial accident to protest the country's dismal work safety record, and the prime minister's apparently offhand attitude towards victims of the catastrophe.
(6) In person he's quite offhand, an odd mixture of shy and intensely self-assured, and with his stocky build and salt-and-pepper beard he conveys the impression of a very clever badger, burrowing away in the undergrowth of economic detail, ready to give quite a sharp bite if you get in his way.
(7) I do realize that some of my offhanded attempts at sarcasm and at humor were not as witty as they were intended to be, and were actually insensitive and even offensive.” Despite Wildstein’s guilty plea, Christie has said he is unconcerned.
(8) Unfortunately, offhand and casual comments relating to class prejudice and snobbery are very common.
(9) While attempting to rally support for US bombing of Syrian president Bashar Assad for his chemical-weapons use, Kerry saw his offhand musing about Assad giving up his weapons stockpiles turned into a Russian diplomatic coup that allowed Assad to avoid attack and remain in power.
(10) A guilty person it wouldn’t be as much of an issue to me, but on the offhand chance that somebody wasn’t, I would never take that chance with my life,” he said.
(11) I guess I'd thought about it when I was younger, and I said, in an offhand way, that I would do it somewhere down the road.
(12) These results suggest that the use of S concentration measurements may serve to be an effective tool for a simple, offhand evaluation of keratinization.
(13) The only hope police have is changing allegiances from associates of the gang or ex-girlfriends who may have witnessed and perhaps recorded on a mobile phone someone's confession or offhand remark.
(14) "The president made an offhand remark making fun of his own bowling that was in no way intended to disparage the Special Olympics," he said.
(15) In their offhand way, they celebrate the man who was, by his own account, a stranger in a strange land.
(16) Trump is prone to mentioning NBC executives by name; Paul made offhand references to law school professors, from the conservative iconoclast Randy Barnett to the liberal civil rights activist Michelle Alexander .
(17) At some point she offhandedly told me that she had found out that once a month, on this particular night, the pub we were going to had a “gay night”.
(18) With the current state of our knowledge regarding uses, hazards, and dangers, the cavalier offhanded attitude which in the past has all too frequently characterized oxygen use in the premature is no longer acceptable.
(19) He later told Entertainment Weekly that while his promises initially manifested as an "offhand joke, a spur of the moment 140 characters" and was "more of a means to get the issue out there, that it is rude to text during movies," he was remained determined to stick to his guns.
(20) She made an offhand inquiry to her insurance company and was floored to learn that her policy – which she purchased as an individual – wouldn’t offer her any maternity coverage.