What's the difference between beforehand and predesign?

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.

Predesign


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seemingly, proplatelets are fragmented in the lungs at predesignated locations along the proplatelet process.
  • (2) 96 patients with meningitis due to Neisseria meningitidis and Diplococcus pneumoniae were treated with epicillin or ampicillin according to a predesigned randomization chart.
  • (3) In addition, "blind" histopathologic evaluation of four predesignate colon locations revealed a dose-related incidence of microscopic preinvasive and invasive colon carcinomas.
  • (4) The relapse rate after discontinuation of antiepileptic drug treatment was investigated in 146 children with epilepsy, in whom medication was withdrawn according to a predesigned protocol, after a seizure-free period of at least 2 years and normalization of the EEG.
  • (5) Workers in 22 funeral home franchises were surveyed with a predesigned questionnaire.
  • (6) Smoking habits of the medical students, both undergraduates and postgraduates, were evaluated by self-administering a predesigned proforma.
  • (7) Both require a major time commitment to learn and to create custom punctuation files for journals not included in the predesigned punctuation files.
  • (8) The order-entry pathway allows the research pharmacist to predesign medication labels that are specific to each study and include all required information.
  • (9) Nevertheless, epithelial cell surface-ECM interaction can be modified in the embryo at particular times to permit predesignated epithelial-mesenchymal transformations, as for example at the primitive streak.
  • (10) College sophomores and sixth-grade readers were asked to indicate whether or not a predesignated target letter was present in these strings.
  • (11) A predesigned questionnaire was administered to the mothers to obtain information on age, education, fertility parameters and antenatal care during pregnancy with the index children.
  • (12) What's different about this new breed of audio-visual entertainer is that what they offer are "custom-branded visuals predesigned to fit specific songs".
  • (13) The results are interpreted on the basis of a multiple-stage processing model which assumes interaction between stimuli at different levels at different values of t. In experiment 2 the subject's task was to detect the presence or absence of a predesignated form.
  • (14) At their first prenatal medical appointments, 305 lower socioeconomic status women residing in predesignated lead-hazardous areas of Cincinnati were recruited.
  • (15) Sequencing of the hgiCIIRM region (carrying predesigned small mutations in the R gene) disclosed three open reading frames (ORFs): one small ORF preceding the methltransferase (MTase)-encoding gene, plus those encoding M.HgiCII (49,620 Da) and R.HgiCII (30,891 Da).
  • (16) Microbead samples collected after B. subtilis challenge from predesignated depths and locations within the air-fluidized bed at 0.25, 1, 2, 4, 24, and 48 hours were assayed for colony-forming units (CFU) of challenge bacteria by end point dilution and streak-plate assays.
  • (17) Twenty control subjects were given predesigned exercise programs and told to exercise four times per week for 6 months.
  • (18) Twenty experimental subjects were given predesigned exercise programs but were monitored by a strength and conditioning specialist for the same period.
  • (19) Seven building programs were identified as projected, or in predesign or design stages.
  • (20) In the simultaneous task, two words were not matched as quickly as a single letter and a letter in a predesignated location within a word.

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