(n.) A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin/ may be attached.
Example Sentences:
Forerunner
Definition:
(n.) A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever.
(n.) A predecessor; an ancestor.
(n.) A piece of rag terminating the log line.
Example Sentences:
(1) The role such a unit may have as a forerunner of the formation of similar units in other specialities of medicine is emphasized.
(2) This spontaneous mechanism of O2 reduction with the generation of oxidized drug free radicals and reduced oxygen free radicals is unprecedented among anticancer drugs, suggesting that fredericamycin A could be the forerunner of a new class of anticancer drug.
(3) In the first two trimesters they are the forerunners of the immature intermediate villi, whereas in the last trimester the mesenchymal villi are transformed into mature intermediate villi.
(4) "Bean has done to Goldoni what Goldoni did to his forerunners.
(5) Omeprazole and lansoprazole are the forerunners of a group of substituted benzimidazole compounds that block the gastric proton pump.
(6) He was thought to be the forerunner for The Tonight Show after Johnny Carson retired in 1992.
(7) So in that sense I prefer the days of Cathy.” In the 60s and 70s, Loach belonged to small leftist groups: the Socialist Labour League (forerunner of the Workers Revolutionary Party ), the International Socialists , the International Marxist Group, all critical of both western capitalism and the Stalinism of the Soviet Union.
(8) Though he strongly disapproved of much of what later took shape as "New Labour", which he saw, among other things, as historically cowardly, he was without question the single most influential intellectual forerunner of Labour's increasingly iconoclastic 1990s revisionism.
(9) These were forerunners of today's "conscious hip-hop" (not for nothing is Gamble and Huff's catalogue among the most ransacked by rappers for samples).
(10) The finding of elevated D2 dopamine receptors in schizophrenia in living patients may be the forerunner of a new biochemical approach to psychiatry.
(11) A radiolabeled form of the benzonaphthazephine, SCH39166 was used to characterize the binding of this D1 antagonist in cortex, and an autoradiographic comparison of the localization of [3H]SCH39166 to [3H]SCH23390 (D1 antagonist and forerunner of SCH39166) binding was performed.
(12) Sir Christopher Bland, who was chairman of Trust forerunner the BBC board of governors from 1996-2001, said his advice to Fairhead was to "cancel her subscription to any cuttings agency and grow a second skin".
(13) It may be a forerunner of similar confrontations to come elsewhere.
(14) It is therefore the forerunner of later computer processing developments and, in the words of English Heritage's report: "A uniquely important site, arguably as significant to the information age as Ironbridge is to the industrial revolution."
(15) In South Africa in the 1940s a team headed by Sidney Kark embarked on work in the Pholela region of Natal that became the forerunner of ideas that were later formalized and systematized under the rubric of community oriented primary care.
(16) The union and its forerunners have for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.
(17) These educated young women may be forerunners, and an increase in diagphragm use in the general population may be seen in the near future.
(18) It would be easy to knock The X Factor and its forerunners as pop poison, ruining Christmas for everyone between the ages of eight and 80.
(19) After Skorodumov’s death, the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB, raided his collection.
(20) When these headaches are recognized as a forerunner to stroke, they may allow an opportunity for preventive treatment.