(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.
Pioneer
Definition:
(n.) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.
(n.) One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform.
(v. t. & i.) To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
(2) Pioneers (41% of Britons) are global, networked, like innovation and believe in the importance of ethics.
(3) That's right, centuries of political columnists owe their careers to the pioneering efforts of Davy, Davy Crockett, the king of the wild frontier.
(4) Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn ran the counter-terrorism operation under Task Force Pioneer, which was led by assistant commissioner Mark Murdoch, who reports to Burn.
(5) In this article the results of studies on the relationship between anaphylaxis and CNS, performed by both pioneers and contemporary investigators, are briefly reviewed.
(6) For example, where 2 longitudinal tracts are pioneered independently in grasshopper, only one is formed in Drosophila.
(7) At a time when the intrauterine diagnosis of hydrocephalus is commonplace and pioneering efforts of antenatal therapy are evolving, review of the chronology of treatment of this disorder becomes pertinent.
(8) Since acetylcholine (ACh) was identified as a neurotransmitter at parasympathetic nerve terminals by pioneering pharmacologists such as O. Schmiedeberg, R. Hunt, O. Loewi and H.H.
(9) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(10) But Olney wanted to be an artist and he set off for Paris, where he found himself a garret in which he could make portraits and a new life among friends, lovers and acquaintances that included the black American writer and civil rights pioneer James Baldwin, WH Auden and, distantly, Edith Piaf, whom he saw sing Je ne Regrette Rien for the first time at the Olympia theatre.
(11) He was a pioneer sexologist, demographer, and sportsman and an early Zionist.
(12) Their pioneering studies led to the continuing discoveries of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) and today's considerable knowledge concerning the molecular identity of antigens and further consolidation of ANA.
(13) The move signals a change for Democrats , who have traditionally shied away from gun control in a state with a pioneer tradition of gun ownership.
(14) Seven health habits, commonly referred to as the "Alameda 7," were shown to be associated with physical health status and mortality in a pioneer longitudinal study initiated in 1965 in Alameda County, CA.
(15) In a speech to the United Nations , Hu will declare that China is ready to pioneer a new low-carbon path of development, make a commitment to increase forest cover and pledge financial support for poorer nations to adapt to global warming, according to a source close to his delegation.
(16) Their growth cones pioneer a stereotyped pathway through the limb which becomes the route of one of the major leg nerve trunks.
(17) Just as the National Institute for Care and Health Excellence was the global pioneer for assessing new drugs and treatments in the last decade, London should become the pioneer for digital health technology assessments in the decade ahead.
(18) We, in the infection control field, are quality pioneers in hospitals.
(19) It is widely accepted that Sir James Young Simpson discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and pioneered its application in surgery and midwifery.
(20) From its earliest days, Facebook has navigated – even pioneered – the territory around privacy, and how we express our personal identities online.