(n.) Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.
(n.) The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass.
(v. t.) To introduce by a preface; to give a preface to; as, to preface a book discourse.
(v. i.) To make a preface.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the book’s preface , Hager explains how Key was desperate to continue his success by constructing a charming public persona while pursuing “ more personal attacks and negative politics than any in living memory.” I asked Hager to tell me more: It is about political PR and particularly what the US Republican party strategists have called a two-track approach.
(2) • This article was amended on 15 June 2015 to clarify that a letter Badawi dictated from prison was not published first by Der Spiegel, but is the preface to a book of his writings, 1,000 Lashes.
(3) The report's preface says the difficulties encountered - "the politicisation of the decision making, the managerial weakness, the ethical lapses" - were "symptomatic of systematic problems in the UN administration".
(4) In a joint statement prefacing the Queen's speech , they said: "We believe that power should be passed from the politicians at Westminster back to the people of Britain, which is why we will keep the promise in our parties' manifestos and reform the House of Lords, because those who make laws for the people should answer to the people."
(5) When Benteke connected with a corner, his ensuing headed flick prefaced Delaney volleying fractionally wide.
(6) Admittedly Mourinho's side rallied after Yoan Gouffran headed Yohan Cabaye's ferociously whipped in free kick past Petr Cech but Newcastle's Mathieu Debuchy and Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa especially were defending brilliantly and Chelsea came undone on the counter-attack as a fine cross from the underrated Vurnon Anita prefaced Loïc Rémy's wonderful finish.
(7) I feel slightly uncomfortable about this, prefacing every request for a lift with various extended apologies for "disturbing you" and "sorry for being a pain".
(8) Already in the preface of his book "Alimentary and Metabolic Diseases" Max Bürger writes: "I see a difficulty in the definition in the field of metabolic diseases.
(9) Even senior managers would preface announcements with “I know no one likes Michael Gove , but …” Another, who teaches history and politics at a comprehensive in Cheshire and is open with colleagues about his views but does not want students knowing how he votes, says he was “friendlily sworn at” on the day after the election.
(10) Yet in a preface to the book, Remnick alerts the reader to the fact that most of his subjects are public figures who do their best not to let their guard down.
(11) Mr Volcker, who was appointed by Mr Annan to carry out the investigation, released a five-page preface to his report last night after it was leaked to a news agency.
(12) Fortunately for Moyes, Watmore possessed sufficient drive to unhinge that backline courtesy of a startling change of pace and deftly dinked ball which prefaced Van Aanholt sending a half-volley looping into the net.
(13) In a new preface to his 1990 booklet on gay relationships, Jeffrey John, the Dean of St Albans, writes that, by setting themselves against same-sex marriage, the bishops of the Church have prioritised the union of the Anglican communion over the rights of gay Christians.
(14) Farage prefaced his comments with a prediction that he was sure the other leaders would be “mortified that I dare to even talk about it”.
(15) In the preface to another story, "The Snow Image", he described this sense of occlusion as he "sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprung up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees, until no exit appeared possible through the tangling depths of my obscurity".
(16) As the preface to the book, published by the small Parisian publishing house L'Opportun, states: "You will see that not only is Sarko difficult to follow but he is, above all, hard to find."
(17) On the surface, the grumpy pacifist iconoclast had little in common with the war hero author of Seven Pillars of Wisdom - apart from a weakness for inordinately long prefaces.
(18) We believe that Wall Street needs stronger rules and tougher enforcement, and we are willing to fight for it,” Warren proclaimed, during a whistle-stop tour through her priorities, each prefaced with “we believe”, that also included affordable education, better workers’ pensions, equal pay for women, legalisation of same-sex marriage, and immigration reform.
(19) So he positively enjoyed draping what is, in fact, a chilling allegory of paternal possessiveness and pseudo-scientific fanaticism, in the gaudy fabric of a "romance", just as the author pretends, in his pseudo-preface, to have discovered it among the works of "M de l'Aubépine" (French for "haw-thorn").
(20) The Rev Sharon Ferguson, a pastor of the Metropolitan Community church, prefaced her reaction to Wednesday's announcement with the phrase, "Without wanting to sound incredibly pessimistic …" Almost two years ago, Ferguson and her partner, Franka Strietzel, applied for a marriage licence at Greenwich register office and were refused because the law defines marriage as between one man and one woman.
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Definition:
(n.) A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary.
(n.) The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence.
(n.) A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
(n.) Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.
(n.) A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text.
(v. t.) To write in large characters, as in text hand.
Example Sentences:
(1) The IgG index (formula: see text) corrects for the influence of serum protein abnormalities as well as a bloodbrain barrier damage and is, therefore, a better measure for the presence of an IgG elevation in CSF due to IgG synthesis, when compared with other IgG quotients commonly used.
(2) Sara Tomlinson, 45, received a text message from her 16 year old daughter Katie at about 3pm.
(3) It is of particular interest that in this paraprotein the major component is a biantennary complex-type oligosaccharide that lacks a fucose residue and an oligosaccharide with the structure (Formula: see text) exists as one of the most abundant components.
(4) The properties of these tumour-associated "antigens" in the membrane of rat sarcomata are summarized below: [Table: see text]
(5) A text generation produces acceptable German reports.
(6) The “100% Australian-made” text on packaging has been enlarged to appeal to customer patriotism.
(7) It is microcomputer-based, and more easily set up and administered than the drifting-text procedure.
(8) In this connection the question about the contribution of each word of length l (l-tuple) to the inhomogeneity of genetic text arises.
(9) She devoured political science texts, took evening classes at Goldsmiths college, and performed at protests and fundraisers, but became disillusioned.
(10) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
(11) Disagreements over the language of the text continued throughout Friday.
(12) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(13) The reaction sequence leading from EAC1-9 to ghosts can be summarized as follows: formula: (see text).
(14) The O-polysaccharide was found to be a high molecular weight polymer of a repeating pentasaccharide unit composed of D-mannose, D-galactose, L-rhamnose, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose, and 2-acetamido-2,3-dideoxy-3-formamido-D-rhamnose residues (1:1:1:1:1) and had the structure: [formula: see text]
(15) Patterns of change and variability in text recall performance were assessed in seven elderly women by testing them weekly for up to 2 years.
(16) Ensuring residents have multiple ways to pay (such as via a text message or through a smartphone app) will also be important as they offer residents the control they feel they have with cash and can be used to top up a direct debit.
(17) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
(18) Usually the condition for quasi-equilibrium is expressed in terms of the rate constants around EHR: (formula: see text) i.e.
(19) Subjects read text passages and occasionally responded to lexical-decision probes.
(20) Purified U3B RNA was subjected to various enzymatic digestion procedures, including digests of 32P-labeled U3B RNA, RNA ligase, and polynucleotide kinase labeling, for determination of its primary sequence which is: (formula: see text).