(a.) Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chapter three Administration of the camps The preparatory camp is the first home and school of the mujahid in which his military and jihadi training sessions take place and he undergoes sufficient education in matters of his religion, life and jihad.
(2) Our patients were severely impaired in their school career: Although their average IQ was 112 only 6 out of 59 had completed a college-preparatory program (Abitur), all of them from middle-class families with well-educated parents.
(3) The few preparatory set cells in FEF tested with both auditory and visual stimuli tended to respond preferentially to the visual targets, whereas, in contrast, most set cells in SEF were bimodal.
(4) In order to determine the presence of dermatophytes and saprophytes in healthy toe and finger nails, 120 students (60 male and 60 female) from preparatory schools at Sohag Governorate (Upper Egypt) were studied.
(5) The rationale of this preparatory cytoreduction is discussed critically.
(6) There is great lability of the endocardial surface in response to a classic "holding solution" widely used in preparatory techniques.
(7) Repetitive dysfluencies of speech were elicited by mechanical perturbation of the thalamus in a patient, preparatory to therapeutic lesion placement for chronic pain.
(8) In the area of Tripoli, measles haemagglutination-inhibiting (HI) antibodies were found at a titre of greater than or equal to 1:10 in 97% of the adult population, and in 78%, 100% and 97.1% of schoolchildren of primary, preparatory and secondary schools respectively.
(9) The SMA contained a higher proportion of limb-dependent preparatory cells (40%) than either MC (15%) or putamen (9%).
(10) Nothing in the process of picture-making can be certain, but it would be reasonable to assume that she sees a young man aged 23 or 24 standing a few feet away with a brush in his hand (such a delicate implement compared with a knife fit for cabbage stalks) and dabbing at a piece of canvas or board which is the picture's preparatory sketch.
(11) The intrauterine source can effect pendulous displacements in linear or non-linear patterns without preparatory dilatation.
(12) It is assumed that the preparatory set for response movements is organized in an order, resulting in the differentiation of RT.
(13) Partial advance information was sufficient to trigger preparatory activities specific for the revealed dimension of the ensuing movement.
(14) Preparatory methods for CSF examination are discussed and normal and reactive conditions involving CSF, lymphoma, leukemia, meningeal carcinomatosis and the subarachnoid spread of primary brain tumors are described and illustrated.
(15) Analysis showed that the order of the preparatory sequence was correctly produced after 4 trials under all conditions.
(16) During the preparatory period (PP), either CNV was monitored from 8 scalp leads, or elbow stretch reflexes were tested at selected times using mechanical torque steps as stimuli.
(17) It did not, however, alter the preparatory increase in motoneuronal excitability.
(18) The students were examined during two consecutive periods, each consisting of one preparatory (during which active tooth cleaning measures were carefully practiced) and one main test period (during which mouth rinsings were the only plaque control measure).
(19) Sitting at a long table in a conference room at the whitewashed Nato headquarters, Sārts cannot see the logic of Russia invading Latvia in the near future, as it did Georgia and Ukraine, but he will not beat around the bush: “It is not at all impossible.” Last week the centre of excellence in Riga unveiled the results of research into what it claims is a “ preparatory information war ” in Latvia but with, it emerges, much wider repercussions.
(20) This is consistent with the psychometric findings of higher error scores in target counts and d2-test, and significantly prolonged reaction times after regular preparatory intervals (PIs) in the high-risks.
Spadework
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Houliarakis has been involved in much of the talks with the so-called “Brussels Group” of financial technocrats doing the spadework on the conditions for resuming lending to Greece .
(2) I took this to mean the government just hadn't done the spadework.
(3) I think that these really big questions, about who gets what, require serious intellectual spadework – and an escape from the strictures of an outmoded economic science that has endured such a dismal crisis.
(4) The deal on talks with the Taliban was partly brokered by Pakistan and the emir of Qatar after "months of diplomatic spadework" also involving Germany, Norway and the UK.
(5) After George Osborne’s lethally successful branding of Labour as irresponsible, debt-ridden, magic-money-tree feckless borrowers, it will take heavy spadework of reassurance to win back trust.
(6) Much of the spadework in earlier negotiations was done by Robert Cooper, the retired British and EU foreign policy strategist and diplomat.
(7) But thanks to spadework by Channel 4's Michael Crick, we now know that the "independent witness" justified neither part of that description.