adj
(mathematics, obsolete) Given in advance; not needed to be calculated.
n
The distribution of military forces prior to battle.
v
(nonstandard) To respond in advance
v
(transitive) To buy beforehand; accept or receive in advance.
v
(transitive) To construct in advance
v
(transitive) To cut beforehand or in advance.
v
(transitive) To bestow beforehand.
v
(transitive) To fix or secure in advance
v
(transitive) To heat beforehand or in advance.
v
(transitive) To load beforehand or in advance.
adj
Made previously, beforehand, or in advance; premade.
v
(transitive, rare) To order beforehand or in advance; pre-order.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To devise beforehand.
v
(transitive) To prepare beforehand or in advance
v
(transitive) To read beforehand or ahead of time.
v
(transitive) To make ready ahead of time; prepare in advance.
v
(transitive, programming) Synonym of predeclare
n
(countable) An act of preparing something to begin.
adj
(cooking) Of a recipe: designed to be prepared ahead of time, rather than immediately before eating.
v
(transitive) To prepare excessively; to make ready more than is necessary for a specific future purpose.
v
(transitive, computing) To perform such an operation upon.
v
(slang) To precum, to pre-ejaculate.
v
alternative form of preannounce [(transitive) To announce in advance.]
v
Alternative spelling of prearrange. [To arrange in advance.]
v
Alternative form of precharge [(semiconductors) To charge the storage capacitors as a part of the DRAM precharge phase.]
v
(transitive, computing) To perform such an operation upon.
v
Alternative spelling of preempt [(transitive) To appropriate first.]
v
Alternative form of preestablish [(transitive) To establish beforehand.]
v
(video games, intransitive) To shoot at the anticipated location of another player before they are visible or within range.
v
(transitive) To impregnate, as with a matrix material such as a plastic, before use.
v
(transitive, computing) To perform such an operation upon.
v
Alternative form of preprepare [To prepare in advance.]
v
(transitive, computer graphics) To render (a complex image) in advance.
v
Alternative form of preset [(transitive) To set something in advance.]
v
(transitive) To coat (a metal) with solder or tin alloy prior to soldering or brazing it.
v
(transitive) To absorb prior to another process.
v
(transitive) To accept beforehand.
v
(transitive) To acknowledge in advance.
n
acknowledgment in advance
v
(transitive) To acquire in advance.
v
(transitive) To address in advance.
v
(transitive) To adjust in advance.
v
To aggregate in advance.
v
To set aside before a need arises for a purpose
v
(transitive) To allot in advance.
v
(transitive) To alter in advance.
v
(transitive) To amplify a low-level input signal, producing an output that can serve as the input to a higher-level amplifier.
v
(transitive) To announce in advance.
v
(transitive) To appoint beforehand.
v
(transitive) To approve beforehand, before execution or implementation.
v
(transitive) To forearm.
v
(transitive) To ascertain in advance.
v
(transitive) To assign in advance.
v
(transitive) To associate in advance.
v
(transitive) To assume in advance; to presume.
v
(transitive) To carry out an audit in advance, before a transaction etc. takes place.
v
(transitive) To batch in advance.
v
(transitive) To bend in advance.
v
(transitive) To bind in advance.
v
(transitive, cooking) To blanch in advance.
v
(transitive) To blend in advance.
v
(transitive) To bless in advance.
v
(transitive) To boil in advance.
v
(transitive) To administer (one's insulin dose) in this way.
v
(transitive) To book in advance.
v
(computing, transitive) To place into a buffer in preparation for later retrieval or playback.
v
(transitive) To burn in advance.
v
(transitive) To buy in advance.
v
(transitive, computing) To cache in advance.
v
(transitive) To calcine in advance.
v
To calculate in advance.
adj
(sociology) Placed in a position of precarity.
v
(transitive) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
v
(transitive) To celebrate in advance.
v
(transitive) To censor in advance.
v
(transitive) To certify in advance.
v
(semiconductors) To charge the storage capacitors as a part of the DRAM precharge phase.
n
(computing) Part of a chart that must be traversed with a successful outcome in order for the main chart to have a successful outcome.
v
(transitive) To chill in advance.
v
(transitive) To choose in advance.
v
(transitive) To split into conceptual chunks in advance.
v
(transitive) To classify in advance.
v
(transitive) To clean in advance.
v
(transitive) To clear in advance.
v
(transitive) To collect in advance.
v
(computing) To compile in advance.
v
(transitive) To compose beforehand.
v
(transitive) To comprehend in advance.
v
To subject to precompression
v
(transitive) To compute in advance; to precalculate.
v
To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.
v
(transitive) To condemn beforehand.
v
(transitive, computing) To set up or configure a software system or hardware device with standard settings before selling or implementing it.
v
(rare) To conquer beforehand.
v
(transitive) To consign beforehand; to make a previous consignment of.
v
To consolidate in advance.
v
(transitive) To constitute or establish beforehand.
v
(transitive) To construct in advance.
v
(transitive) To consume beforehand.
v
To contract prior to another process.
v
To contrive or plan beforehand.
v
(transitive) To cool in advance.
v
(transitive, computing) To copy in advance.
v
(transitive) To crease in advance.
v
(transitive) To cut in advance.
n
(informal) Abbreviation of predefinition. [The act or process of defining something in advance.]
v
(transitive) To exist or to occur before something else; to antedate.
adj
Having been dealt in advance.
n
(programming) A declaration made in advance; forward declaration.
v
(transitive, programming) To declare some source code element (such as a class) in advance of its full description, so that other preceding parts of the code can refer to it.
v
(transitive) To define in advance.
n
The act or process of defining something in advance.
v
(transitive) To deliver in advance.
v
(transitive) To deposit in advance.
v
(transitive) To describe in advance.
v
(transitive) To design beforehand; to predetermine.
v
To designate in advance.
n
The act of determining beforehand.
v
(transitive) To determine or decide in advance.
v
(transitive) To develop in advance.
v
(transitive) To dial in advance.
v
(by extension) To preprocess in order to deliver the most important parts in a simplified form.
n
The act of predischarging, or that which is predischarged.
v
(transitive) To discuss in advance.
v
To dose (a semiconductor etc,) in advance of another process.
n
(baking) An intermediate dough before making the final dough
v
(transitive) To dye in advance.
v
(transitive) To edit in advance.
v
(transitive) To elect beforehand; forechoose.
v
(transitive) To employ beforehand.
v
(bridge, intransitive) To make a preemptive bid at bridge.
v
(transitive) To enact in advance.
v
(transitive) To engage previously.
v
(transitive) To establish beforehand.
v
(transitive) To examine beforehand.
v
(transitive, medicine) To excite earlier than usual.
v
To exist before something else.
v
(broadcasting, transitive) To fade (an audio track) before it is broadcast, by listening in advance.
v
(transitive) To feed material into a machine, etc. in preparation for some process.
v
(computing) To load data or instructions in anticipation of their need
v
(transitive) To file in advance.
v
(transitive) To fill in advance.
v
(transitive) To filter in advance.
v
(transitive) To finance in advance.
v
(transitive) To fit in advance.
v
(transitive) To put or fix before, or at the beginning of something; to place at the start.
v
(photography, transitive) To fog (photographic film) in advance.
v
(computing, transitive) To fork (a process) in advance, so that additional similar processes are immediately available if required later.
v
(transitive) To format in advance.
v
To formulate (a pharmaceutical drug) in advance of general availability
v
(transitive) To freeze in advance.
v
(transitive) To generate in advance.
v
To grease something prior to use or assembly
v
(transitive) To grill (food) in advance.
v
To impose ahead of time.
v
(transitive) To include beforehand.
v
(transitive) To incorporate in advance.
v
(transitive, computing) To preprepare (a data structure, etc.) so that it is ready to be initialized.
v
(transitive) To insert in advance.
n
The act of inserting in advance.
v
(transitive) To perform a preliminary inspection of; to look for potential problems with, before an official inspection.
v
(transitive) To install (software, etc.) in advance.
v
(transitive) To instruct previously or beforehand.
v
(transitive) To interpret in advance.
v
(transitive) To interview (somebody) as a preliminary step, e.g. to plan for a full interview later.
v
(transitive) To arrange a lease for in advance.
v
(transitive, chiefly computer graphics) To illuminate in advance.
v
(transitive) To limit in advance.
v
(transitive) To list in advance.
v
(intransitive) To listen in advance.
v
(transitive) To litter in (a place) in advance.
v
(transitive) To live in advance; to experience precognitively.
v
(transitive) To load in advance (used especially in reference to software installed on a computer prior to sale).
v
(transitive) To locate in advance.
v
(transitive) To machine in advance.
v
To make in advance; foremake
v
To manufacture in advance.
v
(computing) To make a master copy of data on a hard disk before writing it to optical disc.
v
(transitive) To measure in advance.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To meditate, consider, or plan beforehand; to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To merit or deserve beforehand.
v
To mine (units of a cryptocurrency) in advance of that currency being made available to the public.
v
(transitive) To move in advance.
v
(mathematics) To multiply a matrix or quaternion by a preceding factor noncommutatively
v
(transitive) To provide with a first name.
v
(transitive) To note or designate beforehand.
v
(transitive) To notify in advance.
v
(transitive) To obtain beforehand.
n
Alternative spelling of preoptimization [(computing) An advance optimization; an instance of preoptimizing.]
v
Alternative spelling of preoptimize [(computing) To optimize in advance.]
n
(computing) An advance optimization; an instance of preoptimizing.
v
(computing) To optimize in advance.
v
(transitive) To sort or arrange beforehand.
adj
(obsolete) preordained
v
(transitive) To organize in advance.
v
(transitive) To outfit in advance.
v
(transitive) To pack in advance.
v
(transitive) To enclose in packaging prior to sale.
n
(uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.
v
(transitive) To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip.
v
(transitive with for) Do any preliminary work that will enable something to occur.
v
(transitive) To parse in advance.
n
(computing) A software component that performs parsing in advance.
v
(transitive) To paste in advance.
v
(transitive) To patch in advance.
v
To pay in advance, or beforehand
v
(rare, transitive) To premeditate; to weigh up mentally.
adj
Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.
adj
prepense; planned beforehand
v
(transitive) To place in advance.
v
To plant prior to another action (especially another planting)
v
(transitive) To visualize in advance.
v
(transitive, computing) To populate (form fields, a database, etc.) in advance.
v
(transitive) To place or set before; to prefix.
v
To place in a location before some other event occurs.
v
(transitive) To price in advance.
v
(computing) To process in advance.
n
The material formed by a preprocess.
v
(transitive) To produce in advance.
v
To program something in advance.
v
(transitive) To do too soon; to hasten too much.
v
(transitive) To punch holes in something in advance.
v
(transitive) To punish in advance.
v
(transitive) To purchase in advance.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To qualify or be qualified in advance.
v
(transitive, informal) To release a prequel to a work.
v
(transitive) To read in advance.
v
(transitive, intransitive, methodology) To register (a study design and its planned statistical analysis) before the study by reporting (them) in the scientific literature via a registered report.
v
To resolve beforehand; to predetermine.
v
(transitive) To subject to preliminary review.
v
(transitive) To set up (equipment) in advance.
v
(transitive) To rinse in advance.
v
(transitive) To route in advance.
v
(transitive) To run in advance.
v
(transitive) To satisfy (requirements) in advance.
v
(transitive) To scale in advance.
v
(transitive) To scan in advance.
v
To schedule in advance; to prearrange.
v
(transitive) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score in advance.
v
(transitive) To season in advance.
v
(transitive) To cut into pieces in advance.
v
(transitive) To select in advance.
v
To sell or obtain commitments to buy in advance of a formal offer to sell.
v
(transitive) To set something in advance.
adj
Capable of being set in advance.
v
(transitive) To settle in advance.
v
(transitive) To sew in advance.
v
(transitive) To shape in advance.
v
(transitive) To sharpen in advance.
v
(transitive) To shift in advance.
v
(transitive) To shorten in advance.
v
(transitive) To show in advance.
v
(transitive, of clothing) To shrink in advance, before sale, in order to ensure better fit.
v
(transitive) To sift in advance.
v
(transitive) To slice in advance.
v
(transitive, statistics) To smooth in advance.
v
(transitive) To soak in advance.
v
To solubilize in advance
v
(transitive) To sort in advance.
v
(transitive) To specify in advance
v
(transitive) To sprinkle in advance.
v
(transitive) To stamp in advance.
v
(transitive) To standardize in advance.
v
(obsolete) To take responsibility for
v
(transitive, cooking) To steam in advance.
v
To sterilize in advance.
v
(transitive) To straighten in advance.
v
(transitive) To stretch in advance.
v
(transitive) To supply in advance.
v
(transitive) To administer a pretest to.
v
(machine learning) To train (a neural network) on some data set (typically a large generic data set, the output of which one is not directly interested in) before fine-tuning the network on another dataset one is interested in.
v
To transcribe before some other operation
n
(computing) Translation performed in advance.
n
A program or process that performs pretranslation.
v
(transitive) To transmit in advance.
v
(transitive) To trim in advance.
v
To tune (typically a TV set) in advance
v
(transitive) To type in advance.
v
(transitive) To vaccinate in advance.
v
(transitive) To validate in advance.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To come before; to precede.
v
(transitive) To verify in advance.
v
(transitive) To vet or check in advance.
v
(transitive) To visualize (a scene of a film, etc.) before shooting.
v
(transitive) To warm in advance.
v
(transitive) To supply (an algorithm, etc.) with precalculated weights.
v
(transitive, cooking) To whip in advance.
v
To install a wiring system in advance of it being used or needed
v
(transitive) To wrap in advance.
v
(transitive) To make a first draft of ideas and format for an essay, thesis, article, or book as a plan for the actual writing.
v
(transitive) To establish the zone into which a property will fall under zoning.
v
To build prior to necessity.
n
(computing) The operation of reading data from a storage medium in advance so that it is immediately available when requested.
n
(computing) The speculative execution of code that may or may not be required to execute, so that the results are available in advance if that branch is in fact subsequently taken.
v
(transitive, programming) To add an item to the beginning of an array.
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