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Precursor
- noun - a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
- a substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction)
- something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
Predating
- verb - be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"
- come before; "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify"
- establish something as being earlier relative to something else
- prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs"
Predation
- noun - an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
- the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey
Predators
- noun - any animal that lives by preying on other animals
- someone who attacks in search of booty
Predatory
- adjective - characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"
- living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton
- living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"
Predesign
- - To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine.
Predicant
- - Predicating; affirming; declaring; proclaiming; hence; preaching.
Predicate
- noun - (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula; "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates"
- affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well"
- make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"
- one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements