preliminaries in English

noun
1
an action or event preceding or preparing for something fuller or more important.
the bombardment was resumed as a preliminary to an infantry attack
synonyms:preludepreparationpreparatory measurepreliminary action
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1. Epigraph: Quotation in book preliminaries.

2. England was lucky to get through the preliminaries .

3. She began speaking intensely, without preliminaries.

4. 15 I'll skip the usual preliminaries and come straight to the point.

5. * 1906 , Jack London, White Fang When dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat — snarlings and Bristlings and stiff-legged struttings .But White Fang learned to omit these preliminaries.

6. The tournament also had couple of preliminaries that started in summer on August 21.

7. Alexandr returned for America's Got Talent: The Champions, where he was eliminated in the Preliminaries

8. Ablution, washing before prayer, is one of the preliminaries of prayer, and its observance is necessary.

9. He was in Lane center stage, because he had gone faster than anyone else in the morning preliminaries.

10. Floors: Preliminaries should usually include zoning off the area by placing suitable warning signs or cones.

11. Arrange To adjust or settle; to prepare; to determine; as, to Arrange the preliminaries of an undertaking

12. When dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat—snarlings and Bristlings and stiff-legged struttings

13. When dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat—snarlings and Bristlings and stiff-legged struttings

14. When dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat—snarlings and Bristlings and stiff-legged struttings

15. Blearily, he dialed a number and waited through the interminable mechanized-voice preliminaries to receive his voice mail

16. The technical term for preliminaries of this kind in literary study is "prolepsis"--that is to say, the form of anticipation which, in a certain sense, covers what will be talked about later.

17. The peculiar aspect of a trial in an action under the legis Actiones process was distinguished by the separation of the trials into two stages, the first of which took place before a magistrate, in whose oversight all the preliminaries were conducted

18. Nigel Twiston-Davies' Ashley Muck was a well-beaten favourite in Nine O Three's race after being very awkward in the preliminaries, but the in-form Twiston-Davies stable had earlier topped the pounds 100,000 mark for the season with its 25th winner, Borazon in the novice chase.