A vinyl record player is redolent of an earlier time, evoking nostalgia for a pre-digital music era.
3 PM is earlier than 5 PM.
In a legal case, the trial typically occurs after pre-trial procedures such as filing of the complaint, pre-trial motions, discovery, and settlement negotiations. The trial is where evidence is presented, arguments are made, and a verdict is reached.
In general grading systems, pre-alpha is not commonly used, so there isn't a standardized grade worse than pre-alpha minus. However, it typically symbolizes a very early stage of development or performance.
As you travel east, you move into earlier time zones, which means the time is earlier than your starting point to the west. This is because the Earth rotates from west to east, causing the sun to rise earlier in the east.
Surprise or unexpected. Those words mean earlier than expected.
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The prefix "pre-" means before or earlier than. For example, "preview" means to see something before it is fully released or shown.
The Alamo fell because Santa Anna came earlier than they had expected
The root "pre-" means before or earlier.
Anything earlier than about 3000BCE is pre-historic, and there's darned little "history" earlier than about 1,000BCE. Since our best guess is that the human race "began" - in the sense that anything before that was pre-human - in about 150,000 BCE, then "pre-history" lasted for about 147,000 years.
Anything earlier than about 3000BCE is pre-historic, and there's darned little "history" earlier than about 1,000BCE. Since our best guess is that the human race "began" - in the sense that anything before that was pre-human - in about 150,000 BCE, then "pre-history" lasted for about 147,000 years.
One prefix that means before is "pre" as in the word pretest.
Semiretired means that one is working part time earlier than the usual retirement age or earlier than one's expected retirement at a later age. It does NOT have to do with ill health or advanced age.