Preliminary means something that comes before something else. If you want to run in the race, you have to place in the top third of the preliminary round. It can also mean "early"––the preliminary results are in, and you've won!
Introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse or business; prefatory;
Noun
something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows; "training is a necessary preliminary to employment"; "drinks were the overture to dinner"
Noun
a minor match preceding the main event
Adjective S.
designed to orient or acquaint with a situation before proceeding; "a preliminary investigation"
a.
Introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse
or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or
book; preliminary articles to a treaty; preliminary measures;
preliminary examinations.
n.
That which precedes the main discourse, work, design,
or business; something introductory or preparatory; as, the
preliminaries to a negotiation or duel; to take one's preliminaries the
year before entering college.
Preliminary
Preliminary
Introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse or business; prefatory;
That which precedes the main discourse, work, design, or business; something introductory or preparatory;
Usage Examples
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.
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Other Usage ExamplesIf we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
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