Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who anticipates.

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  • noun One who anticipates.

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  • noun One who anticipates.
  • noun A device in a thermostat that determines when to turn on or shut off the heating or cooling mechanism.

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  • noun one who anticipates

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Examples

  • In any case, Orrin's discussion over at Volokh is interesting, as is the idea of anticipator warrants.

    What is the "innovative" arrangement with the FISA Court about the NSA program? Ann Althouse 2007

  • But bond yields, which of late have tended to be a better anticipator of events than stocks, have told a different story.

    Bond Markets Are Still Skeptics Tom Lauricella 2011

  • Unlike Lambert, Gradishar was not a flashy headhunter, just a great anticipator who was a deadly tackler and great short-yardage defender.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • Andrea Mantegna, brother-in-law of Giovanni and Gentile Bellini, master colorist and illusionist, anticipator of mannerism and the baroque, made a picture that has attracted, moved and confused its viewers since it first came to light after its maker's death in 1506.

    Mantegna's Singular Jesus 2007

  • I live for the anticipator adrenaline of an uncharted first course, and, in fact.

    The Swell Dressed Party Cynthia Rowley 2005

  • I live for the anticipator adrenaline of an uncharted first course, and, in fact.

    The Swell Dressed Party Cynthia Rowley 2005

  • While no anticipator of miracles and fully cognizant of the special problems establishing for'mal alliance with the locals entailed, he still felt that the pace of progress was too slow.

    The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • Instead of a real resumption of the great themes of the philosophy of Bacon one finds in Comte an attempt to make of Bacon a clever but confused anticipator of the positivist philosophy.

    BACONIANISM PAOLO ROSSI 1968

  • But, of course, once again his rival beat him to it, and the story ends with the words "the anticipator, horribly afraid, ran down a by-street."

    The Wind from The Sun Clarke, Arthur C. 1962

  • It has been seen that William Gregg, the builder of the Graniteville Factory in South Carolina, was the father, in the sense that he was the anticipator, of a new economic life for the South.

    The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South 1921

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