Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preceding a digit or the digits.
- noun One of the two outermost primaries in the wing of a bird which are attached to the second phalanx of the second digit. The outermost predigital is very small and is that called the spurious primary, or remicle.
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- adjective Preceding the advent of
digital technology
Etymologies
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Examples
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"The African Queen," he noted, had been available in the predigital era on VHS and Laserdisc, but the transfer looked as muddy as the bottom of a Central African river.
'Hubble': Heavenly Ticket to Space Joe Morgenstern 2010
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"The African Queen," he noted, had been available in the predigital era on VHS and Laserdisc, but the transfer looked as muddy as the bottom of a Central African river.
'Hubble': Heavenly Ticket to Space Joe Morgenstern 2010
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"The African Queen," he noted, had been available in the predigital era on VHS and Laserdisc, but the transfer looked as muddy as the bottom of a Central African river.
'Hubble': Heavenly Ticket to Space Joe Morgenstern 2010
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Forgive my bias, but old-fashioned journalism -- validated, vetted, edited -- is as central to our portrait of the world as it was in the predigital past.
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Also fascinating insight into how they sorted through data in the predigital age.
A bookish blog post | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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It was made in the predigital days when special effects looked real because most of them were real, and moviegoers watched in genuine amazement.
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It was made in the predigital days when special effects looked real because most of them were real, and moviegoers watched in genuine amazement.
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In predigital days, getting one's hands on hot pictures required running an often impenetrable gantlet of drugstore clerks and newsstand operators, and finding really hard-core material was out of the question.
No Place For Kids? 2008
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Kidd captures the predigital art department just right.
‘Mad Men’: The Novel 2008
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As a moment in a poem it's probably a little over-compressed, nevertheless I take "context is vinyl" to be an affirmation of the old-school premodernist value of explaining what one is talking about and why, just as audiophiles have come out swinging for predigital recording techniques.
Jordan Davis reads Drew Gardner Lemon Hound 2008
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