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  • verb Present participle of prefix.

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Examples

  • It was a word prefixing the name which he had set there: "MY MARCEL."

    The Heart of Unaga Ridgwell Cullum 1905

  • I make calls prefixing our callsign with "Aventura" and "Ultralight" until a controller addresses us as

    Cockpit Conversation 2008

  • I trust I have as high & as free a spirit as any man; yet, were Earl Buchan to wish to prefix to anything of mine a testimony such as he is desirous of prefixing to your poems, he must write very differently from anything I have seen of his before I should refuse it.

    Letter 188 2009

  • A subset of blends is created by aggressive prefixing and suffixing—mixing and matching parts of existing words to make new words.

    2011 in Words 2011

  • The fact that prefixing languages are less common than suffixing ones should alone be enough to dissuade people into looking for genuine prefixes in this language until everything else is better understood.

    Prefixes in Minoan 2010

  • Poor Nicky Campbell had to keep prefixing questions with "some might say" type remarks to show that he personally has no truck with such questions but has to ask otherwise people might think the BBC was totally biased against Israel.

    Proportionate response Not a sheep 2008

  • Poor Nicky Campbell had to keep prefixing questions with "some might say" type remarks to show that he personally has no truck with such questions but has to ask otherwise people might think the BBC was totally biased against Israel.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • A sturdy module system, made by adding syntax to module and require forms, to provide support for handling name clashes through renaming such as prefixing.

    Snell-Pym » R7RS 2009

  • The story concerned a Russian who had adopted Islam, prefixing his Slavic name of Anton Stepanenko with a Muslim one, Abdullah.

    Russia's Muslims: A Benign Growth JDsg 2007

  • He eventually began prefixing his posts with “San Diego Fires”.

    Twitter hashtags for emergency coordination and disaster relief | FactoryCity 2007

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