foreposition
To position at the front.
Noun
- Position ahead of or in front of; forward position.
- In scientific language we should find more adjectives in the after-position than in the fore-position; in a novel, a play, or in everyday speech, adjectives in the fore-position abound. Scientific language is less...
- From the oil tank the pump forces the oil through the sight feed on the dash, from which it is led into the steam line to the engine. In the oil pump, Fig. 53, the plunger A is set in its extreme foreposition, so that...
- One more fact is crucial for this latter interpretation — gestural communication uses the fore-position of the predicate only in the case where this predicate contains both a verb and an object which can then be...
Origin
From fore- + position.
Forms
Verb
- To position at the front.