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Sometimes a URL will have a redirection prefix which can be used to track click-through traffic.
The prefix anti is appropriate because an electron and a positron can annihilate each other, disappearing in a burst of energy.
No wonder so many local supporters are calling for the caretaker prefix to be removed from his job title.
A prefix is productive when it contributes to the meaning of a word and can be added freely to other words.
He predicted that there will be a surge of nano-naming, with the nano prefix showing up in all sorts of new places in the coming years.
This view arises from the use of the Pali term anatta, which involves the attaching of a negative prefix to the word for self.
Etiquette would probably have required me to use some sort of respectful prefix before their names.
Consider arithmetic expressions in Common Lisp, which must be written in prefix notation.
I never wanted to have that prefix attached to my name and have everyone calling me Sir Edward, so I went to university and became a professor.
There is a story that it was used as prefix to a number when it was supposed to be read as a cardinal number instead of an ordinal number.
In the following table, we give the prefix and infix notations and the corresponding expansions.
When used as a prefix to someone's name, it implies an obvious loathing or contempt of that person.
And for those in the 072 area the change will be greater as it will mean a switch to the 071 prefix as well as the additional digits.
I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.
That is, they cannot be used in isolation but must occur either as part of a compound word or with a possessive prefix.
As of tomorrow, patients will have to call numbers with the prefix 01772 to get through to the Collinson Avenue surgery.
This same phrase is repeated later in but with an inceptive prefix emphasizing the inchoative sense.
From October 10 all numbers in the current 071 area must have the digits 91 added after the prefix.
The prefix tu denotes likeness and when added to nouns it also has causative properties.
Queen Victoria loved the sulfureous saline water so much she gave the town a royal prefix.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Malagasy word for crocodile is mamba, and thus the child came by his name, with the usual prefix, Ra-Mamba.
Alcohol is the Hebrew Kaal, with the same prefix, and signifies something highly subtilised, pure spirit.
Gir-Nysa means the mountain of Nysa, Gir being a common prefix denoting a peak or hill.
It is better to take a as a vocalic abstract prefix and to consider kad as the root.
In the top sign I recognize an Imix with a prefix and probably also a superfix.
Ka is often a prefix of negation in compound words, which has the force of a derogative.
In neither word has the prefix Sint any connection with Snde, with which popular etymology commonly connects it.
In this, as in other Welsh and Gaelic names, the word strath is a prefix to the name of the adjoining river.
A classified list shows 28 compounds of this glyph, 20 of these showing the subfix, and combined with a face or other prefix.
Anything belonging to the mainmast should be distinguished by the prefix main.
I thought it therefore agreeable, to my Affection, and Obligation to your Grace, to prefix your Name before them, both in English, and in Latine.
Throughout this entire Bantu division the prefix U means a country.
An abbreviation of Dominus, equivalent to the English prefix Reverend.
Secondly, there is a mu of mu-un, the indeterminate verbal prefix.
It will be observed that the prefix Hil marks the vocative case.
The performance of the proposed flagged binary adder shows the best overall performance in terms of area, power and delay, when compared with existing flagged prefix adder.
Sir, I make no apology for dropping all forms of conventional prefix.
Notwithstanding your constant refusal, when I have asked leave to prefix your name to this dedication, I must still insist on my right to desire your protection of this work.
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