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Meaning of "prehensory" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PREHENSORY

prehensory  [prɪˈhɛnsərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PREHENSORY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prehensory is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PREHENSORY


accessory
əkˈsɛsərɪ
anniversary
ˌænɪˈvɜːsərɪ
caravansary
ˌkærəˈvænsərɪ
chancery
ˈtʃɑːnsərɪ
condensery
kənˈdensərɪ
dispensary
dɪˈspɛnsərɪ
extrasensory
ˌɛkstrəˈsɛnsərɪ
grocery
ˈɡrəʊsərɪ
incensory
ˈɪnsɛnsərɪ
intersensory
ˌɪntəˈsensərɪ
multisensory
ˌmʌltɪˈsɛnsərɪ
necessary
ˈnɛsɪsərɪ
neurosensory
ˌnjʊərəʊˈsensərɪ
ostensory
ɒsˈtɛnsərɪ
reprehensory
ˌrɛprɪˈhɛnsərɪ
responsory
rɪˈspɒnsərɪ
sensory
ˈsɛnsərɪ
somatosensory
ˌsəʊmətəʊˈsɛnsərɪ
supersensory
ˌsuːpəˈsɛnsərɪ
suspensory
səˈspɛnsərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PREHENSORY

preheadache
preheat
preheater
preheminence
prehend
prehensible
prehensile
prehensility
prehension
prehensive
prehensor
prehensorial
prehiring
prehistorian
prehistoric
prehistorical
prehistorically
prehistories
prehistory
prehnite

WORDS THAT END LIKE PREHENSORY

advisory
compulsory
conclusory
cursory
delusory
derisory
illusory
intercessory
nonsupervisory
percursory
persuasory
possessory
precursory
promissory
propulsory
provisory
reclusory
suasory
supervisory
vavasory

Synonyms and antonyms of prehensory in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «prehensory» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PREHENSORY

Find out the translation of prehensory to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prehensory from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prehensory» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

prehensory
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prehensory
570 millions of speakers

English

prehensory
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

prehensory
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

prehensory
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

prehensory
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

prehensory
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

prehensory
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

prehensory
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Prehensory
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

prehensory
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

prehensory
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

prehensory
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prehensory
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

prehensory
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

prehensory
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्राध्यापक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

prehensory
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

prehensory
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prehensory
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

prehensory
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prehensory
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

prehensory
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

prehensory
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

prehensory
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prehensory
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prehensory

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PREHENSORY»

The term «prehensory» is normally little used and occupies the 145.513 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PREHENSORY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «prehensory» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «prehensory» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prehensory

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREHENSORY»

Discover the use of prehensory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prehensory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness ...
As prehensory organs, the principal object of their unusual length and numbers may probably be their capturing, as in a net, a quantity of rock animals, or animalcules, sufficient for their support, and perhaps their very beauty may be a means ...
Francis Henry Egerton Bridgewater (Earl of), 1837
2
The Bridgewater treatises on the power, wisdom and goodness ...
Whenever the animal is alarmed it withdraws this gorgeous apparatus of respirato-prehensory organs within its tube, and the tube itself into its burrow in the living rock, as a safe refuge from its enemies. Whoever compares the above figure of ...
‎1835
3
A Point in Time ... Readings in Early Childhood Education
these developmental changes in the pattern of prehension would be realized even if the prehensory hand were altogether swaddled and deprived of activity. When the prehensory mechanism is damaged by restricted birth injury to the brain, ...
Verl M. Short, 1973
4
On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in ...
Whenever the animal is alarmed it withdraws this gorgeous apparatus of respirato-prehensory organs within its tube, and the tube itself into its burrow in the living rock, as a safe refuge from its enemies. Whoever compares the above figure of ...
William Kirby, 1835
5
The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness ...
The camel and dromedary differ from the other Ruminants, not only in their long neck, which probably is useful to them in gathering their food, but also in having a cleft lip, which doubtless, adds to the prehensory powers of that organ. The lofty ...
Francis Henry Egerton Bridgewater (Earl of), 1835
6
On the power, wisdom and goodness of God: as manifested in ...
... not stated that the figure is magnified. W henever the animal is alarmed it withdraws this gorgeous apparatus of respirato-prehensory organs within its tube , and the tube itself into its burrow in the living rock, as a safe refuge from its enemies.
William Kirby, 1837
7
On the History Habits and Instincts of Animals
Whenever the animal is alarmed it withdraws this gorgeous apparatus of respirato-prehensory organs within its tube, and the tube itself into its burrow in the living rock, as a safe refuge from its enemies. Whoever compares the above figure of ...
William Kirby, 1835
8
Development of Psycho-motor Competence: Selected Readings
On the other hand, since swiping, which appears six weeks earlier, guarantees frequent contact of the hand with the prehensory object, and tactual exploration and the grasp reflex often result in closure, it seems reasonable to assume that ...
Linda Blane, 1975
9
Readings in child development
This indicates a growing capacity for focusing attention which is no longer exclusively dependent on motion. In keeping with the above developments, it is at this stage that we see swiping, the first prehensory behavior. The appearance of this ...
Harry Munsinger, 1975
10
A Behavior Analytic View of Child Development
In addition, visual attention also increased dramatically over that in the control group once prehensory contacts with the stabile and the bumpers were possible. A particularly interesting result of the White (1967) study concerned the ...
Henry D. Schlinger, 1995

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Prehensory [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/prehensory>. May 2024 ».
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