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Meaning of "premodify" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PREMODIFY

premodify  [priːˈmɒdɪfaɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PREMODIFY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Premodify is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb premodify in English.

WHAT DOES PREMODIFY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of premodify in the English dictionary

The definition of premodify in the dictionary is to modify something in advance. Other definition of premodify is to modify a word or phrase by means of a preceding element.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PREMODIFY

PRESENT

Present
I premodify
you premodify
he/she/it premodifies
we premodify
you premodify
they premodify
Present continuous
I am premodifying
you are premodifying
he/she/it is premodifying
we are premodifying
you are premodifying
they are premodifying
Present perfect
I have premodified
you have premodified
he/she/it has premodified
we have premodified
you have premodified
they have premodified
Present perfect continuous
I have been premodifying
you have been premodifying
he/she/it has been premodifying
we have been premodifying
you have been premodifying
they have been premodifying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I premodified
you premodified
he/she/it premodified
we premodified
you premodified
they premodified
Past continuous
I was premodifying
you were premodifying
he/she/it was premodifying
we were premodifying
you were premodifying
they were premodifying
Past perfect
I had premodified
you had premodified
he/she/it had premodified
we had premodified
you had premodified
they had premodified
Past perfect continuous
I had been premodifying
you had been premodifying
he/she/it had been premodifying
we had been premodifying
you had been premodifying
they had been premodifying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will premodify
you will premodify
he/she/it will premodify
we will premodify
you will premodify
they will premodify
Future continuous
I will be premodifying
you will be premodifying
he/she/it will be premodifying
we will be premodifying
you will be premodifying
they will be premodifying
Future perfect
I will have premodified
you will have premodified
he/she/it will have premodified
we will have premodified
you will have premodified
they will have premodified
Future perfect continuous
I will have been premodifying
you will have been premodifying
he/she/it will have been premodifying
we will have been premodifying
you will have been premodifying
they will have been premodifying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would premodify
you would premodify
he/she/it would premodify
we would premodify
you would premodify
they would premodify
Conditional continuous
I would be premodifying
you would be premodifying
he/she/it would be premodifying
we would be premodifying
you would be premodifying
they would be premodifying
Conditional perfect
I would have premodify
you would have premodify
he/she/it would have premodify
we would have premodify
you would have premodify
they would have premodify
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been premodifying
you would have been premodifying
he/she/it would have been premodifying
we would have been premodifying
you would have been premodifying
they would have been premodifying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you premodify
we let´s premodify
you premodify
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to premodify
Past participle
premodified
Present Participle
premodifying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PREMODIFY


arefy
ˈærɪfaɪ
decertify
diːˈsɜːtɪfaɪ
fluidify
fluːˈɪdɪfaɪ
gentrify
ˈdʒɛntrɪfaɪ
glassify
ˈɡlɑːsɪfaɪ
left-justify
ˌleftˈdʒʌstɪfaɪ
lithify
ˈlɪθɪfaɪ
magnifying
ˈmæɡnɪfaɪ
misidentify
ˌmɪsaɪˈdɛntɪfaɪ
munify
ˈmjuːnɪfaɪ
quizzify
ˈkwɪzɪfaɪ
reclassify
ˌriːˈklæsɪfaɪ
right-justify
ˌraɪtˈdʒʌstɪfaɪ
scyphi
ˈsaɪfaɪ
unqualify
ʌnˈkwɒlɪfaɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PREMODIFY

premium-rate
premix
premodern
premodification
premolar
premold
premolt
premonish
premonishment
premonition
premonitive
premonitor
premonitorily
premonitory
Premonstratensian
premoral
premorse
premosaic
premotion
premove

WORDS THAT END LIKE PREMODIFY

acidify
codify
commodify
dandify
deacidify
dehumidify
edify
humidify
ladify
lapidify
modify
mundify
nidify
recodify
reedify
remodify
resolidify
rigidify
solidify
trendify

Synonyms and antonyms of premodify in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «premodify» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PREMODIFY

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The translations of premodify from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «premodify» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

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Translator English - Spanish

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Translator English - Hindi

premodify
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Translator English - Arabic

premodify
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

premodify
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premodify
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Translator English - Bengali

premodify
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Translator English - French

premodify
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Translator English - Malay

Dimodifikasikan
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Translator English - German

premodify
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Translator English - Japanese

予め修飾する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

premodify
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Translator English - Javanese

Premodify
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

premodify
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Translator English - Tamil

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Translator English - Marathi

पूर्वपदावर बसविणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

premodify
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Translator English - Italian

premodify
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Translator English - Polish

premodify
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Translator English - Ukrainian

premodify
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Translator English - Romanian

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Translator English - Greek

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af

Translator English - Afrikaans

premodify
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Translator English - Swedish

premodify
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

premodify
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Trends of use of premodify

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PREMODIFY»

The term «premodify» is barely ever used and occupies the 207.602 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PREMODIFY» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREMODIFY»

Discover the use of premodify in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to premodify and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Practical Manx
Premodify Adjectives are said to 'premodify' when they precede their noun. This is the normal word order in English for attributive adjectives (the old house, the dead beetle, the yellow brick road) whereas in manx most attributive adjectives ...
Jennifer Draskau, 2008
2
Aspects of Altaic Civilization III: Proceedings of the ...
7.7l PREMODIFIERS. Some adjectivals consist of an adjective or longer adjectival preceded by some modifying element. 7.7ll NOMINAL PREMODIFIERS . In two specific cases a nominal may premodify an adjectival. Nominals of measure (cf.
Denis Sinor, 1990
3
Patterns and Meanings: Using corpora for English language ...
The only other intensifier to premodify it was entirely on two occasions. One more importantsub-groupseemedtoconsistofitemsexpressing'certainty'/'clarity',includ- ing certain (2 occurrences), sure (1) and clear (9). The first two usually have ...
Alan Partington, 1998
4
Degree Words
An adverb that is totally new in relation to intensification may premodify if its meaning is not unusual, given the context. Probably any adverb referring to something of great size can be used before such a verb as exceed, whether or not it has ...
Dwight Bolinger, 1972
5
The Clause in English: In Honour of Rodney Huddleston
3.3 Argument from premodification of adjectives and adverbs The X-words cannot premodify adjectives or adverbs. 3.3.1 Counterargument This argument is based on the assumption that all adverbs can premodify adjectives or other adverbs.
Peter Collins, David A. Lee, 1999
6
Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services
premodify\n" ) 127. 128. /* Retrieve the modifications sent in the modify operation V 129. if ( slapi_pblock_get( pb , SLAPI_MODIFY_MODS , &mods ) != 0 ) { 130. slapi_send_ldap_result( pb, LDAP_OPERATIONS_ERROR, NULL, 131.
Tim Howes, Mark Smith, Gordon S. Good, 2003
7
Introductory Chinese Simplified
Attributive 1) Adj/AP-的+N: Adjectives are commonly used to premodify nouns with the particle 的. (很)贵的东西,很好的书,便宜的衣服,很漂亮的书包,不太大的桌子 2) Monosyllabic Adj + Noun: Some adjectives premodify nouns without 的, typically ...
Phyllis Zhang, 2014
8
Stylistics: A Practical Coursebook
... and must be followed by a noun (e.g. the...girl); nouns fill the slot after a determiner,and do notneedanadjective (e.g. the...).Here, both listless and Saturday premodify afternoons. In (2), theadverb vaguely premodifies the adjective baronial, ...
Jonathan Hope, Laura Wright, 2002
9
Out of Corpora: Studies in Honour of Stig Johansson
Table 1 The syntactic functions of famously 3.1 Modifier of adjective There are 43 occurrences where famously premodifies an adjective, of which 13 premodify a predicative adjective, as in (2) , (4), and 30 premodify an attributive adjective in a  ...
Hilde Hasselgård, Signe Oksefjell, 1999
10
Creating Your Web Site with PHP
So the MysqlTable class will call the virtual PreModify() function prior to writing a record to the table, the record to be cleaned up being passed to the function as a parameter. This function is overridden in the Guestbook class so that the ...
Dmitriy Koterov, 2002

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