preliminar
prefatory ; preliminary ; exploratory ; germinal.
Having made this prefatory warning, it has also to be said that many teachers successfully contrive to make reviewing an enjoyable and useful ingredient in their book and reading programs.
This present brief section is to be read as preliminary to a more detailed examination of some of the techniques of index construction which will follow.
This article reports on exploratory experiments in evaluating and improving a thesaurus through studying its effect on retrieval.
Unique as it is, this creation has its germinal origin in Morris's earlier works.
preliminares [Portada o portadas de una publicación, juntamente con el verso de cada portada y las páginas que preceden a la portada o portadas] [Conjunto de datos y textos que anteceden al texto principal de una obra] [Portada o portadas de una publicación, juntamente con el verso de cada portada y las páginas que preceden a la portada o portadas] [En un libro, todas aquellas hojas con información que preceden al texto]
preliminaries
preliminary matter
preliminary pages
front matter
The preliminaries are the title page or title pages of an item, together with the verso of each title page, any pages preceding the title page(s), and the cover.
Certainly it will always be necessary to examine the document content, concentrating particularly on the clues offered by the title, the contents page, chapter headings, and any abstracts, introduction, prefaces or other preliminary matter.
The CIP data is compiled by the BLBSD from preliminary pages of forthcoming works whilst these are still in proof form.
The exploration aims to view table of contents terminology in the context of functions served by other representations of subject information, including Library of Congress subject headings, work title terminology, and author-contributed front matter.
preliminares sexuales
foreplay
Fellatio is widely used in human foreplay, but rarely documented in other animals.