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Definition: Prelims |
PrelimsNoun1. Written matter preceding the main text of a book. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Text matter printed on the first pages of a book, before the body text. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: PrelimsSynonym: front matter (n). (additional references) |
| "Prelims" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prelims" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "prelims"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | начални страници. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | præliminærsats (front matter, preliminary matter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | voorwerk (front matter, preliminaries, preliminary leaf, preliminary matter, preliminary pages). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | alkulehdet (addments, front matter, preliminaries, preliminary matter, subsidiaries). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | préliminaires (preliminaries), pièces liminaires (preliminaries, preliminary matter), pages liminaires (preliminaries, preliminary matter), feuillets liminaires (preliminary matter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Titelei (addments, front matter, preliminaries, preliminary matter, subsidiaries). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρόλογος (preamble, preface, prologue), προκαταρκτικά (front matter, preliminary matter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | preliminari (preliminaries), pagine preliminari (addments, front matter, preliminaries, preliminary matter, subsidiaries). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elimspray предварительный мероприятие. (various references) principios (beginning, beginnings, values), preliminares (preliminaries), páginas preliminares (addments, preliminaries, preliminary matter, subsidiaries). (various references) titelsidor (addments, front matter, preliminaries, preliminary matter, subsidiaries), inledande sidor (addments, front matter, preliminaries, preliminary matter, subsidiaries). (various references) başlık (bonnet, cap, caption, casque, chapiter, head-dress, headgear, heading, headline, headpiece, helmet, hood, lemma, title). (various references) збірний аркуш. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Prelims" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pelim, perlin, Praslins, predim, prelime, prelimi, Prelimo, prelm. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prelims" (pronounced prē"li'mz) |
| 4 | -l i' m z | forelimbs. |
| 3 | -i' m z | pseudonyms. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: limpers, rimples, simpler. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-m-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: impels, limper, lisper, milers, perils, pliers, prelim, primes, rimple, simper, simple, smiler, spirem. | |
-2 letters: emirs, impel, liers, limes, limps, merls, miler, miles, mires, miser, peril, peris, perms, piers, piles, plier, plies, pries, prime, prims, prise, prism, riels, riles, rimes, ripes, slier, slime, slipe, smile, speil, speir, sperm, spiel, spier, spile, spire. | |
-3 letters: elms. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-m-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: crimples, glimpser, impalers, impearls, imperils, implores, lempiras, limpsier. | |
+2 letters: compilers, compliers, glimpsers, impellers, impellors, imperials, implorers, periblems, plumerias, prelimits, puerilism, rumpliest, slimpsier. | |
+3 letters: amplifiers, crumpliest, impersonal, implanters, metropolis, micropyles, oversimple, oversimply, perilymphs, pimpernels, plumberies, polymerise, polymerism, prolamines, psalterium, puerilisms, recompiles, reimplants, resampling, shrimplike, simplifier, slipformed, slipstream, spermatial, verapamils. | |
+4 letters: aspergillum, biopolymers, complainers, imperialism, imperialist, imperiously, imprecisely, impressible, leprosarium, marlinspike, multipliers, palindromes, palmistries, parallelism, parliaments, paternalism, peristomial, permillages, permissible, permissibly, peroxisomal, personalism, pilgrimages, planimeters, pleinairism, pleochroism, plyometrics, polymerised, polymerises, polymerisms, polymerizes, presumingly, primalities, proclaimers, proselytism, semipopular, sempiternal, simplifiers, slipstreams, spermicidal, spermophile, superfamily, thermopiles, timepleaser, trampolines, ultrasimple. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 6C 69 6D 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . .-.. .. -- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e l i m s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 006C 0069 006D 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50847178757985 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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