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Previse

Definition: Previse

Previse

Verb

1. Warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning; "I forewarned him of the trouble that would arise if he showed up at his ex-wife's house".

2. Realize beforehand.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Previse \Pre*vise"\, transitive verb. [Latin expression praevisus, past participle of praevidere to foresee; prae before videre to see. See Vision.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Previse

Synonyms: anticipate (v), foreknow (v), foresee (v), forewarn (v). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Previse

Language Translations for "previse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

parashikoj (adumbrate, anticipate, contemplate, divine, dope, envision, forecast, foresee, foretaste, look forward to, predict, prognosticate, time, visualize), paralajmëroj (admonish, bespeak, bode, caution, exhort, forebode, forecast, forerun, foreshadow, foretoken, forewarn, harbinger, hint, notice, presage, threaten, tip off, tip the wink, warn). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

предусещам (divine, forebode, foretell), предупреждавам (admonish, caution, factorize, forewarn, notice, premonish, warn), предвиждам (calculate, divine, envisage, forecast, foresee, intend, plan, prevision, provide, provide for, second-guess, see beyond). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elõre lát (anticipate, envisage, forecast, foresee). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

evisepray

   

Portuguese

  

prever (bargain for, forecast, foresee, presage, read, tell), prevenir (avert, avoid, caution, evade, forearm, forewarn, inform, obviate, prevent, warn), antever (anticipate, foresee). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

предвидеть (anticipate, forecast, foreknew, foreknow, foreknown, foresaw, foresee, foreseen), предостерегать (admonish, forewarn, warn). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

predvideti (call for, envision, foreknow, foresee, foretell, predict, schedule), predhodno objaviti. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

prever (anticipate, call for, envisage, forecast, foreknow, foreknowledge, foresee, foreshadow, set down), prevenir (arrange, caution, forestall, forewarn, prejudice, prevent, warn). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förutse (anticipate, envisage, envision, forecast, foresee). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

застерігати (admonish, caution, forewarn, premonish, warn), передбачати (allow for, anticipate, apprehend, cover, divine, envisage, envision, forecast, foresee, presage, prognosticate, provide). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Previse

Derivations

Words beginning with "previse": prevised, previses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Previse

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-p-r-s-v"

-1 letter: reives, revise, vesper, vipers.

-2 letters: peers, peise, peris, perse, piers, prees, prese, pries, prise, reive, ripes, rives, serve, sever, sieve, siree, siver, speer, speir, spier, spire, spree, veeps, veers, verse, viers, viper, vires.

-3 letters: ever, eves, ires, peer, pees, peri, pier, pies, pree, rees, reis, reps, revs, ripe, rips, rise, rive, seep, seer.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-p-r-s-v"
 

+1 letter: deprives, prelives, previews, prevised, previses.

 

+2 letters: deprivers, eruptives, overplies, perceives, pervasive, poverties, prelusive, pulverise, replevies, replevins, reprieves, repulsive, supervise.

 

+3 letters: depressive, dispersive, evaporites, expressive, grapevines, impressive, operatives, oppressive, overpraise, overprices, overprizes, oversimple, perceivers, percussive, permissive, perovskite, persuasive, perversion, perversity, perversive, preclusive, preservice, preserving, previewers, privateers, privileges, protensive, pulverised, pulverises, pulverizes, repressive, reprievals, resorptive, respective, responsive, separative, supervised, supervises, superwives, vespertine, vespiaries, viewership.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Previse


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 65 76 69 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01100101 01110110 01101001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0065 0076 0069 0073 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50847188758571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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