Definizione monolingua

preposition

preposition (third-person singular simple present prepositions, present participle prepositioning, simple past and past participle prepositioned)

1. To place in a location before some other event occurs.

   It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.

preposition (plural prepositions)

1. (grammar) Any of a closed class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
2. (obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Robert Fabyan

     He made a long preposition and oration.

Definizione dizionario preposition

	preposizione
	grammar: a type of word like "of, from, for, by"
	A word or phrase able to connect a following noun or noun phrase (and often other parts of the speech) as a complement to some other part of the sentence, expressing a relation between them.

Altri significati:

To place in a location before some other event occurs.

(grammar): A closed class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.

(obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.