prefigure

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"I don't see any handwaving in the word "prefigure" at all.

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Quick take

imagine or consider beforehand; "It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

imagine or consider beforehand; "It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured"

verb

indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for prefigure.

verb

imagine or consider beforehand; "It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured"

verb

indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"

Example sentences

"I don't see any handwaving in the word "prefigure" at all.

If you could have all those resources prefigured out by the time I left, I'd be much happier.

"Knight’s innuendo prefigured a purported report on Ukraine by Yale professor Timothy Snyder in the February 20 issue.

The technical flaw that favored intermediate computers prefigured a world where middlemen business models thrive.

It most certainly does not prefigure the system described by Leibniz, nor the application of arithmetical operations to logic, which was the profound insight in question.

The play does not focus in detail on the technology behind the creation of these living creatures, but in their appearance they prefigure modern ideas of androids, creatures who can be mistaken for humans.

Market collapse and dysfunction prefigure collapse and are valuable information in-and-of themselves.

The functionality will only take off in smartphones, which are really just PDA-phones* iPod has gobbled up the pre-existing MP3 player market in a way that prefigures iPhone, with a decent device and very good marketing* Smartphones are just getting taken up in 2004, as an outgrowth of the PDA market.