PREPOSE

Pronunciation (US):

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prepose mean? 

• PREPOSE (verb)
  The verb PREPOSE has 1 sense:

1. place before another constituent in the sentence

  Familiarity information: PREPOSE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREPOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they prepose    ... he / she / it preposes   
Past simple: preposed   
Past participle: preposed   
-ing form: preposing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place before another constituent in the sentence

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

English preposes the adpositions; Japanese postposes them

Hypernyms (to "prepose" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

preposition ((linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached))