predate

From pre- +‎ date.

• pre-date

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiːˌdeɪt/, /ˌpɹiːˈdeɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

predate (third-person singular simple present predates, present participle predating, simple past and past participle predated)

1. To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)
2. (transitive) To exist or to occur before something else; to antedate.

   The Chinese use of Pascal's Triangle predates its discovery by Blaise Pascal.

   • 2020 May 20, Paul Clifton, “A hydrogen solution to decarbonisation?”, in Rail, page 54:

     "The Tees Valley has ageing diesel trains that predate any form of emission control.

• (to designate a date earlier): antedate, backdate, foredate; see also Thesaurus:backdate
• (to occur before something else): antedate; see also Thesaurus:predate

• (antonym(s) of “to designate a date earlier”): overdate, postdate; see also Thesaurus:overdate
• (antonym(s) of “to occur before something else”): postdate

predate (plural predates)

1. A publication, such as a newspaper or magazine, that is issued with a printed date later than the date of issue.

Back-formation from predation or predator.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈdeɪt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈdeɪt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

predate (third-person singular simple present predates, present participle predating, simple past and past participle predated)

2. (ambitransitive) To prey upon something.

• “predate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “predate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• adepter, pad-tree, readept, red tape, redtape, retaped, tapered

predate

1. inflection of predare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

predate f pl

1. feminine plural of predato

predate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of predar combined with te