{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "bɪˈfɔr", "ˌbiˈfɔr" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/before.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/before.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English before, bifore (adverb and preposition), from Old English beforan, from be- + foran (“before”), from fore, from Proto-Germanic *furai, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“front”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian befoar (“before”), Low German bevör (“before”), German bevor (“before”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Preposition", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Earlier than (in time).\nI want this done before Monday.\n1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner." }, { "mean": "In front of in space.\nHe stood before me.\nWe sat before the fire to warm ourselves.\n1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. , London: , , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:\nHis angel, who shall go / Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire.\n1909, Archibald Marshall , chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:\nHe tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.\n2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight." }, { "mean": "In the presence of.\nHe performed before the troops in North Africa.\nHe spoke before a joint session of Congress." }, { "mean": "Under consideration, judgment, authority of (someone).\nThe case laid before the panel aroused nothing but ridicule.\n1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani\nIf a suit be begun before an archdeacon" }, { "mean": "In store for, in the future of (someone).\n1831, Thomas Carlyle, “The Phœnix”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. , London: Chapman and Hall, , →OCLC, book third, page 164:The golden age is before us." }, { "mean": "In front of, according to a formal system of ordering items.\nIn alphabetical order, \"cat\" comes before \"dog\", \"canine\" before feline\"." }, { "mean": "At a higher or greater position than, in a ranking.\nAn entrepreneur puts market share and profit before quality, an amateur intrinsic qualities before economical considerations.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, John 1:15:He that cometh after me is preferred before me." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "At an earlier time.\n1918, W B Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.\nI've never done this before." }, { "mean": "In advance." }, { "mean": "At the front end.\n1896, Hilaire Belloc, The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, “The Elephant”:\nWhen people call this beast to mind,They marvel more and moreAt such a little tail behind,So LARGE a trunk before." } ] }, { "name": "Conjunction", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "In advance of the time when.\n1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff , “An Introduction to the Following Treatise”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, , London: B Motte , published 1738, →OCLC, page xiv:But before this elaborate treatise can become of universal use and ornament to my native country, two points are absolutely necessary.\n2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport:Stephen Ward then had to time his tackle excellently to deny Tarmo Kink as the Wolves winger slid the ball out of play before the Estonian could attempt to beat Given." }, { "mean": "(informal) Rather or sooner than.\nI'll die before I'll tell you anything about it." } ] }, { "name": "Derived_terms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "accessary before the fact\naccessory before the fact\nage before beauty\nbefore dark\nbefore it was cool\nbefore long\nbefore one knows it\nbefore one knows where one is\nbefore one's eyes\nbefore someone's time\nbefore the fact\nbefore the mast\nbefore times\nbefore you can say Jack Robinson\nbefore you can say knife\nbefore-and-after\nbefore-mentioned\nbeforehand\nbeforetime\nbest before date\nbest-before date\nboldly go where no man has gone before\nbow down before the porcelain god\nbros before hoes\nbros before hos\nbusiness before pleasure\ncalm before the storm\ncarry all before one\ncarry the world before one\ncast pearls before swine\ncheck yourself before you wreck yourself\nchicks before dicks\ncome before\ncrawl before one can walk\ncrawl before one walks\ncross a bridge before one comes to it\nday before yesterday\ndon't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched\ndon't count your chickens before they're hatched\nhalloo before one is out of the wood\nin before\nit is always darkest before the dawn\nit is always darkest just before the dawn\nit is darkest before the dawn\nit is darkest just before the dawn\nI've never heard it called that before\njump before one is pushed\nkneel before\nknow how to walk before one can run\nlearn to walk before one can run\nleg before\nleg before wicket\nlie before\nlook before one leaps\nmake-before-break\nnothing is said that has not been said before\none's father was born before one\npearls before swine\npride comes before a fall\npride cometh before a fall\npride goes before a fall\npride goeth before a fall\npride wenteth before a fall\nput before\nput the cart before the horse\nsisters before misters\ntears before bedtime\nthe darkest hour is always just before the dawn\nthe darkest hour is just before the dawn\nthe day before\nthe night before last\ntime before time\nwrap it before you tap it\nyou must spoil before you spin" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "전치사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "접속사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "파생_항", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }