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foreordained
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of foreordain
foreordain
1. v. To predestine or preordain.
predetermined
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of predetermine
2. adj. determined in advance
predetermine
1. v. To determine or decide in advance.
2. v. To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.
established
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of establish
2. adj. Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.
3. adj. Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
4. adj. (Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.
establish
1. v. To make stable or firm; to confirm.
2. v. To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
3. v. To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
4. v. To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
advance
1. v. To promote or advantage.
2. v. To help the progress of (something); to further.
3. v. To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.
4. v. To move forward in space or time.
5. v. To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully.
6. v. To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten.
7. v. (intransitive) To move forwards; to approach.
8. v. To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend.
9. v. To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose.
10. v. (intransitive) To make progress; to do well, to succeed.
11. v. (intransitive) To move forward in time; to progress towards completion.
12. v. To raise, be raised.
13. v. (transitive, now archaic) To raise; to lift or elevate.
14. v. To raise or increase (a price, rate).
15. v. To increase (a number or amount).
16. v. (intransitive) To make a higher bid at an auction.
17. n. A forward move; improvement or progression.
an advance in health or knowledge
an advance in rank or office
18. n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
19. n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
an advance on the prime cost of goods
20. n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
21. adj. Completed before need or a milestone event.
He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith.
22. adj. Preceding.
The advance man came a month before the candidate.
23. adj. Forward.
The scouts found a site for an advance base.
by
1. prep. Near or next to.
The mailbox is by the bus stop.
2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval.
Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July.
3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of.
The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour.
4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare
5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of.
6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of.
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination.
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight.
8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed.
I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.
9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of.
Our stock is up by ten percent.
10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches.
11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to.
He cheated by his own admission.
12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of.
By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.
13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm.
14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.
15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker.
I watched as it passed by.
16. adv. In the vicinity, near.
There was a shepherd close by.
The shop is hard by the High Street.
17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
I'll stop by on my way home from work.
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave.
18. adv. Aside, away.
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.
19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary.
20. n. (card games) A pass
21. interj. alternative spelling of bye
fate
1. n. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
2. n. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
3. n. Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
Accept your fate.
4. n. (mythology) alternative case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
5. v. To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.

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