Synonymer

Uttal

  • US:
    • IPA: /æn.tɪs.əˈpe.ʃən/
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /ˌæn.ˌtɪ.sə.ˈpeɪ.ʃən/
    • IPA: /æn.ˌtɪ.sə.ˈpeɪ.ʃən/
Översättning
Substantiv
1.sezinleme

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
  2. The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
  3. (finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
  4. (rhetoric) Prolepsis.
  5. (music) A non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to a note in the next chord.
  6. (obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.

Exempel

  • Often the anticipation of a shot is worse than the pain of the stick.
  • So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery.
  • He waited with great anticipation for Christmas to arrive.
  • The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just.
  • The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[...]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
  • Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds.

Böjningsformer

Pluralanticipations

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