preliminary

A preliminary groundwork must be laid this year.

with strangers the preliminaries are taken at a gingerly pace.

the discussions were seen as preliminary to the policy paper.

the bombardment was resumed as a preliminary to an infantry attack.

They are taking preliminary steps in preparation for a possible war.

She began speaking intensely, without preliminaries.

reports of a deadlock emerged during preliminary discussions.

preliminary contracts were let and tunnelling work started.

A preliminary study of xeromorphism of some important xerophytes growing in Tungeli Desert.

There are a lot of preliminaries to be gone through before you can visit certain foreigners.

A plea can be guilty, not guilty, or where permitted nolo contendere. (See preliminary hearing.

the judge's ruling was handed down in a preliminary hearing rather than a trial and was therefore unappealable.

The vertical velocity is calculated directly from the raw dropsonde data, it is a preliminary attempt to use the vertical velocity for synoptic analysis.

It all happenedafter a celebrated case of incendiarism;the preliminary investigation lasted two days;we were exhausted.

It all happened just after a celebrated case of incendiarism;the preliminary investigation lasted two days;we were exhausted.

Preliminary test of combusting property of COWS showed that this kind of synfuel had a good combustion behavior, and high combustion efficiency.

Preliminary analysis shows that the propulsion force is relative to serval factors, such as liquid viscousness, drive fin wet area and offset, etc.

Now this is just a preliminary study.

However, he stressed that the intelligence assessments were preliminary.

This still requires some preliminary paperwork.

So this is a drawing of my preliminary design.

The M.E. just sent some preliminary findings.

The assessment is based on the preliminary parameters.

So, this is more of a preliminary deal.

Preliminary investigations suggest that this was suicide.

Actually, our preliminary results give us a pretty good idea.

And preliminary research suggests the AIs are surprisingly accurate.