| 单词 | anterior |
| 释义 | anterior (once / 1662 pages) 1adjn 2adj The anterior of anything is the front — in humans, it's the area toward the head of the body, opposite of the posterior. Anterior can also refer to something that came before, as in "anterior to the discovery of vaccines." The word anterior is one of those words that are spelled the same in English today as they were in their Latin origins. It still has the same meaning — "former" or "before." You can remember that by remembering that the prefix ante- means "before." Emily Dickinson once wrote, "Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath." WORD FAMILYanterior: anteriority, anteriorly, anteriors USAGE EXAMPLESHe contemplated a career in the N.F.L., but he tore his anterior cruciate ligament in practice and never regained top form. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) He tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in 2013, and then suffered the same injury in his right knee in November 2015. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) So much for the theory that last year’s anterior cruciate ligament tear would slow down Rodgers’s preferred target. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1 1adj of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body Syn|Ant frontal belonging to the front part frontalof or adjacent to the forehead or frontal bone prefrontalanterior to a frontal structure frontrelating to or located in the front posterior located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure back, hind, hinderlocated at or near the back of an animal caudalsituated in or directed toward the part of the body from which the tail arises retralat or near or toward the posterior backrelated to or located at the back 2n a tooth situated at the front of the mouth 2his malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors Syn|Hypo|Hyper front tooth bucktooth a large projecting front tooth tooth hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense adj earlier in time Syn prior antecedent preceding in time or order |
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