different between multilateral vs prelude

English

Etymology

multi- +? lateral

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æt???l

Adjective

multilateral (not comparable)

1. Having many sides or points of view.
2. (politics) Involving three or more parties or nations.

   a multilateral negotiation

Translations

Noun

multilateral (plural multilaterals)

1. (politics) A group with representatives from three or more parties or nations.

Portuguese

Etymology

multi- +? lateral

Adjective

multilateral m or f (plural multilaterais, comparable)

1. multilateral (having many sides or points of view)
2. multilateral (involving more than one party)

Further reading

• “multilateral” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French multilatéral

Adjective

multilateral m or n (feminine singular multilateral?, masculine plural multilaterali, feminine and neuter plural multilaterale)

1. multilateral

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

multi- + lateral

Adjective

multilateral (plural multilaterales)

1. multilateral

English

Alternative forms

• prælude (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French prélude (“singing to test a musical instrument”), from Medieval Latin preludium, from Latin prael?dere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??l(j)u?d/, /?p?e?l(j)u?d/, /?p?i?lu?d/

Noun

prelude (plural preludes)

1. An introductory or preliminary performance or event.

   Synonym: preface

2. (music) A short, free-form piece of music, originally one serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece; later, starting with the Romantic period, generally a stand-alone piece. [from 1650s]

   Synonyms: intrada, overture

3. (programming) A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program.
   • 2018, Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, The Rust Programming Language, No Starch Press (?ISBN), page 232:

     In the same way that Rust has a general prelude that brings certain types and functions into scope automatically, the std::io module has its own prelude of common types and functions you'll need when working with I/O.

4. (figuratively) A forerunner to anything.

Synonyms

• forestory

Translations

Verb

prelude (third-person singular simple present preludes, present participle preluding, simple past and past participle preluded)

1. To introduce something, as a prelude.
2. To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.
   • 1829, Francis Jeffrey, "Heman's Poems", in The Edinburgh Review October 1829

     We are preluding too largely, and must come at once to the point.

References

Italian

Verb

prelude

1. third-person singular present indicative of preludere

Anagrams

• puledre