different between prelude vs outset

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?ts?t/

Etymology 1

From out- +? set, replacing earlier outsetting.

Noun

outset (plural outsets)

1. The beginning or initial stage of something. [from 1759]

   He agreed and understood from the outset, so don't bother explaining again.

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “outset”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Etymology 2

From out- +? set.

Verb

outset (third-person singular simple present outsets, present participle outsetting, simple past and past participle outset)

1. (Internet, CSS, transitive) To cause (a design element) to extend around the outside of something else, the opposite of being inset.

Anagrams

• Stoute, Tetsuo, set out, setout