different between preposition vs procession

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English preposicioun, from Old French preposicion, from Latin praepositio, praepositionem, from praepono (“to place before”). Compare French préposition. So called because it is placed before the word with which it is phrased, as in a bridge of iron, he comes from town, it is good for food, he escaped by running.

Alternative forms

• præposition (archaic)

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr?p-?-z?sh'?n, IPA^(key): /?p??p??z???n/

Noun

preposition (plural prepositions)

1. (grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
2. (obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

Hypernyms

• (grammar, strict sense): adposition

Coordinate terms

• (grammar, strict sense): circumposition
• (grammar, strict sense): postposition

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• preverb

Etymology 2

pre- +? position

Alternative forms

• pre-position

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?i?p??z???n/

Verb

preposition (third-person singular simple present prepositions, present participle prepositioning, simple past and past participle prepositioned)

1. To place in a location before some other event occurs.

   It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.

Translations

Finnish

Noun

preposition

1. genitive singular of prepositio

Interlingua

Noun

preposition (plural prepositiones)

1. (grammar) A word that is used in conjunction with a noun or pronoun in order to form a phrase.

Swedish

Noun

preposition c

1. a preposition (part of speech)

Declension

Related terms

• prepositionell
• prepositionsadverbial
• prepositionsattribut
• prepositionsuttryck

References

• preposition in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Etymology

From Middle English processioun, borrowed from Old French pourciession, from Latin pr?cessi? (“a marching forward, an advance, in Late Latin a religious procession”), from pr?c?dere, past participle pr?cessus (“to move forward, advance, proceed”); see proceed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???s???n/
• Hyphenation: pro?ces?sion

Noun

procession (plural processions)

1. The act of progressing or proceeding.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Pearson to this entry?)
2. A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
   • 1914, Westways (volume 6, page 7)

     The final fifty miles of the race was a procession with little change in the relative positions of the cars […]

3. A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
4. (ecclesiastical, obsolete, in the plural) Litanies said in procession and not kneeling.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shipley to this entry?)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• -cade
• cavalcade
• cortege
• flypast
• march-past
• motorcade
• parade

Verb

procession (third-person singular simple present processions, present participle processioning, simple past and past participle processioned)

1. (intransitive) To take part in a procession.
2. (transitive, dated) To honour with a procession.
3. (transitive, law, US, North Carolina and Tennessee) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of (lands).
   • 1856, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, "PROCESSIONING", in A Law Dictionary and Glossary

     To procession the lands of such persons as desire it.

Synonyms

• process

Further reading

• procession in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• procession in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.