Associations to the word «Predate»

PREDATE, verb. To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)

PREDATE, verb. (transitive) To exist, or to occur before something else; to antedate (the more correct term for this usage.)

PREDATE, noun. A publication, such as a newspaper or magazine, that is issued with a printed date later than the date of issue.

PREDATE, verb. To prey upon something.

PREDATE, verb. Be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools".

PREDATE, verb. Come before; "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify".

PREDATE, verb. Prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs".

PREDATE, verb. Establish something as being earlier relative to something else.