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Ago vs Prior - What's the difference?

ago | prior |

As a symbol ago

is the iso 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for angola.

As a noun prior is

prior (high-ranking member of a monastery).

ago

English

Alternative forms

* ygo (obsolete), ygoe (obsolete), agon (obsolete), agone

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) Gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away.
    • in days ago'''/in days '''agone
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) Nearly gone; dead (used in )''

    • Usage notes

    * Usually follows the noun.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • In the past.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Damned if you don’t , passage=Two years ago a pair of scientists sparked fears of a devastating virus. [They] separately found ways to make a strain of bird flu called H5N1 more contagious. Critics fretted that terrorists might use this knowledge to cook up a biological weapon. American officials ordered that the papers be redacted. Further research was put on hold. But after much debate, the papers were published in full last year.}}

    Derived terms

    * long ago

    See also

    * (projectlink)

    References

    * G. A. Cooke, The County of Devon

    Statistics

    *

    Anagrams

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    prior

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of that which comes before, in advance.
    • I had no prior knowledge you were coming.
  • former, previous
    • His prior residence was smaller than his current one.

    Usage notes

    The etymological antonym is (m) (from Latin) (compare (m)/(m) for “first/last”). This is now no longer used, however, and there is no corresponding antonym. Typically either (m) or (m) are used, but these form different pairs – (m)/(m) and (m)/(m) – and are more formal than prior . When an opposing pair is needed, these can be used, or other pairs such as (m)/(m) or (m)/(m).

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * prior to

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (colloquial) Previously.
    • The doctor had known three months prior .

    Noun

    (wikipedia prior) (en noun)
  • A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot.
  • * 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 53:
    • ‘And a little later we get the routine report on his prints from Washington, and he's got a prior back in Indiana, attempted hold-up six years ago.’
  • (statistics) In Bayesian inference, a prior probability distribution.