Forerunner vs Precursory - What's the difference?
forerunner | precursory |
a runner at the front or ahead
(sport) by extension, a non-competitor who leads out the competitors on to the circuit, or who runs/rides the course prior to competitor trials, usually testing or checking the way.
a precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead
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a forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor
(philately) a postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own
something that introduces a part of the properties offered by some later thing.
Pertaining to events that will follow.
Of or pertaining to a precursor.
(medicine) A precursor; a sign of the onset of something.
As nouns the difference between forerunner and precursory
is that forerunner is a runner at the front or ahead while precursory is (medicine) a precursor; a sign of the onset of something.As an adjective precursory is
pertaining to events that will follow.forerunner
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Noun
(en noun)- Bakelite is a forerunner of today's plastics.
precursory
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Adjective
(-)- precursory symptoms of a fever