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Preamble vs Forerunner - What's the difference?

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Preamble is a related term of forerunner.


As nouns the difference between preamble and forerunner

is that preamble is a short preliminary statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute while forerunner is a runner at the front or ahead.

preamble

English

(wikipedia preamble)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A short preliminary statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute.
  • (computing) A syncword.

    • forerunner

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • * '>citation
  • 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.
    • Bakelite is a forerunner of today's plastics.