Predated vs Predates - What's the difference?
predated | predates |
(predate)
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".)
To exist, or to occur before something else; to antedate (the more correct term for this usage.)
A publication, such as a newspaper or magazine, that is issued with a printed date later than the date of issue.
To prey upon something.
As verbs the difference between predated and predates
is that predated is past tense of predate while predates is third-person singular of predate.As a noun predates is
plural of predate.predated
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*predate
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Etymology 1
From pre- 'before' + dateVerb
- The Japanese use of Pascal's Triangle predates its discovery by Blaise Pascal.