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  • 61first — [OE] As its st ending suggests, first was originally a superlative form. Its distant ancestor was Indo European *pro, denoting ‘before, in front’ (amongst whose other descendants to have reached English are prime and the prefix proto ). Its… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 62-first — [[t] fɜ͟ː(r)st[/t]] COMB in ADV: ADV after v first combines with nouns like head and feet to indicate that someone moves with the part that is mentioned pointing in the direction in which they are moving. He overbalanced and fell head first …

    English dictionary

  • 63first up — informal first of all. → first …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 64first — I. a. 1. Foremost, leading. 2. Chief, highest, principal, capital. 3. Earliest. 4. Primary, elementary, rudimentary. 5. Primitive, primeval, pristine. II. ad. In the first place, at the outset, in the beginning, first and foremost, before… …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 65first — See first, firstly, secondly …

    Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • 66FIRST — ● ►en sg. m. ►SECU Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams. Organisme de coordination des CERT et autres équipes de réaction aux incidents , créé en 1990. http://www.first.org …

    Dictionnaire d'informatique francophone

  • 67first up — The first run a horse has in a new campaign or preparation …

    Equestrian sports dictionary

  • 68FIRST — Fully Integrated Road Safety Technology (Anglais. En franc. = Technologie pleinement intégrée de sécurité routière). Concept global regroupant tous les facteurs de sécurité (active, passive, aux tiers). Chez BMW. Noter qu en anglais, first… …

    Sigles et Acronymes francais

  • 69First — kraigas statusas Aprobuotas sritis statyba apibrėžtis Šlaitinio stogo viršutinė horizontali šlaitų sankirtos briauna. atitikmenys: angl. ridge vok. First, m rus. конёк šaltinis Statybos techninis reglamentas STR 2.05.02:2008 „Statinių… …

    Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)

  • 70first — /fɜ:st/ noun a person or thing that is there at the beginning or earlier than others ● Our company was one of the first to sell into the European market …

    Dictionary of banking and finance