Example sentences for: prefix

How can you use “prefix” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A word thus formed by breaking up an existing combining form, prefix, root, or suffix should also have a name.

  • One of the oldest, tidiest and least ambiguous methods of verbification is to take a noun and put it to work, either by adding a prefix or suffix as in simplify in the paragraph above, or by merely activating an unadorned and unaffixed substantive, as in streamline .

  • Krämer was a small-scale merchant, the prefix Mandel - usually indicated a trader in almonds, and Bernstein is the German word for `amber,' a semiprecious stone traded along routes which stretched from the Middle East up through Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania.

  • 14-15 of the same issue), where, without getting involved in complicated matters, the author explains almost fifty Greek-related English words just by nothing a prefix and various stems.

  • Prefix almost qualifies; at least it illustrates a prefix.


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