precursor

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Basit İngilizce açıklama: Something that comes before and leads to something else, or shows that it may happen.

• The bicycle was a precursor to the motorcycle.
• Small protests were precursors of a larger movement.
• A sudden drop in pressure can be a precursor to a storm.

Nasıl kullanılır: a precursor to/of something (These early machines were precursors to modern computers.)

Eş anlamlılar: forerunner, predecessor, harbinger

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: precursor to something, precursor of something, early precursor