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1. by-, comb. form View full entry c1330
...A Middle English variant spelling of the prefix bi-, be-, under which see most of the words, as, under be-, bycause, bydene,...
2. cram-, comb. form View full entry 1382
...compare cram2, cram1....
3. -former, comb. form View full entry 1869
...In schools, a member of a specified class or form, as sixth-former....
4. half-, comb. form View full entry c893
...With adjectives and pa. pples. Already in Old English: see above. Very common in later use, esp. with pa. pples., to which half- may be prefixed whenever the sense suits:...
5. ill-, comb. form View full entry c1480
...General uses....
6. multi-, comb. form View full entry 1647
...Forming parasynthetic adjectives, with the sense ‘more than one, several, many’. From the adjectives are formed adverbs (e.g. multiserially) and nouns (e.g. multicellularity). Some formations of this kind...
7. pluri-, comb. form View full entry 1762
...Forming chiefly adjectives with the sense ‘several, more than one’. Frequently indicating the presence or involvement of more than one of the thing denoted by the second element....
8. tachy-, comb. form View full entry 1842
...combining form of Greek ταχύς swift, used in the formation of some scientific terms. Germantachhydrit (Rammelsberg 1856), contr. for *tachyhydrit, Greekὕδωρ, a chloride of...
9. tele-, comb. form View full entry 1860
...(Before a vowel properly tel-, but more often in the full form), repr. Greek τηλε-, combining form of τῆλε afar, far off; used in numerous (chiefly...
10. whip-, comb. form View full entry a1529
...Combinations of the n....
