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1. aero-, comb. form View full entry 1865
...With reference to air or the air....
2. argyr- | argyro-, comb. form View full entry 1599
...repr. Greek ἀργυρο- comb. form of ἄργυρ-ος silver. In numerous technical words....
3. blow-, comb. form View full entry 1530
...With adverbs, denoting actions; as See also blow-out, blow-up...
4. -buster, comb. form View full entry 1835
...Forming nouns denoting a person who or thing which ‘busts’ or breaks the first element (literally or figuratively), as belly-buster, knuckle-buster, rate-buster, skull-buster, etc....
5. -busting, comb. form View full entry 1761
...Forming adjectives designating something which bursts or breaks something denoted by the first element (literally or figuratively), as belly-busting, brain-busting, heart-busting, tooth-busting, etc. Also...
6. check-, comb. form View full entry 1487
...Used attrib. ‘that serves to “check” or control’....
7. cross-, comb. form View full entry c1330
...General uses in combination....
8. cyber-, comb. form View full entry 1961
...Forming esp. temporary and nonce-words, as cybercubicle, cyberfeminist, cyberfriend, cyberlover, cybersnob, etc.; cyber-sheepishly adv....
9. drop-, comb. form View full entry 1578
...the verb-stem used in Comb....
10. ecclesiastico-, comb. form View full entry 1685
...combining form of Greek ἐκκλησιαστικός, as in ecclesiastico-conservativeecclesiastico-military...
11. Euro-, comb. form View full entry 1850
...General uses. (Often spec. with reference to western or continental Europe.)...
12. even-, comb. form View full entry c890
...In various senses of the adj. Chiefly in parasynthetic derivatives....
13. 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:...
14. hoplo-, comb. form View full entry 1649
...before a vowel hopl-, combining form of Greek ὅπλον weapon, piece of armour, or of ὁπλή hoof, as in Greekπλευρά rib, side, a...
15. mega-, comb. form View full entry 1868
...Forming scientific and technical terms with the sense ‘very large’, ‘comparatively large’, or (esp. in Pathol.) ‘abnormally large’, often having correlatives beginning micro-, and sometimes also synonyms beginning...
16. 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...
17. nitro-, comb. form View full entry 1663
...Containing, combined with, or involving nitre. Obs....
18. palaeo- | paleo-, comb. form View full entry 1798
...Ancient, old; of or belonging to ancient times, esp. in the geological or prehistoric past. (Often opposed to analogous words in neo-.)...
19. para-, comb. form View full entry 1940
...Forming nouns, with the senses ‘dropped by parachute; trained or equipped for descending by parachute; resembling or adapted from a parachute’....
20. photo-, comb. form View full entry 1859
...Of or relating to light....
