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1. † again-, comb. form View full entry OE
...Against, in opposition to. Also: opposite (rare)....
2. agro-, comb. form View full entry 1893
...Forming esp. temporary and nonce-words with the sense ‘of or relating to agriculture’....
3. back-, comb. form View full entry ?c1225
...General senses in combination....
4. burn-, comb. form View full entry c1485
...With verb + object....
5. 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,...
6. check-, comb. form View full entry 1487
...Used attrib. ‘that serves to “check” or control’....
7. chryso-, comb. form View full entry 1612
...In general combinations and derivatives....
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. † cyne-, comb. form View full entry a1000
...in Old English = royal; occurring in many compounds, as cynehelm crown, cynestól throne, some of which are retained as technical terms by modern historians; e.g....
10. e-, comb. form View full entry 1990
...Forming terms relating to the publication or exchange of information in an electronic format, to be displayed on a computer screen or a hand-held device; as e-journal, e-publication,...
11. econo-, comb. form View full entry 1964
...Prefixed to adjectives, with the sense ‘economic and —’. Freq. in econo-political....
12. Euro-, comb. form View full entry 1850
...General uses. (Often spec. with reference to western or continental Europe.)...
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. macro-, comb. form View full entry 1821
...Forming terms (esp. in Biol. and Crystallogr.) in which macro- denotes relatively large size or the existence of smaller individuals, chiefly in contrast with similar words...
15. micro-, comb. form View full entry 1849
...Forming terms in which micro- indicates small (often microscopic) or relatively small size, freq. in contrast with related terms beginning with macro- or mega-....
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. -nomics, comb. form View full entry
...Forming a small number of nouns denoting the science or study of a subject specified by the first element....
18. pick-, comb. form View full entry c1400
...Forming nouns and adjectives, chiefly where the second element would be the object of the verb to pick....
19. poly-, comb. form View full entry 1607
...Used as a freely productive prefix, chiefly in scientific and technical use, with the senses ‘many, much’, ‘having, involving, containing, consisting of, etc., many’, where many variously connotes ‘two or...
20. slip-, comb. form View full entry 1521
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