PREPOSITION

preposition

Noun

  1. Any of a closed class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
  2. A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

Verb

  1. To place in a location before some other event occurs.
    It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.


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