earliness
早期,早期性,尽早,早期阶段
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Definitions
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ear·li·er, ear·li·est.
- : in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: early in the year.
- : in the early part of the morning: to get up early.
- : before the usual or appointed time; ahead of time: They came early and found their hosts still dressing.
- : far back in time: The Greeks early learned to sail and navigate.
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ear·li·er, ear·li·est.
- : occurring in the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: an early hour of the day.
- : occurring before the usual or appointed time: an early dinner.
- : belonging to a period far back in time: early French architecture.
- : occurring in the near future: I look forward to an early reply.
Phrases
- early bird catches the worm
- early on
- early to bed, early to rise (makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise)
- bright and early
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Working two guided trips a summer could earn early guides enough to buy a few more cows and raise the quality of life of an entire extended family.
They pointed to an earlier message McCoy posted prior to his apology giving a different reason for deleting his post about obese people.
The earlier proposal called for a 25,599-square-foot building.
To find the case assignments that went to ineligible attorneys, we compared the assignment date to the earliest date that an attorney appeared on a list in any court in the state.
In the earlier cold snap, the grid was pushed to the limit and rolling blackouts swept the state, spurring an angry Legislature to order a study of what went wrong.
When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.
It’s cool because Trenchmouth opened for Green Day in the early ‘90s in Wisconsin.
At first—it was the early stages of reporting—I was amused at having been so crassly underestimated.
Early on, the sexual protagonist complains that her Molson-drinking husband is pretty much an incompetent Neanderthal.
Detectives with a fugitive task force caught up with Polanco and a friend on a Bronx street in the early afternoon.
The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.
In the early stages of chronic nephritis, when diagnosis is difficult, it is usually normal.
He was in early life a shipcarpenter, and subsequently American consul at Antwerp.