Prefix

Entertainment / Literature / Prefix: A morpheme added to the beginning of a word. For instance, the prefix re- can be added to the word play to create the word replay.
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Speech Prefix

Entertainment / Literature / Speech Prefix: Often abbreviated 's.p.,' this term in drama refers to a character's name or an abbreviated version of a character's name which indicates what actor is speaking subsequent words in the text of a play. MORE

Email Prefix

Technology / Email / Email Prefix: The portion of the email address to the left of the @ sign. MORE

Prequel

Entertainment / Literature / Prequel: A novel, play, film, or other narrative usually written after the popular success of an earlier work but set before the events in that successful earlier work, and incorporating characters, settings, MORE

Morpheme

Entertainment / Literature / Morpheme: Linguistically, the smallest collection of sounds or letters in a spoken or written word that has semiotic importance or significance--a unit of meaning that cannot be divided into tinier units of mea MORE

Affix

Entertainment / Literature / Affix: James Algeo defines an affix as 'a morpheme added to a baseor stem to modify its meaning' (311). If an affix is attached to the beginning of a stem (or base word), the affix is called a prefix. If an MORE

For-At

Business / Finance / For-At: A prefix to a security price indicating that the quote is for information purposes only, and not an offer to trade. MORE