FORMER

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former¹ s.

1. creator, fondator; autor.

2. (ferov.) şef de manevră (însărcinat cu formarea garniturilor).

3. (tehn.) ceea ce dă formă; şablon, model, tipar etc.

4. (poligr.) zeţar.

5. (electr.) şablon de înfăşurare / bobinaj.

former² adjectiv

anterior, precedent; de altădată, de odinioară, vechi, (din) trecut;

in former times odinioară, de demult;

the former primul, precedentul, anteriorul (antonim the latter);

of the two methods I prefer the former din cele două metode eu o prefer pe prima.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

And having, I suppose, carried her point, she tapped the Doctor's hand several times with her fan (which she kissed first), and returned triumphantly to her former station.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

For worlds would not I have had a letter of hers seen by YOU in former days.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

She had never been able to recall anything approaching to tenderness in his former treatment of herself.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

When Mercury is retrograde, reconnecting with former contacts is where your greatest career luck will lie.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

They came quickly in and closed the door behind them, the former saying, as they moved along the hall:—It is all right.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

The Office of Communications encompasses the former Office of Cancer Communications, The Office of Liaison Activities, and the Office of Cancer Information, Communication and Education.

(Office of Communications, NCI Thesaurus)

My first conjecture was, that possibly there had been some passages between this young lady and the old soldier, which the former had now confessed to the wife.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Goal : to expand our understanding of tobacco addiction and the biological mechanisms underlying tobacco-induced cancers, develop ways to keep people of all ages from using tobacco, create interventions to prevent tobacco-related cancers in smokers and former smokers, and develop treatments for tobacco addiction and the cancers it causes.

(Extraordinary Opportunity: Research on Tobacco and Tobacco Related Cancers, NCI Thesaurus)

Then her kind friend the bird brought a dress still finer than the former one, and slippers which were all of gold: so that when she came to the feast no one knew what to say, for wonder at her beauty: and the king’s son danced with nobody but her; and when anyone else asked her to dance, he said, This lady is my partner, sir.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

It was after my return from one of these rambles that my father, calling me aside, thus addressed me, I am happy to remark, my dear son, that you have resumed your former pleasures and seem to be returning to yourself.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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