Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
PREORDER
Etymology
Verb
preorder (third-person singular simple present preorders, present participle preordering, simple past and past participle preordered)
(transitive) To order (goods or services) in advance, before they are available.
(transitive) To sort or arrange beforehand.
Noun
preorder (plural preorders)
An order for goods or services placed in advance.
(set theory, order theory) A binary relation that is reflexive and transitive.
Synonyms
• (binary relation that is reflexive and transitive): quasiorder
Hyponyms
• (binary relation that is reflexive and transitive)
partial order
total order
well-order
Adjective
preorder (not comparable)
(computing theory, of a traversal of a tree) Such that, recursively, the root is visited before the left and right subtrees.
Coordinate terms
• inorder
• postorder
Hypernyms
• depth-first
Source: Wiktionary
Pre*or"der, v. t.
Definition: To order to arrange beforehand; to foreordain. Sir W. Hamilton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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