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| Concept: | Preparation. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; precursory measures |
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a bove majori discit arare minor; "looking before and after" [Hamlet], si vis pacem para bellum.
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| Antonyms: | nonpreparation |
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| Concept: | [Indefinite duration] Course. |
| Category: | 1. ABSOLUTE TIME |
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labitur et labetur [Horace]; truditur dies die [Horace]; fugaces labuntur anni [Horace]; "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day"
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| Concept: | Production. |
| Category: | 3. POWER IN OPERATION |
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ex nihilo nihil ["Nothing from nothing" (Latin)]; fiat lux ["Let there be light" (Latin)]; materiam superabat opus [Ovid]; nemo dat quod non habet
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| Antonyms: | destruction |
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| Concept: | Punctuality. |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to an effect or purpose |
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touch and go, not a minute too soon, in the nick of time, just under the wire, get on board before the train leaves the station.
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| Antonyms: | lateness; earliness |
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