Froma- +head. Perhaps originally a nautical term, "beyond thehead (of a ship)", then drifting into more general English usage where it is used to describe something as being "in front of".
ahead (notcomparable)
- At or towards thefront; in the direction one is facing or moving.
The island was directlyahead.
Justahead you can see the cliffs.
Keep going straightahead.
- So as to be further advanced, either spatially or in an abstract sense; to be superior.
He finished two lapsahead of me.
In all of his classes Jack wasahead.
- In or for the future.
There may be tough timesahead.
You've got to thinkahead so as not to be unprepared.
- To a later time.
Set the clockahead an hour.
Push the deadlineahead a day, from the 20th to the 21st.
1995, Charles Edward Weber,Stories of Virtue in Business, University Press of America,→ISBN, page55:Then the customer would set a rebidding deadlineahead a month - for example from September 1 to October 1 - and give everybody four weeks to submit[…]
1998, United States House Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture,Implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, June 25, 1998, page46:When we saw that wasn't working in 1976, we moved the deadlineahead to 1978.
- At an earlier time;beforehand;in advance.
He paid his rentahead.
- To an earlier time.
Push the deadlineahead a day, from the 21st to the 20th.
1985,Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, volume43, page606:[…] committees in Congress hae a March 15 deadline for reporting their "views and estimates" to the budget committees. The Senate Republican leadership, eager to get a jump on the annual budget process, moved the deadlineahead to March 1 for Senate committees.
2003, United States House Committee on Government Reform,Smooth Sailing Or an Impending Wreck?: The Impact of New Visa and Passport Requirements on Foreign Travel to the United States : Hearing Before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, July 10, 2003, page113:[…] the Department is responding to the statutory requirement in the USA Patriot Act that moved the deadlineahead to 2003 from 2007.
in or to the front
- Bulgarian:отпред (bg)(otpred),напред (bg)(napred)
- Catalan:en front de,al davant de,davant (ca)
- Chickasaw:ímmayya
- Dutch:voor ons,vooruit (nl),voorop (nl)
- Erzya:икелепеле(ikelepele)
- Esperanto:antaŭe (eo)
- Finnish:edellä (fi),edessä (fi)
- French:devant (fr)
- German:vorn (de),voraus (de)
- Italian:avanti (it)
- Japanese:先に (ja)(さきに, saki ni)
- Mirandese:alantre
- Navajo:alą́ąjįʼ
- Polish:z przodu (pl)
- Portuguese:à frente (pt)(in the front),parafrente(to the front)
- Romanian:înainte (ro),în fața
- Russian:вперёд (ru)(vperjód)(where to),впереди́ (ru)(vperedí)(where)
- Spanish:al frente de,delante de,adelante (es)
- Ukrainian:впере́д(vperéd),попе́реду(popéredu)
- Zazaki:raver
- ǃXóõ:ǂhàã
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so as to be further advanced
Translations to be checked
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