Thread: What's the atonym for prefix?

Originally Posted by momo8

Originally Posted by DrB0b

postfix and suffix.

Suffix is the antonym for prefix, Latin.

Postfix is a free open source mail transfer agent (MTA), a computer program for the routing and delivery of email. It is intended as a fast, easy-to-administer, and secure alternative to the widely-used Sendmail MTA.

The good doc is having you on Scampy . Postfix is also another term for a Post-it.

Postfix is a mathematical term, suffix is linguistic. They have similar meanings but different contexts. The Postfix MTA is nothing like a post-it note, it's a large-scale email transport system like Sendmail, Exim, or Qmail. Momo, your google skills are weak

I owe you several reds for your misinformation and imputations.

Postscript (Philippines):

Porgot Sumting.

27 Posts, not bad.

Originally Posted by Mister Fixit

Postfix? The only Postfix I know of is that ready-mixed rapid-hardening concrete mix available in the UK which you pour dry round your fence posts and then pour water over it. It sets in about 30-60 minutes.

Ready-Crete is the brand name in the states, as I recall...used for the same purpose

Originally Posted by CSFFan

Originally Posted by Mister Fixit

Postfix? The only Postfix I know of is that ready-mixed rapid-hardening concrete mix available in the UK which you pour dry round your fence posts and then pour water over it. It sets in about 30-60 minutes.

Ready-Crete is the brand name in the states, as I recall...used for the same purpose

Yes, I think I may have seen that in the UK, but there are a number of different brands.

One of the best brand names for concrete I can remember is 'Jim'll Mix It'

Originally Posted by Mister Fixit

Originally Posted by DrB0b

postfix and suffix.

Postfix? The only Postfix I know of is that ready-mixed rapid-hardening concrete mix available in the UK which you pour dry round your fence posts and then pour water over it. It sets in about 30-60 minutes.

It's suffix - there's no such word as postfix for the opposite to antonym as any fule kno.

Opposite to antonym, what are you on? Scampy was asking for an opposite to prefix. While you deserve some respect for the Molesworth reference you're still a fule! I can't believe how ignorant people have become over the last two or three decades, most depressing


English


[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpəʊst.fɪks/ SAMPA: /"p[at]Ust.fIks/
• (US) IPA: /ˈpoʊstfɪks/

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to postfix

Third person singular
postfixes

Simple past
postfixed

Past participle
postfixed

Present participle
postfixing

to postfix (third-person singular simple present postfixes, present participle postfixing, simple past and past participle postfixed)

1. (transitive) To suffix.
2. (biology) To subject a sample to postfixation

[edit] Noun

Singular
postfix

Plural
postfixes

postfix (plural postfixes)

1. Suffix.

postfix - Wiktionary

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Opposite to antonym, what are you on?

Oops!! Beer Chang, I think, when I wrote that!

I meant to type 'opposite to prefix' but obviously the brain cells were on strike at the time.

I have NEVER heard the term 'postfix' used in connection with affixing a suffix to a word. However, I appreciate your numerous references and will read them all. One learns something new every day.

Plainly my education was sadly lacking and you are a superior person. I grovel at your feet.

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

Originally Posted by fiscofrankie

Can nouns even have an antonym? Is 'We' an antonym to 'They?' 'Him' to 'I?' But, those are pronouns; what is the antonym to 'Blue?' Is blue a noun or an adjective?

YOu can't atonomize (is that a word?) certain words because it's meaning is quite simple, an atonym is the opposite meaning, that of happy being sad, hot being cold or strong being weak - for want of better examples at 5am.

Therefore there is no atonym to "we', 'They', or 'I' just as there is no atonym to 'penguin', 'hovercraft' or 'laryngitis' so no, nouns can't have atonyms.

So, 'mountain' isn't the opposite to valley then, or sea isn't opposite to 'desert' - although I do take your point. Nouns don't strictly take antonyms.

The even more pressing issue at hand, I believe to be; Is DrB0b a true doctor? And if he is, was his thesis and faculty of study 'Niggling Pedantry?'

'Dr' is just a prefix, he still goes to the toilet same as everybody else.

Yup, his shit stinks, same as everyone else's.

Originally Posted by Mr Fixit

So, 'mountain' isn't the opposite to valley then, or sea isn't opposite to 'desert'

Well... No not really.

So by your rationale, is 'fish' the atonym of 'bird'?

I hate it when Dr Bob is wrong. How many times is this 467 or 468?

Originally Posted by friscofrankie

In this case, is 'prefix' a noun or verb? looking at the dictionary, 'prefix' is most certainly listed as a 'noun.' To my thinking it is almost impossible to have a verb antonymous to a noun. Although I could see where some bright and otherwise intelligent fellow could use the word as a verb; "he prefixed every thing he said with the phrase, "you know." Or; "Let me prefix this statment with another."

Can nouns even have an antonym? Is 'We' an antonym to 'They?' 'Him' to 'I?' But, those are pronouns; what is the antonym to 'Blue?' Is blue a noun or an adjective?

I think before we can delve any further into this pressing issue, scampy must presnt, in three words or less, the context in which theantonimity is to be established.

Scamp, do not be fooled or befuddled by the good doctors belligerent defense of the poorly chosen obscure term "postfix." He is undeniably wrong and suffix is hte generally accpeted, and one true antonym to the word, 'prefix.'

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The even more pressing issue at hand, I believe to be; Is DrB0b a true doctor? And if he is, was his thesis and faculty of study 'Niggling Pedantry?'

Ah, niggling pedantry, a phrase oftrn used by those who are wrong to describe those who are right. Quite, quite shocking to note not only the limited vocabularies of some posters but also to see them defend those limited vocabularies as though ignorance was an achievement

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I just wasted 3.7 minutes of my life reading this thread.....

Just when you think a thread is about to die, it springs back into life again.

How can people get so worked up about a post-it?

Originally Posted by CharleyFarley

How can people get so worked up about a post-it?

yellow, aint they?

Originally Posted by DrAndy

bloody hell, all you pedants are wrong

a prefix is an addition to a word at the beginning, a suffix is an addition to a word at the end

the opposite of prefix is therefore a word that means " a subtraction to a word at the end"

is there one?

What about a refix? When you realise you've got your prefix and suffix mixed up and have to start (or end) your word again?

so what is a reflux then ?

signed.
confused in pattaya.

The word suffix contains a suffix

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by friscofrankie

In this case, is 'prefix' a noun or verb? looking at the dictionary, 'prefix' is most certainly listed as a 'noun.' To my thinking it is almost impossible to have a verb antonymous to a noun. Although I could see where some bright and otherwise intelligent fellow could use the word as a verb; "he prefixed every thing he said with the phrase, "you know." Or; "Let me prefix this statment with another."

Can nouns even have an antonym? Is 'We' an antonym to 'They?' 'Him' to 'I?' But, those are pronouns; what is the antonym to 'Blue?' Is blue a noun or an adjective?

I think before we can delve any further into this pressing issue, scampy must presnt, in three words or less, the context in which theantonimity is to be established.

Scamp, do not be fooled or befuddled by the good doctors belligerent defense of the poorly chosen obscure term "postfix." He is undeniably wrong and suffix is hte generally accpeted, and one true antonym to the word, 'prefix.'

Thread locked.

The even more pressing issue at hand, I believe to be; Is DrB0b a true doctor? And if he is, was his thesis and faculty of study 'Niggling Pedantry?'

Ah, niggling pedantry, a phrase oftrn used by those who are wrong to describe those who are right. Quite, quite shocking to note not only the limited vocabularies of some posters but also to see them defend those limited vocabularies as though ignorance was an achievement

Or in your case, hubris a virtue.

I never had this down as a century thread.