Earlier used to describe any five-line form, it now refers to one of several forms that are defined by specific rules and guidelines.

Earlier forms of English included the sound as gh ( compare Scots bricht with English bright ).

A similar thing is found in England, where the preponderance of elongated microliths, as opposed to other frequently occurring forms, has permitted the Mesolithic to be separated into two phases: the Earlier Mesolithic of about 8300 – 6700 BCE, or the ancient and laminar Mesolithic, and the Later Mesolithic, or the recent and geometric Mesolithic.

Earlier in the century David Hume had argued against notions of design with counter examples drawn from monstrosity, imperfect forms of testimony and probability, and it has been assumed that Paley could not have read Hume.

Earlier jazz styles typically were built on a framework of song forms, such as the twelve-bar blues or the 32-bar AABA popular song form, with a set framework of chord changes.

Earlier in his career, Festinger explored the various forms that social groups can take and showed, together with Schachter and Back, " how norms are clearer, more firmly held and easier to enforce the more dense a social network is.

Earlier forms of email addresses included the somewhat verbose notation required by X. 400, and the UUCP " bang path " notation, in which the address was given in the form of a sequence of computers through which the message should be relayed.

Earlier traditional forms and procedures such as the quodlibet, medley, potpourri, and centonization differ from collage in that the various elements in them are made to fit smoothly together, whereas in a collage clashes of key, timbre, texture, meter, tempo, or other discrepancies are important in helping to preserve the individuality of the constituent elements and to convey the impression of a heterogeneous assemblage.

Earlier forms of this ensemble sometimes included flute, clarinet and guitar.

Earlier, M. G. Ramachandran had tried to adapt the film's story to silver screen with himself playing the role Vallavaraiyan Vandiyadevan, Vyjayanthimala as Kundavai, Gemini Ganesan as Arulmozhi Varman in the lead with Padmini as Vaanathi, Savitri as Poonguzhali, Saroja Devi as Manimekalai, M. N. Rajam as Nandhini, Nagesh as Sundara Chozhan, T. S. Balaiah as Azhvarkadiyan and M. N. Nambiar as Chinna Pazhuvettarayar forms an ensemble cast.

Earlier works had attempted to summarize the semantic differences under the vague ( though preliminarily useful ) rubric of the “ Iconicity Principle ” ( see Huang and Su ( 2005 ) for a succinct discussion ), which basically posits a correlation between the degree of formal compactness of the linguistic material encoding the causative macroevent and the perceived directness of the relationship between causing event () and caused event (): i. e., shorter forms, on the whole, were posited to encode more direct causation than longer forms, as in the classic English I killed him.

Earlier forms include The Massachusetts Game of baseball, which was similar to rounders, and one old cat and two old cat.

Earlier attested forms that the adapted name took include Huycholopuzco, Ocholopusco, Ochoroposco, Uchilubusco, and Chulibusco.

Earlier, Marston Morse and Hassler Whitney initiated and René Thom developed a parallel theory of stability for differentiable maps, which forms a key part of singularity theory.

Earlier, this woman had been so filled with a chaotic variety of introjects that at times, when she was in her room alone, it would sound to a passerby as though there were several different persons in the room, as she would vocalize in various kinds of voice.

Earlier than 900 CE progressing past the 13th century, the population complexes were a major center of culture for the Ancient Pueblo Peoples.

Earlier still, racquets were made of wood.

Earlier in the history of chemistry substances were given name by their discoverer, which often led to some confusion and difficulty.

Earlier French demands for the country to hold a National Conference resulted in the gathering of 750 delegates representing political parties ( which were legalized in 1992 ), the government, trade unions and the army to discuss the creation of a pluralist democratic regime.

Earlier censuses were taken in 1872 ( the first ), 1900, 1920, 1941, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1991, 2000 and 2010.

Earlier censuses were taken in 1869, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910, 1921, 1930, 1950, 1961, 1970, 1980, 1991 and 2001.

Earlier British clipper ships had become known as extreme clippers, and were considered to be " as sharp as the American " built ships.

Earlier, such terms were introduced in the Maxwell – Stefan diffusion equation.

Earlier in December 2005, the European Commission initiated the second stage of infringement proceedings against the British Government relating to Gibraltar ’ s failure to transpose five European Union directives on electronic communications, but these were closed after the relevant legislation was passed into law by the House of Assembly in June 2006.

Earlier in the 20th century, taller retaining walls were often gravity walls made from large masses of concrete or stone.

Earlier sanctuaries, whose dedication to Hera is less secure, were of the Mycenaean type called " house sanctuaries ".

Earlier, in the 1920s, there were records by a band called the Beverly Hillbillies.

Earlier Khoisan populations were absorbed by Bantu peoples, such as the Sotho and Nguni, but the Bantu expansion stopped at the region with winter rainfall.

Earlier buildings were made of wood and were destroyed.

Earlier meetings of groups that later formed the Republican Party were held in Ripon, Wisconsin ; Exeter, New Hampshire ; and Crawfordsville, Iowa, and all four cities bill themselves as the " Birthplace of the Republican Party.

Earlier curved sword designs similar to the katana were used in China such as the Zhanmadao.

Earlier definitions were less precise, defining molecules as the smallest particles of pure chemical substances that still retain their composition and chemical properties.

Earlier fleets were obtained from Europe and China, but a trade embargo has forced North Korea to build their own vehicles.

Earlier, the guilds of writers had denounced the printing press as " the Devil's Invention ", and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society with the first Gutenberg press in Istanbul that was established by the Sephardic Jews of Spain in 1493 ( who had migrated to the Ottoman Empire a year earlier, escaping from the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.

Earlier androids were easier to detect because of their limited intelligence.

Earlier CD-i games included entries in popular Nintendo franchises, although those games were not developed by Nintendo.

Earlier modes were telegraphy ( Morse Code ), teleprinter ( Baudot ) and facsimile.

Earlier rendering algorithms, such as Whitted-style ray tracing were capable of computing effects such as reflections, refractions, and shadows, but despite being highly global phenomena, these effects were not commonly referred to as " global illumination.

Earlier 10th through 12th century sources refer to " long swords " that while a common medieval term or orthography for naginata, could also simply be referring to conventional swords ; one source describes a naginata being drawn with the verb nuku, commonly associated with swords, rather than hazusu, the verb otherwise used in medieval texts for unsheathing naginata.

The Luoshu and the River Chart ( Hetu, sometimes associated with the Earlier Heaven bagua ) are linked to astronomical events of the sixth millennium BC, and with the Turtle Calendar from the time of Yao.

Earlier monuments associated with a later henge might include Neolithic monuments such as a cursus ( e. g., at Thornborough Henges the central henge overlies the cursus ) or a long barrow such as the West Kennet Long Barrow at Avebury, Wiltshire, or even, as in the case of Stonehenge, Mesolithic post holes.

Earlier church fathers were also associated with apostles: Clement with Peter ( associated closely with Rome ) and with Paul ( as the Clement Paul wrote about in Philippians 4: 3 ), Papias and Polycarp with John ( associated with Asia Minor ).

Earlier studies that perhaps paternal sharing of HLA genes would be associated with increased pregnancy loss have not been confirmed.

Earlier, he was associated with Shri Ram Centre, New Delhi as the artistic director.