To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.
simple past tense of bide
To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future.
A stop; a halting; delay.
An omen; a foreshadowing.
A herald; a messenger.
To introduce something, as a prelude.
To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.
An introductory or preliminary performance or event.
A forerunner to anything.
A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program.
A short, free-form piece of music, originally one serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece; later, starting with the Romantic period, generally a stand-alone piece.