Preform

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.
  2. 2
    The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.
  3. 3
    A word that is no longer in use, but has been reconstructed from current ones.

    "Trask notes that Bq. gorosti could have had *goloztri as a pre-form, in which case the presence of -r- in the Sardinian forms might be original."

Verb
  1. 1
    To shape something before some other operation.
  2. 2
    Misspelling of perform. alt-of, misspelling
  3. 3
    form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand wordnet
  4. 4
    form into a shape resembling the final, desired one wordnet

Example

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"Trask notes that Bq. gorosti could have had *goloztri as a pre-form, in which case the presence of -r- in the Sardinian forms might be original."

Etymology

From pre- + form.

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