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preform

noun

Etymology

From pre- + form.

  1. derived from fōrma
  2. derived from forme
  3. inherited from forme
  4. prefixed as preform — “pre + form”

Definitions

  1. An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.

  2. The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.

  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.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To shape something before some other operation.

    2. Misspelling of perform.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for preform. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA