Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To shape or form beforehand.
- transitive verb To determine the shape or form of beforehand.
- noun An object that has been subjected to preliminary, usually incomplete shaping or molding before undergoing complete or final processing.
- noun Linguistics A reconstructed ancestral word or form.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form beforehand; execute or create previously.
- In biology, to determine beforehand the shape or form of; furnish the mold or model of (something afterward to take shape): as, bone preformed in cartilage; the fetal skeleton preforms that of the adult.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To form beforehand, or for special ends.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An object that has undergone
preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form. - noun archaeology The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.
- noun linguistics A
word that is no longer in use, but has beenreconstructed from current ones. - verb To
shape something before some other operation. - verb Common misspelling of
perform .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand
- verb form into a shape resembling the final, desired one
Etymologies
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Examples
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I've tried out and that's harder to do than just "preform" u know?
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Ordinary optical fibers are made from a "preform," a large cylinder of a single material that is heated up, drawn out, and then cooled.
cellular-news 2010
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The manufacturing breakthrough that made this possible is a system of drawing out a foot-long "preform" with millimeter-thick layers, into hundreds of meters of fiber with micron-thick layers.
Medgadget 2009
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- I am grateful these give me the opportunity to 'preform'.
I Was Born2Cree8 2009
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I am just looking for a good belt knife carry around in the outdoors and preform simple chores.
What are your thoughts on the Ka-Bar USMC fighting knife. What is the best blade length? 2010
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I am just looking for a good belt knife carry around in the outdoors and preform simple chores.
What are your thoughts on the Ka-Bar USMC fighting knife. What is the best blade length? 2010
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Today I will be auditioning for the role of Anita, and I will preform a selection from The Rejectionist titled "This Month In Queries" Then the director will say, "I've never read that play" and I'll be like, "Well, you should."
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For example, on his 2010 campaign, West hired a criminal motorcycle gang that had been indicted by the FBI for violent racketeering and attempted murder to preform security for campaign events.
Richard Allen Smith: No, Rep. West, That's Not How We Speak in the Military Richard Allen Smith 2011
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Inductees, referred to as "neophytes" by members, are traditionally required to sit at tables with long black table cloths, and, at least in last year's ceremony, are required to preform for the crowd.
Wall Street's Secret Society Elects New Members The Huffington Post 2011
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Inductees, referred to as "neophytes" by members, are traditionally required to sit at tables with long black table cloths, and, at least in last year's ceremony, are required to preform for the crowd.
Wall Street's Secret Society Elects New Members The Huffington Post 2011
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