noun Download 🔗Share An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form. Examples : "The plastic bottle manufacturer creates a small, tube-shaped preform that is then heated and blown into the final bottle shape. " material technical process industry Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool. Examples : "The archaeologist carefully brushed away the dirt, revealing a flint preform, evidence that early humans had been working on a tool at this very spot. " archaeology material Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A word that is no longer in use, but has been reconstructed from current ones. Examples : "The linguist speculated that "helpen," meaning "helper," might be a preform of the modern word "help," suggesting a past where nouns and verbs weren't so strictly separated. " grammar linguistics word Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To shape something before some other operation. Examples : "Before blowing the glass, the artist must preform it into a small, rounded shape. " process technical industry machine function Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading