preform

English

Etymology 1

From pre- +‎ form.

Noun

preform (plural preforms)

  1. An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.
  2. (archaeology) The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.
  3. (linguistics) A word that is no longer in use, but has been reconstructed from current ones.
    • 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 130:
      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

preform (third-person singular simple present preforms, present participle preforming, simple past and past participle preformed)

  1. To shape something before some other operation.

Etymology 2

Verb

preform

  1. Misspelling of perform.

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