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PREFORM
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they preform ... he / she / it preforms
Past simple: preformed
Past participle: preformed
-ing form: preforming
Sense 1
Meaning:
Form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "preform" is one way to...):
forge; form; mold; mould; shape; work (make something, usually for a specific function)
Verb group:
preform (form into a shape resembling the final, desired one)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
preformation (a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Form into a shape resembling the final, desired one
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "preform" is one way to...):
forge; form; mold; mould; shape; work (make something, usually for a specific function)
Verb group:
preform (form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
