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pre-form

pre-form is the alternative form of preform.

Meaning of preform

Noun

preform (plural preforms)

  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.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 130

See all 4 meanings of preform

Forms of pre-form

Noun
pluralpre-forms
Verb
third-person singular presentpre-forms
present participlepre-forming
past participlepre-formed
pastpre-formed

Questions about pre-form

What is pre-form the alternative form of?
Pre-form is the alternative form of preform.

Words near pre-form in the dictionary

  1. pre-fired
  2. pre-fires
  3. pre-firing
  4. pre-flop
  5. pre-flops
  6. pre-form
  7. pre-formed
  8. pre-forming
  9. pre-forms
  10. pre-fortis
  11. pre-furlough

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