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preheating

preheating is the present participle and gerund of preheat.

Meaning of preheat

Verb

preheat (third-person singular simple present preheats, present participle preheating, simple past and past participle preheated)

  1. (transitive) To heat beforehand or in advance, to heat something in preparation for further action.
    • to preheat the oven for the casserole
    Synonyms:
    foreheat

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Questions about preheating

What is preheating the present participle and gerund of?
Preheating is the present participle and gerund of preheat.

Words near preheating in the dictionary

  1. preheat
  2. preheatable
  3. preheated
  4. preheater
  5. preheaters
  6. preheating
  7. preheats
  8. Preheim
  9. prehellenic
  10. preheminence
  11. prehemiplegic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: preheating (page history and authors); preheat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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