PREFORM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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