preheat

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-

Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-i

Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?

Proto-Italic *prai

Proto-Italic *prai-

Latin prae-lbor.

Middle English pre-

English pre-

English heat

English preheat

From pre- + heat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹiːˈhiːt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːt

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.

   Synonym: (less frequent) foreheat

   to preheat the oven for the casserole

   to preheat the spare room for the guests

Derived terms

• preheatable
• preheater

Related terms

• reheat

Translations

to heat something in preparation for further action

• Catalan: preescalfar
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 預熱 / 预热 (jyu⁶ jit⁶)

  Mandarin: 預熱 / 预热 (zh) (yùrè)

• Danish: forvarme
• Dutch: voorverwarmen (nl)
• Finnish: esilämmittää
• French: préchauffer (fr)
• German: vorheizen (de)
• Greek: προθερμαίνω (el) (prothermaíno)
• Italian: preriscaldare
• Japanese: 予熱 (よねつ, yonetsu)
• Korean: 예열(豫熱)하다 (yeyeolhada)
• Portuguese: preaquecer (pt), pré-aquecer
• Spanish: precalentar
• Swedish: förvärme

Noun

preheat (uncountable)

1. The act of heating before another process.
   • 1964, Plastics Technical Evaluation Center (U.S.), ‎Arthur H. Landrock, Fluidized-bed Coating with Plastics: Technology and Potential Military Applications (page 118)

     The ratio of preheat to postheat is often important and can produce significant differences in speed and economy of coating and in the end result. The authors show the relationship between these variables for a vinyl coating powder on objects of varying mass.

Anagrams

• reapeth