"preheat" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: preheats [present, singular, third-person], preheating [participle, present], preheated [participle, past], preheated [past]
Rhymes: -iːt Etymology: pre- + heat Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|pre|heat}} pre- + heat Head templates: {{en-verb}} preheat (third-person singular simple present preheats, present participle preheating, simple past and past participle preheated)
  1. (transitive) to heat something in preparation for further action, especially cooking Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Temperature Synonyms: foreheat Related terms: reheat Translations (to heat something in preparation for further action, especially cooking): preescalfar (Catalan), 預熱 (Chinese Cantonese), 预热 (jyu⁶ jit⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 預熱 (Chinese Mandarin), 预热 (yùrè) (Chinese Mandarin), forvarme (Danish), voorverwarmen (Dutch), esilämmittää (Finnish), préchauffer (French), vorheizen (German), preriscaldare (Italian), 予熱 (yonetsu) (alt: よねつ) (Japanese), 예열(豫熱)하다 (yeyeolhada) (Korean), preaquecer (Portuguese), pré-aquecer (Portuguese), precalentar (Spanish), förvärme (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "to heat something in preparation for further action, especially cooking",
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          "sense": "to heat something in preparation for further action, especially cooking",
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      "word": "esilämmittää"
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      "word": "préchauffer"
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      "sense": "to heat something in preparation for further action, especially cooking",
      "word": "vorheizen"
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      "sense": "to heat something in preparation for further action, especially cooking",
      "word": "preriscaldare"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to heat something in preparation for further action, especially cooking",
      "word": "preaquecer"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to heat something in preparation for further action, especially cooking",
      "word": "pré-aquecer"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to heat something in preparation for further action, especially cooking",
      "word": "precalentar"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to heat something in preparation for further action, especially cooking",
      "word": "förvärme"
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