"preheat" meaning in English

See preheat in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /priːˈhiːt/ Forms: preheat [canonical], preheats [third-person, singular], preheated [past], preheated [past, participle], preheating [present, participle]
Etymology: pre- + heat Etymology templates: {{ety-prefix|pre|heat}} pre- + heat Head templates: {{verb}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you preheat something, you heat it in preparation for further action.
    Sense id: simple-preheat-en-verb-pM7m0cax
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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