Perform or Preform - What's the difference?
perform | preform |
To do something; to execute.
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, title= To do something in front of an audience, often in order to entertain it.
* Shakespeare
An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.
(archaeology) The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.
(linguistics) A word that is no longer in use, but has been reconstructed from current ones.
To shape something before some other operation.
Preform is a anagram of perform.
As verbs the difference between perform and preform
is that perform is to do something; to execute while preform is to shape something before some other operation.As a noun preform is
an object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.perform
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(en verb)Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
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- Perform a part thou hast not done before.