Unborn vs Preform - What's the difference?
unborn | preform |
not yet born; yet to come; future.
not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
existing without birth or beginning.
(countable) A single offspring at any stage of gestation.
* 2009 , Catherine Playoust & Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, "The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature", in Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture (eds. Vanessa R. Sasson & Jane Marie Law), Oxford University Press (2009), ISBN 9780195380040,
(uncountable) offspring collectively.
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.
As nouns the difference between unborn and preform
is that unborn is (countable) a single offspring at any stage of gestation while preform is an object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.As an adjective unborn
is not yet born; yet to come; future.As a verb preform is
to shape something before some other operation.unborn
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(wikipedia unborn)Adjective
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- Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal.
- Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn .