Prelude vs Starter - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between prelude and starter

is that prelude is an introductory or preliminary performance or event; a preface while starter is someone who starts something.

is to introduce something, as a prelude.

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(en noun)

An introductory or preliminary performance or event; a preface.

(music) A short piece of music that acts as an introduction to a longer piece.

(prelud)

To introduce something, as a prelude.

To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.

* Sir Walter Scott

The musicians preluded on their instruments.

* Jeffrey

We are preluding too largely, and must come at once to the point.

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(en noun)

Someone who starts something.

a starter on a journey

# The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag

# (baseball) A starting pitcher.

Something that starts something.

It's small, but it's a good starter house.

# An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine

# A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp

# A yeast culture used to start a fermentation process

The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.

(team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.

A dog that rouses game.

* (first course of a meal) hors d’oeuvre

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