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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
preheat
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
oven
▪ About 15 minutes before serving, preheat oven to 350 F.. Prepare an aromatic fire in a charcoal grill.
▪ Place in preheated 142 oven until skin is wrinkled and flesh is soft, 45 to 50 minutes.
▪ To prepare nuts, preheat oven to 400 F.. Bring water to a boil.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ About 15 minutes before serving, preheat oven to 350 F.. Prepare an aromatic fire in a charcoal grill.
▪ Light a hot fire in a charcoal grill or preheat a gas grill to medium high.
▪ Place in preheated 142 oven until skin is wrinkled and flesh is soft, 45 to 50 minutes.
▪ Prepare a fire in a charcoal grill, preheat oven to 450 F. or preheat broiler.
▪ Prepare a grill or preheat the broiler.
▪ Put a cookie sheet on the oven rack during preheating.
▪ To prepare nuts, preheat oven to 400 F.. Bring water to a boil.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
preheat

also pre-heat, 1878, from pre- + heat (v.). Related: Preheated; preheating.

Wiktionary
preheat

vb. (context transitive English) to heat something in preparation for further action, especially cooking

WordNet
preheat

v. heat beforehand; "Preheat the oven!"

Usage examples of "preheat".

Do not preheat oven bread has to rise for several hours before baking.

Make sure your rack is in the middle position and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Frenesi got out a couple of frozen, or with the state the fridge was in actually semithawed, peperoni pizzas, put the oven on to preheat, and made a fast salad while Flash opened beers and read off the names.

Pour filling over crust and bake in preheated oven for 1 hour, 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes or until firm to the touch and lightly golden around the edges.

While his electric arc sputtered its rain of minute drops, another worker close by plated another disk with granulated silver by-passed into an exoacetylene flame and thus blast-driven into the preheated surface.

After she had slipped the cake pan into the preheated oven, Cat walked back to the counter and picked up the mixing bowl.

After consulting with Janice, he whipped his preheated curling iron from a sort of holster mounted on the wall, and painstakingly arranged my hair in loose curls trailing down my back.

And because of the preheating it actually gets better mileage out of the engine.

The boiler feedwater, as had become standard practice, was preheated by being used as the cooling-water for the compression cylinders.

The oven was preheating and a large springform pan had already been buttered and floured.

After she had slipped the cake pan into the preheated oven, Cat walked back to the counter and picked up the mixing bowl.

From watching that man's torch, from the color of the flame and other indications, I gather that he uses a flame of atomic oxygen-atomic hydrogen for melting, and surrounds it with a preheating jacket of atomic hydrogen.

We keep the fire burning so we don’t have to spend time preheating the kiln.