Starts the oven early

• Gets ready, as an oven
• Gives advance warming
• Prepares an oven, as for baking
• Warms in advance
• Prepares for cooking, as an oven
• Readies the oven
• Warms up ahead of time
• Prepares an oven before baking
• Readies an oven

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vb. (en-third-person singular of: preheat )