Definitions from Wiktionary (prelude)

▸ noun:  An introductory or preliminary performance or event.
▸ noun:  (music) A short, free-form piece of music, originally one serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece; later, starting with the Romantic period, generally a stand-alone piece.
▸ noun:  (programming) A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program.
▸ noun:  (figurative) A forerunner to anything.
▸ verb:  To introduce something, as a prelude.
▸ verb:  To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.
▸ Also see prelude

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