▸ 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.
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