prewrite

verb, noun — 3 senses

prewrite

verb

Etymology From pre- + write.

To make a first draft of ideas and format for an essay, thesis, article, or book as a plan for the actual writing.

Some students, due to anxiety, skip the most important first step, which is to prewrite the thesis, and jump into the middle of the project, which is a fatal error.

Derived terms: prewriter

prewrite

noun

Etymology From pre- + write.

A first draft of a script, etc.

The result has been that many professional screenwriters have felt obliged to undertake free drafts and prewrites […]2017, Daniel Bernardi, Julian Hoxter, Off the Page: Screenwriting in the Era of Media Convergence, page 82:

Computing, Databases, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A write operation that is buffered instead of being applied directly to the database.

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