prelude

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An introductory or preliminary performance or event.

   Adam Schiff, a Democratic senator from California, called it a “very dangerous escalation and a prelude to potential conflict”.

2. 2
   noun

   A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program.

   In the same way that Rust has a general prelude that brings certain types and functions into scope automatically, the std::io module has its own prelude of common types and functions you'll need when working with I/O.

3. 3
   noun

   A forerunner to anything.

   Swimmings of the head and intestinal pains seemed the prelude of dissolution.

4. 4
   verb

   To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.

   The musicians preluded on their instruments.

From Middle French prélude (“singing to test a musical instrument”), from Medieval Latin preludium, from Latin praelūdere.

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