Meaning & use
precool
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Meaning
verbtransitive
Cool something to a lower temperature before it is stored, used or processed further.
Grammar: Takes an object: precool the produce.
Patterns
- precool something
- precool something to a temperature
Farmers precool the strawberries before shipping them to stores.
You should precool the oven's cooling system before a long cycle.
She likes to precool the bedroom before she goes to sleep.
Word forms
| third person singular | precools |
|---|---|
| past tense | precooled |
| past participle | precooled |
| -ing form | precooling |
Common combinations
- precool the produce
- Workers precool the produce within an hour of harvest.
- precool the room
- The system can precool the room before guests arrive.
- precool the air
- A heat exchanger helps precool the air before it enters the engine.
- precool to
- Precool the bottles to four degrees before filling.
- precool the car
- Use the app to precool the car on a hot day.
Synonyms and how they differ
- chill
- Chill is a general word for making something cold, while precool says the cooling is a preparatory stage.
- refrigerate
- Refrigerate means to store something in a fridge, whereas precool describes cooling before the main storage or process.
- cool down
- Cool down is the everyday phrasal verb and has no sense of preparation, unlike precool.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: precool or precook?
precool vs precook
Precook means to cook food partly or fully ahead of time, while precool means to cool something ahead of time.
Practice
Growers precool fruit right after harvest in order to ____.
Choose one answer.
Cooling fruit early slows ripening and decay, which keeps it fresh for transport. Cooking and skin removal are unrelated to precooling.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “precool”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.