prewrite

Etymology

pre- + write

verb

  1. (transitive) 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.

noun

  1. 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
  2. (computing, databases) A write operation that is buffered instead of being applied directly to the database.

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