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Substantiivi

1. An introductory or preliminary performance or event.
2. (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.
3. (programming) A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program.
4. (figurative) A forerunner to anything.

Verbi

1. To introduce something, as a prelude.
2. To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.