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📄 An early paper 🚀 To share early 🕒 Before publication
to preprint

to preprint

1 5.8
To make and share a first version of a research paper before publication
  • verb
  • /ˈpriːprɪnt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : preimprimir

Synonyms

draft
vsto preprint
  • Specialized
245 3.7

An early version of a document or plan

is shared publicly before official release rather than kept for internal revision

How Published

to publish
∞ 3.3
to preprint
  • Specialized
1 5.8
draft
  • Specialized
245 3.7

Surface Forms

preprint infinitive
preprinted past
preprinted past participle
preprinting present participle
preprints third person singular

Morphology

preprint = print (semi-transparent) = pre + print

The prefix 'pre-' clearly signals 'before', but the current scholarly verb often means making a paper available online before publication, not literally printing it first.

Etymology

Preprint as a verb combines pre- 'before' and print 'to produce a copy', so to preprint something is to share an early version of a work before its official release.