to treat in advance or as part of a preliminary treatment
to pretreat wood before staining it
Derived forms
pretreatment
noun
Word origin
[1930–35; pre- + treat]This word is first recorded in the period 1930–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acoustic phonetics, cloverleaf, logical positivism, preset, saddle stitchpre- is a prefix occurring originally in loanwords from Latin, where it meant “before”(preclude; prevent); applied freely as a prefix, with the meanings “prior to,” “in advance of,” “early,”“beforehand,” “before,” “in front of,” and with other figurative meanings (preschool; prewar; prepay: preoral; prefrontal)
Examples of 'pretreat' in a sentence
pretreat
This paper proposes an approach to pretreat the potato straws.
An Yumin, Wang Jukui, Huang Ye, Xu Xiaomei 2016, 'Study on the Pretreating Approaches for the Potato Straws', MATEC Web of Conferenceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/20166004004. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Hot-alkali treatment was used to pretreat jute fabrics to improve their interfacial compatibility.
Xue Wang, Lulu Chang, Xiaolong Shi, Lihai Wang 2019, 'Effect of Hot-Alkali Treatment on the Structure Composition of Jute Fabrics and MechanicalProperties of Laminated Composites', Materialshttps://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/12/9/1386. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Herein, a mixed ball-milling method was used to pretreat cellulose with a solid catalyst.
Qiying Liu, Jin Tan, Chiliu Cai, Longlong Ma, Tiejun Wang 2016, 'Enhanced Sugar Alcohol Production from Cellulose by Pretreatment with Mixed Ball-Millingand Solid Acids', BioResourceshttp://ojs.cnr.ncsu.edu/index.php/BioRes/article/view/BioRes_11_1_1843_Liu_Enhanced_Sugar_Alcohol_Production_Cellulose. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Both catalysts can effectively pretreat low-quality oil feedstock for sustainable biodiesel production under a biorefinery scheme.
Hadi Rahimzadeh, Meisam Tabatabaei, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mortaza Aghbashlo, Hamed KazemiShariat Panahi, Alimorad Rashidi, Sayed Amir Hossein Goli, Mostafa Mostafaei, MehdiArdjmand, Abdul-Sattar Nizami 2018, 'Potential of Acid-Activated Bentonite and SO3H-Functionalized MWCNTs for BiodieselProduction From Residual Olive Oil Under Biorefinery Scheme', Frontiers in Energy Researchhttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fenrg.2018.00137/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The results showed that the fungicide treatments may be used to pretreat papaya seed for long-term storage and commercialization.
Silvia de Carvalho Campos Botelho, Silvaldo Felipe da Silveira, Roberto Ferreira daSilva, Alexandre Pio Viana 2014, 'Chemical treatment of papaya seeds aiming at long-term storage and control of dampingoff', Revista Cereshttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-737X2014000300013&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)