verb
- to score or cut lines in something beforehand, especially to make it easier to fold or break later
Usage: technical
Examples
- The manufacturer will prescore the cardboard so customers can easily fold the box.
- Prescore the paper along the dotted line before attempting to tear it.
- The baker decided to prescore the bread dough to control where it would split during baking.
- Workers prescore the metal sheets to ensure clean breaks during assembly.
- The craft instructions say to prescore the heavy paper before making the final folds.