Preorders vs partial orders - Clarification

You have it backwards - every partial order is a preorder, but there are preorders that are not partial orders (any non-antisymmetric preorder).

For example, the relation $\{(a,a), (a, b),(b,a), (b,b)\}$ is a preorder on $\{a, b\}$, but is not a partial order.

order relations are subset of pre order relations. For instance a relation kind of "prefer or indiferent" is reflexive and transitive, but is not antisymetric, so this is an example of pre order but not order. A relation like "bigger or equal" is reflexive, transitive and also antisymetric, so this relation is pre order (since it is reflexive and transitive) but also order.