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Preparation   /prˌɛpərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Preparation

noun
1.
The activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose.  Synonym: readying.
2.
A substance prepared according to a formula.  Synonym: formulation.
3.
The cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening.  Synonyms: planning, provision.
4.
The state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action).  Synonyms: preparedness, readiness.  "Their preparation was more than adequate"
5.
(music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord.
6.
Activity leading to skilled behavior.  Synonyms: grooming, training.
7.
Preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home).  Synonyms: homework, prep.
8.
The act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.  Synonyms: cookery, cooking.  "People are needed who have experience in cookery" , "He left the preparation of meals to his wife"



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"Preparation" Quotes from Famous Books



... has encouraged me in the preparation of this new edition to make use of all the latest experience, to bring out with additional clearness essential points, and ...
— Cavalry in Future Wars • Frederick von Bernhardi
... signified little, for by that time the whole town was in an uproar of active preparation ...
— The Pirate City - An Algerine Tale • R.M. Ballantyne
... upon them! Let 'em go drown like Pip, that jumped from a whale-boat. Shame! shame! During all this, Queequeg lay with closed eyes, as if in a dream. Pip was led away, and the sick man was replaced in his hammock. But now that he had apparently made every preparation for death; now that his coffin was proved a good fit, Queequeg suddenly rallied; soon there seemed no need of the carpenter's box: and thereupon, when some expressed their delighted surprise, he, in substance, said, that the cause of his ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville
... who has not had a hand in the preparation of such an affair can understand the manifold difficulties which Miss Thorne encountered in her project. Had she not been made throughout of the very finest whalebone, riveted with the best Yorkshire steel, she must have sunk under them. Had not Mr. Plomacy felt how much was justly expected ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... For, or in preparation for; to provide for. Compare Genesis xliii. 25: "And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon." And Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream," ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin


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