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preparation
[ prep-uh-rey-shuhn ]
noun
- a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something:
preparations for a journey.
- any proceeding, experience, or the like considered as a mode of preparing for the future.
- an act of preparing.
- the state of being prepared.
- something prepared, manufactured, or compounded:
a special preparation for sunbathers.
- a specimen, as an animal body, prepared for scientific examination, dissection, etc.
- Music.
- the preparing of a dissonance, by introducing the dissonant tone as a consonant tone in the preceding chord.
- the tone so introduced.
- New Testament. the day before the Sabbath or a feast day.
- British. work done by students in preparation for class; homework.
- the Preparation, the introductory prayers of the Mass or other divine service.
preparation
/ ˌɛəˈɪʃə /
noun
- the act or process of preparing
- the state of being prepared; readiness
- often plural a measure done in order to prepare for something; provision
to make preparations for something
- something that is prepared, esp a medicinal formulation
- esp in a boarding school
- homework
- the period reserved for this Usually shortened toprep
- music
- the anticipation of a dissonance so that the note producing it in one chord is first heard in the preceding chord as a consonance
- a note so employed
- often capital the preliminary prayers at Mass or divine service
Other 51Թ Forms
- ԴDzp··tDz noun
- p··tDz noun
- -a·tDz noun
- p·a·tDz noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of preparation1
Example Sentences
Better preparation can limit the damage by making the country more resilient, but the CCC says this is not happening at anywhere near the required pace.
Their preparations to emigrate to America include training the innocent Karl to avoid recognition.
The French even refer to an additional phase - the preparation of the final pass - which sits between construction and finishing.
Robinson said it was going to be a "bumper weekend in Liverpool", adding that a huge amount of work had already been done behind the scenes in preparation.
The platform remains – but Liverpool will now go into overdrive this summer, with their recruitment team, under sporting director Richard Hughes, well on with preparations to add heavyweight reinforcements.
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