prepare /pri-pārˈ/

1. To make or get ready
2. To equip or fit out
3. To bring into a suitable state for some purpose
4. To put into the necessary frame of mind, to brace mentally (for, or to do, something)
5. To adapt, adjust, acclimatize in readiness (for, or to do, something)
6. To train, eg for an examination
7. To learn, eg for examination purposes
8. To make a preliminary study of (work prescribed for a class)
9. To provide, supply (archaic)
10. To bring into a required state by subjecting to some technical process
11. To make, produce, mix or compound (eg a chemical) by some process
12. To cook and dress for serving (food, a meal)
13. To think out beforehand (eg a plan, strategy)
14. To draw up (a document, report, etc)
15. To anticipate or lead up to (eg a discord by use of the dissonant note as a consonance in the preceding chord; music)

1. To make oneself ready
2. To make preparations
3. To be under preparation (esp archaic)

Preparation

preparation /prep-ə-rāˈshən/ noun

1. The act or process of preparing
2. A preliminary measure or arrangement
3. The process or course of being prepared
4. The preliminary study of prescribed classwork, homework
5. Readiness
6. Something that has been prepared or made up, eg a medicine, ointment, application, etc
7. An anatomical or other specimen prepared for study or preservation
8. The day before the Sabbath or other Jewish feast-day
9. Devotional exercises, prayers, etc preparing for or introducing an office, eg Holy Communion
10. The previous introduction, as an integral part of a chord, of a note continued into a succeeding dissonance (music)

preparative /pri-parˈə-tiv/ adjective

1. Serving to prepare
2. Preliminary

1. Something done, performed, administered, etc, to prepare the way
2. A preparation

preparˈatively adverb

preparˈator noun (esp technical; old)

Someone who prepares medicines, scientific specimens, etc

prepared /pri-pārdˈ/ adjective

1. Made ready, fit or suitable
2. Already treated or processed, ready mixed or ready made
3. Ready, willing, or not disinclined (to do something)

prepāˈredly /-rid-li/ adverb

prepāˈredness /-rid-nəs/ noun

prepāˈrer noun

prepared piano noun

A piano that has been altered to give special effects, such as by placing objects on the strings

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