Preparation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: prep=a=ra=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

Preparation, n. [F. préparation, L. praeparatio. See Prepare.].

•  The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign.  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being prepared or made ready; preparedness; readiness; fitness; as, a nation in good preparation for war.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which makes ready, prepares the way, or introduces; a preparatory act or measure.  [1913 Webster]

  "I will show what preparations there were in nature for this dissolution."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is prepared, made, or compounded by a certain process or for a particular purpose; a combination. Specifically: (a) Any medicinal substance fitted for use. (b) Anything treated for preservation or examination as a specimen. (c) Something prepared for use in cookery.  [1913 Webster]

  "I wish the chemists had been more sparing who magnify their preparations."  [1913 Webster]

  "In the preparations of cookery, the most volatile parts of vegetables are destroyed."  [1913 Webster]
•  An army or fleet.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock. See Suspension.  [1913 Webster]
•  Accomplishment; qualification.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Preparation, n.
1 the act or an instance of preparing; the process of being prepared.
2 (often in pl.) something done to make ready.
3 a specially prepared substance, esp. a food or medicine.
4 work done by school pupils to prepare for a lesson.
5 Mus. the sounding of the discordant note in a chord in the preceding chord where it is not discordant, lessening the effect of the discord.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L praeparatio -onis (as PREPARE)

THESAURUS

Preparation

accouterment, adaptation, anticipation, apprenticeship, architecture, armament, arrangement, arrangements, assembly, balm, balsam, basic training, breaking, breeding, briefing, building, casting, catering, chandlery, composing, composition, compound, concoction, conditioning, construction, contemplation, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, cramming, creation, cultivation, development, devising, discipline, discretion, drill, drilling, drops, drug, education, elaboration, electuary, elixir, endowment, envisagement, envisionment, equipment, erection, ethical drug, exercise, extraction, fabrication, farseeingness, farsightedness, fashioning, fetching-up, finding, fitness, fitting out, forecast, foreglance, foregleam, foreglimpse, forehandedness, foreseeing, foresight, foresightedness, formation, forming, formulation, fostering, foundation, framing, furnishing, furnishment, generic name, grooming, groundwork, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harmonization, harvesting, herbs, housebreaking, improvement, in-service training, inhalant, instruction, instrumentation, intonation, investment, lincture, linctus, logistics, longsightedness, looking ahead, machining, making, manual training, manufacture, manufacturing, materia medica, material, measures, medicament, medication, medicinal, medicinal herbs, medicine, military training, milling, mining, mixture, modulation, molding, nonprescription drug, nurture, nurturing, officinal, on-the-job training, orchestration, organization, organizing, outfitting, patent medicine, pharmacon, phrasing, physic, planning, plans, powder, practice, prediction, prefabrication, prep, preparing, prepping, prepublication, prescription drug, preview, prevision, proceedings, processing, procurement, producing, product, proprietary, proprietary medicine, proprietary name, prospect, prospection, providence, providing, provision, provisioning, provisions, prudence, purveyance, putting together, raising, readiness, readying, rearing, refining, rehearsal, reinforcement, replenishment, resolution, resupply, retailing, sagacity, selling, setting, shaping, simples, sloyd, smelting, solution, spadework, study, studying, stuff, subsidization, subsidy, substance, subvention, supply, supplying, suspension, swotting, syrup, teaching, theraputant, tisane, tone painting, training, transcription, tuition, upbringing, vegetable remedies, victualing, vocational education, vocational training, work, workmanship

ROGET THESAURUS

Preparation

Preparation

N preparation, providing, provision, providence, anticipation, precaution, preconcertation, predisposition, forecast, rehearsal, note of preparation, arrangement, clearance, adjustment, tuning, equipment, outfit, accouterment, armament, array, ripening, maturation, evolution, elaboration, concoction, digestion, gestation, batching, incubation, sitting, groundwork, first stone, cradle, stepping-stone, foundation, scaffold, scaffolding, echafaudage, training, inurement, novitiate, cooking, cookery, brewing, culinary art, tilling, plowing sowing, semination, cultivation, preparedness, readiness, ripeness, mellowness, maturity, un impromptu fait a loisir, preparer, trainer, pioneer, trailblazer, avant-courrier, avant-coureur, voortrekker, sappers and miners, pavior, navvy, packer, stevedore, warming pan, preparing, in preparation, in course of preparation, in agitation, in embryo, in hand, in train, afoot, afloat, on foot, on the stocks, on the anvil, under consideration, brewing, batching, forthcoming, brooding, in store for, in reserve, precautionary, provident, preparative, preparatory, provisional, inchoate, under revision, preliminary, prepared, in readiness, ready, ready to one's band, ready made, ready cut and dried: made to one's hand, handy, on the table, in gear, in working order, in working gear, snug, in practice, ripe, mature, mellow, pukka, practiced, labored, elaborate, highly-wrought, smelling of the lamp, worked up, in full feather, in best bib and tucker, in harness, at harness, in the saddle, in arms, in battle array, in war paint, up in arms, armed at all points, armed to the teeth, armed cap a pie, sword in hand, booted and spurred, in utrumque paratus, semper paratus, on the alert, at one's post, in preparation, in anticipation of, against, for, abroach, a bove majori discit arare minor, looking before and after, si vis pacem para bellum.

Arrangement

N arrangement, plan, preparation, disposal, disposition, collocation, allocation, distribution, sorting, assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization, grouping, tabulation, analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion, digest, synopsis, syntagma, table, atlas, file, database, register, organism, architecture, sieve, riddle, screen, sorter, arranged, embattled, in battle array, cut and dried, methodical, orderly, regular, systematic, In vast cumbrous array.

Precursor

N precursor, antecedent, precedent, predecessor, forerunner, vancourier, avant-coureur, pioneer, prodrome, prodromos, prodromus, outrider, leader, bellwether, herald, harbinger, foreboding, dawn, avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare, forelooper, foreloper, stalking-horse, voorlooper, voortrekker, prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos, protasis, proemium, prolusion, proem, prolepsis, prolegomena, prefix, introduction, heading, frontispiece, groundwork, preparation, overture, exordium, symphony, premises, prefigurement, omen, precursory, prelusive, prelusory, preludious, proemial, introductory, prefatory, prodromous, inaugural, preliminary, precedent, a precedent embalms a principle.

Concord

N concord, accord, harmony, symphony, homologue, agreement, sympathy, empathy, response, union, unison, unity, bonds of harmony, peace, unanimity, league, happy family, rapprochement, reunion, amity, alliance, entente cordiale, good understanding, conciliation, peacemaker, intercessor, mediator, concordant, congenial, agreeing, in accord, harmonious, united, cemented, banded together, allied, friendly, fraternal, conciliatory, at one with, of one mind, at peace, in still water, tranquil, with one voice, in concert with, hand in hand, on one's side, commune periculum concordiam parit, melody concord, melody, rhythm, measure, rhyme, pitch, timbre, intonation, tone, scale, gamut, diapason, diatonic chromatic scale, enharmonic scale, key, clef, chords, modulation, temperament, syncope, syncopation, preparation, suspension, resolution, staff, stave, line, space, brace, bar, rest, appoggiato, appoggiatura, acciaccatura, note, musical note, notes of a scale, sharp, flat, natural, high note, low note, interval, semitone, second, third, fourth, diatessaron, breve, semibreve, minim, crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, demisemiquaver, hemidemisemiquaver, sustained note, drone, burden, tonic, key note, leading note, fundamental note, supertonic, mediant, dominant, submediant, subdominant, octave, tetrachord, major key, minor key, major scale, minor scale, major mode, minor mode, passage, phrase, concord, harmony, emmeleia, unison, unisonance, chime, homophony, euphony, euphonism, tonality, consonance, consent, part, harmony, harmonics, thorough-bass, fundamental-bass, counterpoint, faburden, piece of music, composer, harmonist, contrapuntist (musician), harmonious, harmonical, in concord, in tune, in concert, unisonant, concentual, symphonizing, isotonic, homophonous, assonant, ariose, consonant, measured, rhythmical, diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic, melodious, musical, melic, tuneful, tunable, sweet, dulcet, canorous, mellow, mellifluous, soft, clear, clear as a bell, silvery, euphonious, euphonic, euphonical, symphonious, enchanting fine-toned, full-toned, silver-toned, harmoniously, in harmony, as one, the hidden soul of harmony.

Teaching

N teaching, instruction, edification, education, tuition, tutorage, tutelage, direction, guidance, opsimathy, qualification, preparation, training, schooling, discipline, excitation, drill, practice, book exercise, persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda, indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation, advise, explanation, lesson, lecture, sermon, apologue, parable, discourse, prolection, preachment, chalk talk, Chautauqua, exercise, task, curriculum, course, course of study, grammar, three R's, initiation, A, B, C, elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education, propaedeutics, moral tuition, gymnastics, calisthenics, physical drill, physical education, sloyd, phonics, rote, rote memorization, brute memory, cooperative learning, Montessori method, ungraded classes, test, examination, exam, final exam, mid-term exam grade, score, marks, A, B, C, D, E, F, gentleman's C, pass, fail, incomplete, homework, take-home lesson, exercise for the student, theme, project, teaching, taught, educational, scholastic, academic, doctrinal, disciplinal, instructive, instructional, didactic, propaedeutic, propaedeutical, the schoolmaster abroad, a bovi majori disscit arare minor, adeo in teneris consuecere multum est, docendo discimus, quaenocent docent, qui docet discit, sermons in stones and good in everything.