Word:
Definition
Translation En -> Es
Translation En -> De
Translation En -> Fr
Translation Es -> En
Translation Es -> De
Translation Es -> Fr
Translation De -> En
Translation De -> Es
Translation De -> Fr
Translation Fr -> En
Translation Fr -> Es
Translation Fr -> De
Preparation
Prep`a`ra´tion
n.
1.
1.
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
.
2.
The
state
of
being
prepared
or
made
ready
;
preparedness
;
readiness
;
fitness
;
as
,
a
nation
in
good
preparation
for
war
.
3.
That
which
makes
ready
,
prepares
the
way
,
or
introduces
;
a
preparatory
act
or
measure
.
I
will
show
what
preparations
there
were
in
nature
for
this
dissolution
.
- T. Burnet.
4.
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
.
I
wish
the
chemists
had
been
more
sparing
who
magnify
their
preparations
.
- Sir T. Browne.
In
the
preparations
of
cookery
,
the
most
volatile
parts
of
vegetables
are
destroyed
.
- Arbuthnot.
5.
An
army
or
fleet
.
6.
(Mus.)
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
.
7.
Accomplishment
;
qualification
.
Noun
1.
preparation
-
the
activity
of
putting
or
setting
in
order
in
advance
of
some
act
or
purpose
; "
preparations
for
the
ceremony
had
begun
"
Synonyms:
readying
2.
preparation
-
a
substance
prepared
according
to
a
formula
Synonyms:
formulation
3.
preparation
-
the
cognitive
process
of
thinking
about
what
you
will
do
in
the
event
of
something
happening
; "
his
planning
for
retirement
was
hindered
by
several
uncertainties
"
Synonyms:
planning
,
provision
4.
preparation
-
the
state
of
having
been
made
ready
or
prepared
for
use
or
action
(
especially
military
action
); "
putting
them
in
readiness
"; "
their
preparation
was
more
than
adequate
"
Synonyms:
preparedness
,
readiness
5.
preparation
- (
music
)
a
note
that
produces
a
dissonant
chord
is
first
heard
in
a
consonant
chord
; "
the
resolution
of
one
dissonance
is
often
the
preparation
for
another
disonance
"
Antonyms:
resolution
- (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord
6.
preparation
-
activity
leading
to
skilled
behavior
Synonyms:
grooming
,
training
7.
preparation
-
preparatory
school
work
done
outside
school
(
especially
at
home
)
Synonyms:
homework
,
prep
8.
preparation
-
the
act
of
preparing
something
(
as
food
)
by
the
application
of
heat
; "
cooking
can
be
a
great
art
"; "
people
are
needed
who
have
experience
in
cookery
"; "
he
left
the
preparation
of
meals
to
his
wife
"
Synonyms:
cookery
,
cooking
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
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