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Prepare   /pripˈɛr/   Listen
Prepare

verb
(past & past part. prepared; pres. part. preparing)
1.
Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc.  Synonyms: fix, gear up, ready, set, set up.  "Prepare for war" , "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"
2.
Prepare for eating by applying heat.  Synonyms: cook, fix, make, ready.  "Can you make me an omelette?" , "Fix breakfast for the guests, please"
3.
To prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery.  "Prepare a speech"
4.
Arrange by systematic planning and united effort.  Synonyms: devise, get up, machinate, organise, organize.  "Organize a strike" , "Devise a plan to take over the director's office"
5.
Educate for a future role or function.  Synonyms: groom, train.  "The prince was prepared to become King one day" , "They trained him to be a warrior"
6.
Create by training and teaching.  Synonyms: develop, educate, train.  "We develop the leaders for the future"
7.
Lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord.
8.
Undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession.  Synonym: train.  "He trained as a legal aid"



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"Prepare" Quotes from Famous Books



... all mankind, or rather womankind, might witness and criticise. Bess would be bridesmaid, sustained thereunto by four damsels. Mr. Fopling should have his part as best man; it would be good practice for Mr. Fopling, and serve to prepare him for his own wedding, an event which Bess, under the exhilarating influence of Dorothy's approaching nuptials, had determined upon ...
— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis
... so I have not tried to prepare another history of educational theories. Of such we already have a sufficient number. Instead, I have tried to prepare a history of the progress and practice and organization of education itself, and to give to such a history its proper setting as a ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY
... and Francis, disappointed, angry, and alarmed, sent the Duke of Guise to London with promises of support if an attempt to invade was really made, and with a warning at the same time to Henry to prepare for danger. Troops were gathering in Flanders; detachments were on their way out of Italy, Germany, and Bohemia, to be followed by three thousand Spaniards, and perhaps many more; and the object avowed for these preparations was wholly incommensurate with their magnitude.[709] For his ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude
... that she would but make matters worse by speaking. When she understood what the story was to be (she had given hours of each day during the past months to learning Arabic) she sat up in bed and begun unwrapping her head as if to prepare for the journey, now that time pressed, and she must again put on her own things. But if she had had the slightest hope that Lella Mabrouka might be deceived by Ourieda's plausible excuse, the cold glint of black ...
— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson
... He chasteneth," repeated the bereaved woman over and over to herself. "Oh, may He in His mercy give me strength to bear the lot He has thought fit in His wisdom to prepare for me, and make it ...
— Ben Hadden - or, Do Right Whatever Comes Of It • W.H.G. Kingston


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