prepare
/pri'peə/
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Definition
Verb (Transitive):
- To make ready or suitable in advance for a particular purpose or event: This is the core meaning, involving taking action to get something or someone ready for a future use or occurrence.
- To make (food or a meal) ready for eating by combining ingredients and applying heat: This specific usage relates to cooking.
- To create or produce by combining elements or following a procedure: This involves the act of putting something together, such as a document or a substance.
- To make (someone) ready or able to do or deal with something: This involves training, instructing, or mentally conditioning a person.
Verb (Intransitive):
- To make oneself ready for something; to engage in preparation: This refers to the action one takes to get ready for a future event.
Usage Examples
Verb (Transitive):
- The teacher asked the students to prepare their homework for the next class. (The teacher asked the students to make their homework ready.)
- She needs to prepare a presentation for the board meeting. (She needs to create a presentation.)
- He is preparing dinner for his family. (He is cooking dinner.)
- The coach is preparing the team for the championship. (The coach is training the team to be ready.)
Verb (Intransitive):
- We must prepare for the storm. (We must make ourselves ready for the storm.)
- She spent weeks preparing for her final exams. (She spent weeks getting ready for her exams.)
Advanced Usage
- "to prepare the ground (for something)": To create the necessary conditions for something to happen or be successful.
- The initial negotiations prepared the ground for a lasting peace treaty.
- "to be prepared to (do something)": To be willing and ready to do something.
- I am prepared to help you with the project.
- "to prepare oneself (for something)": To make a conscious mental or emotional effort to be ready for something.
- He tried to prepare himself for the bad news.
Variants and Related Words
- Preparation (n): The action or process of making ready or being made ready.
- The preparation for the event took months.
- Preparatory (adj): Serving as or carrying out preparation.
- He attended a preparatory course before university.
- Prepared (adj): Made ready in advance.
- Always be prepared for an emergency.
Synonyms
- Arrange: To put things in a neat, attractive, or required order.
- Organize: To arrange systematically.
- Plan: To decide on and arrange in advance.
- Make ready: To get something prepared.
- Devise: To plan or invent by careful thought.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Prepare for: (Intransitive) To make ready for a specific event or possibility.
- Citizens were advised to prepare for heavy snowfall.
- Prepare against: (Less common) To make ready as a defense or safeguard.
- The castle was prepared against a long siege.
Related Idioms
- Hope for the best, prepare for the worst: To remain optimistic but make practical plans for potential problems.
- When starting a business, you should hope for the best but prepare for the worst.
- Prepare the way: Similar to "prepare the ground," meaning to make it easier for something to happen.
- His research prepared the way for future discoveries.
Verb
- undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession
- She is training to be a teacher
- He trained as a legal aid
- lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord
- prepare the discord in bar 139
- create by training and teaching
- The old master is training world-class violinists
- we develop the leaders for the future
- educate for a future role or function
- He is grooming his son to become his successor
- The prince was prepared to become King one day
- They trained him to be a warrior
- arrange by systematic planning and united effort
- machinate a plot
- organize a strike
- devise a plan to take over the director's office
- to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery
- prepare a report
- prepare a speech
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- Cook me dinner, please
- can you make me an omelette?
- fix breakfast for the guests, please
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- Get the children ready for school!
- prepare for war
- I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill