pre|par´er

pre|par´er
pre|pare «prih PAIR», verb, -pared, -par|ing.
–v.t.
1. to make ready; put in condition for something: »

to prepare a room for a guest, to prepare a boy for college. He prepares his lessons while his mother prepares supper.

2. to make by a special process: »

to prepare the medicine prescribed, to prepare steel from iron.

 SYNONYM(S): devise, contrive.
3. Music. to lead up to (a discord) by sounding the dissonant tone as a consonant tone in the preceding chord.
4. Archaic. to provide; furnish.
–v.i.
to get ready; put oneself, or things, in readiness: »

to prepare for a test. The thunderbolt Hangs silent; but prepare. I speak, it falls (Tennyson).

╂[< Latin praeparāre < prae- before + parāre make ready]
–pre|par´er, noun.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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