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n. The act or process of preparing.

n. The state of having been made ready beforehand; readiness.

n. A preliminary measure that serves to make ready for something. Often used in the plural: preparations for the wedding.

n. A substance, such as a medicine, prepared for a particular purpose.

n. Music The anticipation of a dissonant tone by means of its introduction as a consonant tone in the preceding chord.

n. Music The dissonant tone so anticipated.

n. The act of preparing or getting ready.

n. That which is prepared.

n. A substance, especially a remedy, that is prepared.

n. The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready

n. The state of being prepared or made ready; preparedness; readiness; fitness.

n. That which makes ready, prepares the way, or introduces; a preparatory act or measure.

n. 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.

n. An army or fleet.

n. 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.

n. Accomplishment; qualification.

n. The act of preparing or making ready; qualification for a particular use, service, or application; adaptation to an end; training; equipment.

n. Formation; composition; manufacture: as, the preparation of gunpowder; the preparation of glycerin.

n. A measure or means taken beforehand to secure a certain result; a preparatory proceeding or circumstance.

n. The state of being prepared or in readiness; preparedness.

n. That which is equipped or fitted out.

n. That which results from mental or moral training; qualification; accomplishment.

n. That which is prepared, manufactured, or compounded: as, a chemical preparation; a preparation of oil and wax.

n. In anatomy, an animal body or any part of it prepared for anatomical purposes, or preserved to display parts already dissected.

n. In counterpoint and strict musical composition generally: that treatment of the voice-parts whereby a dissonance in any chord is introduced as a consonance in the preceding chord, and simply held over into the dissonant chord by its own voice-part, while the others move;

n. a consonant tone in any voice-part which is thus about to become a dissonance.

n. The day before the sabbath or any other Jewish feast-day. Also called day of the preparation (Mat. xxvii. 62). Compare parasceve.

n. Eccles., devotions or prayers used by the celebrant or officiant, assistants, choristers, etc., before the eucharistic or other offices.

n. the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening

n. the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat

n. preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)

n. activity leading to skilled behavior

n. a substance prepared according to a formula

n. the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose

n. the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action)

n. (music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord

"A potentially explosive case, two years in preparation, is now before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal."

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