Word Finder - preparation

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The act of preparing or getting ready.

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The state of being prepared; readiness.

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That which is prepared.

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The day before the Sabbath or other Jewish feast-day.

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Devotional exercises introducing an office.

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The previous introduction, as an integral part of a chord, of a note continued into a succeeding dissonance.

In this way my preparation for college went on without interruption.

Dyeing is another large trade, as is the preparation of indigo.

Alarmed voices were heard, and a stir of final preparation swept over all the troops.

The preliminary preparation for research of any value becomes yearly more exacting.

He subsequently undertook the preparation of a new edition of the Hebrew Bible for the British and Foreign Bible Society.

She closed the journal and began her preparation.

Bilibin puckered his skin in preparation for something witty.

Meat preparation there, breads and everything else there, then the last building is where we cook.

The preparation and packing of tea is the principal industry in the town.

After preparation for NDT shows the boiler barrel strakes to between 14 and 15 mm thick with good overall condition both internally and externally.

Preparation & Application This is water based matt emulsion.

In the UK there is an imported anti-D IgG preparation available for use in immune-mediated thrombocytopenia on a named-patient basis.

The photograph shows part of the new radiochemistry suite at NPL used for preparation of radioactive material such as these low level standards.

For its commercial preparation see 0.

Preparation of hospital emergency plans to cope with large influx of patients with burns, lung damage and trauma.

Otherwise, preparation for these exams is done through guided self-study or private tuition rather than in class.

The degree requires the preparation of a thesis not exceeding 80,000 words, which must be worthy of publication by a learned society.

Sol-gel processes are used in industry for the large-scale preparation of silica gels and colloidal sol-gel processes are used in industry for the large-scale preparation of silica gels and colloidal sols.

Numerous consumer enquiries also led to the preparation of a leaflet on using lead-free solder for drinking water fittings.

At this point the sample stub is in the preparation chamber on the end of the transfer rod.

No doubt more daring stunts are even now in preparation.

Technicians ' information Assuming 15 working groups Preparation consists of preparing sufficient nutrient agar plates and sterile swabs.

Maize fields will normally be plowed followed by seedbed preparation leaving a reasonably fine surface tilth at least 7.5cm (3 inches) deep.

Projects include annotated translation, text preparation and summary writing.

Preparation of the final typescript for The Economic Journal You will need Adobe Acrobat to view files in pdf format.

The sample preparation and the measurements were done in ultra high vacuum.

She was surrounded by high tech wizardry, microphones, leads, musical instruments all set up in preparation for later acts.

For the technical preparation of cobalt, and its separation from nickel, see Nickel.

For methods of preparation of the tetrammine and triammine salts, see 0.

After serving in the army, the Archduke Rainer was in 1857 placed at the head of the permanent Imperial Council organized in 1851, which stood immediately under the Emperor and had among its functions the preparation of laws, and his experience in this office convinced him that the transition to a constitutional form of government on a liberal and centralized basis was necessary.

It may be further defined as the science that treats of the analysis, classification, preparation, composition and delivery of sermons.

Thomas, entitled A catalogue raisonne of the Subjunctive in Plautus, in support of the theory of the unity of origin of the Latin Subjunctive, is announced as in preparation.

Modern composers have often produced their most characteristic orchestral effects with fewer contrasting elements than Bach uses in his Trauer-Ode, in the pastoral symphony in his Christmas Oratorio, in the first chorus of the cantata Liebster Gott, wann werd' ich sterben, and in many other cases; but the modern instrumental effects are as far outside Bach's scope as a long passage of preparation on the dominant leading to the return of a first subject is beyond the scope of a gigue in a suite.

During the period between 1540 and 1543 the archbishop was engaged at the head of a commission in the revision of the " Bishop's Book " (1537) or Institutions of a Christian Man, and the preparation of the Necessary Erudition (1543) known as the " King's Book," which was a modification of the former work in the direction of Roman Catholic doctrine.

The whole of the available data were utilized by the prince of Monaco in 1905 in the preparation of a complete bathymetrical map of the oceans on a uniform scale, which must long remain the standard work for reference on ocean depths.

This infernal sentence was actually carried out, and, life still lingering, the half-roasted carcass of the unhappy wretch, who endured everything with invincible heroism, was finally devoured by half-a-dozen of his fellow-rehels, who by way of preparation had been starved for a whole week beforehand.

Bulygin, Mirski's successor, had no knowledge of this until after its publication; he hastened to the tsar and obtained the issue on the same day of a rescript which, while reserving the " fundamental laws of the empire " inviolate, stated the emperor's intention of summoning the representatives of the people to aid in " the preparation and examination of legislative proposals."

The candidate for orders must be at least nineteen years old and have undergone twelve years' preparation; he is then qualified to assist the priesthood in the ceremonies of religion.

In reference to his preparation of oxygen he says, "It provides a striking illustration of a remark I have more than once made in my philosophical writings and which can hardly be too often repeated, viz.

Jackson patented the preparation of ammonium oleate directly in the washing water, and it is claimed that for cleansing articles it is only necessary to immerse them in the water containing the preparation and then rinse.

In the earlier part of the 16th century Paracelsus gave a new direction to alchemy by declaring that its true object was not the making of gold but the preparation of medicines, and this union of chemistry with medicine was one characteristic of the iatrochemical school of which he was the precursor.

It seems that this secondary principle became the dominant idea in alchemy, and in this sense the word is used in Byzantine literature of the 4th century; Suidas, writing in the 11th century, defines chemistry as the " preparation of silver and gold " (see Alchemy) .

Full closes and repeated sentences no longer confuse the issue, but in their absence we begin to notice the incessant squareness of the ostensibly free rhythms. The immense amount of pageantry, though (as in Tannhauser) good in dramatic motive and executed with splendid stage-craft, goes far to stultify Wagner's already vigorous attitude of protest against grand-opera methods; by way of preparation for the ethereally poetic end he gives us a disinfected present from Meyerbeer at the beginning of the last scene, where mounted trumpeters career round the stage in full blast for three long minutes; and the prelude to the third act is an outburst of sheer gratuitous vulgarity.

He remained, however, in complete ignorance of the degree of preparation attained on the Russian side, and since the seizure of Warsaw together with the control of the resources of Poland in men and material its occupation would afford, was the chief factor in his calculation, he turned at once to the eastward as soon as all further organized resistance in Prussia was ended by the surrender of Prenzlau and Lubeck.

The need for scrupulous cleanliness in the preparation of rubber is now recognized, and the arrangements of a rubber factory in Ceylon or Malaya are comparable with those of the modern dairy.

When the plantations of Ficus in India are in full bearing it is possible that this tree may attract more attention, since the plantation rubber is likely to be of superior quality owing to the greater care taken in its preparation.

Van Buren was not an orator, but his more important speeches show careful preparation and his opinions carried weight; and the oft-repeated charge that he refrained from declaring himself on crucial questions is hardly borne out by an examination of his senatorial career.

Useful instructions have been furnished by Carl Barus (Terrestrial Magnetism, 1897, 2, II) for the preparation of magnets calculated to withstand the effects of time, percussion and ordinary temperature variations.

Preparation was begun in earnest after the accession of King William I., who selected Bismarck as his chancellor, Moltke as his chief of staff and Roon as his minister of war, and gave them a free hand to create the political situation and prepare the military machinery necessary to exploit it.

One preparation of this drug is in common use, the Pulvis Jalapae Compositus, which consists of 5 parts of jalap, 9 of cream of tartar, and i of ginger.