Word Finder - prepared

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To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip.

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We prepared the spacecraft for takeoff.

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To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.

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We prepared a fish for dinner.

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To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.

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We prepared for a bumpy ride.

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To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.

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She prepared a meal from what was left in the cupboards.

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(followed by the preposition to) Disposed, willing, ready (to do something).

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The journalist interviewed an eye-witness who was not prepared to disclose his identity.

You've prepared me for this day.

Martha prepared grilled cheese sandwiches for our lunch.

That I am not prepared to say.

The guards prepared their laser weaponry and waited.

He made a fire and prepared her nightly soup.

Jule prepared himself, pleased to hear the sound of a car starting in the garage.

Back at the house, Carmen prepared the chicken for the oven while Destiny sat in her high chair playing with some cereal.

Oh no, I don't have anything prepared.

Nicholas blushed and was confused when people spoke to him about the princess (as she did when he was mentioned) and even when he thought of her, but in her presence he felt quite at ease, and said not at all what he had prepared, but what, quite appropriately, occurred to him at the moment.

She caught it.  He rifled through his bag and prepared a dagger to sharpen.

However, I do not feel you are prepared for such a duty.

With a nod, she prepared herself for the worst.

Alex shrugged into his winter coat, zipping it as he prepared to leave the clinic.

I realized too late I should have prepared her more for this day, when she would need the knowledge Sirian has denied her all these years.

Often I found her, when she had a little leisure, sitting in her favourite corner, in a chair whose arms supported the big volume prepared for the blind, and passing her finger slowly over the lines of Moliere's 'Le Medecin Malgre Lui,' chuckling to herself at the comical situations and humorous lines.

Instead, she prepared for the day as if it were her last.

Sarah prepared an elaborate breakfast in the morning.

The bromide, CoBr 2, resembles the chloride, and may be prepared by similar methods.

After Solferino the allies prepared to besiege the Quadrilateral.

When I learned that there was a gift for each child, I was delighted, and the kind people who had prepared the tree permitted me to hand the presents to the children.

I'm sure Sarah has something prepared on the off chance you'll be there.

Actually, a protected childhood probably left her ill prepared for socializing.

A complete life, founded on the lately discovered process of 1626 and the new letters, was being prepared by the author of the present article at the time of his death.

A method of recording signals in the Morse code, formerly used to a considerable extent, was to use a chemically prepared ribbon of paper.

The service which the government and the colonies desire is one which neither the Eastern Telegraph Company nor any other private enterprise is prepared to undertake on terms which can be considered in comparison with the terms upon which it can be provided by the associated governments."

With Cromwell as with Burke the question was "whether the spirit of the people of this nation is prepared to go along with it."

Roustan therefore hastened to extort from the bey concessions calculated to neutralize the advantages which Italy had hoped to secure by the possession of the Tunis- Goletta line, and at the same time the French government prepared at Toulon an expeditionary corps for the occupation of the Regency.

Yet Leibnitz prepared the way for a new conception of organic evolution.

Thus, in spite of its having been approved by the king, this design was happily abandoned - much to Wren's disgust; and he prepared another scheme with a similar treatment of a dome crowned by a spire, which in 1675 was ordered to be carried out.

While he did not succeed in preventing the French occupation of Mexico or the escape of the Confederate cruiser "Alabama" from England, his diplomacy prepared the way for a future adjustment satisfactory to the United States of the difficulties with these powers.

Tone himself admitted that with him hatred of England had always been "rather an instinct than a principle," though until his views should become more generally accepted in Ireland he was prepared to work for reform as distinguished from revolution.

The French directory, which possessed information from Lord Edward Fitzgerald and Arthur O'Connor confirming Tone, prepared to despatch an expedition under Hoche.

The oxide is a black or brown powder according as it is prepared from the exalate or sulphate, and when pure it is non-fluorescent, but mixed with gadolinia or alumina it possesses this property.

A large number of such sheets are prepared and placed together, one over the other, the end of the strip of the first sheet being connected with the beginning of the strip of the second, and so on to the last sheet, the whole representing the conductor of the cable.

If a loop of very fine platinum wire, prepared by the Wollaston process, is included in an exhausted glass bulb like an incandescent lamp, then when electric oscillations are sent through it its resistance is increased.

Cadmium sulphide, CdS, occurs naturally as greenockite (q.v.), and can be artificially prepared by passing sulphuretted hydrogen through acid solutions of soluble cadmium salts, when it is precipitated as a pale yellow amorphous solid.

The separate wires are surrounded only with a loose covering of specially prepared paper, which furnishes abundant insulation.

Mary Thy Mother stopped at the foot of the Cross, but poverty mounted it with Thee and clasped Thee in her embrace unto the end; and when Thou wast dying of thirst, as a watchful spouse she prepared for Thee the gall.

Having obtained his coronation, Frederick withdrew to Germany, while Milan prepared herself against the storm which threatened.

The conditions which have the five been described, of despotism, mercenary warfare and bourgeois prosperity, determined the character of this epoch, which was also the period when the great achievements of the Renaissance were prepared.

They hastened Mancinis downfall (17th June 1885), and prepared the advent of count di Robilant, who three months later succeeded Mancini at the Italian Foreign Office.

No further step was taken until, at the end of 1879, Rubattino prepared to establish a commercial station.

It was clear that so long as Austria, bribed by Germany, could act in a way so opposed to Italian interests in the Balkans, the Triple Alliance was a mockery, and Italy could only meet the situation by being prepared for all contingencies.

In 1 547 appeared the Homilies prepared under his direction.

After his release in May 1819, having broken away from Henry Hunt and the more moderate reformers, he prepared a new and comprehensive plot.

Bishop George Berkeley, afraid of materialistic developments from a philosophy he was not prepared fully to recast, took refuge in immaterialism.

He appealed to the pope, and hoped to crush his enemies by the aid of foreign troops, while the barons prepared for war, and the prelates strove to keep the peace.

On all sides his enemies rose up against him; in Romagna the deposed princes prepared to regain their own, and the Orsinis raised their heads once more in Rome.

When, therefore, in 1850, Mr Stowe was elected to a professorship in Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, and removed his family thither, Mrs Stowe was prepared for the great work which came to her, bit by bit, as a religious message which she must deliver.

The Theriaca prepared at Venice had the highest reputation, probably because in Venice the component parts were exposed to the inspection of wise men and doctors for two months, to determine whether they were or were not fit for use.