Word Finder - preparing

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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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Preparation

Much later she was back in the kitchen, preparing the roast while he slept.

They were far too busy stretching mus­cles and preparing for the more torturous miles that lay ahead.

I'll direct all my efforts into preparing for our new baby.

The field was empty, his men preparing for another space battle.

She was going to break down any second, but the effort the man before her put into preparing himself held her horrified attention.

He felt the mother's demeanor suggested she was preparing a bogus story.

Preparing food wasn't something human-Deidre did often.

He died suddenly in his tent at Jaen when preparing for a raid into the Moorish territory of Granada, on the 7th of September 1312.

Instead of preparing to face off the vamp, she floated upwards.

Julie was preparing to leave Moscow next day and was giving a farewell soiree.

Time flew by, and all too soon they were in her drive, preparing to part.

This year I am preparing a rhetorical criticism on the systematic rape in Bosnia.

Their issues faded into the background as they began preparing the house for the new babies.

Yully rose and dressed herself, preparing herself mentally to tell Jule she had to leave him.

It was mid-afternoon already, another day wasted with the Council rather than concentrating on preparing for battle.

Now it held about two dozen people, some climbers preparing their equipment and photographers availing themselves of the excellent location where they could look straight down on the climbers below them.

Just before five o'clock he went to the kitchen to begin preparing spaghetti for Fred and himself, and Martha, whom they had invited to again stay for supper.

She clutched his wrists, the logical side of her brain preparing to remove his hands from her face, the emotional side wishing he would repeat the kiss.

Retracing her steps to the house, she found Alex and Jonathan preparing breakfast.

Alex, Bill and Jonathan were examining a lawn mower that wouldn't start while Carmen and Katie were preparing the food.

Ignoring his guests, Xander changed into clothes certain to let him move freely, preparing for his dinner to arrive.

At Bonn he took an important part in preparing the Durchmusterung of the northern heavens.

Thus the limitation of the Milanese duchy under Filippo Maria Visconti, and its consolidation under Francesco Sforza, were equally effectual in preparing the balance of power to which Italian politics now tended.

Moved partly by external influences and partly by a slow internal reawakening, the people was preparing for the efforts of the I9th century.

Portal returned to Massawa on the 25th of December 1887, and warned the Italians that John was preparing to attack them in the following spring with an army of 100,000 men.

In this way we see that just as advancing natural science was preparing the way for a doctrine of physical evolution, so advancing historical research was leading to the application of a similar idea to the collective human life.

Enough, however, has already been done to show the vast importance of the method in grouping and codifying the empirical facts of life, and in so preparing the way for the investigation of ultimate " causes."

In the modern signification it is applied to the act of preparing, preserving and compounding medicines, according to the prescriptions of physicians.

The peace of Crepy in September 1544 deprived him of this employment, but he had won a considerable reputation, and when Charles was preparing to attack the league of Schmalkalden, he took pains to win Albert's assistance.

This interval was diligently devoted to the pursuit of classical and historical studies, to preparing himself for ordination, and to searching investigations, under the stimulus of continual discussion with a band of talented and congenial associates, of the profoundest questions in theology, ecclesiastical polity and social philosophy.

When the midsummer vacation arrived, he was preparing to set out with his family to Fox How in Westmoreland, where he had purchased some property and built a house.

He went to Rome after the termination of the civil wars, and spent twenty-two years in studying the Latin language and literature and preparing materials for his history.

Of Creuzer's other works the principal are an edition of Plotinus; a partial edition of Cicero, in preparing which he was assisted by Moser; Die historische Kunst der Griechen (1803); Epochen der griech.

As these independent Tatar states were always jealous of each other, and their jealousy often broke out in open hostility, it was easy to prevent any combined action on their part; and as in each khanate there were always several pretenders and contending factions, Muscovite diplomacy had little difficulty in weakening them individually and preparing for their annexation.

Though severely tried by disappointments and defeats he never lost hope, and when he died in 1584 he was preparing to renew the struggle and endeavouring to form for that purpose an alliance with England; his great idea, however, was not to be realized till more than a century later, and meanwhile the tsardom of Muscovy had to pass through a severe internal crisis in which its existence was seriously endangered.

While the Muscovites of the upper classes were thus beginning to abandon their old oriental habits, their government was preparing to make a political evolution of a similar kind.

Whilst she did all in her power to stimulate the hostility of the one strove to erect bulwarks against French aggression, the other was preparing the ground for fresh annexations.

Charles came to Naples with a new fleet from Provence, and was preparing to invade Sicily again, when he contracted a fever and died at Foggia on the 7th of January 1285.

He died just as Nebuchadrezzar, seeing his warnings disregarded, was preparing to lay siege to Jerusalem.

While Scotland and England were preparing for the " First Bishops' War," Henderson drew up two papers, entitled respectively The Remonstrance of the Nobility and Instructions for Defensive Arms. The first of these documents he published himself; the second was published against his wish by John Corbet (1603-1641), a deposed minister.

The Pacification of Birks had been wrung from the king; and the Scots, seeing that he was preparing for the "Second Bishops' War," took the initiative, and pressed into England so vigorously that Charles had again to yield everything.

For a short time he worked for his father in the hardware business; in1852-1856he worked as a surveyor in preparing maps of Ulster, Albany and Delaware counties in New York, of Lake and Geauga counties in Ohio, and of Oakland county in Michigan, and of a projected railway line between Newburgh and Syracuse, N.Y.

The simplest modes of preparing pure glycerin are based on the saponification of fats, either by alkalis or by superheated steam, and on the circumstance that, although glycerin cannot be distilled by itself under the ordinary pressure without decomposition, it can be readily volatilized in a current of superheated steam.

Bentham's family connexions would naturally have given him a fair start at the bar, but this was not the career for which he was preparing himself.

In 1822, however, when he had just completed his seventeenth year, this intention was abandoned, and he entered as a clerk in the examiner's office of the India House, "with the understanding that he should be employed from the beginning in preparing drafts of despatches, and be thus trained up as a successor to those who then filled the highest departments of the office."

While he was preparing for it two cardinals arrived in England with a mission from Pope John XXII.

It is certain that he was preparing to renew the struggle for the mastery of the seas and of the Orient, which must break out if he held to his present resolve to found a great colonial empire.

Halcyoniformes Coraciiformes Whilst Fiirbringer was engaged on his gigantic task, Dr Hans Gadow was preparing the ornithological volume of Bronn's Thies-Reich.

Pithou wrote a great number of legal and historical books, besides preparing editions of several ancient authors.

Meantime the internal politics of Venice had been steadily preparing the way for the approaching fusion at Rialto.