The meaning of Preparation

noun

A mixture or blend.

Usage examples:

A curious amalgam of the traditional and the modern

noun

A mixture of mercury and another metal, especially one used by dentists to repair teeth

Usage examples:

An amalgam filling, the show was a wonderful amalgam of dance, music, and drama., nearly every new …

noun

The action, process, or result of arranging or being arranged.

Usage examples:

The arrangement of the furniture in the room

noun

A plan for how the parts of a piece of music can be played by a particular instrument or instruments

Usage examples:

An arrangement for trumpet and cello, a flower arrangement, she had an arrangement to work at home …

noun

A plan or preparation for how something will happen

Usage examples:

Make an arrangement there wasn't enough time for him to make alternative arrangements., arrangement…

verb

(of people) gather together in one place for a common purpose.

Usage examples:

A crowd had assembled outside the gates

noun

A leap in which the feet are brought together before landing.

Usage examples:

The assemblés porté traveled a great distance and ended in perfect fifth position.

verb

Present participle of assemble

Usage examples:

We assembled in the meeting room after lunch., to assemble data, at the staff meeting, the manager …

verb

Mix (a substance) with another substance so that they combine together.

Usage examples:

Blend the cornflour with a tablespoon of water

noun

A mixture of different substances or other things.

Usage examples:

The chutney is a blend of bananas, raisins, and ginger

noun

Mix together different elements

verb

Write or create (a work of art, especially music or poetry).

Usage examples:

He composed the first violin sonata four years earlier

verb

Present participle of compose

Usage examples:

Prokofiev started composing at the age of five., the music was specially composed for the film., a …

noun

The nature of something's ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up.

Usage examples:

The social composition of villages

noun

Something that a person has created or written, esp. a text, a work of art, or a piece of music, or the act of creating or writing something

Usage examples:

[ c ] a composition for piano and flute, [ c ] in school we had to write a composition (= short pie…

noun

The way in which the parts of something are arranged

Usage examples:

The composition of sth the company said it plans to change the composition of its board of director…

noun

A thing that is composed of two or more separate elements; a mixture.

Usage examples:

The air smelled like a compound of diesel and petrol fumes

adjective

Made up or consisting of several parts or elements.

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A compound noun

verb

Make up (a composite whole); constitute.

Usage examples:

A dialect compounded of spanish and dutch

verb

Make (a dish or meal) by combining various ingredients.

Usage examples:

She began to concoct a dinner likely to appeal to him

verb

Present participle of concoct

Usage examples:

He concocted the most amazing dish from all sorts of leftover food., he concocted a story about wor…

noun

A mixture of various ingredients or elements.

Usage examples:

The facade is a strange concoction of northern mannerism and italian baroque

noun

Something put together from several different things

Usage examples:

She drinks this herbal concoction.

noun

The action of building something, typically a large structure.

Usage examples:

There was a skyscraper under construction

noun

The act or result of putting different things together

Usage examples:

A new hotel is now under construction (= being built)., the construction you are putting on my clie…

noun

The process or business of building large objects such as buildings, roads, bridges, etc.

Usage examples:

Employment in construction increased by 12,000., a construction site/project/worker 29-year-old jos…

noun

The thick white or pale yellow fatty liquid which rises to the top when milk is left to stand and which can be eaten as an accompaniment to desserts or used as a cooking ingredient.

Usage examples:

Strawberries and cream

verb

Work (two or more ingredients, typically butter and sugar) together to form a creamy paste.

Usage examples:

You cream the butter first and then add the egg yolks

verb

Defeat (someone) heavily in a sporting contest.

Usage examples:

On paper, england should have creamed scotland

noun

The process of developing or being developed.

Usage examples:

She traces the development of the novel

noun

The process of growing or changing and becoming more advanced

Usage examples:

[ u ] a good diet and lots of exercise are essential for a child’s healthy growth and development.,…

noun

Growth or changes that make something become more advanced

Usage examples:

The first year of the plan is primarily focused on organizational development., he was recruited to…

verb

Plan or invent (a complex procedure, system, or mechanism) by careful thought.

Usage examples:

A training programme should be devised

noun

A clause in a will leaving something, especially real estate, to someone.

Usage examples:

The issue, however, is whether the language of the devise of the somerset estate can fairly be inte…

verb

Present participle of devise

Usage examples:

He's good at devising language games that you can play with students in class., the cartoon charact…

verb

Prepare (written material) for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it.

Usage examples:

Volume i was edited by j. johnson

noun

A change or correction made as a result of editing.

Usage examples:

The system has no word wrap feature—so even small edits involved extensive rekeying

noun

A change or correction made as a result of editing.

Usage examples:

The system has no word wrap feature—so even small edits involved extensive rekeying

noun

A fine dispersion of minute droplets of one liquid in another in which it is not soluble or miscible.

Usage examples:

Oil beaten to an emulsion with a half tablespoonful of vinegar

verb

Paint with emulsion.

Usage examples:

If the lining paper is not opaque, the wall should also be emulsioned

noun

A mixture of liquids that do not normally stay mixed

verb

Make into a particular form.

Usage examples:

The bottles were fashioned from green glass

noun

A popular or the latest style of clothing, hair, decoration, or behaviour.

Usage examples:

The latest parisian fashions

noun

A manner of doing something.

Usage examples:

The work is done in a rather casual fashion

noun

A thick, smooth liquid preparation designed to be applied to the skin for medicinal or cosmetic purposes.

Usage examples:

Itching can be relieved with calamine lotion or antihistamine tablets

noun

A liquid that is put on your skin in order to protect it, improve its condition, or make it smell pleasant

Usage examples:

[ u ] she applied some hand/suntan lotion and rubbed it in.

noun

The science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease (in technical use often taken to exclude surgery).

Usage examples:

He made distinguished contributions to pathology and medicine

noun

The science dealing with the preserving of health and with preventing and treating disease or injury

Usage examples:

Pediatrics is a branch of medicine., she continued to practice medicine until she was in her eighti…

noun

The treatment of illness or injury, or the study of how illnesses and injuries are treated

Usage examples:

Medicine has advanced enormously over the past 100 years., alternative/complementary/preventive med…

noun

A substance made by mixing other substances together.

Usage examples:

Form the mixture into a manageable dough

noun

A combination of substances resulting from mixing them together so that they cannot be easily separated

Usage examples:

It’s a highly explosive mixture and has to be handled carefully., good fashion designers often rely…

noun

A smooth oily substance that is rubbed on the skin for medicinal purposes or as a cosmetic.

Usage examples:

He rubbed some ointment on his leg

noun

A thick, oily substance, usually containing medicine, that is put on skin where you feel sore or on an injury

Usage examples:

[ u ] germicidal ointment

noun

A liquid with healing, magical, or poisonous properties.

Usage examples:

A healing potion

noun

A drink that is believed to be poisonous, to have magical power, or to be able to cure an illness

Usage examples:

We don’t have a magic potion to make you tell the truth.

noun

The action of making or manufacturing from components or raw materials, or the process of being so manufactured.

Usage examples:

Banning the production of chemical weapons

noun

A means of solving a problem or dealing with a difficult situation.

Usage examples:

There are no easy solutions to financial and marital problems

A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances

noun

The action of suspending someone or something or the condition of being suspended.

Usage examples:

The suspension of military action

noun

The act of hanging something from above so it moves freely

noun

A medicine made by dissolving a drug in alcohol.

Usage examples:

The remedies can be administered in form of tinctures

verb

Be tinged or imbued with a slight amount of.

Usage examples:

Arthur's affability was tinctured with faint sarcasm

noun

A medicine that consists of a mixture of alcohol and a small amount of a drug

Usage examples:

A/some tincture of iodine/myrrh