The meaning of Preparations

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

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…

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

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 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

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

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