Word Meanings - PREPARATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock.

Additional info about word: PREPARATION

The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock. See Suspension. 7. Accomplishment; qualification. Shak. (more info) 1. The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign. 2. The state of being prepared or made ready; preparedness; readiness; fitness; as, a nation in good preparation for war. 3. That which makes ready, prepares the way, or introduces; a preparatory act or measure. I will show what preparations there were in nature for this dissolution. T. Burnet. 4. That which is prepared, made, or compounded by a certain process or for a particular purpose; a combination. Specifically: Any medicinal substance fitted for use. Anything treated for preservation or examination as a specimen. Something prepared for use in cookery. I wish the chemists had been more sparing who magnify their preparations. Sir T. Browne. In the preparations of cookery, the most volatile parts of vegetables are destroyed. Arbuthnot. 5. An army or fleet. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PREPARATION)

• Antecedence
• Anteriority
• priority
• precursorship
• premonition
• Introduction
• preparation
• pre-existence
• Atonement
• Reconciliation
• expiation
• compensation
• satisfaction
• recompense
• Beginning
• Commencement
• start
• origin
• rise
• initiation
• preface
• prelude
• inauguration
• inception
• threshold
• opening
• source
• outset
• foundation
• Dress
• Garniture
• arrangement
• clothing
• habiliments
• accoutrements
• vestments
• uniform
• raiment
• apparel
• attire
• clothes
• array
• garments
• livery
• costume
• garb
• investiture
• Provision
• Provisions
• Preparation
• produce
• supply
• anticipation
• food
• supplies
• victuals
• edibles
• eatables

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PREPARATION)

• Disarray
• disarrange
• confuse
• jumble
• divest
• denude
• strip

Related words: (words related to PREPARATION)

• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• ANTERIORITY
  The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• PRELUDER
  One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• UNIFORMISM
  The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• UNIFORMLY
  In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly , to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• RAIMENT
  1. Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense. Living, both food and raiment she supplies. Dryden. 2. An article of dress. Sir P. Sidney.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• ORIGINABLE
  Capable of being originated.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• UNATTIRE
  To divest of attire; to undress.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.