What is prepare?

More definitions of "prepare":

• (verb): To prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery.
  Example: "Prepare a report"; "prepare a speech"

• (verb): Create by training and teaching.
  Synonyms: train, develop, educate

• (verb): Lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord.
  Example: "Prepare the discord in bar 139"

• (verb): Undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession.
  Synonyms: train

• (verb): Prepare (someone) for a future role or function.
  Synonyms: groom, train

• (verb): Arrange by systematic planning and united effort.
  Synonyms: organize, organise, devise, get up, machinate

• (verb): Prepare for eating by applying heat.
  Synonyms: cook, fix, ready, make

Famous quotes containing the word prepare:

“We may prepare food for our children, chauffeur them around, take them to the movies, buy them toys and ice cream, but nothing registers as deeply as a simple squeeze, cuddle, or pat on the back. There is no greater reassurance of their lovability and worth than to be affectionately touched and held.”
—Stephanie Martson (20th century)

“If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another—and always into a better set—things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean—there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)

“We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.”
—Jean-Bertrand Aristide (b. 1953)