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Implement and Prepare

noun

  • Instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end.

verb

  • Apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design.
    • usage: "implement a procedure"
  • Ensure observance of laws and rules.
    • usage: "Apply the rules to everyone";
  • Pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue.
    • usage: "Did he go through with the treatment"; "He implemented a new economic plan"; "She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal"

verb

  • Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc.
    • usage: "Get the children ready for school"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"
  • Prepare for eating by applying heat.
    • usage: "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
  • To prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery.
    • usage: "prepare a report"; "prepare a speech"
  • Arrange by systematic planning and united effort.
    • usage: "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"
  • Educate for a future role or function.
    • usage: "He is grooming his son to become his successor"; "The prince was prepared to become King one day"; "They trained him to be a warrior"
  • Create by training and teaching.
    • usage: "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"
  • Lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord.
    • usage: "prepare the discord in bar 139"
  • Undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession.
    • usage: "She is training to be a teacher"; "He trained as a legal aid"
  • (v.i.) To make all things ready; to put things in order; as, to prepare for a hostile invasion.
  • (v.t.) To fit, adapt or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson.
  • (v.t.) To procure as suitable or necessary; to get ready; to provide; as, to prepare ammunition and provisions for troops; to prepare ships for defence; to prepare an entertainment.
  • (n.) Preparation.
  • (v.i.) To make one's self ready; to get ready; to take the necessary previous measures; as, to prepare for death.