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Prepare and Development

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.

noun

  • Act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining.
    • usage: "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"; "they funded research and development"
  • A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage. )
    • usage: "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer"
  • Biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level. (
    • usage: "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
  • A recent event that has some relevance for the present situation.
    • usage: "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development"
  • The act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful.
    • usage: "the development of Alaskan resources"; "the exploitation of copper deposits"
  • A district that has been developed to serve some purpose.
    • usage: "such land is practical for small park developments"
  • A state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess. )
    • usage: "after he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter"; "in chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen"
  • Processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible.
    • usage: "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours"
  • Music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated. (.

Normally refers to a) improving a product or producing new types of products; or b) in real estate, process of placing improvements on or to a parcel of land.