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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | process of early development |
| Synonyms: | evolution, fecundation, gravidity, growth, incubation, maturation, pregnancy, reproduction, ripening |
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| Main Entry: | preparation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, readiness |
| Synonyms: | alertness, anticipation, arrangement, background, base, basis, build-up, construction, dry run, education, establishment, evolution, expectation, fitting, foresight, formation, foundation, gestation, getting ready, groundwork, homework, incubation, lead time, making ready, manufacture, measure, plan, precaution, preparedness, preparing, provision, putting in order, qualification, readying, rehearsal, rundown, safeguard, schoolwork, study, substructure, training, tryout, workout |
| Antonyms: | unreadiness |
| Main Entry: | gravidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pregnancy |
| Synonyms: | child-bearing, fertilization, germination, gestation, gravidness, impregnation, parturiency, propagation |
| Main Entry: | gravidness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pregnancy |
| Synonyms: | child-bearing, fertilization, germination, gestation, gravidity, impregnation, parturiency, propagation |
| Main Entry: | parturiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pregnancy |
| Synonyms: | child-bearing, fertilization, germination, gestation, gravidity, gravidness, impregnation, propagation |
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| Main Entry: | preparation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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afloat, afoot, annonary, armed at all points, armed to the teeth, at harness, at one's post, booted and spurred, brewing, brooding, cut and dried, elaborate, forthcoming, fossorial, graith, handy, hatching, highly wrought, in agitation, in arms, in battle array, in best bib and tucker, in course of preparation, in embryo, in full feather, in gear, in hand, in harness, in practice, in preparation, in readiness, in reserve, in saddle, in store for, in training, in war, in working order, inchoate, labored, made to one's hand, mature, mellow, on foot, on the alert, on the anvil, on the stocks, on the table, practiced, precautionary, preliminary, preparative, preparatory, prepared, preparing, provident, provisional, ready, ready, ready to one's hand, smelling of the lamp, snug, sword in hand, under consideration, under revision, up in arms, worked up
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| Concept: | Preparation. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; precursory measures |
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preparation; providing; provision, providence; anticipation (foresight); precaution, preconcertation, predisposition; forecast (plan); rehearsal, note of preparation., [Putting in order] arrangement [more]; clearance; adjustment; tuning; equipment, outfit, accouterment, armament, array., ripening; maturation, evolution; elaboration, concoction, digestion; gestation, batching, incubation, sitting., groundwork, first stone, cradle, stepping-stone; foundation, scaffold (support); scaffolding, echafaudage., [Preparation of men] training (education) [more]; inurement (habit); novitiate., [Preparation of food] cooking, cookery; brewing, culinary art., [Preparation of the soil] tilling, plowing, sowing; semination, cultivation., [State of being prepared] preparedness, readiness, ripeness, mellowness; maturity; un impromptu fait a loisir., [Preparer] preparer, trainer; pioneer, trailblazer; avant-courrier, avant-coureur; voortrekker; sappers and miners, pavior, navvy; packer, stevedore; warming pan.
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| Antonyms: | nonpreparation |
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