preparation

arrangement; plan; preparation; disposal, disposition; collocation, allocation; distribution; sorting; assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization; grouping; tabulation., analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion., [Result of arrangement] digest; synopsis (compendium); syntagma, table, atlas; file, database; register (record); organism, architecture., [Instrument for sorting] sieve, riddle, screen, sorter.

reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally., arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order; set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of, assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion., class, classify; divide; file, string together, thread; register (record); catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade., methodize, regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle, fix., unravel, disentangle, ravel, card; disembroil; feaze.

arranged; embattled, in battle array; cut and dried; methodical, orderly, regular, systematic.

corridors of time, sweep of time, vesta of time, course of time, progress of time, process of time, succession of time, lapse of time, flow of time, flux of time, stream of time, tract of time, current of time, tide of time, march of time, step of time, flight of time; duration., [Indefinite time] aorist.

elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass; roll on, wear on, press on; flit, fly, slip, slide, glide; run its course., expire; go by, pass by; be past.

elapsing; aoristic; progressive.

production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster; organization; nisus formativus; putting together; establishment; workmanship, performance; achievement (completion)., flowering, fructification; inflorescence., bringing forth; parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture; gestation (maturation); assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen., spontaneous generation; archegenesis, archebiosis; biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis; authorship, publication; works, oeuvre., biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny; tocogony, vacuolization., edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit.

produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish (complete)., flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle; bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world., make productive; create; beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate; procreate, progenerate, propagate; engender; bring into being, call into being, bring into existence; breed, hatch, develop, bring up., induce, superinduce; suscitate; cause; acquire.

produced, producing; productive of; prolific; creative; formative, genetic, genial, genital; pregnant; enceinte, big with, fraught with; in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of; puerperal, puerperous., digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic; ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous., architectonic.

provision, supply; grist, grist for the mill; subvention (aid); resources (means); groceries, grocery., providing; purveyance; reenforcement; commissariat., provender (food); ensilage; viaticum., caterer, purveyor, commissary, quartermaster, manciple, feeder, batman, victualer, grocer, comprador, restaurateur; jackal, pelican; sutler (merchant)., grocery shop [U.S.], grocery store, market.

provide; make provision, make due provision for; lay in, lay in a stock, lay in a store., supply, suppeditate; furnish; find, find one in; arm., cater, victual, provision, purvey, forage; beat up for; stock, stock with; make good, replenish; fill, fill up; recruit, feed., have in store, have in reserve; keep, keep by one, keep on foot, keep on hand; have to fall back upon; store; provide against a rainy day (economy).

punctuality, promptness, immediateness.

timely, seasonable, in time, punctual, prompt.

on time, punctually, at the deadline, precisely, exactly; right on time, to the minute; in time; in good time, in military time, in pudding time, in due time; time enough; with no time to spare, by a hair's breadth.