Definition of Preparation
Preparation
The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign.
The state of being prepared or made ready; preparedness; readiness; fitness; as, a nation in good preparation for war.
That which makes ready, prepares the way, or introduces; a preparatory act or measure.
That which is prepared, made, or compounded by a certain process or for a particular purpose; a combination. Specifically: (a) Any medicinal substance fitted for use. (b) Anything treated for preservation or examination as a specimen. (c) Something prepared for use in cookery.
An army or fleet.
The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock. See Suspension.
Accomplishment; qualification.
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Preparation Quotations
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Tony Robbins
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
Barack Obama
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
George Washington Carver
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
Lewis Mumford
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Robert H. Schuller
Preparation Translations
preparation in Danish is tilberedelse, tillavning
preparation in Dutch is voorbereidsel, voorbereiding
preparation in German is Aufbereitung {f}, Vorbereitung {f}, Vorbereitung
preparation in Latin is meditatio, paratus
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