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prepare
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French preparer, from Classical Latin praepar?re (“make ready in advance”), from prae- (“pre-”) + par?re (“make ready”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p???p??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /p???p???/, /p???p???/
Verb
prepare (third-person singular simple present prepares, present participle preparing, simple past and past participle prepared)
- (transitive) To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip.
- that they may prepare a city for habitation
- our souls, not yet prepared for upper light
- (transitive) To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.
- (intransitive) To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.
- (transitive) To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that can take a following verb in its to + infinitive form. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- busk (obsolete), graith (obsolete), ready, yark (obsolete)
Related terms
- preparation
Derived terms
- if you want peace, prepare for war (proverb)
Translations
Noun
prepare
- (obsolete) preparation
- 1595, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, IV. i. 130:
- Go levy men, and make prepare for war;
- 1595, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, IV. i. 130:
Anagrams
- paperer, repaper
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French préparer (“prepare”), from Latin praepar?re (“make ready in advance”), from prae- (“pre-”) + par?re (“make ready”).
Verb
prepare
- prepare
Portuguese
Verb
prepare
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of preparar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of preparar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of preparar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of preparar
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pre?pare]
Verb
prepare
- third-person singular present subjunctive of prepara
- third-person plural present subjunctive of prepara
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?e?pa?e/, [p?e?pa.?e]
Verb
prepare
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of preparar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of preparar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of preparar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of preparar.
prepare From the web:
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- what prepared the colonies for self-government
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- what prepared vertebrates for life on land
buttress
English
Alternative forms
- buttrice
Etymology
From Old French ars bouterez (noun, literally “supporting arcs”), from bouterez (adj), oblique plural of bouteret (rare in the singular), from Frankish *botan, from Proto-Germanic *bautan? (“to push”). Ultimately cognate with beat.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b?t??s/
- (US) IPA(key): /?b?t??s/
Noun
buttress (plural buttresses)
- (architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- Synonyms: counterfort, brace
- Hyponym: flying buttress
- Coordinate term: pilaster
- (by extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- (botany) A buttress-root.
- (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
- Synonyms: crag, bluff
- Crowell Buttresses, Dismal Buttress
- (figuratively) Anything that supports or strengthens.
Derived terms
- flying buttress
Translations
Verb
buttress (third-person singular simple present buttresses, present participle buttressing, simple past and past participle buttressed)
- To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
- (figuratively, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
- Synonyms: corroborate, substantiate
Translations
Further reading
- buttress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- betrusts
buttress From the web:
- buttress meaning
- what buttressing effect
- what buttress plate
- what does buttressed mean
- buttress what does it do
- what are buttress roots
- what is buttress thread
- what is buttress dam
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