prepare

«prepare» in Mova's school dictionary: to make something ready to use — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (prepare, prepares, prepared, preparing)

meaning for a pupil

1) To prepare is to make something ready to use. tree →

2) To get yourself ready for something that will happen, like a test or a trip. tree →

3) To make food ready to eat. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used at school: prepare for a test, prepare a presentation. In everyday life: prepare dinner, prepare for a storm. Safety: prepare an emergency kit. Phrases: "be prepared" (the Scouts' motto), "prepare for", "prepared to" (willing to).

examples

• We prepared for the spelling test. tree →
• Dad is preparing dinner. tree →
• Prepare your materials before you start the experiment. tree →
• The town prepared for the storm. tree →
• Be prepared and take a raincoat. tree →
• I am not prepared to give up. tree →
• She prepared a talk about volcanoes. tree →
• When he got there he began to prepare a grave. tree →

note

Noun: preparation. "Prepared to do something" can mean "willing to". Follows with "for" + noun: prepare for the race.

In the corpora

• Zoo kitchens prepare hundreds of meals a day, and nutritionists plan the right mix of food for each kind of animal.
• Big storms such as hurricanes and cyclones are forecast days ahead, so families have time to prepare and to leave if told to.
• A warm-up gets the blood flowing and prepares muscles and joints, but stretching alone doesn't prevent every injury.
• Fear sets off the brain's alarm system, the amygdala, which prepares the body to fight, run or freeze.
• Turning a question towards the topic you want to talk about is called pivoting; talking points are lines prepared in advance.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «prepare» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.