prepare
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～ create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"
prepare
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～ arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"
prepare
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～ to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery; "prepare a report"; "prepare a speech"
prepare
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～ lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord; "prepare the discord in bar 139"
prepare
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～ make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"
prepare
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～ prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
prepay
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～ pay for something before receiving it
preponderate
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～ weigh more heavily; "these considerations outweigh our wishes"
prepose
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～ place before another constituent in the sentence; "English preposes the adpositions; Japanese postposes them"
prepossess
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～ cause to be preoccupied; "The idea of his failure prepossesses him"
prepossess
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～ influence (somebody's) opinion in advance
prepossess
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～ make a positive impression (on someone) beforehand; "A prepossessing appearance"
prerecord
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～ record before presentation, as of a broadcast
presage
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～ indicate, as with a sign or an omen; "These signs bode bad news"
prescribe
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～ issue commands or orders for
prescribe
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～ (medicine) order the use of (a treatment, medicine, etc.), usually by written prescription; "the doctor prescribed steroids for my ear trouble"
prescribe
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～ recommend as beneficial; "my mother prescribes a good night's sleep as the cure for all ills"
present
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～ bring forward and present to the mind; "We presented the arguments to him"; "We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason"
present
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～ deliver (a speech, oration, or idea); "The commencement speaker presented a forceful speech that impressed the students"