Dictionary entry
Prepared
Pronunciation: /prɪˈpɛː/
Pronunciation
/prɪˈpɛː/
Myanmar Meaning
(adj) ကြိုတင်မျှော်လင့်ထား (v[pt]) အသင့်ပြင်ဆင်ခဲ့ (v[pp]) အသင့်ပြင်ဆင်ခဲ့ပြီး
Definition
prepare /prÇ'peǝ(r)/ v ၁။ ~ (sth/sb/oneself) (for sb/sth) အသင့္ျပင္ သည္။ I had no time to prepare. ❍ have everything prepared beforehand ❍ The police are preparing (themselves) for trouble at next week's demonstration. ❍ A hotel room is being prepared for them/ their arrival. ❍ The troops prepared (themselves) to go into battle. ၂။ အစားအေသာက္ျပင္သည္။ (ငါးစသည္)ကိုင္သည္။ He was in the kitchen preparing lunch. ❍ Prepare the fish by wiping it with a damp paper towel. ၃။ ~ sth (from sth) ( chemistry ) ဓာတုေဗဒနည္းျဖင့္ ေဖာ္စပ္သည္။ prepare penicillin in the laboratory. ❏ prepared adj ၁။ ~ (for sth) ႀကိဳတင္ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထား [ေသာ]။ အသင့္ျဖစ္[ေသာ]။ I knew there were problems, but I was not prepared for this! ❍ We'll be better prepared next time. ၂။ ~ to do sth အသင့္ျဖစ္[ေသာ]။ I am prepared to lend you the money if you promise to pay it back next week. ❍ They seem prepared to compromise. ၃။ ႀကိဳတင္ျပင္ဆင္ထားေသာ။ အသင့္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ The spokesman read out a prepared statement. ❍ I often buy prepared meals at the supermarket. ❏ prepare the ground(for sth)[ IDM ] လမ္းခင္းေပးသည္။ The committee will prepare the ground for next month's summit. ❍ Early experiments with rockets prepared the ground for space travel.
Examples
- I was asked to prepare a report for our next meeting.
- [prepare something for someone/something] : Wendy helped Karen prepare the room for their guests.
- Wash your hands before eating or preparing food.
- [prepare something for someone] : Bob was preparing breakfast for everyone.
- [prepare someone something] : The ship’s chef prepared us a light lunch.
- [prepare for] : Traders began to prepare for the annual surge of Christmas shoppers.
- [prepare something for someone/something] : We’re preparing a special reception for him when he returns.
- [prepare to do something] : Medical teams are preparing to leave for Mombasa to treat survivors.
- The early introduction of the bill gives councils time to prepare themselves.
- We were all working hard to prepare for the wedding.
- [prepare (yourself) for something] : I think you should prepare yourself for a shock.
- [prepare someone for something] : This course prepares graduates for management careers in the tourist industry.
- [prepare (yourself) to do something] : She knocked twice on the door and prepared herself to meet her new son-in-law.
- [prepare someone to do something] : We aim to cover your basic military training and prepare you to join the Navy team.
- These remedies are prepared from the flowers of wild plants
- bushes
- and trees.