Dictionary entry

Prepare

Pronunciation: /prɪˈpɛː/

Pronunciation

/prɪˈpɛː/

Myanmar Meaning

(v) အသင့်ပြင်ဆင် prepares, prepared, preparing

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

  1. I was asked to prepare a report for our next meeting.
  2. [prepare something for someone/something] : Wendy helped Karen prepare the room for their guests.
  3. Wash your hands before eating or preparing food.
  4. [prepare something for someone] : Bob was preparing breakfast for everyone.
  5. [prepare someone something] : The ship’s chef prepared us a light lunch.
  6. [prepare for] : Traders began to prepare for the annual surge of Christmas shoppers.
  7. [prepare something for someone/something] : We’re preparing a special reception for him when he returns.
  8. [prepare to do something] : Medical teams are preparing to leave for Mombasa to treat survivors.
  9. The early introduction of the bill gives councils time to prepare themselves.
  10. We were all working hard to prepare for the wedding.
  11. [prepare (yourself) for something] : I think you should prepare yourself for a shock.
  12. [prepare someone for something] : This course prepares graduates for management careers in the tourist industry.
  13. [prepare (yourself) to do something] : She knocked twice on the door and prepared herself to meet her new son-in-law.
  14. [prepare someone to do something] : We aim to cover your basic military training and prepare you to join the Navy team.
  15. These remedies are prepared from the flowers of wild plants
  16. bushes
  17. and trees.