Preparation may refer to:
- Preparedness
- Prepared food
- Prepared supplement
- Prepared drug
- Prepared dosage form
- Preparation (dental), the method by which a tooth is prepared when removing decay and designing a form that will provide adequate retention for a dental restoration
- Preparation (music), treatment of dissonance in tonal music
- Special modifications to instruments, see
- Prepared piano
- Prepared guitar
- Preparation time, time to prepare speeches in policy debate
- Preparation (physics), putting a physical system in a defined state, often used in quantum theoretic context
Prepare can refer to:
- Prepare (SQL), statement in SQL
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Famous quotes containing the word preparation:
“Living each day as a preparation for the next is an exciting way to live. Looking forward to something is much more fun than looking back at something—and much more constructive. If we can prepare ourselves so that we never have to think, “Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready,” our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be.”
—Hortense Odlum (1892–?)
“It’s sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child’s nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast.”
—Joyce Maynard (20th century)
“With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man’s past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavours and the tinglings of a merited shame.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)