Arranged vs Prepared - What's the difference?
arranged | prepared |
(arrange)
To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 To put in order, to organize.
To plan; to prepare in advance.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.}}
(label) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.
Willing.
(prepare)
As verbs the difference between arranged and prepared
is that arranged is past tense of arrange while prepared is past tense of prepare.As an adjective prepared is
willing.arranged
English
Verb
(head)arrange
English
Verb
(arrang)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeDerived terms
* arrangementprepared
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The journalist interviewed an eye-witness who was not prepared to disclose his identity.