Making vs Prepare - What's the difference?
making | prepare |
The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
Process of growth or development.
To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble.
* Bible, Psalms cvii. 36
* Dryden
To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.
To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.
(obsolete) preparation
* 1595 , , IV. i. 130:
As nouns the difference between making and prepare
is that making is the act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction while prepare is preparation.As verbs the difference between making and prepare
is that making is present participle of lang=en while prepare is to make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble.making
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) making, from (etyl) , (etyl) machunga.Noun
(en noun)- ''As a child he didn’t seem like a genius in the making .
Etymology 2
From .Verb
(head)- Soon (30 years?) we'll be making complete DNA and life in reverse, growing food that only reversed creatures cn eat. - Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups - fa.human-nets, 10 May 1981 09:16-EDT, Robert Elton Maas
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*prepare
English
Verb
(prepar)- that they may prepare a city for habitation
- our souls, not yet prepared for upper light
citation, passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that can take a following verb in its to + infinitive form. SeeSynonyms
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)Noun
- Go levy men, and make prepare for war;