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Prepare vs Foreshape - What's the difference?

prepare | foreshape |

As verbs the difference between prepare and foreshape

is that prepare is while foreshape is to shape or mould beforehand; prepare in advance.

As a noun foreshape is

that which is shaped in advance.

prepare

English

Verb

(prepar)
  • To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble.
  • * Bible, Psalms cvii. 36
    • that they may prepare a city for habitation
  • * Dryden
    • our souls, not yet prepared for upper light
  • 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 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.}}
  • To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.

    • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that can take a following verb in its to + infinitive form. See

    Synonyms

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)

    Noun

  • (obsolete) preparation
  • * 1595 , , IV. i. 130:
    • Go levy men, and make prepare for war;

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    foreshape

    English

    Verb

  • To shape or mould beforehand; prepare in advance.
  • *1867 , The British controversialist and literary magazine - Page 403:
    • Thought forecasts and foreshapes experiment, and traces out the consequences as they arise, comparing them with the sharp directness of its expectations.
  • *1998 , J. Melvin Woody, Freedom's Embrace - Page 79 :
    • What the self is to become thereby ceases to be a fate that haunts it or lies ambuscaded in its circumstances, for the self can foreshape its own career and reality.
  • *2002 , Bridget Boardman, Poems of Francis Thompson - Page 80 :
    • Thou canst foreshape thy word; The poet is not lord [...]

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is shaped in advance.
  • A forward or projecting form, piece, or shape.
  • *1982 , Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Patents, Volume 1018, Issue 1 - Page 158:
    • [...] wherein this component means is in the form of a module, structurally comprises the forward nose portion of said weapon, and has a lenticular cross section with a foreshape conforming to a Sears-Haack half-body profile of least drag in width and thickness, [...]