What is the difference between prepare and prep?
prepare | prep |
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:
(countable) Preparation.
(informal, countable) A student or graduate of a prep school, a preppy.
(British, uncountable) Homework, work set to do outside class time, used widely in public schools and preparatory schools but not state schools.
(informal) To prepare.
As verbs the difference between prepare and prep
is that prepare is to make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble while prep is to prepare.As nouns the difference between prepare and prep
is that prepare is preparation while prep is preparation.As an initialism PREP is
initialism of pre-exposure prophylaxis.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;
