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Prepare vs Workout - What's the difference?

prepare | workout |

As a verb prepare

is .

As a noun workout is

an exercise session; a period of physical exercise.

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;

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    workout

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An exercise session; a period of physical exercise.
  • * 2008 , Jim Montgomery, Mo Chambers, Mastering Swimming , page 157?
  • The following guidelines for smart weekly scheduling can simplify this piece of the planning: Swim three or four workouts each week.
  • A schedule or program of specific exercises, especially one intended to achieve a particular goal.
  • * 2007 , Peter Twist, Complete Conditioning for Hockey? , page 170
  • If athletes do too much too soon, they will be stiff and sore 24 to 48 hours after a new workout .
  • * 2010', Mark Alvisi (quote from a reader), "Mark of a Champion", ''Muscular Development?'' ' 47 (1): 350
  • I read in another magazine about a workout that can put a whole inch on your arms in just one day!
  • (by extension) Any activity that requires much physical or mental effort, or produces strain.
  • * 2001 , Jan Karon, A Common Life: The Wedding Story , page 41?
  • Cynthia's phone got a workout , as well. In approximately three days since the news had hit the street, a total of five bridal showers had been booked, not to mention a luncheon at Esther Cunningham's and tea at Olivia Harper's.

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