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Remedy vs Preparation - What's the difference?

remedy | preparation |

As nouns the difference between remedy and preparation

is that remedy is something that corrects or counteracts while preparation is (uncountable) the act of preparing or getting ready.

As a verb remedy

is to provide or serve as a remedy for.

remedy

English

(wikipedia remedy)

Noun

(remedies)
  • Something that corrects or counteracts.
  • (legal) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
  • A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
  • He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.

    Derived terms

    * remediless

    Verb

  • To provide or serve as a remedy for.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 27.
  • Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,
    Synonyms
    * redress * help * correct * cure * See also

    preparation

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.
  • That which is prepared.
  • (countable) A substance, especially a remedy, that is prepared.
  • The traditional remedy is a bitter preparation made from steamed herbs.

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