Preparatory vs. Preparation — What's the Difference?

Serving to make ready or prepare; introductory.

The act or process of preparing

Relating to or engaged in study or training that serves as preparation for advanced education

The state of having been made ready beforehand; readiness.

In preparation for. Used with to

Often preparations An action done to prepare for something, especially for an event or undertaking

Of or pertaining to preparation, having the purpose of making something or someone ready, preparative.

A substance, such as a medicine, prepared for a particular purpose.

Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.

The anticipation of a dissonant tone by means of its introduction as a consonant tone in the preceding chord.

Preceding and preparing for something;

The dissonant tone so anticipated.

(uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.

(uncountable) The state of being prepared; readiness.

(countable) That which is prepared.

A substance, especially a remedy, that is prepared.

(anatomy) A part of any animal body preserved as a specimen.

(music) Any of the objects placed between the strings of a prepared piano.

(Judaism) The day before the Sabbath or other Jewish feast-day.

Devotional exercises introducing an office.

(music) The previous introduction, as an integral part of a chord, of a note continued into a succeeding dissonance.

The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign.

The state of being prepared or made ready; preparedness; readiness; fitness; as, a nation in good preparation for war.

That which makes ready, prepares the way, or introduces; a preparatory act or measure.

That which is prepared, made, or compounded by a certain process or for a particular purpose; a combination. Specifically: (a) Any medicinal substance fitted for use. (b) Anything treated for preservation or examination as a specimen. (c) Something prepared for use in cookery.

An army or fleet.

The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock. See Suspension.

Accomplishment; qualification.

The activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose;

A substance prepared according to a formula

The cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening;

The state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action);

(music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord;

Activity leading to skilled behavior

Preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)

The act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat;