These are the meanings of the letters NONPREPARATIVE when you unscramble them.
- Preparation (n.)
Accomplishment; qualification.
- Preparation (n.)
An army or fleet.
- Preparation (n.)
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.
- Preparation (n.)
That which makes ready, prepares the way, or introduces; a preparatory act or measure.
- Preparation (n.)
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.
- Preparation (n.)
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.
- Preparation (n.)
The state of being prepared or made ready; preparedness; readiness; fitness; as, a nation in good preparation for war.
- Preparative (a.)
Tending to prepare or make ready; having the power of preparing, qualifying, or fitting; preparatory.
- Preparative (n.)
That which has the power of preparing, or previously fitting for a purpose; that which prepares.
- Preparative (n.)
That which is done in the way of preparation.