preparation

How to sign: preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)

Similiar / Same: homework, prep

Categories: schoolwork, school assignment

preparation

How to sign: activity leading to skilled behavior

Similiar / Same: training, grooming

Categories: activity

Within this category: athletic training, discipline, drill, exercise, military training, retraining, schooling, skull session

preparation

How to sign: the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
"cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife";

Similiar / Same: cooking, cookery

Categories: change of state

Within this category: baking, boiling, braising, broil, cuisine, frying, fusion cooking, percolation, poaching, roasting, toasting

preparation

How to sign: the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose
"preparations for the ceremony had begun";

Similiar / Same: readying

Categories: activity

Within this category: deployment, fire control, groundwork, makeready, planning, priming, turnaround, warm-up