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I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did was a musical. Parents love musicals. And I don't sing. It was driving me crazy. 'We're doing 'Macbeth.' 'Yes!' 'The musical!' And I was always in the chorus, because of course, in all the main parts, you had to be able to sing.
Charlie Cox

Meaning of "prep" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PREP

prep  [prɛp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PREP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prep is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb prep in English.

WHAT DOES PREP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of prep in the English dictionary

The definition of prep in the dictionary is to prepare for a medical operation or procedure.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PREP

PRESENT

Present
I prep
you prep
he/she/it preps
we prep
you prep
they prep
Present continuous
I am preping
you are preping
he/she/it is preping
we are preping
you are preping
they are preping
Present perfect
I have preped
you have preped
he/she/it has preped
we have preped
you have preped
they have preped
Present perfect continuous
I have been preping
you have been preping
he/she/it has been preping
we have been preping
you have been preping
they have been preping
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I preped
you preped
he/she/it preped
we preped
you preped
they preped
Past continuous
I was preping
you were preping
he/she/it was preping
we were preping
you were preping
they were preping
Past perfect
I had preped
you had preped
he/she/it had preped
we had preped
you had preped
they had preped
Past perfect continuous
I had been preping
you had been preping
he/she/it had been preping
we had been preping
you had been preping
they had been preping
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will prep
you will prep
he/she/it will prep
we will prep
you will prep
they will prep
Future continuous
I will be preping
you will be preping
he/she/it will be preping
we will be preping
you will be preping
they will be preping
Future perfect
I will have preped
you will have preped
he/she/it will have preped
we will have preped
you will have preped
they will have preped
Future perfect continuous
I will have been preping
you will have been preping
he/she/it will have been preping
we will have been preping
you will have been preping
they will have been preping
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would prep
you would prep
he/she/it would prep
we would prep
you would prep
they would prep
Conditional continuous
I would be preping
you would be preping
he/she/it would be preping
we would be preping
you would be preping
they would be preping
Conditional perfect
I would have prep
you would have prep
he/she/it would have prep
we would have prep
you would have prep
they would have prep
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been preping
you would have been preping
he/she/it would have been preping
we would have been preping
you would have been preping
they would have been preping
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you prep
we let´s prep
you prep
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to prep
Past participle
preped
Present Participle
preping
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PREP


demirep
ˈdɛmɪˌrɛp
rep
rɛp
repp
rɛp
strep
strɛp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PREP

preowned
prep school
prep.
prepack
prepackage
prepacked
prepaid
preparation
preparations
preparative
preparatively
preparator
preparatorily
preparatory
preparatory school
preparatory to
prepare
prepared
prepared food
prepared piano

WORDS THAT END LIKE PREP

asleep
cep
deep
dubstep
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holiday rep
Jeep
keep
sales rep
sheep
sitrep
sleep
step
step by step
step-by-step
sweep
the deep
tour rep
travel rep
yep

Synonyms and antonyms of prep in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «prep» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PREP

Find out the translation of prep to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prep from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prep» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

准备
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prep
570 millions of speakers

English

prep
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रस्तुत करने का
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإعدادية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

преп
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

prep
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

préparation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Prep
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

prep
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

準備
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

준비
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prep
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chuẩn bị
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தனியார்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

PReP
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hazırlık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

prep
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prep
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

преп
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prep
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

prep
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

prep
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

prep
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prep
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prep

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PREP»

The term «prep» is very widely used and occupies the 8.757 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PREP» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «prep» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «prep» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prep

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «PREP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word prep.
1
Nina Arianda
Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.
2
David Boreanaz
I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.
3
Alain de Botton
I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.
4
Julie Bowen
I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.
5
Charlie Cox
I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did was a musical. Parents love musicals. And I don't sing. It was driving me crazy. 'We're doing 'Macbeth.' 'Yes!' 'The musical!' And I was always in the chorus, because of course, in all the main parts, you had to be able to sing.
6
Rocco DiSpirito
The 1,000 tasting portions were to be served over a period of six hours, starting at noon, so we would have to prep those another way, to keep them as fresh as possible.
7
Noah Feldman
To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years.
8
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.
9
Rickie Fowler
All you can do is really the prep work and make sure you're ready to hit each golf shot. Outside of that, you're not sure really what's going to happen. It's a funny game, but I think that's why I love it. You never know, one day to the next; you could go shoot 62, and the next day you're going to shoot 78, and you can't predict it.
10
Max Greenfield
I just never want to be in this situation where I get to set and they're like, 'We rewrote this scene, you're now naked.' I need a little prep work.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREP»

Discover the use of prep in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prep and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Prep
A stunning novel in the great tradition of American coming-of-age novels from Catcher in the Rye to The Secret History.
Curtis Sittenfeld, 2012
2
Sat Prep Black Book
"Click the "look inside" feature above to browse the Black Book and get a feel...
Mike Barrett, 2013
3
The Real ACT Prep Guide: The Only Official Prep Guide From ...
A guide to preparing for the ACT offers advice on test-taking, information on the new optional Writing Test, and three practice ACTs previously used in actual test administrations.
Peterson's Guides Staff, 2005
4
GRE Prep Course
Every year students pay as much as $900 to test prep companies to prepare for the GRE. Now you can get the same preparation in a book. GRE Prep Course eBook provides the equivalent of a two-month, 50-hour course.
Jeff Kolby, Scott Thornburg, 2004
5
SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9, ...
New and experienced SAS users who want to prepare for the Base Programming for SAS 9 exam will find the "SAS Certification Prep Guide" to be an invaluable, convenient, and comprehensive resource that covers all of the objectives tested on ...
SAS Institute, 2011
6
FTCE - The Best Teachers' Test Prep for Florida Teacher ...
Cash is not accepted. How to Use this Book What do I study first? Read over the reviews and the suggestions for test-taking. Studying the reviews thoroughly will reinforce the basic skills you will need to do well on the exam.
Leasha Barry, Betty J. Bennet, Enrique Ortiz, 2004
7
Perfectly Prep : Gender Extremes at a New England Prep ...
This book examines the price of privilege and uncovers how student culture reflects and perpetuates society and institutional power structures and gender ideologies.
Sarah A. Chase Department of Anthropology Brown University, 2008
8
SAT Vocabulary Prep Level 1
Provides five hundred SAT vocabulary words, separted into three difficulty levels, that include definitions, parts of speech, pronunciation, synonyms, and sample sentences in contex.
Kaplan, 2008
9
SAT Prep Course EBook
Many of the exercises in this book are designed to prompt you to think like an SAT test writer. For example, in the SAT math section, you will find Duals. These are pairs of similar SAT problems in which only one property is different.
Jeff Kolby, 2005
10
COMPASS Exam - Bob Miller's Math Prep
About the Author Author, teacher, and renowned mathematician Bob Miller has taught at virtually every educational level. Bob says: "In this book, I break down COMPASS math and put it back together in step-by-step fashion.
Bob Miller, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prep is used in the context of the following news items.
1
PrEP demo project finds the people at highest HIV risk generally …
An open-label demonstration project of Truvada pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the United States has found generally high retention and ... «aidsmap, Jul 15»
2
Top 3 summer ACT/SAT prep mistakes
If you are planning to sit for the ACT or the SAT this fall, you should thus begin your test prep this summer. If three months sounds like a long ... «USA TODAY College, Jul 15»
3
2015 Fantasy Football Draft Prep: Camp storylines to watch
Editor's Note: This year, elevate your league to CBS Sports Fantasy Football Commissioner! It includes Custom Settings, Exclusive Advice, the ... «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»
4
Milliken makes return as Jays prep for Italy trip
James Milliken, who's been out since late June because of a minor meniscus tear, returned to practice Monday. Milliken is CU's top returning ... «Omaha World-Herald, Jul 15»
5
First day in pads: Prep football teams turn up the heat
Area high school football teams were able to hit the field in full pads for the first time Monday. Many started early in the morning and others ... «The Tennessean, Jul 15»
6
10 Tips for Those Delirious From Bar Exam Prep
Jeena-Cho-e1427809421622-300x295 Over the weekend, I stumbled onto #Barexam on Twitter. Some Tweets were funny, others were heart wrenching, while ... «Above the Law, Jul 15»
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St. Peter's Prep's Jayson Ademilola and Justin Ademilola to visit …
Despite only being sophomores, recruiting has certainly taken off for St. Peter's Prep defensive end Jayson Ademilola and linebacker Justin ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
8
UNLV football gets oral commitments from prep QB, DE
UNLV football head coach Tony Sanchez, back to camera, watches his team run drills during the first day of spring practice at Rebel Park at ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jul 15»
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Prep standout Tate Martell says USC is in his top-five schools
Tate Martell, considered a top quarterback in the 2017 recruiting class, announced his favorite schools on Sunday. “Top 5 schools (No Order) 1. «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
10
Prep basketball: Wasatch Academy hires Curtis Condie as new boys …
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Wasatch coach Geno Morgan talks to Insa Kaba during the 1A championship game on March 5, 2011. «Salt Lake Tribune, Jul 15»

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