Chinese New Year Family Tradition: Making and Enjoying Dumplings

verb

1. make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc

e.g. Get the children ready for school!
prepare for war
I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill

Synonym: fixset upreadygear upset

2. undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession

e.g. She is training to be a teacher
He trained as a legal aid

Synonym: train

3. create by training and teaching

e.g. The old master is training world-class violinists
we develop the leaders for the future

Synonym: traindevelopeducate

4. arrange by systematic planning and united effort

e.g. machinate a plot
organize a strike
devise a plan to take over the director's office

Synonym: organizeorganisedeviseget upmachinate

5. prepare for eating by applying heat

e.g. Cook me dinner, please
can you make me an omelette?
fix breakfast for the guests, please

Synonym: cookfixreadymake

6. to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery

e.g. prepare a report
prepare a speech

7. lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord

e.g. prepare the discord in bar 139

8. educate for a future role or function

e.g. He is grooming his son to become his successor
The prince was prepared to become King one day
They trained him to be a warrior

Synonym: groomtrain

noun

1. a specific practice of long standing

Synonym: custom

2. an inherited pattern of thought or action

noun

1. the act of filling something

2. (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth

e.g. when he yawned I could see the gold fillings in his teeth
an informal British term for `filling' is `stopping'

3. the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

Synonym: woofweftpick

4. a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.

5. flow into something (as a container)

6. any material that fills a space or container

e.g. there was not enough fill for the trench

Synonym: fill

noun

1. a loose dressing gown for women

    Synonym: negligeenegligepeignoirhousecoat

2. cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person

    Synonym: wrap

3. the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped

    Synonym: wrappingwrap