Preparation vs. Planning — What's the Difference?

The act or process of preparing

Planning is the process of thinking about the activities required to achieve a desired goal. It is the first and foremost activity to achieve desired results.

The state of having been made ready beforehand; readiness.

The process of making plans for something

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

An orderly or step-by-step conception or proposal for accomplishing an objective

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

A proposed or intended course of action

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

A systematic arrangement of elements or important parts; a configuration or outline

The dissonant tone so anticipated.

A drawing or diagram made to scale showing the structure or arrangement of something.

(uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.

In perspective rendering, one of several imaginary planes perpendicular to the line of vision between the viewer and the object being depicted.

(uncountable) The state of being prepared; readiness.

A program or policy stipulating a service or benefit

(countable) That which is prepared.

To formulate a scheme or program for the accomplishment, enactment, or attainment of

A substance, especially a remedy, that is prepared.

To have as a specific aim or purpose; intend

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

To draw or make a graphic representation of.

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

To make plans.

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

Present participle of plan

Devotional exercises introducing an office.

(uncountable) Action of the verb to plan.

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

The act of formulating of a course of action, or of drawing up plans.

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 act of making contingency plans.

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

Planning permission.

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

An act of formulating a program for a definite course of action;

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.

The act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise

An army or fleet.

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

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;