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Ready   /rˈɛdi/   Listen
Ready

adjective
(compar. readier; superl. readiest)
1.
Completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress.  "She is ready to resign" , "The bridge is ready to collapse" , "I am ready to work" , "Ready for action" , "Ready for use" , "The soup will be ready in a minute" , "Ready to learn to read"
2.
(of especially money) immediately available.  "A ready source of cash"
3.
Mentally disposed.
4.
Made suitable and available for immediate use.
5.
Apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity.  Synonym: quick.  "A ready wit"
verb
1.
Prepare for eating by applying heat.  Synonyms: cook, fix, make, prepare.  "Can you make me an omelette?" , "Fix breakfast for the guests, please"
2.
Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc.  Synonyms: fix, gear up, prepare, set, set up.  "Prepare for war" , "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"
noun
1.
Poised for action.



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"Ready" Quotes from Famous Books



... and I wonder, now, that I have not been more grateful for the very many that Providence has bestowed on me in my time. My poor Mr. Budd was passionately fond of mutton, and I used wickedly to laugh at his fondness for it, sometimes, when he always had his answer ready, and that was that there are no sheep at sea. How true that is, Rosy dear! there are indeed no sheep ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper
... one o'clock. Saying she would be able to lunch at her aunt's house, Irene forthwith made ready, and drove to Campden Hill. She was led into the drawing-room, and sat there, alone, for five minutes; then Olga entered. The girls advanced to each other with ...
— The Crown of Life • George Gissing
... splints were soon ready. For bandages there were strips from the tattered shirts of both men. Unraveled rope-strands, burnt off in the fire, served to lash all together. Beads of cold sweat gathered and rolled down Blake's white face throughout the cruel operation. Yet he endured every twist and pull of the ...
— Out of the Depths - A Romance of Reclamation • Robert Ames Bennet
... that art brave and unvanquished, liberate Duryodhana, who is even now being taken away a captive! Ye foremost of warriors, these blazing cars, furnished with golden flagstaffs and every kind of weapons belonging to Dhritarashtra's sons, are ready here. With Indrasena and other charioteers skilled in arms, for guiding them, ride ye on these everfurnished cars of deep rattle! And riding on these, exert ye with activity for fighting with the Gandharvas to liberate Duryodhana. Even an ordinary ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 2 • Translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
... name. It would be expedient to restore to my service my own veteran and domestic guards. Before I can take the field, I must receive an adequate supply of light and heavy armed troops; and it is only with ready money that you can procure the indispensable aid of a powerful body of the cavalry of the Huns." [11] An officer in whom Belisarius confided was sent from Ravenna to hasten and conduct the succors; but the message was neglected, and the messenger was detained ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon


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