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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



... his life was too soon done, Ended, indeed, while scarcely yet begun; God, with His clearer vision, saw that he Was ready for ...
— 'All's Well!' • John Oxenham
... therefore you know I will one day be ready to lose my soul for you, Bertie, my love. Oh, my dear, dear love, ...
— Phyllis of Philistia • Frank Frankfort Moore
... spite of his distaste for the platform Mark Twain was always giving readings and lectures, without charge, for some worthy Hartford cause. He was ready to do what he could to help an entertainment along, if he could do it in his own way—an original way, sometimes, and not always gratifying to the committee, whose plans ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... that it will please you, Jessie, I can not withstand your entreaties," he returned, thoughtfully. "Still, I have the hope that you may change your mind at the eleventh hour, and be ready to go with me," he added, laughingly. "I have a few letters to write, and will see you after I finish them. Remember it is not every night that one can hear Patti;" and with a few more pleasant words he ...
— Pretty Madcap Dorothy - How She Won a Lover • Laura Jean Libbey
... indicated by popular language, philosophy carried to its highest point frames new ones, but rarely sets aside the old, content with correcting and regularizing them. It cuts fresh channels for thought, but does not fill up such as it finds ready-made; it traces, on the contrary, more deeply, broadly, and distinctly, those into which the current ...
— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various


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