Ready

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ready \Read"y\ (r[e^]d"[y^]), adv.
     In a state of preparation for immediate action; so as to need
     no delay.
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           We ourselves will go ready armed.        --Num. xxxii.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ready \Read"y\ (r[e^]d"[y^]), a. [Compar. {Readier}
     (r[e^]d"[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Readiest}.] [AS. r[=ae]de; akin
     to D. gereed, bereid, G. bereit, Goth. gar['a]ids fixed,
     arranged, and possibly to E. ride, as meaning originally,
     prepared for riding. Cf. {Array}, 1st {Curry}.]
     1. Prepared for what one is about to do or experience;
        equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or
        event; prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the
        troops are ready to march; ready for the journey. "When
        she redy was." --Chaucer.
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     2. Fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no delay for
        lack of being prepared or furnished. "Dinner was ready."
        --Fielding.
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              My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things
              are ready: come unto the marriage.    --Matt. xxii.
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     3. Prepared in mind or disposition; not reluctant; willing;
        free; inclined; disposed.
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              I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at
              Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus. --Acts
                                                    xxi. 13.
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              If need be, I am ready to forego
              And quit.                             --Milton.
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     4. Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of
        any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert; as, a ready
        apprehension; ready wit; a ready writer or workman. "Ready
        in devising expedients." --Macaulay.
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              Gurth, whose temper was ready, though surly. --Sir
                                                    W. Scott.
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     5. Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient;
        near; easy. "The readiest way." --Milton.
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              A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground,
              The readiest weapon that his fury found. --Dryden.
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     6. On the point; about; on the brink; near; -- with a
        following infinitive.
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              My heart is ready to crack.           --Shak.
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     7. (Mil.) A word of command, or a position, in the manual of
        arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to
        execute promptly the next command, which is, aim.
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     {All ready}, ready in every particular; wholly equipped or
        prepared. "[I] am all redy at your hest." --Chaucer.
  
     {Ready money}, means of immediate payment; cash. "'T is all
        the ready money fate can give." --Cowley.
  
     {Ready reckoner}, a book of tables for facilitating
        computations, as of interest, prices, etc.
  
     {To make ready}, to make preparation; to get in readiness.
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     Syn: Prompt; expeditious; speedy; unhesitating; dexterous;
          apt; skillful; handy; expert; facile; easy; opportune;
          fitted; prepared; disposed; willing; free; cheerful. See
          {Prompt}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ready \Read"y\, n.
     Ready money; cash; -- commonly with the; as, he was well
     supplied with the ready. [Slang]
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           Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law,
           or to clear old debts.                   --Arbuthnot.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ready \Read"y\, v. t.
     To dispose in order. [Obs.] --Heywood.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ready
       adj 1: completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or
              use or progress; "get ready"; "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" [ant: {unready}]
       2: (of especially money) immediately available; "he seems to
          have ample ready money"; "a ready source of cash" [syn: {ready(a)}]
       3: mentally disposed; "he was ready to believe her"
       4: brought into readiness; "dinner is ready"
       5: apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity; "a
          quick mind"; "a ready wit" [syn: {quick}]
       n : poised for action; "their guns were at the ready"
       v 1: prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner,
            please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast
            for the guests, please" [syn: {cook}, {fix}, {make}, {prepare}]
       2: make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular
          purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children
          ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to
          leave town after I paid the hotel bill" [syn: {fix}, {prepare},
           {set up}, {gear up}, {set}]
       [also: {readiest}, {readier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  439 Moby Thesaurus words for "ready":
     Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, about, accessible,
     accordant, acquiescent, active, acute, adaptable, adept, adjusted,
     adroit, affirmative, agape, agile, agog, agreeable, agreeing,
     alacritous, alert, alive, all agog, all ready, all set, all-around,
     amenable, animated, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative,
     anticipatory, anxious, apprentice, approving, apt, apt to, arch,
     ardent, armed, armed and ready, arrange, artful, artistic,
     assenting, astute, at hand, attentive, authoritative, available,
     avid, awaiting, awake, booted and spurred, brace, bravura, break,
     break in, breathless, breed, briefed, bright, brilliant, bring up,
     bursting to, cagey, calculated to, canny, cash, certain, cheerful,
     clairvoyant, clean, clear for action, clear the decks, clever,
     close at hand, close to, coached, cobble, cocked, commission,
     compliable, compliant, condition, confident, consentient,
     consenting, content, convenient, cooperative, coordinated, cordial,
     crack, crackerjack, crafty, cultivate, cunning, cure, cute, daedal,
     darn, deceitful, decisive, deep, deep-laid, deft, deploy,
     designing, desirous, develop, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic,
     discipline, dispatchful, disposed, disposed to, divinatory, do up,
     docile, doctor, dress, drill, dynamic, eager, educable, endorsing,
     enthusiastic, equip, equipped, excellent, exercise, expectant,
     expecting, expeditious, expert, facile, fain, familiarized, fancy,
     farseeing, farsighted, favorable, favorably disposed,
     favorably inclined, feline, fetch up, fit, fit out, fix, fix up,
     forearmed, forehanded, foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted,
     forestalling, forethoughted, forethoughtful, forewarned, form,
     formable, fortify, forward, foster, foxy, friendly, full of life,
     game, gaping, genial, get, get ready, given, given to, good,
     good and ready, goodish, graceful, gracious, groom, groomed,
     guileful, handy, happy, hopeful, house-train, housebreak,
     immediate, impatient, impressionable, improve, in anticipation,
     in arms, in battle array, in condition, in danger of,
     in expectation, in position, in readiness, in the mind,
     in the mood, in the saddle, inclined, inclined to, informed,
     ingenious, insidious, instant, instantaneous, instructable,
     intelligent, intuitive, inventive, keen, knowing, liable,
     liable to, lick into shape, likely, likely to, live, lively,
     loaded, loaded for bear, longsighted, looking for,
     looking forward to, make, make arrangements, make preparations,
     make ready, make up, malleable, marshal, masterful, masterly,
     mature, mend, minded, minded to, mobilize, mobilized, moldable,
     money, motivated, neat, nimble, no mean, not surprised,
     nothing loath, nurse, nurture, of all work, on call, on deck,
     on hand, on tap, on the, on the alert, on the ball, on the job,
     on the mark, optimistic, organize, overhaul, panting, patch,
     patch up, pawky, perceptive, permissive, plan, planned, plastic,
     pliable, pliant, poised, politic, practice, prearrange,
     prearranged, precognitive, precognizant, predisposed,
     predisposed to, prep, prepare, prepared, prepared and ready,
     prepped, prescient, pretreat, primed, process, professional,
     proficient, prompt, prone, prone to, provide, provided, provident,
     providential, prudent, psyched up, punctual, put in commission,
     put in order, put in repair, put in shape, put in tune,
     put to school, qualified, qui vive, quick, quite some, raise,
     rapid, raring to, ratifying, ready and willing, ready for anything,
     ready to, ready up, rear, recap, receptive, recondition, rehearse,
     repair, resourceful, responsive, retread, ripe,
     ripe for instruction, sagacious, sanctioning, sanguine, scheming,
     schoolable, send to school, serpentine, service, set,
     set to rights, settle preliminaries, sew up, sharp, shifty, shrewd,
     skilled, skillful, sleepless, slick, slippery, sly, smart, smooth,
     snaky, sneaky, some, sophistical, speedy, spirited, spry,
     statesmanlike, stealthy, steel, strategic, strengthen, stylish,
     subject to, submissive, subtile, subtle, summary, supple, sure,
     susceptible, swift, tactful, tactical, take in hand, tan,
     teachable, the compleat, the complete, thirsty for knowledge,
     timely, tinker, tinker up, to hand, tractable, train, trainable,
     treat, trickish, tricksy, tricky, trim, try out, unblinking,
     ungrudging, unloath, unnodding, unrefusing, unreluctant,
     unsleeping, unsurprised, unwinking, up, up in arms, versatile,
     vigilant, virtuoso, vital, vivacious, vivid, vulpine, waiting,
     waiting for, wakeful, wary, watching for, well-disposed, well-done,
     well-inclined, well-prepared, wherewithal, wide-awake, willed,
     willing, willinghearted, wily, workmanlike, zealous, zestful