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ready

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Pronunciation
/ˈɹɛd.i/
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/ˈɹɛd.i/ · /ˈɹed.i/ · /ˈrɛɖi/

Definition of ready

10 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Prepared for immediate action or use.
    “I made ready to set out on my journey.”
    “The troops are ready for battle.”
    “The porridge is ready to serve.”
    “If need be, I am ready to forego / And quit:”
    “she was told dinner was ready”
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adj

  1. Prepared for immediate action or use.
    “I made ready to set out on my journey.”
    “The troops are ready for battle.”
    “The porridge is ready to serve.”
    “If need be, I am ready to forego / And quit:”
    “she was told dinner was ready”
  2. Prepared for immediate action or use.
    “a loaf of ready-sliced bread”
    “The cave was like a ready-made home for us.”
    “First their must be a clericall tonſure whereas they clyp thꝛee oꝛ fowꝛe lyttle heaires in his crowne, and he muſt[…]be hold a Priest ready made able to haue a benefice,[…]”
    “[…]and whoever can keep their Corps till they can ſend to London, and have a ready-made Coffin ſent down, may afterwards have them kept any reaſonable time.”
    “[…]but, in the improvement of a place in which Nature has furnished few materials in which the groundwork of improvement is tame, and in which suitable diſtances cannot be had, the rules of ſcience and the "ready-made taste" of connoiſſeurs are of little avail to the artiſt.”
  3. Inclined; apt to happen.
  4. Liable at any moment.
    “The seed is ready to sprout.”
    “My heart is ready to crack.”
  5. Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind.
    “a ready apprehension”
    “ready wit”
    “a ready writer or workman”
    “whose temper was ready, though surly”
    “ready in devising expedients”
  6. Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient.
    “Through the wilde Deſert, not the readieſt way,”
    “A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground, / The readiest weapon that his fury found.”

verb

  1. (transitive)To prepare; to make ready for action.
    “Immigration agents in military green surrounded MacArthur Park as the convoy readied for a show of force akin to a Hollywood movie.”

noun

  1. (countable, slang, uncountable)Ready money; cash.
    “[H]e vvas not fluſh in Ready, either to go to Lavv or clear old Debts, neither could he find good Bail: […]”
    “But it's no secret that W. & S. have been getting short of the ready for more than a year now; it's claimed that the fire began in three or four places at once; and Mr Barrowford was the last to leave the premises.”
    “[…] he was generous when he had the cash. Many a time he kept me going in drink through the week when I was stuck for the ready […]”

name

  1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
  2. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Grayson County, Kentucky, United States.

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Etymology

From Middle English redy, redi, rædiȝ, iredi, ȝerǣdi, alteration ( + -y) of earlier irēd, irede, ȝerād (“ready, prepared”), from Old English rǣde, ġerǣde (also ġerȳde) ("prepared, prompt, ready, ready…

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From Middle English redy, redi, rædiȝ, iredi, ȝerǣdi, alteration ( + -y) of earlier irēd, irede, ȝerād (“ready, prepared”), from Old English rǣde, ġerǣde (also ġerȳde) ("prepared, prompt, ready, ready for riding (horse), mounted (on a horse), skilled, simple, easy"), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz, *raidijaz, from base *raidaz (“ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁dʰ-, *h₂reh₁- (“to count, put in order, arrange, make comfortable”) and also probably conflated with Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to ride”) in the sense of "set to ride, able or fit to go, ready". Cognate with Scots readie, reddy (“ready, prepared”), West Frisian ree (“ready”), Dutch gereed (“ready”), German bereit (“ready”), Danish rede (“ready”), Swedish redo (“ready, fit, prepared”), Norwegian reiug (“ready, prepared”), Icelandic greiður (“easy, light”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (garaiþs, “arranged, ordered”).

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