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ready

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 prepare for immediate action or use. 2 inclined; apt to happen. 3 liable at any moment. 4 Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert. n. (context slang English) ready money; cash v To make prepared ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., "to administer;" c.1300, "to take aim;" mid-14c., "to prepare, make ready," from ready (adj.). Related: Readied ; readying .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ready \Read"y\, v. t. To dispose in order. [Obs.] --Heywood.

Usage examples of ready.

I will now go and skin that troll who went so nigh to slay thee, and break up the carcase, if thou wilt promise to abide about the door of the house, and have thy sword and the spear ready to hand, and to don thine helm and hauberk to boot.

But no human being loved the aborigines more, nor stood ready to lay down her life for them if it were necessary.

But Napoleon could not accede to such proposals, for he was always ready to yield to illusion when the truth was not satisfactory to him.

The accelerator should be ready for operation before 2010, and shortly thereafter supersymmetry may be confirmed experimentally.

In spite of all these considerations, I felt a sort of pleasure in accepting for ready cash all the counterfeit coins that she had spread out before me.

Out of politeness the countess looked at her husband before accepting the invitation, but he cried out, without ceremony, that he was ready to go if I took the whole family.

When he was ready to break camp, Ace decided to ride along the river until he came to a fur post.

I was ready to call it quits and give up on the reward and just spend the next few years enjoying a little pre-connubial bliss, she told me that I was all through going to Acme Fertilizer Company and would now be making my pick-ups at the Prime Fish Hatcheries.

Great Britain, her ready acquiescence in the transfer of Corsica to France, and the encouragement of the French minister Choiseul, emboldened the Spanish court to revive its pretensions to these islands.

I was in the middle of the seventh act, always slower and more pleasant for the actress than the first two or three, when Costa came knocking loudly at my door, calling out that the felucca was ready.

The Senate and the House were both ready to adjourn on the 20th of July, but Mr.

Stafford back - to the admin building, where the secretary had his temporary office ready.

Don Quixote found himself a knight, ready to sally forth in search of adventures, and he saddled Rocinante and mounted him, and, embracing his host, he said such strange things to him as he thanked him for the boon of having dubbed him a knight that it is not possible to adequately recount them.

CIC, ready rooms, wardrooms, chiefs quarters, berth- ing spaces, in aerology, the radio shack, on the hangar deck, all through the ship the men waited.

None of these countries had prepared for aeronautic warfare on the magnificent scale of the Germans, but each guarded secrets, each in a measure was making ready, and a common dread of German vigour and that aggressive spirit Prince Karl Albert embodied, had long been drawing these powers together in secret anticipation of some such attack.