ready

ready

See also: Ready

Translingual

Etymology

From English ready, from the English-language sequence on your marks, ready, set, go, of which only "ready" is used translingually.

Interjection

ready

1. (sports) The command to make ready, regardless of language of competitors, used in multiple sports to get contestants to their marks in preparation to start.

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English

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 for riding (horse), mounted (on a horse), skilled, simple, easy"), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz, *raidijaz, from base *raidaz (“ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēydʰ-, *rēy- (“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”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĕd'i, IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛd.i/

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  Homophone: reddy

  Rhymes: -ɛdi

• Hyphenation: read‧y

Adjective

ready (comparative readier, superlative readiest)

1. Prepared for immediate action or use.

   The troops are ready for battle.

   The porridge is ready to serve.

   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, page 87:

     If need be, I am ready to forego / And quit:

   • 1711, Jonathan Swift, journal to Stella

     she was told dinner was ready

   • 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, OCLC 865290061, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:

     Miranda I'll admit it, Shepard. I'm impressed. You got us here. Are you ready?
     Shepard: We're going in blind, and we don't even know if we'll survive the trip. No way in hell we're ready... but we don't have a choice.

2. Inclined; apt to happen.
3. Liable at any moment.

   The seed is ready to sprout.

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

     My heart is ready to crack.

4. Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind.

   Synonyms: dexterous, prompt, easy, expert

   a ready apprehension

   ready wit

   a ready writer or workman

   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662:

     whose temper was ready, though surly

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 13, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     ready in devising expedients

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], “The First Gun”, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175, page 16:

     Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust. Looking back, I recollect she had very beautiful brown eyes.

   • 1895, Rudyard Kipling, “The King’s Ankus”, in The Second Jungle Book, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 637556, page 188:

     "Apple of Death" is what the Jungle call thorn-apple or dhatura, the readiest poison in all India.

   • 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.

5. Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, line 1097:

     Through the wilde Deſert, not the readieſt way,

   • 1700, John Dryden, Theodore and Honoria

     A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground, / The readiest weapon that his fury found.

Synonyms

• good to go

Antonyms

• unready

Hypernyms

• cable ready
• camera-ready
• enterprise-ready
• make-ready
• oven-ready
• shovel-ready

 

Derived terms

• at the ready
• dinner's ready
• get ready
• my body is ready
• on the ready
• readily
• readiness
• ready about
• ready, aim, fire!
• ready as Freddy
• ready, fire, aim
• ready-handed
• ready-made
• ready meal
• ready-mix
• ready-mixed
• ready money
• ready or not
• ready-pole
• ready reckoner
• ready room
• ready salted
• ready, set, go!
• ready, steady, go
• ready to be tied
• ready to hand
• ready-to-wear
• ready, willing, and able
• rough and ready
• single and ready to mingle
• unready

 

Translations

prepared for immediate action or use

Arabic: جَاهِز‎ (jāhiz), مُسْتَعِدّ‎ (mustaʿidd) Egyptian Arabic: جاهز‎ (gāhiz) Armenian: պատրաստ (hy) (patrast) Assamese: সাজু (xazu) Azerbaijani: hazır (az) Bashkir: әҙер (äðer) Basque: prest Belarusian: гато́вы (hatóvy) Bengali: প্রস্তুত (bn) (prôstut) Bulgarian: готов (bg) (gotov) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: llest (ca) Chechen: кийча (kiiča) Chinese: Mandarin: 準備好的／准备好的 (zhǔnbèi hǎo de) Czech: připravený (cs) m, hotový (cs) Dutch: gereed (nl), klaar (nl) Esperanto: preta (eo) Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: valmis (fi) French: prêt (fr) m, prête (fr) f Georgian: მზად (mzad) German: bereit (de), fertig (de), gar (de) (of food), parat (de) Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐍅𐌿𐍃 (manwus) Greek: έτοιμος (el) (étoimos) Ancient: ἑτοῖμος (hetoîmos) Gujarati: તૈયાર (taiyār), સજ્જ (sajj) Hawaiian: mākaukau Hebrew: מוּכָן‎ (mukhan) Hindi: तैयार (hi) (taiyār), मुस्तैद (hi) (mustaid), सिद्ध (hi) (siddh), आमादा (hi) (āmādā), तत्पर (hi) (tatpar), सज्ज (hi) (sajj), तैनात (hi) (taināt) Hungarian: kész (hu) Icelandic: tilbúinn (is) m, undirbúinn m Ido: pronta (io) Ingrian: valmis Ingush: кийча (kiiča) Irish: réidh, ullamh Italian: pronto (it), preparato (it) Japanese: 用意の出来た (よういのできた, yōi no dekita), 出来上がり (できあがり, dekiagari), 準備の出来た (じゅんびのできた, junbi no dekita) Kazakh: даяр (daär) Khmer: ត្រៀមខ្លួនជាស្រេច (triəm khluən ciə srəc) Korean: 준비된 (junbidoen) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ئامادە‎ (ku) (amade) Lao: ພ້ອມ (phǭm) Latgalian: gotovs m, sasarūss m Latin: aptus (la), parātus (la), promptus Latvian: gatavs Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: спремен (spremen), готов (gotov) Malay: sedia Maori: reri, takatū Marathi: तयार (tayār) Mongolian: бэлэн (mn) (belen) Nepali: तयार (ne) (tayār) Ngazidja Comorian: tiyari Norwegian: klar (no), parat (no) Occitan: lèst Ossetian: цӕттӕ (cættæ) Persian: آماده‎ (fa) (âmâde), تیار‎ (fa) (tayyâr), رو به راه‎ (fa) (ru be râh) Plautdietsch: reed Polish: gotowy (pl) Portuguese: pronto (pt) m, preparado (pt) m Punjabi: ਤਿਆਰ (pa) (tiāra) Russian: гото́вый (ru) (gotóvyj) Scots: boun Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: спреман, готов Roman: spreman (sh), gotov (sh) Slovak: hotový Slovene: pripravljen, gotov, nared (sl) Somali: diyaar Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: gótowy Spanish: preparado (es), listo (es) Swedish: beredd (sv), redo (sv) Tajik: тайор (tayor) Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: సిద్ధం (siddhaṁ), తయారు (te) (tayāru) Thai: พร้อม (th) (prɔ́ɔm) Tocharian B: ārwer Turkish: hazır (tr), anık (tr) Ukrainian: гото́вий (uk) (hotóvyj) Urdu: تیار‎ (taiyār) Vietnamese: sẵn sàng (vi) Welsh: parod (cy) Westrobothnian: gålinn, gåli, gallin Yagnobi: тайор (tayor) Yakut: бэлэм (belem) Yiddish: פֿאַרטיק‎ (fartik)

inclined, apt to happen

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can Arabic: حَاضِر‎ (ḥāḍir), مُسْتَعِدّ‎ (mustaʿidd) Armenian: պատրաստ (hy) (patrast) Avar: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: hazır (az) Bulgarian: приготвен (bg) (prigotven) Catalan: disposat (ca) Chechen: please add this translation if you can Finnish: expressed with 5th infinitive of a verb Georgian: მზად (mzad) Hindi: मुस्तैद (hi) (mustaid) Icelandic: tilbúinn (is) m Kurdish: Central Kurdish: حازر‎ (ku) (ḧazr) Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: beredt, rede (no) Ossetian: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: pronto (pt) Spanish: inclinado (es), predispuesto (es) Swedish: redo (sv) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: meyyal (tr), razı (tr) Tuvan: please add this translation if you can

liable at any moment

Finnish: valmis (fi), expressed with 5th infinitive of a verb

not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception

Bulgarian: готов (bg) (gotov) Finnish: nopea (fi), valpas (fi); nopeaälyinen (fi); sanavalmis (fi), nokkela (fi), sukkela (fi) Galician: espelido m Italian: pronto (it)

at hand; opportune; convenient

Bulgarian: наличен (bg) (naličen) Finnish: käytettävissä oleva, kätevä (fi), näppärä (fi), ulottuvilla oleva German: bereit (de)

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Verb

ready (third-person singular simple present readies, present participle readying, simple past and past participle readied)

1. (transitive) To prepare; to make ready for action.

Synonyms

• yark

Translations

to make prepared for action

Arabic: جَهَّزَ‎ (jahhaza) Egyptian Arabic: جهز‎ (gahhiz), حضر‎ (ḥaḍḍar) Bulgarian: подготвям (bg) (podgotvjam), подготвям (bg) (podgotvjam) Finnish: valmistaa (fi), valmistella (fi), varustaa (fi) French: rendre disponible German: bereit machen, fertig machen, klar machen, vorbereiten (de) Hungarian: készül (hu) Ido: prontigar (io) Italian: preparare (it) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ئامادەکردن‎ (amadekirdin) Maori: takataka Portuguese: preparar (pt), aprontar (pt) Spanish: preparar (es), alistar (es) Turkish: hazırlamak (tr), anıklamak (tr)

Noun

ready (countable and uncountable, plural readies)

1. (slang) ready money; cash
   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull:

     Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law, or to clear old debts.

   • 2008, Agnes Owens, The Group

     […] 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 […]

Related terms

• already

Translations

cash — see cash

Anagrams

• Yarde, dayer, deary, deray, rayed, yeard