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ready

adj
/ˈɹɛd.i/CA/ˈɹed.i/

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 *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”).

  1. derived from *reydʰ-✻
  2. derived from *h₂reh₁dʰ-✻
  3. inherited from *garaidijaz✻
  4. inherited from rǣde
  5. inherited from redy

Definitions

  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.

  2. Inclined

    Inclined; apt to happen.

  3. Liable at any moment.

    • The seed is ready to sprout.
    • My heart is ready to crack.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. Not slow or hesitating

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

      • a ready apprehension
      • ready wit
      • a ready writer or workman

    2. Offering itself at once

      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.

    3. To prepare

      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.

    4. Ready money

      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 […]

    5. A surname.

    6. An unincorporated community in Grayson County, Kentucky, United States.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ready. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at ready. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at ready

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA