(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no delay for lack of being prepared or furnished.
(superl.) Prepared in mind or disposition; not reluctant; willing; free; inclined; disposed.
(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient; near; easy.
(superl.) On the point; about; on the brink; near; -- with a following infinitive.
(superl.) 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.
(adv.) In a state of preparation for immediate action; so as to need no delay.
(n.) Ready money; cash; -- commonly with the; as, he was well supplied with the ready.
(v. t.) To dispose in order.
Example Sentences:
(1) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
(2) So too his statement that "in Zulu culture you cannot leave a woman if she is ready.
(3) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
(4) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
(5) Between the 24th and 29th day mature daughter sporocysts with fully developed cercariae ready to emerge, or already emerged, could be seen in the digestive gland of the snail.
(6) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(7) In a clear water reservoir built in ready construction after a working-period of five months quite a lot of slime could be found on the expansion joint filled with tightening compound on the base of Thiokol.
(8) "I felt so relaxed today, I wasn't bouncing off the walls ready to race.
(9) He's ready to go and, in some ways, I don't know if he would trade it."
(10) Once installed, the alliance will become an awkward, obstructionist presence, committed, in the words of the Northern League's Matteo Salvini, to "a different Europe, based on work and peoples and not in the one based on servitude to the euro and banks, ready to let us die from immigration and unemployment".
(11) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(12) I've worked so hard and I need to relax and make sure I'm ready for that and I don't think I am.
(13) Anyone still imagining that it was only the defender’s recovery from injury rather than his form that was preventing him from starting (and it’s been clear for a while that’s not the case) might have noted the coach’s instructions to Gonzalez to be ready to play a few minutes when needed, either as an extra defender or even in a pinch as an extra forward.
(14) "With the full backing of British Gymnastics, the trainers who helped take Smith and Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation's pop stars, actors, newsreaders and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track," it added.
(15) The proportion of people who say they will change their shopping habits – or claim they would buy more fresh meat, cut down on ready meals or avoid products from companies linked to the scare – has dropped from 52% at the height of the furore to 47%.
(16) Rarely has there been a potential presidential candidate so battle-hardened and ready for combat.
(17) This explains its readiness to eliminate any traces of pre-Islamic Assyria.
(18) Clinical signs and symptoms and diagnostic problems are discussed stressing the need for a well-trained team of workers of the Coronary Care Units aware of the possibility of this event and ready to cope with its therapeutical demands--both surgical and conservative--by pericardiocentesis which is a small number of patients can be life-saving.
(19) He says about 22% of his clients stay until he tells them they're ready to leave and, for those clients, the success rate is more than 95%.
(20) We identified specific food and L monocytogenes isolate characteristics--ready-to-eat foods, foods containing higher concentrations of L monocytogenes, and foods containing serotype 4b--which were associated with disease-causing strains.
Reedy
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with reeds; covered with reeds.
(a.) Having the quality of reed in tone, that is, ///// and thin^ as some voices.
Example Sentences:
(1) The case against Reedy was dropped when her rapist – Wilbur Brown – was caught by another force and confessed.
(2) He said Mutko replied quickly saying the Russian authorities would co-operate but, as Reedie put it, “it won’t be easy”.
(3) And Wada is now looking into the latest claims, which Reedie described as “a real cause for concern”.
(4) More than a year after attacking Reedy, the man struck again, but this time he was caught and confessed to the earlier crime.
(5) Reedie said the official was able to test the athlete but only after being told by security officials that 30 days’ notice would be required in future, which “makes a mockery of the idea of no-notice testing”.
(6) When the charges against her were dropped, Reedy sued the police and has now won a marathon legal battle and a $1.5m (£1m) settlement against the detective who turned her from victim into accused.
(7) As Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis is excellent: he has the president's famous height, and his reedy, hushed manner of speaking.
(8) Reedy was swabbed for forensic evidence, but the material was never tested.
(9) Reedy's flared X of four bridges, which appears rotated 60 degrees at successive levels on the thick filament, depends on the orientation of the actin filaments in the whole lattice as well as on the range of movement in each cross-bridge.
(10) Reedy was 19 when the man entered the petrol station near Pittsburgh where she was working to pay her way through college and pulled a gun.
(11) Many seasoned anti-doping veterans worry that Wada has been “captured” by the IOC, a shift they claim is embodied by Sir Craig Reedie’s appointment as president.
(12) Reedie argued that Wada has been doing its bit to increase funding – establishing a new $12m fund to research new testing methods and receiving an encouraging response to a recent plea to fund more investigations in the mould of Pound’s – but that other stakeholders must now do the same.
(13) The president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Sir Craig Reedie, has called for sponsorship revenue from cheating athletes to be diverted to the fight against doping and for a levy on TV rights deals as part of a huge increase in the organisation’s resources.
(14) Craig Reedie, the president of Wada [the World Anti-Doping Agency] came out the other day and said there would never be sanctions against countries which systematically dope .
(15) Reedie, an International Olympic Committee vice-president, also endorsed another idea that has been intermittently proposed by Wada executives but has gained traction in recent months as the scale of the global challenge has again become clear.
(16) Mutko told Russian news agencies that he has asked the Wada president, Craig Reedie, to provide a “road map” that the country could follow.
(17) Doping revelations of top athletes will be greeted with dismay but no surprise Read more Responding to a documentary highlighting the claims broadcast by ARD , the president of Wada, Sir Craig Reedie, said: “Wada is very disturbed by these new allegations that have been raised by ARD, which will, once again, shake the foundation of clean athletes worldwide.” He said that given the nature of the allegations, they would be handed over immediately to the organisation’s independent commission for further investigation.
(18) Reedy was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
(19) In an article for theguardian.com , Reedie said that, while Wada could be proud of how far it had come since its formation in 1999, it was time for a step change.
(20) That is reckless beyond description.” Pound, who is in London to speak at the Tackling Doping in Sport conference alongside the current Wada president, Sir Craig Reedie, said drugs such as meldonium were not supposed to be taken for long periods.