ready

Verb

• make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
  • Get the children ready for school!
    
  • prepare for war
    
  • I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill
    

• prepare for eating by applying heat
  • Cook me dinner, please
    
  • can you make me an omelette?
    
  • fix breakfast for the guests, please
    

Adjective

• apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity
  • a quick mind
    
  • a ready wit
    

• made suitable and available for immediate use
  • dinner is ready
    

• mentally disposed
  • he was ready to believe her
    

• (of especially money) immediately available
  • he seems to have ample ready money
    
  • a ready source of cash
    

• completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress
  • get ready
    
  • she is ready to resign
    
  • the bridge is ready to collapse
    
  • I am ready to work
    
  • ready for action
    
  • ready for use
    
  • the soup will be ready in a minute
    
  • ready to learn to read
    

Noun

• poised for action
  • their guns were at the ready
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  fix , prepare , set up , gear up , set , cook , make , quick , ready(a)