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Another "flaw" that the Vintage WordPress theme has is that it's not widget-ready which is a biggie not for me but for those who use widgets.

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  1. adjective Prepared or available for service, action, or progress: I am ready to work. The soup will be ready in a minute. The pupils are ready to learn to read.
  2. adjective Mentally disposed; willing: He was ready to believe her.
  3. adjective Likely or about to do something: She is ready to retire.

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  • At the ready was a large screen upon which charts, tables, graphs and other visual aids were destined to flash. —  Going for the Gold - Emma Lathen - Thatcher 18
  • Another "flaw" that the Vintage WordPress theme has is that it's not widget-ready which is a biggie not for me but for those who use widgets. —  JaypeeOnline
  • Because if you stand at the camera counter at any electronics store and listen to what people with credit cards at the ready are asking, the most common question people want answered is "How many megapixels has it got?". —  iTnews Australia
  • Have you the name ready, my dear sir I will give you that of Rev. George Durnford, of Cottonborough And, for how long, Mr. Horn," asked Mr. Ball, when he had written down Mr. Durnford's name and address, "must the property be thus held Till my daughter comes to claim it But, but, my dear sir Very well," said "Cobbler" Horn, breaking in upon the lawyer's incipient protest; "put it like this. —  The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn
  • While it strengthens capitalism by removing "a useless, unnecessary member," and by placing it "on a still larger foundation than it has at the present," it also matures it and makes it ready for Socialism--ready, that is to say, as soon as the working people capture the government and turn the capitalists out, but not a day sooner_. —  Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English redy, from Old English rǣde; see reidh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English redy, redi, rædi, rædiʒ, i-redi, ready, prepared, prompt, near, from Anglo-Saxon rǣde (rare and uncertain), usually geræde, ready, swift, prompt, easy, plain (suffix -e becoming -i by confusion with the common adjective suffix Middle English -i, -y, later English -y); =OFries. rede, red =D. ree =Middle Low German rēde, reide, rēt, reit, Low German rede, reed =Old High German bi-reiti, Middle High German bereite, be-reit, Greek be-reit, ready, prepared, =Icelandic g-reithr (*ga reithr), ready (whence ult. English graith, grade), =Old Swedish reda, Swedish be-red =Danish rede, be-redt, ready; perhaps =Gothic (Moesogothic) garaids, set, appointed; cf. raidjan, appoint, ga-raidjan, enjoin, command, ga-raideins, an ordinance, rule, authority. Otherwise akin to Icelandic reithi, harness, outfit, gear, implements; or to Anglo-Saxon, etc., rīdan (preterit rād), ride, rād, a riding, expedition: see ride, road, raid. Hence, in comp., already, and ult. array, curry, ray, raiment, etc.
  2. from Middle English redien, redyen (=D. reeden, prepare, dress, =Middle Low German rēden, reiden =Middle High German reiten, reiden; cf. Middle English beredien =G. be-reiten =Swedish be-reda =Danish be-rede, prepare, get ready, etc.); from ready, adjective
 

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