Adjust vs Ready - What's the difference?
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To modify.
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, title= To improve or rectify.
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To settle an insurance claim.
To change to fit circumstances.
Prepared for immediate action or use.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:If need be, I am ready to forego / And quit.
*(Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)
*:Dinner was ready .
Inclined; apt to happen.
Liable at any moment.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:My heart is ready to crack.
Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert.
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*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:whose temper was ready , through surly
* (1800-1859)
*:ready in devising expedients
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*: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.
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, title= Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:the readiest way
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground, / The readiest weapon that his fury found.
To make prepared for action.
(slang) ready money; cash
* Arbuthnot
Adjust is a related term of ready.
As verbs the difference between adjust and ready
is that adjust is to modify while ready is to make prepared for action.As an adjective ready is
prepared for immediate action or use.As a noun ready is
(slang) ready money; cash.adjust
English
Verb
(en verb)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
Synonyms
* (to modify something) change, edit, modify, setDerived terms
(terms derived from adjust) * adjustable * adjuster * adjustment * disadjust * misadjust * overadjust * readjustExternal links
* (Adjustment)ready
English
Adjective
(er)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=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.}}
Synonyms
* good to goVerb
Derived terms
* at the ready * cable ready * camera-ready * make-ready * on the ready * oven-ready * * readiness * ready-made * ready money * ready or not * ready reckoner * ready room * * * ready to hand * ready-to-wear * * rough and readyNoun
- Lord Strut was not flush in ready , either to go to law, or to clear old debts.