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Proximate vs Ready - What's the difference?

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Proximate is a related term of ready.


As adjectives the difference between proximate and ready

is that proximate is close or closest; adjacent while ready is prepared for immediate action or use.

As nouns the difference between proximate and ready

is that proximate is (linguistics) a grammatical marker in the algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person while ready is (slang) ready money; cash.

As a verb ready is

to make prepared for action.

proximate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Close or closest; adjacent.
  • * J. S. Harford
    • proximate ancestors
  • * T. Burnet
    • the proximate natural causes of it [the deluge]
  • (legal) Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation.
  • About to take place; impending.

    • Antonyms

    * ultimate

    Derived terms

    * proximate cause * proximately

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) A grammatical marker in the Algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person

    • Related terms

    * approximate * approximation * approximator * proximity

    See also

    * obviative

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    ready

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Prepared for immediate action or use.
  • :
  • *(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.
  • :
  • *(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.
  • :
  • *Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • *:whose temper was ready , through surly
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:ready in devising expedients
  • *
  • *: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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  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * good to go

    Verb

  • To make prepared for action.

    • 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 ready

    Related terms

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    Noun

  • (slang) ready money; cash
  • * Arbuthnot
    • Lord Strut was not flush in ready , either to go to law, or to clear old debts.

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