Ready vs Completed - What's the difference?
ready | completed |
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
(complete)
:: He completed his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree at the University of New South Wales in 1958 and went on to the Victoria University of Manchester where his studies on the fungal pigment phomazarin led to the award of a Ph.D. in 1963 under the supervision of (the late) Professor Arthur J. Birch.
As adjectives the difference between ready and completed
is that ready is prepared for immediate action or use while completed is finished.As verbs the difference between ready and completed
is that ready is to make prepared for action while completed is past tense of complete.As a noun ready
is ready money; cash.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.
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