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To make ready

tɪ meɪk ˈrɛdi
Failed attempt to tow the barge to the Beouden Huys to make it ready for sea there, 29 May 1597. Copies after the original illustrations in the travelogue of Willem Barendsz and Jacob van Heemskerck's journey in 1596-1597 and their stay on the island Nova Zembla, No. 19.
Failed attempt to tow the barge to the Beouden Huys to make it ready for sea there, 29 May 1597. Copies after the original illustrations in the travelogue of Willem Barendsz and Jacob van Heemskerck's journey in 1596-1597 and their stay on the island Nova Zembla, No. 19.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. To make ready
    to make preparation; to get in readiness.
Quotations
Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
Charles Caleb Colton
When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.
Bo Schembechler
Simone Weil
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Simone Weil
Usage in the news

The Michigan Board of Education wants to make sure children are ready to read. ilx.com

After playing only 71 minutes of Premier League football so far this season, Liverpool midfielder Lucas Leiva is ready to make his return against Southampton on Saturday. innipegfreepress.com

While people around the world are getting ready for Christmas in just a few weeks, Phil Vassar is doing his part to make things festive by releasing a tune from his holiday album, ' Noel . bigfrog104.com

OK, you are legally set to open , but make sure the store is physically ready for ramp-up. americancoinop.com

Simplify planning for a Windows 7 migration To capitalize on the benefits of Windows 7, you must make sure your computing environment is ready for the upgrade. informationweek.com

It took a few years, but Steel Panther are now ready to make the move from the Sunset Strip into your living room. z94.com

It's not just because the New York Yankees, my favorite team, is getting healthy and maybe ready to make a playoff run. nvdaily.com

Or if you're ready for long-term commitment, just let him graze the front yard: Ponies make stellar family pets, with a life expectancy of up to 40 years. bostonmagazine.com

Are you (and your DVR) ready to make an appointment with Emily Owens, M.D. cw15.com

Are you ready to make a difference. msmagazine.com

The battle is getting ready to heat up between NBC and Fox with The Voice and The X Factor both making their fall debut the week of September 10th. mix931fm.com

Nu Skin Stock Ready To Play Make Up After 20% Tumble. forbes.com

Ocean Lakes football is ready to make history. vec.com

Maybe this is the season that the Elon University men's basketball team is ready to reach out — literally and figuratively — and make some more noise. thetimesnews.com

Assess your hardware, software and infrastructure readiness before you make the move to Windows. informationweek.com

Usage in scientific papers

We are now ready to make the connection to chiral RMT. A random matrix, as introduced in the previous subsection, contains independently distributed random variables.
Random Matrix Theory and Chiral Symmetry in QCD

With the command make install all necessary libraries will be built and the executable will be placed into the directory Amegic, where it is ready to use.
AMEGIC++ 1.0, A Matrix Element Generator In C++

He was always ready to discuss with me, to listen to my naive (and many times wrong) ideas and to correct me without making me feel bad about it.
Arithmetic of algebraic groups

The results from the previous section make us ready to establish the biautomaticity of left divisibility monoids.
Finite transducers for divisibility monoids

Now everything is ready to make the final estimate.
The Jancovici - Lebowitz - Manificat law for large fluctuations of random complex zeroes

Usage in literature

By six o'clock in the afternoon Wright and Smith were ready to make an assault. "Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete" by Ulysses S. Grant

At night we are ready for making earthworks in front, but as long as the day lasts we have nothing to do. "Under Fire" by Henri Barbusse

We began to pass men laboring to make the canal banks ready against attack, but mostly they had no news to give us. "Hira Singh" by Talbot Mundy

Thank you, my milliner is not ready yet, and I want to make a good appearance when I do go. "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Complete" by George Meredith

If he didn't make it look so dark to a chap, I'd be ready to fancy something in that. "Rhoda Fleming, Complete" by George Meredith

I make ready for to-morrow. "The Tragic Comedians, Complete" by George Meredith

Danvers, you can make ready to dress me when I ring. "Diana of the Crossways, Complete" by George Meredith

By six o'clock in the afternoon Wright and Smith were ready to make an assault. "Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete" by U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan

Take all the time you need to make yourself ready. "Danger" by T. S. Arthur

Money was the god he worshipped, and to gain this, he was ready to make almost any sacrifice. "Finger Posts on the Way of Life" by T. S. Arthur

Usage in poetry
I cannot ope mine eyes,
But thou art ready there to catch
My morning-soul and sacrifice:
Then we must needs for that day make a match.
God give all grace, their lives to mend,
Before their day is at an end!
God make all ready hence to go,
Before they feel Death's fatal blow!
Devote with reverence thy ready ear,
His word, his will, and his commandments to take —
And with attention unremitted hear
The promises, the sacred pages make.
Prepare us, Lord! that we to thee may come,
And make us ready to receive our doom,
Let us not live in sin a single hour,
Lest unawares it shou'd our souls o'erpow'r.
He makes all toil, all hardship, light:
Would all men were the same!
So ready to be pleased, so kind,
So very slow to blame!
Folks need not be unkind, austere,
For love hath readier will than fear.
Then the British tars went to work without delay,
All hurrying to and fro, making ready for the fray;
And there wasn't a man among them, but was confident that day,
That they would make the French to fly from Aboukir Bay.