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Nouns (1)

n. poised for action; "their guns were at the ready"

Verbs (11)

v. prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"

fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set

v. make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"

Adverbs (0)

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Adjectives (6)

ready

adj. made suitable and available for immediate use; "dinner is ready"

quick, ready

adj. apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity; "a quick mind"; "a ready wit"

ready, connected, on

adj. stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer

Fuzzynyms (72)

blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge

v. mix together different elements; "The colors blend well"

draft, outline

v. draw up an outline or sketch for something; "draft a speech"

blueprint, draft, draught

v. make a blueprint of

form, organize, organise

v. create (as an entity); "social groups form everywhere"; "They formed a company"

steel

v. cover, plate, or edge with steel

arrange, set up

v. put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order"

systematize, systematise, systemize, systemise

v. arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge"

plow, plough, turn

v. to break and turn over earth especially with a plow; "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring"

work, work on, process

v. shape, form, or improve a material; "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal"

process, treat

v. subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill"

collate

v. to assemble in proper sequence; "collate the papers"

fit

v. make fit; "fit a dress"; "He fitted other pieces of paper to his cut-out"

provide, supply, ply, cater

v. give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"

format, initialize, initialise

v. divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data; "Please format this disk before entering data!"

arm

v. supply with arms; "The U.S. armed the freedom fighters in Afghanistan"

equipped, fitted out(p)

adj. prepared with proper equipment; "equipped for service in the Arctic"

inclined(p)

adj. (often followed by `to') having a preference, disposition, or tendency; "wasn't inclined to believe the excuse"; "inclined to be moody"

disposed(p), fain, inclined(p), prepared

adj. having made preparations; "prepared to take risks"

alert, alive(p), awake(p)

adj. mentally perceptive and responsive;"an alert mind"; "alert to the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of his predicament"

fit

adj. physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and exercise"

able, capable

adj. have the skills and qualifications to do things well; "able teachers"; "a capable administrator"; "children as young as 14 can be extremely capable and dependable"

capable

adj. (usually followed by `of') having capacity or ability; "capable of winning"; "capable of hard work"; "capable of walking on two feet"

precocious

adj. characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude); "a precocious child"; "a precocious achievement"

witty

adj. combining clever conception and facetious expression; "his sermons were unpredictably witty and satirical as well as eloquent"

astute, sharp, shrewd

adj. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"

technical, expert

adj. of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood; "technical terminology"; "a technical report"; "technical language"

deft, dexterous, dextrous

adj. skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face"; "dexterous of hand and inventive of mind"

qualified

adj. meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task; "many qualified applicants for the job"

imaginative, inventive

adj. (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "an imaginative use of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford; "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind"; "inventive ceramics"

resourceful

adj. having inner resources; adroit or imaginative; "someone who is resourceful is capable of dealing with difficult situations"; "an able and resourceful politician"; "the most resourceful cook in town"

Synonyms (21)

willing

adj. disposed or inclined toward; "a willing participant"; "willing helpers"

agile, nimble

adj. mentally quick; "an agile mind"; "nimble wits"

quick-witted

adj. mentally nimble and resourceful; "quick-witted debater"; "saved an embarrassing situation with quick-witted tact"

apprehensive, discerning, perceptive

adj. quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

brainy, brilliant, smart as a whip

adj. having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence; "some men dislike brainy women"; "a brilliant mind"; "a brilliant solution to the problem"

bright, smart

adj. characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average"

prehensile

adj. having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch

searching, trenchant

adj. having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism"

intelligent, reasoning(a), thinking(a)

adj. endowed with the capacity to reason

scintillating

adj. brilliantly clever; "scintillating wit"; "a play full of scintillating dialogue"

machine-accessible, connected

adj. stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer

Antonyms (3)

dull, blunt

v. make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"

unready

adj. not prepared or in a state of readiness; slow to understand or respond; "she cursed her unready tongue"

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