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Definitions: Ready-made |
Ready-madeAdjective1. Made for purchase and immediate use. 2. Repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases". 3. Commercially produced; not homemade; "ready-made clothes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ready-made" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Synonym: Ready-madeSynonym: cliched (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: custom-made (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ready-made |
| English words defined with "ready-made": off-the-rack, off-the-shelf ♦ ready-to-wear ♦ slopseller, slopseller's shop, slopshop, Slopwork. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ready-made": FINISHER, HAND ♦ proprietary medicinal product, proprietary medicine ♦ ready-made art, ready-made veterinary medicinal product ♦ Waist and Shirt-Waist. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | A Ready-Made Maid (1915) | |
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Business | The structure of Polish imports is dominated by therapeutic drugs and ready-made medicines. (references) | |
In the last two-three years, however, ready-made sandwiches, "Subway"-style, have been introduced and gained popularity. (references) | ||
Payment by installments are normally spread out over 6-12 months and are generally accepted in most furniture retail stores that sell ready-made items. (references) | ||
Economic History | Korea | More consumers are turning to ready-made imported pet food such as kibble and canned products. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Many ready-made training courses are not suitable for Saudi Arabian culture and therefore must be adapted. (references) | |
Japan | Market demand for ready-made software, such as application software packages, is expected to grow steadily. (references) | |
Political Economy | BANGLADESH | The law is enforced poorly in industries such as hosiery and ready-made garments. (references) |
BANGLADESH | The central bank offers a 25 percent rebate to domestic manufacturers of fabric for ready-made garment exports. (references) | |
BANGLADESH | Ready-made garment producers are assisted by bonded warehousing and back-to-back letter of credit facilities for imported cloth and accessories. (references) | |
Trade | Spain | Textiles: Customs and point-of-sale regulations require that all textile goods and ready-made clothing have a Spanish label. (references) |
Egypt | Although the Government of Egypt recently lifted a ban on textile imports into Egypt, there still remains an import ban on ready-made clothing. (references) | |
Philippines | Method of Labeling for ready-made garments: The label must be durable enough to withstand normal laundering, and shall include the manufacturer's name or trademark or both; the percent fiber content by mass, using the generic name of the fiber in the order of predominance; and the country of origin (the address of manufacturer may also be indicated in the packaging). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ready-made" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.08% of the time. "Ready-made" is used about 152 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.08% | 143 | 26,451 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.92% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 152 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ready-made"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rroba të gatshme (confection, ready-made clothes), ushqim i gatshëm (ready-made food, ready-to-serve food). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملابس جاهزة (ready-made clothes). (various references) | |
Chinese | 现成. (various references) | |
Danish | seriefremstilling,konfektionering,af beklædning og tilbehør til beklædning (manufacture of ready-made clothing and accessories), faerdigfremstillet laegemiddel (ready-made medicinal product), færdigt sportprogram (ready-made sports programme), færdigfremstillet veterinærlægemiddel (ready-made veterinary medicinal product), clip-art diskette (clip-art disk, ready-made art), clip-art bibliotek (clip-art disk, ready-made art). (various references) | |
Dutch | tevoren bereid geneesmiddel (ready-made medicinal product), kant-en-klaar sportprogramma (ready-made sports programme), illustratiebibliotheek (clip-art disk, ready-made art), handelspreparaat (ready-made medicinal product), geprefabriceerd geneesmiddel (ready-made medicinal product), confectiebedrijven van kleding en kledingtoebehoren (manufacture of ready-made clothing and accessories), Bureau Textiel en Confectie (Textile Manufacture and Ready-Made Clothing Section), beeldbibliotheek (clip-art disk, ready-made art), afgepakt geneesmiddel voor diergeneeskundig gebruik (ready-made veterinary medicinal product). (various references) | |
Finnish | valmiina ostettu. (various references) | |
French | prêt porter (ready made, ready to wear, ready-made clothes), picothèque (ready-made art), médicament vétérinaire préfabriqué (ready-made veterinary medicinal product), médicament préfabriqué (ready-made medicinal product), confection,production en série,d'articles d'habillement et d'accessoires d'habillement (manufacture of ready-made clothing and accessories), Bureau du Travail dans le Textile et la Confection (Textile Manufacture and Ready-Made Clothing Section), émission sportive prête la transmission (ready-made sports programme). (various references) | |
German | gebrauchsfertig (ready for use). (various references) | |
Greek | μηχανοποιημένη κατασκευή ενδυμάτων και παραγωγή δευτερευόντων ειδών ένδυσης (manufacture of ready-made clothing and accessories), προκατασκευασμένο φαρμακευτικό προϊόν (ready-made medicinal product), ετοιμόχρηστο κτηνιατρικό φαρμακευτικό προϊόν (ready-made veterinary medicinal product), αθλητικό πρόγραμμα έτοιμο προς εκπομπή (ready-made sports programme), αθλητική εκπομπή έτοιμη προς μετάδοση (ready-made sports programme), "κονσερβοποιημένη" τέχνη. (various references) | |
Italian | programma sportivo gi pronto (ready-made sports programme), medicinale veterinario prefabbricato (ready-made veterinary medicinal product), medicinale pronto per l'uso (ready-made medicinal product), disco di immagini predefinite (clip-art disk, ready-made art), confezione,produzione in serie,di articoli di abbigliamento e accessori (manufacture of ready-made clothing and accessories), collezione "clip-art". (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 既製 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | レディーメード , きせい (ardour, completed, correction, death, entreaty, established, existing, fervour, great master of go, homecoming, oath, parasite, parasitism, pledge, prayer, rare, realization of an objective, regulation, returning home, spirit, strange voice, uncommon, vigour, vow), できあい (common-law, doting). (various references) | |
Manx | jeant rolaue (prefabricated). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eady-maderay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | terno feito (ready-made suit), programa desportivo já produzido (ready-made sports programme), medicamento préfabricado (ready-made medicinal product), confecção,produção em série,de artigos de vestuário e de acessórios de vestuário (manufacture of ready-made clothing and accessories). (various references) | |
Romanian | haine de gata (ready-made clothes), confecţii (ready-made clothes). (various references) | |
Russian | готовый (fit, forward, get ready, hand-me-down, made, mature, off the peg, off-the-shelf, prepared, reach, ready, ready made, ready to, ready to wear, ready-for-service, willing). (various references) | |
Spanish | programa deportivo producido por otro (ready-made sports programme), medicamento prefabricado (ready-made medicinal product), disco con librería de dibujos (clip-art disk, ready-made art), confección, producción en serie, de prendas de vestir y de accesorios del vestido (manufacture of ready-made clothing and accessories), confección (build up, building, building up, confection, farad, make up, making, making-up, manifacture, manufacture, ready made, ready to wear, ready to wear clothes, ready-made suit). (various references) | |
Swedish | konfektion (making-up, ready-made clothing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: readymade. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-e-m-r-y" | |
-1 letter: daydream. | |
-2 letters: daymare, dramedy, dreamed. | |
-3 letters: deader, drayed, dreamy, madder, reamed, redyed, remade, remedy, yarded. | |
-4 letters: adder, adeem, ameer, areae, armed, damar, dared, deary, deedy, deray, derma, drama, dread, dream, dreed, dryad, eared, edema, emery, emyde, madre, mayed, merde, ramee, rayed, readd, ready, reded, redye, reedy. | |
-5 letters: aery, area, army, dada, dame, dare, dead, dear, deed, deem, deer, deme, demy, dere, derm, dram, dray, dree, dyad, dyed, dyer, eddy, eery, emyd, eyed, eyer, eyra, eyre, maar, made, mare, maya, mead, meed, mere, raya, read, ream, redd, rede, reed, yard, yare, year. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-e-e-m-r-y" | |
+1 letter: daydreamed, daydreamer, readymades. | |
+2 letters: daydreamers. | |
+3 letters: daydreamlike. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 61 64 79 2D 6D 61 64 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100001 01100100 01111001 00101101 01101101 01100001 01100100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e a d y - m a d e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0061 0064 0079 002D 006D 0061 0064 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52716770911579677071 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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