ready-madeadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌrɛdɪˈmeɪd/, U.S.

/ˌrɛdiˈmeɪd/

Forms: see ready adj., adv., int., and n. and made adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ready adj., made adj.

Etymology: < ready adj. + made adj.Originally a participial phrase used only as a predicate, in later use regarded as a compound and frequently hyphenated (even in predicative use). For earlier use as a non-fixed collocation see ready adj., adv., int., and n. Phrases 1b.

A. adj.

1. Chiefly of an article offered for sale: in a complete and finished state, ready for use; (of clothing, curtains, etc.) made to a standard size and specification, rather than to order; off-the-peg.

a. In predicative use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > prepared or ready > made ready

readyc1175

i-boenc1275

ydight1297

preparatec1395

ready-made?a1425

apparelled1483

prepared1526

dight1535

readieda1774

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > prepared or ready > made ready > ready or in a finished state > of articles for sale

ready-made?a1425

sale1455

made-up1725

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > made in specific way > ready to wear

ready-made1631

reach-me-down1861

ready-to-wear1890

prêt-à-porter1957

off-the-peg1959

off-the-rack1964

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. 1112 Whanne he sih and redy fond This cofre mad.]

?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 175^v (MED) Þe firste is mel anacardi, þat is made in þis maner, when þat a man maye not fynde it redye made at þe apotecaries.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxvii. 19 Dan, Iauan, and Meusal haue brought vnto thy markettes, yron redy made.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 355 Neyther is there in Scotland..leather to make harnesse for their horse, as Saddels, Bridels. &c. But they haue all these thinges readie made out of Flaundyrs.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 498 To each one, a Gowne and a hood ready made.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 33 A Coffee-hane (so they call the place where they sell it [sc. coffee] ready made).

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 39 They expect to buy understanding and sentiments as they do wares ready made, at a shop.

1832 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges (ed. 2) vii. 414 To move the bridge, ready-made, to its place.

1860 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 20 I fell to cutting out that jacket last Monday,..better to have bought one ready-made.

1907 E. M. Forster Longest Journey xxix. 288 It relieved her to listen to a man who told her three times not to buy artificial manure ready made.

1954 I. Asimov Chemicals of Life vi. 91 Sometimes doctors try to supply antibodies ready-made. This is what they are doing when they use gamma globulin to prevent measles.

1989 S. Bedford Jigsaw iv. 123 She bought her clothes ready-made.

b. In attributive use.

ΚΠ

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Sales-men Sellers of ready-made Cloaths.

1748–9 Gen. Advertiser No. 4440. Ready-Made Furnitures.

1812 J. Austen Let. 29 Nov. (1995) 196 There was no ready-made Cloak at Alton that would do, but Coleby has undertaken to supply one in a few days.

1824 Sporting Mag. 15 n.s 147/1 The fisherman, who has got a book full of good ready-made flies.

1875 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera V. lix. Notes 321 Never buy cheap ready-made clothing of any kind whatsoever.

1902 J. T. Law Grocer's Man. (ed. 2) 854/1 The introduction of these ready-made cakes.., appears to be displacing or supplanting much of the old-fashioned retail business.

1942 E. Paul Narrow Street xvii. 133 She lighted a ready-made cigarette.

1994 Daily Mail 29 Sept. 25/3 A trend among working mothers towards buying ready-made meals from supermarkets rather than making their own.

2. figurative and in extended use. Existing in a complete or finished form; available immediately to be used or experienced; (also) perfectly suited for some purpose. In negative sense also: well-worn, unimaginative, hackneyed.

a. In predicative use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > prepared or ready > made ready > ready or in a finished state

ready-made1653

off the shelf1966

1653 R. Aylett (title) A wife, not ready made, but bespoken.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 102 A good Wife must be bespoke, for there is none ready made.

1801 T. Moore To —— in Poems 88 You will be An angel ready-made for heaven!

1890 Spectator 7 June We all nowadays..elect our leaders instead of taking them ready-made.

1935 A. M. Lindbergh Let. 22 July in Locked Rooms & Open Doors (1974) 287 To see the way different people have worked out marriage is wonderful. As though each one had been given a block of wood to make something of. For some it is easy and seems all ready-made.

1962 A. J. M. Milne Social Philos. Eng. Idealism iii. 90 The common sense world of physical objects is not given ready-made to human experience.

1990 J. Houston In Search of Happiness (BNC) 184 Happiness and fulfilment in our lives never come ready-made.

b. In attributive use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > in preparation [phrase] > in a state of preparation or readiness > ready for use

to (also unto) a person's hand (also hands)1581

ready-made1756

1756 Connoisseur II. 681 I almost tremble to consider what may be the consequences of these ready-made deities.

1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain II. lii. 153 The principal manufacture of the city [sc. Paris]; i.e. ready-made love.

a1797 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory France in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 71 A shop of ready-made Bankruptcy and Famine.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iii. 33 Some ready-made face Of hypocritical assent.

1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 64 He carries about with him certain ready-made formulas.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 64 Their own Richard's Castle was a ready-made outpost of the Norman King.

1915 New Statesman 23 Jan. 386/1 Hampered by so much ready-made reach-me-down thoughtstuff.

a1966 C. Bukowski Rooming House Madrigals (1988) 229 The superior man of today is the man of limited feeling whose education consists of ready-made actions and reactions to ready-made situations.

1996 Time 16 Dec. 88/1 Every day, Americans are belting out more of these ready-made, media-marinated catchphrases.

3. Of, relating to, or dealing in ready-made goods.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [adjective] > other types of article production

sale1455

countrymade1791

ready-made1799

cruelty-free1986

1799 M. Charlton Rosella I. x. 223 Shirts, frocks and shoes were procured at ready-made warehouses at her expence.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. vi. i. 422 The ready-made warehouse, where I bought these dresses.

1853 J. R. Lowell Moosehead Jrnl. in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 39 True enough, thought I, this is the Ready-made Age.

1937 H. Jennings et al. May 12th Mass-observ. Day-surv. ii. 385 Next we went to a ready-made tailor store which I hoped would have cheap hats.

1996 R. Mistry Fine Balance (1997) iii. 50 ‘Something I've never even seen is ruining the [tailoring] business I have owned for forty years.’ ‘But you've seen the ready-made shop.’ ‘No, I mean the factories in the city.’

B. n.

1. A ready-made thing (literal and figurative); esp. a ready-made garment or suit of clothes.In quot. 1831: a person who is perfectly suited to something.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > manufactured in specific way > ready-to-wear

hand-me-down1835

reach-me-down1861

ready-made1882

confection1885

ready-to-wear1894

prêt-à-porter1959

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > other

shiftc1570

under-suita1586

doublet and hose1603

siropa1671

frock-clothes1769

costume1797

poncho dress1811

tongs1845

Eton suit1859

sailor's suit1869

Prince Albert1873

Norfolk suit1880

sailor suit1880

ready-made1882

Etons1888

buster suit1903

Mallaby-Deeley1920

tiddly suit1943

utility1945

shell suit1973

Mao suit1993

gansey2009

1831 M. Edgeworth Let. 29 Mar. (1971) 501 Then she is so fond of..her own family. She seems as if she was a ready-made for Fanny.

1882 Standard 18 Dec. 8/3 Traveller wanted for the Ready-mades for the Midland Counties.

1898 Daily News 9 May 3/6 Stocks of cloths, especially ready-mades.

1905 Daily Chron. 22 Nov. 10/2 Wholesale manufacturers and confectioners rejoice greatly as they see their trade in Christmas ‘ready mades’ annually swelling.

1933 C. St. J. Sprigg Fatality in Fleet St. vii. 86 He looked like a film Cossack jammed into an East End ready-made.

1967 Economist 10 June 1142/1 The typical Italian clothing shop cannot afford to carry a big enough range to demonstrate the advantages of readymades.

1995 Carpworld July 46/1 (advt.) Foil packaging of ready-mades is now standard.

2. A mass-produced article selected by an artist and displayed as a work of art; a form of art involving such exhibits. Cf. found object n. at found adj. Compounds.The term was introduced by the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), and is chiefly used of objects exhibited by him and other Dadaists.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > constructivism or kineticism

constructivism1929

ready-made1935

productivism1959

kineticism1966

1915 M. Duchamp in A. Schwarz Marcel Duchamp (1969) 54 Précises les ‘Readymades’. En projetant pour un moment..à venir... ‘d'inscrire un readymade’.]

1935 D. Gascoyne Short Surv. Surrealism ii. 28 Such was Marcel Duchamp's disgust for ‘art’ that he invented a new form of expression, which he called Ready-Made. A Ready-Made was any manufactured object that the artist liked to choose.

1958 Times 20 May 3/7 The ‘ready-mades’ in which Marcel Duchamp parodied the exhibition work of art, signing his name on such manufactured objects as a wash-basin or a snow shovel.

1979 M. Dufrenne Main Trends in Aesthetics & Sci. of Art iv. 203 The artist who signs ready‐mades, or frames tattered posters.

1989 A. Danto Warhol in Encounters & Refl. (1991) 289 As part of Dada, the ready-made was a kind of thumbed nose at the pretentiousness of art.

2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 17 Sept. 88/3 I lost hours wandering Canal Street admiring the staggering arrays of industrial frippery.., defying a painter not to throw out the canvas and take up scatter art or ready-mades.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ready-made
释义	ready-madeadj.n. Brit. /ˌrɛdɪˈmeɪd/, U.S. /ˌrɛdiˈmeɪd/ Forms: see ready adj., adv., int., and n. and made adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ready adj., made adj. Etymology: < ready adj. + made adj.Originally a participial phrase used only as a predicate, in later use regarded as a compound and frequently hyphenated (even in predicative use). For earlier use as a non-fixed collocation see ready adj., adv., int., and n. Phrases 1b. A. adj. 1. Chiefly of an article offered for sale: in a complete and finished state, ready for use; (of clothing, curtains, etc.) made to a standard size and specification, rather than to order; off-the-peg. a. In predicative use. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > prepared or ready > made ready readyc1175 i-boenc1275 ydight1297 preparatec1395 ready-made?a1425 apparelled1483 prepared1526 dight1535 readieda1774 the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > prepared or ready > made ready > ready or in a finished state > of articles for sale ready-made?a1425 sale1455 made-up1725 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > made in specific way > ready to wear ready-made1631 reach-me-down1861 ready-to-wear1890 prêt-à-porter1957 off-the-peg1959 off-the-rack1964 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. 1112 Whanne he sih and redy fond This cofre mad.] ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 175^v (MED) Þe firste is mel anacardi, þat is made in þis maner, when þat a man maye not fynde it redye made at þe apotecaries. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxvii. 19 Dan, Iauan, and Meusal haue brought vnto thy markettes, yron redy made. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 355 Neyther is there in Scotland..leather to make harnesse for their horse, as Saddels, Bridels. &c. But they haue all these thinges readie made out of Flaundyrs. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 498 To each one, a Gowne and a hood ready made. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 33 A Coffee-hane (so they call the place where they sell it [sc. coffee] ready made). a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 39 They expect to buy understanding and sentiments as they do wares ready made, at a shop. 1832 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges (ed. 2) vii. 414 To move the bridge, ready-made, to its place. 1860 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 20 I fell to cutting out that jacket last Monday,..better to have bought one ready-made. 1907 E. M. Forster Longest Journey xxix. 288 It relieved her to listen to a man who told her three times not to buy artificial manure ready made. 1954 I. Asimov Chemicals of Life vi. 91 Sometimes doctors try to supply antibodies ready-made. This is what they are doing when they use gamma globulin to prevent measles. 1989 S. Bedford Jigsaw iv. 123 She bought her clothes ready-made. b. In attributive use. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Sales-men Sellers of ready-made Cloaths. 1748–9 Gen. Advertiser No. 4440. Ready-Made Furnitures. 1812 J. Austen Let. 29 Nov. (1995) 196 There was no ready-made Cloak at Alton that would do, but Coleby has undertaken to supply one in a few days. 1824 Sporting Mag. 15 n.s 147/1 The fisherman, who has got a book full of good ready-made flies. 1875 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera V. lix. Notes 321 Never buy cheap ready-made clothing of any kind whatsoever. 1902 J. T. Law Grocer's Man. (ed. 2) 854/1 The introduction of these ready-made cakes.., appears to be displacing or supplanting much of the old-fashioned retail business. 1942 E. Paul Narrow Street xvii. 133 She lighted a ready-made cigarette. 1994 Daily Mail 29 Sept. 25/3 A trend among working mothers towards buying ready-made meals from supermarkets rather than making their own. 2. figurative and in extended use. Existing in a complete or finished form; available immediately to be used or experienced; (also) perfectly suited for some purpose. In negative sense also: well-worn, unimaginative, hackneyed. a. In predicative use. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > prepared or ready > made ready > ready or in a finished state ready-made1653 off the shelf1966 1653 R. Aylett (title) A wife, not ready made, but bespoken. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 102 A good Wife must be bespoke, for there is none ready made. 1801 T. Moore To —— in Poems 88 You will be An angel ready-made for heaven! 1890 Spectator 7 June We all nowadays..elect our leaders instead of taking them ready-made. 1935 A. M. Lindbergh Let. 22 July in Locked Rooms & Open Doors (1974) 287 To see the way different people have worked out marriage is wonderful. As though each one had been given a block of wood to make something of. For some it is easy and seems all ready-made. 1962 A. J. M. Milne Social Philos. Eng. Idealism iii. 90 The common sense world of physical objects is not given ready-made to human experience. 1990 J. Houston In Search of Happiness (BNC) 184 Happiness and fulfilment in our lives never come ready-made. b. In attributive use. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > in preparation [phrase] > in a state of preparation or readiness > ready for use to (also unto) a person's hand (also hands)1581 ready-made1756 1756 Connoisseur II. 681 I almost tremble to consider what may be the consequences of these ready-made deities. 1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain II. lii. 153 The principal manufacture of the city [sc. Paris]; i.e. ready-made love. a1797 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory France in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 71 A shop of ready-made Bankruptcy and Famine. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iii. 33 Some ready-made face Of hypocritical assent. 1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 64 He carries about with him certain ready-made formulas. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 64 Their own Richard's Castle was a ready-made outpost of the Norman King. 1915 New Statesman 23 Jan. 386/1 Hampered by so much ready-made reach-me-down thoughtstuff. a1966 C. Bukowski Rooming House Madrigals (1988) 229 The superior man of today is the man of limited feeling whose education consists of ready-made actions and reactions to ready-made situations. 1996 Time 16 Dec. 88/1 Every day, Americans are belting out more of these ready-made, media-marinated catchphrases. 3. Of, relating to, or dealing in ready-made goods. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [adjective] > other types of article production sale1455 countrymade1791 ready-made1799 cruelty-free1986 1799 M. Charlton Rosella I. x. 223 Shirts, frocks and shoes were procured at ready-made warehouses at her expence. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. vi. i. 422 The ready-made warehouse, where I bought these dresses. 1853 J. R. Lowell Moosehead Jrnl. in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 39 True enough, thought I, this is the Ready-made Age. 1937 H. Jennings et al. May 12th Mass-observ. Day-surv. ii. 385 Next we went to a ready-made tailor store which I hoped would have cheap hats. 1996 R. Mistry Fine Balance (1997) iii. 50 ‘Something I've never even seen is ruining the [tailoring] business I have owned for forty years.’ ‘But you've seen the ready-made shop.’ ‘No, I mean the factories in the city.’ B. n. 1. A ready-made thing (literal and figurative); esp. a ready-made garment or suit of clothes.In quot. 1831: a person who is perfectly suited to something. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > manufactured in specific way > ready-to-wear hand-me-down1835 reach-me-down1861 ready-made1882 confection1885 ready-to-wear1894 prêt-à-porter1959 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > other shiftc1570 under-suita1586 doublet and hose1603 siropa1671 frock-clothes1769 costume1797 poncho dress1811 tongs1845 Eton suit1859 sailor's suit1869 Prince Albert1873 Norfolk suit1880 sailor suit1880 ready-made1882 Etons1888 buster suit1903 Mallaby-Deeley1920 tiddly suit1943 utility1945 shell suit1973 Mao suit1993 gansey2009 1831 M. Edgeworth Let. 29 Mar. (1971) 501 Then she is so fond of..her own family. She seems as if she was a ready-made for Fanny. 1882 Standard 18 Dec. 8/3 Traveller wanted for the Ready-mades for the Midland Counties. 1898 Daily News 9 May 3/6 Stocks of cloths, especially ready-mades. 1905 Daily Chron. 22 Nov. 10/2 Wholesale manufacturers and confectioners rejoice greatly as they see their trade in Christmas ‘ready mades’ annually swelling. 1933 C. St. J. Sprigg Fatality in Fleet St. vii. 86 He looked like a film Cossack jammed into an East End ready-made. 1967 Economist 10 June 1142/1 The typical Italian clothing shop cannot afford to carry a big enough range to demonstrate the advantages of readymades. 1995 Carpworld July 46/1 (advt.) Foil packaging of ready-mades is now standard. 2. A mass-produced article selected by an artist and displayed as a work of art; a form of art involving such exhibits. Cf. found object n. at found adj. Compounds.The term was introduced by the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), and is chiefly used of objects exhibited by him and other Dadaists. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > constructivism or kineticism constructivism1929 ready-made1935 productivism1959 kineticism1966 1915 M. Duchamp in A. Schwarz Marcel Duchamp (1969) 54 Précises les ‘Readymades’. En projetant pour un moment..à venir... ‘d'inscrire un readymade’.] 1935 D. Gascoyne Short Surv. Surrealism ii. 28 Such was Marcel Duchamp's disgust for ‘art’ that he invented a new form of expression, which he called Ready-Made. A Ready-Made was any manufactured object that the artist liked to choose. 1958 Times 20 May 3/7 The ‘ready-mades’ in which Marcel Duchamp parodied the exhibition work of art, signing his name on such manufactured objects as a wash-basin or a snow shovel. 1979 M. Dufrenne Main Trends in Aesthetics & Sci. of Art iv. 203 The artist who signs ready‐mades, or frames tattered posters. 1989 A. Danto Warhol in Encounters & Refl. (1991) 289 As part of Dada, the ready-made was a kind of thumbed nose at the pretentiousness of art. 2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 17 Sept. 88/3 I lost hours wandering Canal Street admiring the staggering arrays of industrial frippery.., defying a painter not to throw out the canvas and take up scatter art or ready-mades. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?a1425
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