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单词 ready-made
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Definition of ready-made in English:

ready-made

adjective rɛdɪˈmeɪdˈˌrɛdi ˈmeɪd
  • 1Made to a standard size or specification rather than to order.

    a range of ready-made curtains
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The store also has a small retail component with ready-made frames, prints and beveled mirrors.
    • For this cost we could have just got a standard ready-made home where our neighbours would be just five metres away.
    • In the twentieth century, although traditional made-to-measure tailoring persisted everywhere at higher social levels, the ready-made suit became the standard public costume of the modern ordinary man.
    • The ready-made curtains that could adorn the walls of living rooms are an added attraction.
    • She's created a portable design center for her ready-made mats, pre-made wood frames and patented deep-beveled faux fillet middles.
    • Patterns are available for women who wish to sew their own, and there are also ready-made ones available, though they are not widely distributed.
    • It was like they were placing an order for a ready-made product.
    • Choosing their own fabric rather than buying a ready-made drapery also enables homeowners to make coordinating cushions or to cover a chair with the same material.
    • The surprise is that it's so easy to make: You start with an unfinished bookcase - whatever size suits your purpose - and acid a pair of ready-made louvered shutters.
    • Manufacturers offer ready-made mantels in a variety of sizes as well as custom-size units.
    • We manufacture the most complete line of standard ready-made mats and custom-cut bulk mats.
    • Wrought iron and upholstered furniture, made-to-measure and ready-made curtains and a wide range of fabrics are all found in the company's new brochure.
    • While the availability of woven textiles increased ready-made cotton or flannel shirts and drawers for urban consumers, hand knitting of socks and stockings continued to be the norm in rural areas.
    • This company manufactures ready-made garments under several international brands.
    • We ordered ours ready-made from a storage supplies catalog, but you could cover plain ones purchased from a crafts store.
    • Also, order a good supply of ready-made frames and small gift items to accommodate last-minute and impulse gift purchases, advised these framers.
    • The preference had been for a ready-made building rather than a green-field site that could have set the operation back a number of years.
    • Women could even order them ready-made from the company catalogue.
    • His mother has no alternative, but stitch his clothes as ready-made clothes are not available.
    • You're always guaranteed a perfect fit and more often than not, you'll get superior fabric rather than that of a similarly priced, ready-made overcoat.
    Synonyms
    ready to wear, off the shelf
    British off the peg
    North American off the rack
    pre-cooked, oven-ready, TV, frozen, convenience
    1. 1.1 Available immediately; not needing to be specially created or devised.
      we have no ready-made answers
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In finding a solution to the problems faced by Muslims today, they have some apologetic claims, standard and ready-made answers.
      • It claims in 70 per cent of cases it was cheaper to book your flights and hotel separately rather than opt for a ready-made package trip and the average saving was 26 per cent.
      • It's just a ready-made way of feeling grand about an issue that we don't actually have to do anything about’.
      • The invisible components of civil society, whose extent is largely unknown, consist of those who prefer a personal rather than a ready-made set of values, people who never speak up, and people who admittedly do not want to be bothered.
      • Transplants are a romantic, ready-made melodrama for the sort of medicine that shows hospitals at their best, how we'd like them to be, but they are also a minute percentage of health-service operations.
      • What I saw and heard there was nothing short of inspirational and, for an incoming minister committed to raising standards, a ready-made concept to grab hold of.
      • Treat Islam as a fountain of values that guide conduct rather than a system of ready-made solutions to problems.
      • Perhaps more importantly in the long run, the man with the plan for British farming sees the traditional agricultural show as a ready-made vehicle for spreading British agriculture's bright new message.
      • I suppose if you built a house on the land, you would have a ready-made wine cellar.
      • You could have lots of information there and then redirect them to your ready-made website for ordering, or company video or program details.
      • For prospective customers who find the amount of choice to be overwhelming, the site will offer seven ready-made lists of songs associated with specific characters.
      • It's not a ready-made audience, which means people listen because they want to.
      • Unfortunately, software development has not progressed to the point where ready-made modules are available to order and combined to create your software.
      • Rather a kind of idiosyncratic ordering has been sought in relation to the place and task, as opposed to the ready-made orders of type and technique.
      • In this method, researchers inject ready-made antibodies, rather than the antigen, into the animal.
      • In addition, mastery of the subject does not imply a memorization of ready-made formulas or methodological recommendations, but rather a logical understanding of the material.
      • If Kris does eventually leave we have a ready-made replacement in Colin Nish.
      • Rather than going for ready-made ski packages, it appears many people now prefer the flexibility of organising flights, hire car and accommodation independently over the internet.
      • Perhaps this was because the English had a ready-made model of settler self-governing institutions dating from English emigration to Wales and Ireland.
      • Basically, under mandatory sentencing legislation, judges and magistrates have no discretion; they merely impose the legislature's ready-made sentence.
    2. 1.2 (of food) sold ready or almost ready to be served.
      a ready-made Christmas cake
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Make sure all ready-made foods are piping hot throughout before eating, as they are also a listeria risk.
      • The hospital - one of the leading cancer treatment centres in the country - was supplied with two types of ready-made meals for a reception vending machine, which have now had to be withdrawn.
      • The main meal is now eaten in the evening and is likely to consist of frozen or ready-made food.
      • You can buy this ready-made and frozen, and just fry it.
      • In fact, I feel strongly that if ready-made cocktails are not going to stick to the classic formula they should choose another name.
      • Some of the premium ranges were lower in fat and salt than the standard versions, proving that manufacturers can produce tasty ready-made food with less salt and fat.
      • And if you were wondering whether there is something better about ready-made pastry to justify its higher price point over frozen, the answer is no.
      • It is to do with thinking about diet and planning money instead of buying ready-made food such as pies and chips.
      • Every year, thousands of tonnes of perishable goods, from cellophane-wrapped chickens to cardboard-encased ready-made pizzas, end up in the bin.
      • For the same reason we purchase any other ready-made food, says Goudie - convenience.
      • Stock your pantry and freezer with soups, meatless burgers, and ready-made pizzas for quick meals.
      • What I wanted was a ready-made snack food that tasted like French fries… and obviously, the package before me proved that this was still and perhaps forever beyond the reach of Science.
      • Ward against listeriosis by avoiding blue-veined, mould-ripened cheeses, pâtés, ready-made salads and soft-whip ice creams until the birth.
      • I am proud of my first attempt at real Italian cooking for the simple reason that it did not involve opening jars of ready-made sauce and popping garlic bread in the oven.
      • It's cheaper than buying ready-made jars, can be made in bulk and frozen and you know exactly what the ingredients are.
      • At least 75 per cent of our salt is found in processed foods such as ready-made meals, some breads and breakfast cereals, meat pies, soups, sauces, and cheese.
      • For the weight of taking ready-made food, oxygen and water to survive a 1,000 day mission by a six person crew will be 30 tons, which rises to 120 tons when water for washing is added.
      • Nowadays there are several ready-made custards available that you could use.
      • Despite the uncertainties of the crisis, last year was also the time that Mrs Bell branched out into preparing ready-made meals, a venture which she modestly confesses proved a ‘popular success’.
      • On some occasions, she said, ‘we not only have to give food to those affected by the virus, but we cook for them and deliver ready-made food.’
noun rɛdɪˈmeɪdˈˌrɛdi ˈmeɪd
usually ready-mades
  • 1A ready-made article.

    he smokes ready-mades now
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For those who have put off their shopping till the very last minute, designer-wear ready-mades are ideal to help celebrate the joyous festival in fashion.
    • Much as those times were good, gone are they, for this is the age of ready-mades.
    • Next, they eliminated most ready-mades from the inventory, removed many of the lower-end samples from the wall and replaced them with higher-end framing products.
    • These ready-mades from Richworth are also excellent baits.
    • The ‘desi’ khadi varieties, both ready-mades and suitings, are also in good demand.
    • It offers chop and length service, warehouses' ready-mades and publishes a catalog.
    • To add to the list, the company, which has been offering simple, elegant, and affordable ready-mades, designed specifically for the Indian woman, will open its outlet in Bangalore on Thursday.
    • If you want to give a cushion or a bag and don't have time to knit it, there is a ready-made service available as well.
    • The company also offers complete lines of matboard, glass, ready-mades and supplies.
    • Those difficult to fit with ready-mades will have found what they want at this store.
    • A new line of ready-mades is newly available from, a company with offices in Minneapolis.
    • These stars were ready-mades and fabrications, individuals off the street, and yet performing their own individuality as a mask, a style, a pseudonym, and a personality.
    • It's a natural that a frame shop would carry ready-mades, said Wieder, but carry something unique that your customers won't see at a department store.
    • It is worthwhile pausing momentarily to consider these linguistic ready-mades, these formulaic sentiments.
    1. 1.1 (especially in Dadaism) a mass-produced article selected by an artist and displayed as a work of art.
      I would recommend restraint in the production of ready-mades
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Apart from Marcel Duchamp's first ready-made, a bicycle wheel on a stool from 1919, how many art images of bicycles can you think of?
      • Instead of questioning the possibility of a perfect ready-made within the Balkan context, Vangeli has posed the question of fabricating.
      • Although her professional career began with her writing on ready-mades, collages and kinetic art, the idea of a novel was lodged from an early age.
      • These sculptures incorporate modified ready-mades and use low-tech equipment to create an atmosphere filled with tension, danger and amusements.
      • He put out his ready-mades, his glass brides and chocolate-machine bachelors, his urinal, and so on; art could no longer speak as it had spoken before.
      • In fact we might say that at first sight the Institutional Theory is practically required by Duchamp's first unassisted ready-made.
      • Young describes his piano as ‘a ready-made that needed to be celebrated for its intrinsic peculiarities‘.
      • In keeping with the homage, this work is a ready-made of sorts - a chair transformed into a rosebush with roses cut from a gardening book.
      • Commercially printed ready-mades are also the basis for a mesmerizing video.
      • As surely as it was a prank, this work was also, like the other ready-mades, a calculated attack on the most basic conventions of art.
 
 

Definition of ready-made in US English:

ready-made

adjectiveˈˌredē ˈmādˈˌrɛdi ˈmeɪd
  • 1(especially of products such as clothes and curtains) made to a standard size or specification rather than to order.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His mother has no alternative, but stitch his clothes as ready-made clothes are not available.
    • Manufacturers offer ready-made mantels in a variety of sizes as well as custom-size units.
    • While the availability of woven textiles increased ready-made cotton or flannel shirts and drawers for urban consumers, hand knitting of socks and stockings continued to be the norm in rural areas.
    • The store also has a small retail component with ready-made frames, prints and beveled mirrors.
    • The preference had been for a ready-made building rather than a green-field site that could have set the operation back a number of years.
    • For this cost we could have just got a standard ready-made home where our neighbours would be just five metres away.
    • Also, order a good supply of ready-made frames and small gift items to accommodate last-minute and impulse gift purchases, advised these framers.
    • In the twentieth century, although traditional made-to-measure tailoring persisted everywhere at higher social levels, the ready-made suit became the standard public costume of the modern ordinary man.
    • Patterns are available for women who wish to sew their own, and there are also ready-made ones available, though they are not widely distributed.
    • She's created a portable design center for her ready-made mats, pre-made wood frames and patented deep-beveled faux fillet middles.
    • Wrought iron and upholstered furniture, made-to-measure and ready-made curtains and a wide range of fabrics are all found in the company's new brochure.
    • We manufacture the most complete line of standard ready-made mats and custom-cut bulk mats.
    • We ordered ours ready-made from a storage supplies catalog, but you could cover plain ones purchased from a crafts store.
    • The surprise is that it's so easy to make: You start with an unfinished bookcase - whatever size suits your purpose - and acid a pair of ready-made louvered shutters.
    • The ready-made curtains that could adorn the walls of living rooms are an added attraction.
    • It was like they were placing an order for a ready-made product.
    • This company manufactures ready-made garments under several international brands.
    • You're always guaranteed a perfect fit and more often than not, you'll get superior fabric rather than that of a similarly priced, ready-made overcoat.
    • Choosing their own fabric rather than buying a ready-made drapery also enables homeowners to make coordinating cushions or to cover a chair with the same material.
    • Women could even order them ready-made from the company catalogue.
    Synonyms
    ready to wear, off the shelf
    pre-cooked, oven-ready, tv, frozen, convenience
    1. 1.1 Available right away; not needing to be specially created or devised.
      we have no ready-made answers
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It claims in 70 per cent of cases it was cheaper to book your flights and hotel separately rather than opt for a ready-made package trip and the average saving was 26 per cent.
      • In this method, researchers inject ready-made antibodies, rather than the antigen, into the animal.
      • Basically, under mandatory sentencing legislation, judges and magistrates have no discretion; they merely impose the legislature's ready-made sentence.
      • The invisible components of civil society, whose extent is largely unknown, consist of those who prefer a personal rather than a ready-made set of values, people who never speak up, and people who admittedly do not want to be bothered.
      • Rather a kind of idiosyncratic ordering has been sought in relation to the place and task, as opposed to the ready-made orders of type and technique.
      • For prospective customers who find the amount of choice to be overwhelming, the site will offer seven ready-made lists of songs associated with specific characters.
      • In addition, mastery of the subject does not imply a memorization of ready-made formulas or methodological recommendations, but rather a logical understanding of the material.
      • I suppose if you built a house on the land, you would have a ready-made wine cellar.
      • Treat Islam as a fountain of values that guide conduct rather than a system of ready-made solutions to problems.
      • In finding a solution to the problems faced by Muslims today, they have some apologetic claims, standard and ready-made answers.
      • If Kris does eventually leave we have a ready-made replacement in Colin Nish.
      • It's just a ready-made way of feeling grand about an issue that we don't actually have to do anything about’.
      • It's not a ready-made audience, which means people listen because they want to.
      • Unfortunately, software development has not progressed to the point where ready-made modules are available to order and combined to create your software.
      • What I saw and heard there was nothing short of inspirational and, for an incoming minister committed to raising standards, a ready-made concept to grab hold of.
      • Transplants are a romantic, ready-made melodrama for the sort of medicine that shows hospitals at their best, how we'd like them to be, but they are also a minute percentage of health-service operations.
      • Perhaps this was because the English had a ready-made model of settler self-governing institutions dating from English emigration to Wales and Ireland.
      • You could have lots of information there and then redirect them to your ready-made website for ordering, or company video or program details.
      • Perhaps more importantly in the long run, the man with the plan for British farming sees the traditional agricultural show as a ready-made vehicle for spreading British agriculture's bright new message.
      • Rather than going for ready-made ski packages, it appears many people now prefer the flexibility of organising flights, hire car and accommodation independently over the internet.
    2. 1.2 (of food) ready to be served without further preparation.
      a ready-made Christmas cake
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At least 75 per cent of our salt is found in processed foods such as ready-made meals, some breads and breakfast cereals, meat pies, soups, sauces, and cheese.
      • In fact, I feel strongly that if ready-made cocktails are not going to stick to the classic formula they should choose another name.
      • The hospital - one of the leading cancer treatment centres in the country - was supplied with two types of ready-made meals for a reception vending machine, which have now had to be withdrawn.
      • Some of the premium ranges were lower in fat and salt than the standard versions, proving that manufacturers can produce tasty ready-made food with less salt and fat.
      • Stock your pantry and freezer with soups, meatless burgers, and ready-made pizzas for quick meals.
      • What I wanted was a ready-made snack food that tasted like French fries… and obviously, the package before me proved that this was still and perhaps forever beyond the reach of Science.
      • I am proud of my first attempt at real Italian cooking for the simple reason that it did not involve opening jars of ready-made sauce and popping garlic bread in the oven.
      • For the weight of taking ready-made food, oxygen and water to survive a 1,000 day mission by a six person crew will be 30 tons, which rises to 120 tons when water for washing is added.
      • Ward against listeriosis by avoiding blue-veined, mould-ripened cheeses, pâtés, ready-made salads and soft-whip ice creams until the birth.
      • Every year, thousands of tonnes of perishable goods, from cellophane-wrapped chickens to cardboard-encased ready-made pizzas, end up in the bin.
      • The main meal is now eaten in the evening and is likely to consist of frozen or ready-made food.
      • For the same reason we purchase any other ready-made food, says Goudie - convenience.
      • Despite the uncertainties of the crisis, last year was also the time that Mrs Bell branched out into preparing ready-made meals, a venture which she modestly confesses proved a ‘popular success’.
      • On some occasions, she said, ‘we not only have to give food to those affected by the virus, but we cook for them and deliver ready-made food.’
      • You can buy this ready-made and frozen, and just fry it.
      • Nowadays there are several ready-made custards available that you could use.
      • And if you were wondering whether there is something better about ready-made pastry to justify its higher price point over frozen, the answer is no.
      • Make sure all ready-made foods are piping hot throughout before eating, as they are also a listeria risk.
      • It is to do with thinking about diet and planning money instead of buying ready-made food such as pies and chips.
      • It's cheaper than buying ready-made jars, can be made in bulk and frozen and you know exactly what the ingredients are.
nounˈˌredē ˈmādˈˌrɛdi ˈmeɪd
usually ready-mades
  • 1A ready-made article.

    on the top shelf of ready-mades is Stromboli
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For those who have put off their shopping till the very last minute, designer-wear ready-mades are ideal to help celebrate the joyous festival in fashion.
    • If you want to give a cushion or a bag and don't have time to knit it, there is a ready-made service available as well.
    • It offers chop and length service, warehouses' ready-mades and publishes a catalog.
    • These ready-mades from Richworth are also excellent baits.
    • It is worthwhile pausing momentarily to consider these linguistic ready-mades, these formulaic sentiments.
    • Next, they eliminated most ready-mades from the inventory, removed many of the lower-end samples from the wall and replaced them with higher-end framing products.
    • Those difficult to fit with ready-mades will have found what they want at this store.
    • It's a natural that a frame shop would carry ready-mades, said Wieder, but carry something unique that your customers won't see at a department store.
    • The ‘desi’ khadi varieties, both ready-mades and suitings, are also in good demand.
    • Much as those times were good, gone are they, for this is the age of ready-mades.
    • A new line of ready-mades is newly available from, a company with offices in Minneapolis.
    • The company also offers complete lines of matboard, glass, ready-mades and supplies.
    • To add to the list, the company, which has been offering simple, elegant, and affordable ready-mades, designed specifically for the Indian woman, will open its outlet in Bangalore on Thursday.
    • These stars were ready-mades and fabrications, individuals off the street, and yet performing their own individuality as a mask, a style, a pseudonym, and a personality.
    1. 1.1 A mass-produced article selected by an artist and displayed as a work of art.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Young describes his piano as ‘a ready-made that needed to be celebrated for its intrinsic peculiarities‘.
      • Apart from Marcel Duchamp's first ready-made, a bicycle wheel on a stool from 1919, how many art images of bicycles can you think of?
      • He put out his ready-mades, his glass brides and chocolate-machine bachelors, his urinal, and so on; art could no longer speak as it had spoken before.
      • These sculptures incorporate modified ready-mades and use low-tech equipment to create an atmosphere filled with tension, danger and amusements.
      • Although her professional career began with her writing on ready-mades, collages and kinetic art, the idea of a novel was lodged from an early age.
      • Instead of questioning the possibility of a perfect ready-made within the Balkan context, Vangeli has posed the question of fabricating.
      • In keeping with the homage, this work is a ready-made of sorts - a chair transformed into a rosebush with roses cut from a gardening book.
      • Commercially printed ready-mades are also the basis for a mesmerizing video.
      • In fact we might say that at first sight the Institutional Theory is practically required by Duchamp's first unassisted ready-made.
      • As surely as it was a prank, this work was also, like the other ready-mades, a calculated attack on the most basic conventions of art.
 
 
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