Ready
Ready adjective - Being in a state of fitness for some experience or action.
Standing by and ready are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Standing by" instead an adjective "Ready".
Standing by
Ready and standing by are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ready" instead an adjective "Standing by".
Both terms in one sentence
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He's usually standing by, ready to help if absolutely necessary, rather than leaving the interns on their own to cope with the pressure.
Source: Sink-or-Swim Mentor -
Then I need to make it out of there alive, and get the sample to my base, where I have someone standing by, ready to synthesize a cure and disseminate it.
Source: Comic Book / Batman: Endgame -
Naturally, Pitt and Sandecker anticipated this and so had a submarine and a couple of fighter jets standing by, hidden out of sight and ready to be revealed at the moment the Soviets boarded the ship and attempted to steal it.
Source: Film / Raise the Titanic!
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