Rip vs Hurl - What's the difference?
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A tear (in paper, etc.).
A type of tide or current.
# (Australia) A strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
#* 2000 , Andrew Short, Beaches of the Queensland Coast: Cooktown to Coolangatta ,
#* 2005 , Paul Smitz, Australia & New Zealand on a Shoestring , Lonely Planet,
#* 2010 , Jeff Wilks, Donna Prendergast, Chapter 9: Beach Safety and Millennium Youth: Travellers and Sentinels'', Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo, Donna Pendergast, ''Tourism and Generation Y ,
(slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
(slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
(UK, Eton College) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
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, title= * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
* Granville
(figurative) To move quickly and destructively.
* 2007 , Roger Baker, Emotional Processing (page 136)
(woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain. Contrast crosscut.
(transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
(slang, narcotics) To take a "hit" of marijuana.
(slang) To fart.
(US, slang) To mock or criticize.
(transitive, slang, chiefly, demoscene) To steal; to rip off.
* 2001 , "rex deathstar", Opensource on demoscene'' (discussion on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos )
* 2002 , "Ray Norrish", Barbarian demo circa 1988?'' (on newsgroup ''alt.emulators.amiga )
To move or act fast, to rush headlong.
(archaic) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; usually with up .
* Clarendon
* Milton
*1924 , (Ford Madox Ford), Some Do Not…'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), page 76:
*:If there were, in clubs and places where men talk, unpleasant rumours as to himself he preferred it to be thought that he was the rip , not his wife the strumpet.
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To throw (something) with force.
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* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.
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, title=New International Version of the Bible
, section=Mark 15:29-30
, passage=Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, come down from the cross and save yourself!"}}
To participate in the sport of hurling.
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, title=Egan targets Rebel success to rescue poor season
, work=Irish Independent
(slang) To vomit.
(obsolete) To twist or turn.
* Hooker
A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling.
The act of vomiting.
(hurling) The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley.
(Ulster) (car) ride
(obsolete) tumult; riot; hurly-burly
(obsolete) A table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring.
In transitive terms the difference between rip and hurl
is that rip is to get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing while hurl is to utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.In intransitive terms the difference between rip and hurl
is that rip is to tear apart; to rapidly become two parts while hurl is to participate in the sport of hurling.As an interjection RIP
is rest in peace.rip
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) rippen, from earlier ryppen ‘to pluck’, from (etyl) - ‘to break’.Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., ''Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen , s.v. “raufen” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbucher Vertrag, 2005), 1090. More at reave, rob.Noun
(en noun)page 38,
- Rhythmic beaches consist of a rhythmic longshore bar that narrows and deepens when the rip' crosses the breaker, and in between broadens, shoals and approaches the shore. It does not, however, reach the shore, with a continuous '''rip''' feeder channel feeding the ' rips to either side of the bar.
page 466,
- Undertows (or ‘rips'’) are the main problem. If you find yourself being carried out by a '''rip''', the important thing to do is just keep afloat; don?t panic or try to swim against the '''rip''', which will exhaust you. In most cases the current stops within a couple of hundred metres of the shore and you can then swim parallel to the shore for a short way to get out of the ' rip and make your way back to land.
page 100,
- Given that a large number of all rescues conducted by Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA) occur in rips' (a ' rip being a relatively narrow, seaward moving stream of water), this is critical surf-safety information (Surf Life Saving Australia, 2005).
Synonyms
*Verb
(ripp)- to rip''' a garment; to '''rip up a floor
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.}}
citation, passage=A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
- My shirt ripped when it caught on a bramble.
- He'll rip the fatal secret from her heart.
- On 18 November 1987 a horrific flash fire ripped through the escalators and ticket hall of King's Cross tube station, killing thirty people.
- opensource is a double-edged sword. while you have a chance of people using and improving on the code, you will also have the chance of lamers ripping it.
- They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion.
- For brethren to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy is neither wise nor comely.
Derived terms
* * to rip it up (ripping it up ) * *Synonyms
*Etymology 2
Compare Icelandic (hrip), a box or basket; perhaps akin to English corb. Compare ripier.Etymology 3
Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of .Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*References
hurl
English
Verb
citation, page= , passage=The Tottenham wing was causing havoc down the right and when he broke past the bemused Sasa Balic once again, Bellamy was millimetres from connecting with his cross as the Liverpool striker hurled himself at the ball.}}
- I was standing on the edge of the conning-tower, when a heavy palm suddenly struck me between the shoulders and hurled me forward into space. The drop to the triangular deck forward of the conning-tower might easily have broken a leg for me, or I might have slipped off onto the deck and rolled overboard; but fate was upon my side, as I was only slightly bruised.
- Tarzan on his part never lost an opportunity to show that he fully reciprocated his foster father's sentiments, and whenever he could safely annoy him or make faces at him or hurl insults upon him from the safety of his mother's arms, or the slender branches of the higher trees, he did so.
- The gangs hurled abuse at each other.
citation, page= , passage=Their cause was helped after the senior footballers were unexpectedly dumped out of the running for the Sam Maguire, meaning Aidan Walsh is available to hurl full-time with the young Rebels -- Walsh scored 1-1 in the semi-final victory over reigning All-Ireland champions Tipperary.}}
- Pass me the bucket; I've got to hurl .
- hurled or crooked feet
Noun
(en noun)- He managed a hurl of 50.3 metres.
- A hurl of abuse.
- (Congreve)