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Ripe vs Rike - What's the difference?

ripe | rike |

As a verb ripe

is .

As a noun rike is

duckling, duck.

ripe

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Related to (l).

Adjective

(er)
  • Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
  • * Milton
    • So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop / Into thy mother's lap.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
    • , title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
  • Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
  • (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.
  • (archaic) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
  • Ready for action or effect; prepared.
  • * Addison
    • while things were just ripe for a war
  • * Burke
    • I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies.
  • *
  • Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Those happy smilets, / That played on her ripe lip.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1981, author=Daniel Curzon, title=Human Warmth & Other Stories, isbn=0912516542 citation
    • passage=He looked back once at the waving hands, the mother's glowing, ripe cheeks.}}
  • (obsolete) Intoxicated.
  • * 1611, (William Shakespeare), , Act V, Scene 1,
    • Alonso: And Trinculo is reeling-ripe : where should they / Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them? / How cam'st thou in this pickle?
  • (legal) Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2004, author=Kenneth F. Warren, title=Administrative Law in the Political System, isbn=0813341167 citation
    • passage=Problems emerge in judging whether a case is ripe , however, when contested general agency directives are issued that are not aimed at specific parties.}}
  • Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2004, author=Colum McCann, title=Fishing the Sloe-Black River, isbn=0312423381 citation
    • , passage=Dolores, giving her a bath yesterday, said she was a bit ripe under the armpits.}}
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Antonyms
    * unripe
    Derived terms
    * ripeness
    Related terms
    * ripen

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (agriculture) A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1993, page=76, author=Paul J. Dosal, title=Doing Business with the Dictators, isbn=0842024395 citation
    • , passage=When he realized that the ripes would not make it back to Selma, Zemurray offered a free bunch of bananas to any telegraph operator who notified local grocers that he was coming through with a shipment of bananas.}}

    Verb

    (rip)
  • To ripen or mature
  • * 1594 , , Act II Scene VIII,
    • ALONSO:

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) ripa.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The bank of a river.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    rike

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) sovereignty, dominion, authority
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1820 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , author=Arthur Taylor , title=The Glory of Regality citation , genre=Coronations , page=5 , passage=king-rike was in use amongst us so late as the reign of Elizabeth. }}
  • (historical) The territory over which authority extends, a kingdom, an earldom, a diocese, district, city, and so forth.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1823 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor=David Scot , author=Alexander Murray , title=History of the European Languages citation , publisher=A. Constable & Co. , page=480 , passage=RAUMARICAE and RAUGNARICH are the people of the kingdom (RIKE ) of RAUMAR and RAUGNAR. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1857 , year_published=2009 , edition=Digitized , editor=John Gough Nichols , author=Edward VI (King of England) , title=Literary Remains of King Edward the Sixth citation , page=464 , passage=The bishop (Tunstal) of Durham was deprived of his bishop-rike . }}

    Etymology 2

    From the as a result of the difficulty of pronouncing the letter 'L' in many oriental languages.

    Verb

  • (Oriental)

    • Anagrams

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