Rip vs Ripe - 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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Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
* Milton
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
(figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
Ready for action or effect; prepared.
* Addison
* Burke
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Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-book, year=1981, author=Daniel Curzon, title=Human Warmth & Other Stories, isbn=0912516542
passage=He looked back once at the waving hands, the mother's glowing, ripe cheeks.}}
(obsolete) Intoxicated.
* 1611, (William Shakespeare), , Act V, Scene 1,
(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
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
, passage=Dolores, giving her a bath yesterday, said she was a bit ripe under the armpits.}}
(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
, 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.}}
To ripen or mature
* 1594 , , Act II Scene VIII,
In lang=en terms the difference between rip and ripe
is that rip is to fart while ripe is of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.In archaic terms the difference between rip and ripe
is that rip is to tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; usually with up while ripe is maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.As nouns the difference between rip and ripe
is that rip is a tear (in paper, etc.) while ripe is a fruit or vegetable which has ripened.As verbs the difference between rip and ripe
is that rip is 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 while ripe is to ripen or mature.As an interjection RIP
is rest in peace.As an adjective ripe is
ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.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
ripe
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Related to (l).Adjective
(er)- So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop / Into thy mother's lap.
David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
- He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.
- while things were just ripe for a war
- I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies.
- Those happy smilets, / That played on her ripe lip.
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- Alonso: And Trinculo is reeling-ripe : where should they / Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them? / How cam'st thou in this pickle?
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Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* unripeDerived terms
* ripenessNoun
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Verb
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