Ripe vs Tear - What's the difference?
ripe | tear |
Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
* Milton
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, 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,
To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
To injure as if by pulling apart.
To cause to lose some kind of unity or coherence.
*
, title= To make (an opening) with force or energy.
To remove by tearing.
To demolish
To become torn, especially accidentally.
To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
To smash or enter something with great force.
A hole or break caused by tearing.
A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
* Dryden
That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
* Milton
As verbs the difference between ripe and tear
is that ripe is while tear is to rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate or tear can be to produce tears.As a noun tear is
a hole or break caused by tearing or tear can be a drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.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.
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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
(rip)- ALONSO:
Etymology 2
(etyl) (lena) ripa.Anagrams
* ----tear
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
- He suffered, poor man, at seeing her so badly dressed, with laceless boots, and the arm-holes of her pinafore torn down to the hips; for the charwoman took no care of her.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=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. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
Synonyms
* (break) rend, rip * (remove by tearing) rip out, tear off, tear outNoun
(en noun)- A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.
Derived terms
* wear and tearDerived terms
* tearsheetEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia tear) (en noun)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
- Let Araby extol her happy coast, / Her fragrant flowers, her trees with precious tears .
- some melodious tear