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riped | piped |

As verbs the difference between riped and piped

is that riped is past tense of ripe while piped is past tense of pipe.

riped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (ripe)
  • Anagrams

    *

    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

    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

    * ----

    piped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pipe)

  • pipe

    English

    (wikipedia pipe)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb) Wind instrument.
  • # (lb) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
  • # (lb) A hollow tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
  • # The key or sound of the voice.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • # A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
  • #* (1809-1892)
  • the earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
  • (lb) Hollow conduit.
  • # A rigid tube that transports water, steam
  • # A tubular passageway in the human body; the windpipe, a blood vessel.
  • #
  • #* 1818' September 26, ''(Sydney Gazette)'', on (William Bland) being convicted of libelling in a '''pipe , quoted in 2004, Michael Connor (editor), ''More Pig Bites Baby! Stories from Australia?s First Newspaper , Vol.2 (Duffy and Snellgrove, ISBN 1-876631-91-0):
  • yet, it is much to be hoped, that from his example pipe -making will in future be reposed solely in the hands of Mr. William Cluer[an earthenware pipe maker] of the Brickfield Hill.
  • # A man's penis.
  • #* 2006 , Monique A. Williams, Neurotica: an Honest Examination Into Urban Sexual Relations , p.7:
  • He grabs my legs and throws them over his shoulders, putting his big pipe inside me
  • #* 2010 , Eric Summers, Teammates , p.90:
  • He punctuated his demand with a deep thrust up CJ's hole. His giant pipe drove almost all the way in, pulsing against his fingers beside it.
  • #* 2011 , Mickey Erlach, Gym Buddies & Buff Boys , p.64:
  • He laughed as he knelt down between Duncan's splayed thighs and tore open a packaged condom, then rolled it down over his big fuck-pipe .
  • (lb) Container.
  • # A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially, a vat or cask of wine or cider.
  • #* 1846 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘(The Cask of Amontillado)’:
  • I said to him — “My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking to-day! But I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts.”
  • # The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure; sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
  • #* 1882 , James Edwin (Thorold Rogers), A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , p.205:
  • Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.
  • (lb) Something resembling a tube.
  • # Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, pillows, curtains, etc.); often a contrasting color.
  • # (lb) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
  • # (lb) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano, through which magma has passed; often filled with volcanic breccia.
  • # (lb) In computing.
  • ## The character (pipe) .
  • ## A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
  • ## (lb) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
  • #
  • # A type of pasta, similar to macaroni.
  • # (lb) One of the goalposts of the goal.
  • (lb) Smoking implement.
  • # (lb) A hollow stem with bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
  • ## The use of such a pipe for smoking tobacco.
  • ##*
  • #
    At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  • #
  • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * airpipe * anonymous pipe * blowpipe * boatswain's pipe * churchwarden pipe * crack-pipe * crosspipe * pitch pipe * drainage pipe * dutchman's pipe * food pipe * half-pipe * hawse pipe * hashpipe * hornpipe * hosepipe * named pipe * organ pipe * panpipe * peace pipe * pipelike * pipeline * pipesmoke * pipe cleaner * pipe dream * pipe wrench * quarter-pipe * set of pipes * smokepipe * soil pipe * standpipe * steampipe * stopped pipe * stovepipe * superpipe * waste pipe * water pipe * windpipe

    Verb

    (pip)
  • To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
  • To install or configure with pipes.
  • To play music on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe.
  • (nautical) To signal or order by a note pattern on a bosun's pipe.
  • (figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
  • To decorate with piping.
  • * 1998 , Merehurst Staff, Nicholas Lodge, Janice Murfitt, Graham Tann, The international school of sugarcraft: Beginners (page 108)
  • This means a quantity of runouts can be made in advance, allowing more time to flat ice and pipe the cake.
  • To dab away moisture from.
  • * 1883:
  • Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.
  • To shout loudly and at high pitch.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
  • "Ar-cher! Ja-cob!" Johnny piped after her, pivoting round on his heel
  • (transitive, computing, chiefly, Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character at the command line.
  • To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
  • * Wordsworth
  • oft in the piping shrouds
  • To become hollow in the process of solidifying; said of an ingot of metal.
  • Derived terms

    * pipe down * pipe up

    See also

    * brier ----