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Roped vs Riped - What's the difference?

roped | riped |

As verbs the difference between roped and riped

is that roped is (rope) while riped is (ripe).

roped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (rope)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    rope

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (all obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia rope)
  • (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
    • Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.
  • (countable) An individual length of such material.
    • The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes .
  • A cohesive strand of something.
  • * {{quote-book, 2003, (Dennis Lehane), Mystic River, page=138 citation
    • , passage=Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.}}
  • (dated) A continuous stream.
  • * {{quote-book, 1852, John Bourne, 3= A Treatise on the Screw Propeller: With Various Suggestions of Improvement, page=38
    • , passage=The principle of any such device should be to pull on the vessel by a rope of water passing in at the bow and out at the stern. }}
  • (baseball) A hard line drive.
    • He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
  • (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
  • (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
  • (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.(jump)
  • * {{quote-book, 2001, , editor=Nagendra Kr. Singh, chapter=Review of Metaphysical Teaching, Encyclopaedia of Jainism, citation
    • , passage=The central strip of the loka , the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high,
  • (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
  • (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
  • (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
  • (slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.
  • (in the plural) The small intestines.
    • the ropes of birds

    Synonyms

    * twine, line, cord; see also * (jump) rajju, infinitude

    Derived terms

    * jump rope * know the ropes * learn the ropes * money for old rope * on the ropes * rope ladder * Rope Monday * rope tow * rope-band * rope-dancer * rope-dancing * rope-end * ropefull * rope-house * rope-like * rope-maker * ropemanship * rope-over * ropery * rope-ripe * rope's end * rope-sick * rope-tide * ropewalk, rope-walk * ropework, rope-work * ropey, ropy * rope-yard * show one the ropes * teach one the ropes * skipping rope * wire rope

    Verb

    (rop)
  • To tie (something) with something.
    • The robber roped the victims.
  • To throw a rope around (something).
    • The cowboy roped the calf.
  • To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.

    Synonyms

    * (to tie something) tie, bind, secure * (throw a rope around) lasso

    Derived terms

    * ropable, ropeable * rope-a-dope * roped * roper * rope together

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    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
    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

    * ----