Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word RIPE

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Definitions of RIPE

1. Ready for action or effect; prepared.
2. Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
3. Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
4. To ripen or mature
5. The bank of a river.
6. (of fruits, vegetables, seeds etc.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature
7. (of foods) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow
8. (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected
9. (archaic) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge (said of sores, tumors, etc.)
10. (obsolete) Intoxicated.
11. (law) Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
12. (agriculture) A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
13. (transitive, obsolete) To search; to rummage.
14. (proscribed, , used with with) Rife
15. A village in Chalvington with Ripe, Wealden, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5110).

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Examples of Using RIPE in a Sentence

• The fruit is a berry that is larger than the leaves of the plant; it is initially light green, turning red when ripe.
• They should not be confused with the Tephritidae, a related family, which are also called fruit flies (sometimes referred to as "true fruit flies"); tephritids feed primarily on unripe or ripe fruit, with many species being regarded as destructive agricultural pests, especially the Mediterranean fruit fly.
• RIPEMD (RIPE Message Digest) is a family of cryptographic hash functions developed in 1992 (the original RIPEMD) and 1996 (other variants).
• The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a peel, which may have a variety of colors when ripe.
• Sunset magazine editors wrote of the Hidden Gem of the Missions: “With its simple, straightforward exterior, Santa Inés fits one’s impression of how a ripe old mission should look.
• The showy fruits have a thin, waxy pericarp, orange-yellow skin, and crisp, yellow flesh with juice when ripe.
• Temenus and his brothers complained to the oracle that its instructions had proved fatal to those who had followed them (the oracle had told Hyllas to attack through the narrow passage when the third fruit was ripe).
• Cresphontes and his brothers complained to the oracle that its instructions had proved fatal to those who had followed them (the oracle had told Hyllus to attack through the narrow passage when the third fruit was ripe).
• Aristodemus and his brothers complained to the oracle that its instructions had proved fatal to those who had followed them; the oracle had told Hyllas to attack through the narrow passage when the third fruit was ripe.
• Lavinia, the only child of the king and "ripe for marriage", had been courted by many men who hoped to become the king of Latium.
• Organized by the Bradley County Chamber of Commerce, the festival celebrates the South Arkansas Vine Ripe Pink Tomato, a special variety of tomato which holds the distinction of being Arkansas' state fruit and state vegetable.
• Gifford and his brother Hezekiah Gifford heard tales of this area ripe for settlement, and they traveled west.
• Because of its agricultural nature and proximity to Youngstown, Boardman was ripe for strip development starting as early as 1950.
• The city of Hebron imposed no taxes of its own, and when the time was ripe for a landowner to develop his land, he would ask the town to disannex that parcel.
• Rob Blokzijl, who was instrumental in the formation of RIPE, was the initial chair and remained in that position until 2014, when he appointed Hans Petter Holen as his successor.
• Peppercorns and the ground pepper derived from them may be described simply as pepper, or more precisely as black pepper (cooked and dried unripe fruit), green pepper (dried unripe fruit), or white pepper (ripe fruit seeds).
• Although a firm supporter of colonial rights, he (as a delegate) was instructed initially to oppose Richard Henry Lee's Resolution of independence; South Carolina's leaders were unsure that the time was "ripe".
• This is an ancient (known from the Upper Permian) and fairly isolated group that is often known as the "flowering ferns" because of the striking aspect of the ripe sporangia in Claytosmunda, Osmunda, Osmundastrum, and Plensium (subtribe Osmundinae).
• The potentially deadly ripe fruit of Atropa belladonna can be distinguished from the similar Solanum nigrum by its larger berry size, its much larger calyx than S.
• Other uses of brown coir (made from ripe coconut) are in upholstery padding, sacking and horticulture.
• A ripe tangerine is firm to slightly soft, and pebbly-skinned with no deep grooves, as well as orange in color.
• Parker received worldwide attention when he called the 1982 vintage in Bordeaux superb, contrary to the opinions of many other critics, such as San Francisco critic Robert Finigan, who felt it was too low-acid and ripe.
• Seeds are tiny and black, held in long pointed pods that split open when ripe often with enough force to fling the seeds some distance with an audible snap.
• Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands and serves Central and West Asia, Europe, and Russia.
• Before AFRINIC was formed, IP addresses (IPv6 and IPv4) for Africa were distributed by the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), and the RIPE NCC.

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