noun
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A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
verb
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To ripen or mature
adjective
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(of fruits, vegetables, seeds etc.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature
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ripe apples
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(of foods) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow
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ripe cheese
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Having attained its full development; mature; perfected
synonyms
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Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
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Ready for action or effect; prepared.
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Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
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Intoxicated.
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Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
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Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
Examples of ripe in a Sentence
The dried ripe seeds of this plant are also used in medicine.
It was that of a boy carrying a basket of ripe red cherries.
He found Newcastle ripe for his message.
His special pride was the big garden where, it was said, he raised the finest watermelons and strawberries in the county; and to me he brought the first ripe grapes and the choicest berries.
The ripe fruit is about 2 in.
What's the point of living to a ripe old age if you can't enjoy yourself?
When chestnuts were ripe I laid up half a bushel for winter.
The seed is enclosed when ripe in the fruit, a development of the ovary as a result of fertilization of the egg-cell.
In the spring of 1798 he had judged the pear to be not ripe; in Brumaire 1799 it came off almost at a touch.
When ripe, the germ-cells are dehisced directly to the exterior.
I was very fond of bananas, and one night I dreamed that I found a long string of them in the dining-room, near the cupboard, all peeled and deliciously ripe, and all I had to do was to stand under the string and eat as long as I could eat.
We're following a hunger and when it's ripe, all common sense and caution fly out the window.
Think about unripe fruit versus ripe fruit.
Summer and autumn pears should be gathered before they are fully ripe, otherwise they will not in general keep more than a few days.
A ripe leaf easily cracks or shows a crease when folded between the fingers.
Though he believed that the lower classes were not yet ripe for socialism, with the principles of which he (unlike James Mill and Bentham) was in general agreement, his whole life was devoted to the amelioration of the conditions of the working classes.
A, Branch bearing (a) young female cones, (b) ripe cones, reduced.
For all exposed sawfly larvae hellebore washes are most fatal, but they must not be used over ripe or ripening fruit, as the hellebore is poisonous.
The somewhat different question of the resistance of ripe spores or cells to extremes of heat and cold has received attention.
When ripe the two carpels separate in the form of two valves and liberate a large number of seeds, each provided at the base with a tuft of silky hairs, and containing a straight embryo without any investing albumen.
When the battle was ripe, he would crush the Prussian centre and right between the Guard and D'Erlon's corps.
Matters were soon ripe for foreign intervention, and the notorious Cyril of Alexandria, in whom the antagonism between the Alexandrian and Antiochene schools of theology,' as well as the jealousy between the patriarchate of St Mark and that of Constantinople, found a determined and unscrupulous exponent, did not fail to make use of the opportunity.
Education was shamefully neglected, the masses being left in almost heathen ignorance - and this, too, at a time when the upper classes were greedily appropriating the ripe fruits of the Renaissance and when, to use the words of a contemporary, there were "more Latinists in Poland than there used to be in Latium."
The hungry disciples had so transgressed as they walked through the fields of ripe corn.
His philosophy was not one aspect of his intellectual life, to be contemplated from others; it was the ripe fruit of concentrated reflection, and had become the one all-embracing form and principle of his thinking.
Yet behind these unconvincing shadows of an imperial court with its financial difficulties, of the classical Walpurgisnacht, of the fantastic creation of the Homunculus, the noble Helena episode and the impressive mystery-scene of the close, where the centenarian Faust finally triumphs over the powers of evil, there lies a philosophy of life, a ripe wisdom born of experience, such as no European poet had given to the world since the Renaissance.
The seeds must be from ripe fruit, and if fresh gathered should be freed from pulp by maceration in water.
The times were ripe for revolution, and the message which spoke of a religious democracy could not fail to suggest the social democracy also.
When once sexually ripe the axolotl are apparently incapable of changing, but their ancestral course of evolution is still latent in them, and will, if favoured by circumstances, reappear in following generations.
Chemical analysis, like common experience, shows that Indian corn is a very nutritious article of food, being richer in albuminoids than any other cereals when ripe (calculated in the dry weight).
It is extensively grown throughout India, both for the ripe grain and for use of the unripe cob as a green vegetable.
In fact the time was ripe; and, as often happens in similar circumstances, only a hint was necessary to complete the latent chain of thought.
As soon as the time was ripe - and that time could not be far off - He would send a saviour out of the house of the Prophet, the Mandi, who would restore Islam to its original purity.
On the point of gathering the ripe fruit, the Alids were suddenly pushed aside, and the fruit was snatched away by the Abbasids.
Each seed is contained in a separate cavity by the folding inwards of thewalls of the legume at equal intervals; the legume, when ripe,separates transversely into single-seeded portions.
Everything in short was ripe for the reception of a book that brought together, with masterly ease and vigour, the old and the new Homeric learning, and drew from it the historical proof that Homer was no single poet, writing according to art and rule, but a name which stood for a golden age of the true spontaneous poetry of genius and nature.
The Italians of the 14th century, more precocious than the other European races, were ripe for this emancipation of enslaved intelligence.
This does not mean that England was deficient in ripe and sound scholars.
When the grape is ripe, the sugar has attained to a maximum and the acidity is very much reduced; the tannin has entirely disappeared.
The proportion of sugar present in the juice of ripe grapes varies considerably according to the type of grape, the locality and the harvest.
This is produced by pressing a mixture of dried grapes and fully ripe grapes and fermenting the must so obtained.
The time was ripe for a great change; scholasticism, long decaying, had begun to fall; the authority not only of school doctrines but of the church had been discarded; while here and there a few devoted experimenters were turning with fresh zeal to the unwithered face of nature.
When flax is cultivated primarily on account of the fibre, the crop ought to be pulled before the capsules are quite ripe, when they are just beginning to change from a green to a pale-brown colour, and when the stalks of the plant have become yellow throughout about two-thirds of their height.
He was still under attainder; and the temper of England was not yet ripe for the presence of a cardinal.
It was higher than all the rest, and was ripe enough to be gathered.
All the stalks which came from it showed ear before the usual time, and were ripe in the 6th moon.
The crop is said to be ready for gathering when the flowers appear; if gathered before, the fibre is weak, while if left until the seed is ripe, the fibre is stronger, but is coarser and lacks the characteristic lustre.
A system of rotation (cereal, roots, grass) is commonly followed, each division of land lying fallow one year as a rule; not more than two ripe grain-crops are commonly taken consecutively.
In September 1900 a fresh outburst of hostile feeling against Chile was created in Argentina by a note addressed by the Chilean government to Bolivia, intimating that Chile was no longer inclined to hand over the port of Arica or any other port on the Pacific, but considered the time ripe for a final settlement of the questions connected with the Chilean occupation of Bolivian territory, which had now been outstanding for sixteen years.
Hence it is that so-called artificial fertilization is possible; that is to say, fertilization will take place when ripe eggs and milt are artificially pressed from the oysters and allowed to fall into a vessel of sea-water.