What's the difference between overripe and ripe?

Overripe


Definition:

  • (a.) Matured to excess.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Even Jack Straw is trying to close down some of its overripe practices.
  • (2) Although this method should be devoid of side effects, certain risks have been reported due to the possible fertilization of an overripe ovum.
  • (3) they are caused by seasonal pre-ovulatory overripeness ovopathy (SPOO).
  • (4) In addition, overripeness may also lead to chromosomal abnormalities and to babies with Down's syndrome.
  • (5) The eight criteria which have to be met before a condition can be said to be caused by overripeness ovopathy are shown to be satisfied.
  • (6) It has been suggested that delayed ovulation and luteal phase defect are the pathogenetic factors responsible for the anomalous postconception bleeding and that these etiologically interrelated phenomena are closely associated with the occurrence of overripeness of the ovum.
  • (7) An asynchronism of several hours between the stage of development of the largest and large cohort follicles is observed; overripeness of oocyte cumulus complex (OCC) is revealed.
  • (8) The degenerative changes that characterize overripeness are conducive to the occurrence of chromosome and anatomic anomalies in the fertilized ovum.
  • (9) Possible consequences of preovulatory overripeness of the ovum include occult and early spontaneous abortions, a wide spectrum of chromosomal defects, various developmental anomalies, including those of the brain, and gestational abnormalities.
  • (10) The tested nutrients were distilled water, overripe fig fruits, guinea pig blood, sucrose solution and alternative meals of blood and sucrose.
  • (11) The theory of the fertilisation of an overripe ovum due to a delay in fertilization, and more recently the aging of the sperm.
  • (12) In addition, conception occurring at the time of seasonally alternating patterns of ovulation and anovulation, the seasonal overripeness hypothesis, is subject to alterations associated with ovopathology.
  • (13) In experimental animals, it has been shown that when coitus is delayed for several hours after ovulation, the oocyte becomes overripe and degenerates.
  • (14) Topics discussed include nosologic problems, epidemiology, etiology (chromosomal, monogenic, teratogenic), and pathogenesis (hematoma formation, other vascular mechanisms, overripeness ovopathy).
  • (15) Seasonal Preovulatory Overripeness Ovopathy (SPOO) is one explanation for seasonal variations in the occurrence of congenital anomalies.
  • (16) Future research should better be directed to causes of preovulatory overripeness ovapathy (OO) other than seasonality.
  • (17) Therefore we suggest that the preovulatory oocyte overripeness is one of the mechanisms of congenital malformation.
  • (18) Makes 1 tart 5 overripe avocados, peeled and destoned 300g organic raw cacao 300ml agave syrup 2 tbsp coconut oil 1 tsp salt 1 vanilla pod For the base 250g walnut 200g prunes (soaked overnight) 1 For the base, blitz the prunes and walnuts together.
  • (19) Pathological changes of either the pregnancy or the products of conception may be caused by preovulatory overripeness, and can be expected in conceptions which occurred at times of changing endocrine patterns, such as puberty (high-risk teenage pregnancies) and menopause (high-risk older maternal age pregnancies).
  • (20) Absence of ovulation is conducive to sterility, while delay of the follicular maturation process predispose to the development of an overripe ovum.

Ripe


Definition:

  • (n.) The bank of a river.
  • (superl.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
  • (superl.) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
  • (superl.) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
  • (superl.) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
  • (superl.) Ready for action or effect; prepared.
  • (superl.) Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
  • (superl.) Intoxicated.
  • (v. i.) To ripen; to grow ripe.
  • (v. t.) To mature; to ripen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 1200 examinations of sonographical demonstrable placental ripeness were done in 552 pregnant women.
  • (2) I found their remarks a little ripe, if mostly well argued, although Nicholson's characterisation of the characters' default mindset as "Brown people bad, American people good" rather misses the obvious retort: "They wanna kill me, I wanna live."
  • (3) President Hassan Rouhani , who is visiting New York to speak at the UN general assembly next week, said at a meeting with journalists and media executives on Friday that “conditions were ripe” for his administration to start implementing the agreement, struck in Vienna in July, by the end of the year.
  • (4) The amount of banana starch not hydrolyzed and absorbed from the human small intestine and therefore passing into the colon may be up to 8 times more than the NSP present in this food and depends on the state of ripeness when the fruit is eaten.
  • (5) 75 Patients were treated with Prostaglandin-F2 alpha-gel intracervical to ripe the cervix prior to first trimester abortion.
  • (6) These demographic realities define a policy issue ripe for study.
  • (7) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
  • (8) It’s when we have untrusted heads of these old institutions that everything seems ripe for revolution – if someone has the guts and ingenuity to really go for it.
  • (9) I gaze at it across the street and, as if by magic, I ache with longing, just as I used to in the days when a trip here was the most enjoyable thing I could possibly imagine: when books were all I wanted, when I thought of them as pieces of ripe fruit, waiting to be peeled and devoured.
  • (10) Some on the left who want Brexit say that the time is not yet ripe.
  • (11) We think that, after a rather premature condemnation, the time is ripe for a reevaluation and a reevaluation of the ureterosigmoidostomy.
  • (12) The oogonia pass through seven maturation stages to form the ripe ova.
  • (13) Total lipid constituted 15% of the dry wt of ripe eggs, 70% of the total lipid being polar lipid with phosphatidylcholine (PC) accounting for almost 90% of the polar lipid.
  • (14) A child growing up in America witnesses 16,000 murders and 200,000 acts of violence by the time he or she reaches the ripe old age of 18.
  • (15) Lamicel produced a cervical dilatation and ripeness equal to the syntetic tent without MgSO4.
  • (16) "The issue is ripe in our country, given the experiences that we know of elsewhere," he added.
  • (17) There's only so much traipsing sodden hills one person can do; once your Pringles supply from the nearest point of civilisation has been depleted, and anyone with bones ripe for jumping carries the risk of a shared grandparent, it's a wonder more people don't while away the long nights with a spot of leisurely murder.
  • (18) I think the time is ripe to push these issues into London councils and the London Assembly .
  • (19) Music in hospitals, he argues, is an area ripe for further exploration.
  • (20) The relationship between disability in activities of daily living and age-related impairment of physical performance is especially ripe for study.

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