What's the difference between rip and unseam?

Rip


Definition:

  • (n.) A wicker fish basket.
  • (v. t.) To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off.
  • (v. t.) To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.
  • (v. t.) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.
  • (v. t.) To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.
  • (n.) A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.
  • (n.) A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.
  • (n.) A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
  • (2) Tottenham MP David Lammy said the community "had the heart ripped out of it" by "mindless, mindless people", many of whom had come from outside Tottenham.
  • (3) Besides tolerating commercial espionage via hacking, it also allows the hosting of thousands of sites that help spammers rip people off around the world.
  • (4) Instead he ripped out the phone, left the couple and fled empty-handed with his accomplices.
  • (5) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
  • (6) The distribution of derepression among castrated recombinant inbred strains (9 X A) indicated a close link of a locus repressing I-P-450(16 alpha) in male mice to the Rip locus on chromosome 7.
  • (7) It rips at our souls every single time we look the results,” said Winters, who was paid $12.8m, including a $10m buy-out award .
  • (8) Conformation of the renin inhibitor peptide, Pro-His-Pro-Phe-His-Phe-Phe-Val-Tyr-Lys (RIP) has been studied in aqueous solution and in lipid bilayers using 500 MHz 1H NMR spectroscopy.
  • (9) In chronic liver disease the frequency of HBAg with the RIP method was 83.3% in chronic persistent hepatitis, 42.8% in chronic aggressive hepatitis, 23% in cryptogenic cirrhosis and 16.6% in alcoholic cirrhosis.
  • (10) The former is an RNAase, whereas RIPs are N-glycosidases.
  • (11) Using interferon in the pretreatment sample as a measure of RIP concentration, a semilog plot of the pretreatment interferon titer and interferon subsequently produced, resulted in an approximately linear relationship between 10 and 100 units of interferon in the pretreatment sample.
  • (12) Clubs got into a mess partly because rich people, who knew nothing about football, put money in - and they got ripped off."
  • (13) Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) are a group of proteins that inhibit protein synthesis in eucaryotic cells.
  • (14) Response The DfE ripped up the first draft, replacing it with technology-based programme that includes 3-D printers in secondary classrooms, while primary school pupils will design and test structures and circuits.
  • (15) These results demonstrate that the RIP phenomenon can be a source of new functional alleles.
  • (16) "Around 2009, when Twilight was huge and Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were wearing ripped jeans, that look was big, though it wasn't really from the catwalk," he said.
  • (17) Toward this goal performance in two 30-min rapid information processing (RIP) trials separated by a 10-min smoking period was compared among preselected high and low CO absorbing smokers, nonsmokers, and smokers not allowed to smoke (n = 12 per group).
  • (18) Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, said: "The Lords today have ripped the heart out of this deeply flawed flagship bill.
  • (19) In 10 patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome, we studied the effects on respiratory system mechanics of two levels of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP), best PEEP (BP) and half of this value (HBP), using a respiratory inductive plethysmograph (RIP) combined with a super syringe.
  • (20) The regulator, Monitor, is partly constrained from letting competition rip.

Unseam


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut; to cut open.

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