(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.
Wicker
Definition:
(n.) A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.
(n.) Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket.
(n.) Same as 1st Wike.
(a.) Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wicker's (this issue) article on substantive theorizing outlines an approach to theory and research that helps communicate the structure and process of doing research on a complex area.
(2) Wicker, who chairs the NRSC, the organization tasked with keeping the Senate in Republicans’ control, has already committed to backing Trump.
(3) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
(4) "Will I get burnt to death in a giant effigy of a man woven from wicker?"
(5) Canvasses from the UNHCR and Unicef, the children's agency, are piled haphazardly on to structures made out of wood with wicker roofs, sacking and animal skin.
(6) Man can’t change climate.” The quick thinking from Inhofe now leaves Wicker, the new chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, as the only Republican to still embrace the entire idea of climate change as a hoax.
(7) 32 Rose Street, +27 21 422 5883, larosecapetown.com The Blue House Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rooms in The Blue House look like they could be straight from the film set of Out Of Africa , with huge leather sofas, wicker armchairs and wooden tea chests.
(8) The NSA also intercepted the foreign communications of prominent journalists such as Tom Wicker of the New York Times and the popular satirical writer for the Washington Post, Art Buchwald.
(9) Wicker said they wanted to be a model for neighborhood kids, “who did not have the opportunity to see husband and wife and children, and people waking up every morning and going to work”.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tara Wicker stands in front of the home she grew up in and still lives in today.
(11) The wicker coffin, draped in the flags of Great Britain and Brazil and an Arsenal scarf, and accompanied by an escort of Hell's Angels and the London Dixieland jazz band playing Just a Closer Walk with Thee, arrived at Golders Green crematorium in the midst of rain and storm.
(12) 6.20pm BST Beyond the belly Lots of food tips coming in - for deep-dish pizza at Gino's Eas t, tacos on the patio at Big Star in Wicker Park, for Franks N Dawgs in Lincoln Park (shark bacon, eggs, and scallop sausages) and Devil Dawgs .
(13) A handful of Republican senators joined Trump’s meeting with the leadership: Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Orrin Hatch of Utah, Deb Fischer of Nebraska, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Rob Portman of Ohio and Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
(14) From there we'll aim for Wicker Park , Chicago's hippest hood.
(15) In this rejoinder, I: (1) underscore the thrust of the choices Wicker has clarified and the p references he has recommended; (2) suggest an alternative route for the ecologically-oriented research process, one in which the conceptual and substantive "paths" have coequal and interdependent importance in determining the nature and direction of the research process; and (3) discuss in greater depth the search for universal laws.
(16) "Suspicious" Mail • Intercepted letters to Mississippi senator Roger Wicker and President Obama both initially tested positive for ricin and have been taken to the Fort Detrick lab for further testing.
(17) "The issue with The Wicker Man is there's a need by some folks in the media to think that we're not in on the joke.
(18) The English "folk horror" of the 70s is everywhere at the moment, with another cut of The Wicker Man recently released and Ben Wheatley's A Field in England a direct homage to the unhinged films that era.
(19) There's also a Wicker Man -style subplot where she gets her promiscuous comeuppance.
(20) Wicker (1989) urges the ecologyically-oriented psychologist to be more cognizant of the decision points implicit in the scientific enterprise.