What's the difference between ripe and wipe?

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.

Wipe


Definition:

  • (n.) The lapwing.
  • (v. t.) To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel.
  • (v. t.) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively.
  • (v. t.) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; -- usually followed by out.
  • (n.) Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.
  • (n.) A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe.
  • (n.) A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.
  • (n.) A handkerchief.
  • (n.) Stain; brand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More than £26bn was wiped off the value of Britain's top companieson Tuesday, according to FTSE Group.
  • (2) It’s a good principle: don’t complain to people on whom you’re relying – unless there’s no way they can wipe your steak on their bum or drop a bogey in your soup.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) Shelby Quast, of Equality Now, said the gathering could be a “tipping point” and act as a catalyst for change, so that girls in the US could finally be protected: “It’s the first time that members of the government are coming around the table to meet with civil society, survivors and members of the diaspora – this is the first step towards putting together a comprehensive action plan to tackling FGM.” Campaigners are calling for the government to look at practical ways that FGM could be wiped out in the United States – such as engaging with paediatricians and other doctors, immigration officers and visa offices.
  • (5) A method was developed for the preparation of a standard source to satisfy the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirement for calibration of wipe-assay procedures used in nuclear medicine laboratories.
  • (6) Thugs are distributing leaflets threatening to "wipe us out" and children in schools are being taught that the Rohingya are different.
  • (7) Each transducer head was wiped clean with a single alcohol wipe, allowed to dry, and then cultured.
  • (8) 'To returning forests we could reintroduce animals that have been wiped out across much or all of this land.'
  • (9) Earlier this month, Israeli warplanes struck targets near the capital, Damascus, reportedly wiping out Iranian missiles destined for Hezbollah.
  • (10) So our house is open to visitors, and you are always welcome.” A few weeks after we left, the Gregório river oveflowed, wiping out five villages, destroying four years worth of handicrafts and carpentry and leaving hundreds of people homeless.
  • (11) Nearly £5bn was wiped off the company's stock market value on Thursday after the supermarket juggernaut hit the wall during the peak selling season.
  • (12) Nor should we forget why the Conservatives were so eager to seize that chance: they saw the opportunity to wipe out the achievements of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who demonstrated, over many years of hard graft, that the country’s economic management was safe in Labour’s hands.
  • (13) The cell debris from the surfaces of the separated incisors was either gently wiped off with soft facial tissues or chemically removed by treating with NaOH, NaOCl or trypsin.
  • (14) Hundreds of people, including a former politician seeking re-election, a paedophile and a doctor, have applied to have details about them wiped from Google's search index since the ruling last Tuesday .
  • (15) Coupled with the global decline in oil prices and a costly pipeline deal with Sudan that allows its northern neighbour to charge South Sudan a fixed rate of $25 a barrel, the bulk of government revenues – and the country’s sole source of foreign exchange – has been virtually wiped out.
  • (16) These "misdirected wiping responses" have been explained in terms of two alternative hypotheses of nerve regeneration: nerve respecification or selective reinnervation.
  • (17) It's daunting, but St Louis have the bats and thus the best chance of any team in the NL to wipe out LA, who, despite losing Matt Kemp for the season, can hit a little bit as well.
  • (18) Billions of pounds have been wiped off the value of global carmakers amid growing concerns that emissions tests may have been rigged across the industry.
  • (19) But an "intensified euro area crisis" would wipe out growth in Europe, plunging the economy into a deep recession.
  • (20) Wipe tests were performed on designated areas for two 1-wk periods approximately 6 mo apart.