📖 R — The English dictionary · page 44

riot — Everyday, meaning 1: A violent, noisy disturbance by a crowd of people in a public place.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Verb: to take part in such a disturbance.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) A very funny or fun person or event.↗ e.g. The party was a riot.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «A riot of colour»: a very bright mix of colours.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «Run riot»: to behave wildly without control, or to grow wildly.↗ Example: Police were called to stop the riot.↗ · The fans rioted after the match.↗ · Your birthday party was a riot!↗ · The garden was a riot of colour in spring.↗ · The children ran riot when the teacher left the room.↗ · Mum read us the riot act about the mess.↗

riotous — Everyday, meaning 1: Noisy, wild and out of control, like a riot.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Full of fun, loud laughter and wild energy: «a riotous party».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of colour or plants) Very bright, rich or growing wildly.↗ Example: The clown show ended in riotous laughter.↗ · The crowd became riotous after the match.↗ · We had a riotous time at the sleepover.↗ · The garden was riotous with colour in June.↗ · Riotous behaviour on the bus is dangerous.↗ · The story is a riotous adventure with pirates and pies.↗ · The woman Folly is riotous; she is thoughtless, and knoweth nothing.↗ (Writings PRO.9.13, JPS 1917)↗ · She is riotous and rebellious, her feet abide not in her house; (Writings PRO.7.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; and whosoever reeleth thereby is not wise.↗ (Writings PRO.20.1, JPS 1917)↗

rip — Everyday, meaning 1: To rip is to tear something quickly and roughly: rip paper, rip your jeans.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To rip off or out is to pull something away quickly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A rip is a long tear in cloth or paper.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A rip (rip current) is a strong current flowing out to sea from a beach.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: RIP means «rest in peace», written on graves.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: In old dialect, to rip can mean to rage, rant and carry on loudly.↗ Example: He ripped the paper in half.↗ · I ripped my jeans on the fence.↗ · There's a rip in my coat.↗ · Swim between the flags to avoid rips.↗ · If a rip pulls you out, float and raise your hand.↗ · She ripped open the present.↗ · That ticket price is a rip-off!↗ · The gravestone said «RIP».↗ · He rip en he ra'r, en he cuss, en he swar; he snort en he cavort."↗

ripe — Everyday, meaning 1: Ripe fruit or grain is ready to eat or pick; it is soft, sweet and has its full colour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ripe can mean ready for something: «The time is ripe».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «A ripe old age» means a very old age.↗ Example: Of 30 bananas, 18 are ripe.↗ · How many tomatoes are not ripe?↗ · 3/4 of the apples are ripe.↗ · She picked only the ripe strawberries.↗ · A ripe banana is yellow with brown spots.↗ · Green tomatoes are not ripe yet.↗ · Put the pears in a paper bag to help them ripen.↗ · My great-grandpa lived to a ripe old age.↗ · The time was ripe for a change.↗ · ‘Oh! shake me, shake me, my apples are all quite ripe.’↗ · and in the vine were three branches; and as it was budding, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes, (Torah GEN.40.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land.' — Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes. — (Torah NUM.13.20, JPS 1917)↗ · The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thy house may eat thereof.↗ (Torah NUM.18.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.↗ (Writings JOB.30.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt come to thy grave in a ripe age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.↗ (Writings JOB.5.26, JPS 1917)↗ · All thy fortresses shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.↗ (Prophets NAM.3.12, JPS 1917)↗

ripen — Everyday, meaning 1: To ripen means to become ready to eat, soft and sweet, as fruit and crops do.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To ripen something means to make it ripe.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A plan or a situation ripens when it becomes ready or right for action.↗ Example: The tomatoes ripened in the sun.↗ · Put the avocado in a bag with a banana to ripen it.↗ · The wheat ripens in late summer.↗ · Green bananas ripen in a few days.↗ · The apples are ripening on the tree.↗ · Cheese ripens slowly in a cave.↗ · But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late. — (Torah EXO.9.32, JPS 1917)↗

ripened — Everyday, meaning 1: Became ripe: fruit or grain grew ready to eat or harvest.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Made something ripe.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of ideas, plans, cheese) Developed fully over time.↗ Example: The tomatoes ripened in the greenhouse.↗ · The bananas ripened faster in a paper bag.↗ · Sun-ripened strawberries taste the sweetest.↗ · By August the wheat had ripened.↗ · The cheese ripened in a cave for months.↗ · Her plan ripened slowly over the summer.↗

ripeness — Everyday, meaning 1: The state of fruit, vegetables or grain being fully grown and ready to eat or pick.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Being fully developed or ready.↗ e.g. "the ripeness of time".↗ Example: Check the ripeness of an avocado by gently pressing it.↗ · The strawberries were picked at full ripeness.↗ · You can tell the ripeness of a banana by its colour.↗ · The farmer waited for the wheat to reach ripeness.↗ · The sweet smell showed the melon's ripeness.↗ · In science we recorded the ripeness of pears each day.↗

ripening — Everyday, meaning 1: Ripening means becoming ripe — ready to eat, soft, sweet and coloured.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ripening can describe something that is slowly developing or getting ready.↗ Example: The tomatoes are ripening on the windowsill.↗ · Ripening bananas turn from green to yellow.↗ · The apples are ripening in the orchard.↗ · Sunshine helps the ripening of grapes.↗ · Put the pears in a bag to speed up ripening.↗ · Fields of ripening wheat turned gold.↗ · For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the bud becometh a ripening grape, He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the shoots will He take away and lop off.↗ (Prophets ISA.18.5, JPS 1917)↗

ripped — Everyday, meaning 1: Ripped means torn, often roughly or suddenly.↗ e.g. "ripped jeans".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) Ripped is the past form of rip.↗ e.g. "she ripped open the present".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (slang) Ripped means having very strong, clearly seen muscles.↗ e.g. "he's ripped".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (slang) Ripped off means cheated, charged too much.↗ e.g. "we got ripped off".↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Ripped out means pulled out by force.↗ e.g. "the old fence was ripped out".↗ Example: I ripped my trousers on the fence.↗ · She ripped open the envelope.↗ · He ripped the paper into 8 equal pieces.↗ · Those trainers cost 200 dollars?↗ You got ripped off!↗ · The wind ripped the tent apart.↗ · After months at the gym he was totally ripped.↗ · My big sister loves ripped jeans.↗ · Then, telling the giant he would show him a trick, taking a knife, Jack ripped open the bag, and out came all the hasty pudding.↗ · Samaria shall bear her guilt, for she hath rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.↗ (Prophets HOS.14.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the borders thereof, from Tirzah; because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.↗ (Prophets 2KI.15.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.↗ (Prophets AMO.1.13, JPS 1917)↗

ripper — Everyday, meaning 1: A ripper is a person or tool that rips or tears things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Australia, NZ, slang) «Ripper!» means great or excellent; «a ripper» is something really good.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Jack the Ripper» is the name given to an unknown murderer in London long ago; this is a grim, adult part of history.↗ Example: That was a ripper of a game, mate!↗ · «You little ripper!»↗ Grandpa shouted when we won.↗ · Mum used a seam ripper to undo the wrong stitches.↗ · It was a ripper day at the beach.↗ · Bluey's dad might call a good cake a ripper.↗ · The police never caught Jack the Ripper.↗

ripping — Everyday, meaning 1: Present participle of «rip»: tearing quickly and roughly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: adjective (UK, old-fashioned, informal) Wonderful, excellent: «a ripping adventure».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Moving very fast or strongly: «a ripping current».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: ripping off (slang) Cheating someone by charging too much; also copying.↗ Example: He was ripping open his birthday presents.↗ · The dog is ripping up the newspaper.↗ · "What a ripping adventure!" said Jack in the old story.↗ · Stop ripping pages out of your book!↗ · That shop is ripping people off with high prices.↗ · The wind was ripping through the trees.↗ · John said “How ripping,” but decided to have tea first.↗

ripple — Everyday, meaning 1: A small wave on the surface of water, like the rings when you drop a stone in a pond.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To move in small waves.↗ e.g. "The flag rippled in the wind."↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Something that spreads slowly.↗ e.g. "a ripple of laughter".↗ Example: I threw a pebble and watched the ripples spread.↗ · The wind made ripples on the lake.↗ · A ripple of laughter went round the class.↗ · The curtains rippled in the breeze.↗ · Ripples spread out in circles from where the stone landed.↗ · One kind act can have a ripple effect.↗ · The sand on the beach had ripples from the waves.↗

rise — Everyday, meaning 1: To rise is to go up, move upward: «Smoke rises».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The Sun rises when it appears in the morning.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To rise is to increase: «Prices rose».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To rise is to get up: from bed or from a chair.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A rise is an increase, or (UK) more pay.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A rise is a small hill or slope.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: When bread dough rises, it swells up and grows bigger before it is baked.↗ Example: The Sun rises in the east.↗ · Hot air rises.↗ · The temperature rose to 30 degrees.↗ · The river is rising after the storm.↗ · All rise for the judge.↗ · Rise and shine — time for school!↗ · There was a rise in the number of visitors.↗ · The dough has risen nicely.↗ · Tattlin' 'oman can't make de bread rise.↗ · If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to bear perverted witness against him; (Torah DEU.19.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered.'↗ And we went over the brook Zered.↗ (Torah DEU.2.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And in the greatness of Thine excellency Thou overthrowest them that rise up against Thee; Thou sendest forth Thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.↗ (Torah EXO.15.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Many are they that rise up against me.↗ (Writings PSA.3.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers?↗ (Writings PSA.94.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise up to my help.↗ (Writings PSA.35.2, JPS 1917)↗

risen — Everyday, meaning 1: Risen means having gone up or got higher.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Risen is used for the sun or moon coming up.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Risen is used for prices, numbers or water going up.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Risen can mean got up from bed or from sitting, or (old) come back to life.↗ Example: The sun has risen.↗ · The temperature has risen by 4 degrees since morning.↗ · Prices have risen this year.↗ · The bread has risen in the oven.↗ · The river had risen after the rain.↗ · The number of pupils has risen from 200 to 250, a rise of 50.↗ · The sun had not yet risen, but the morning was come.↗ · The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar.↗ (Torah GEN.19.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, a brood of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.↗ (Torah NUM.32.14, JPS 1917)↗ · If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him — he shall make restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.↗ (Torah EXO.22.3, JPS 1917)↗ · They are bowed down and fallen; but we are risen, and stand upright.↗ (Writings PSA.20.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.↗ (Prophets ISA.60.1, JPS 1917)↗ · For strangers are risen up against me, and violent men have sought after my soul; they have not set God before them.↗ (Writings PSA.54.5, JPS 1917)↗

riser — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who gets up from bed at a certain time: «an early riser», «a late riser».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The upright part of each step on a staircase, between one tread and the next.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A low platform or stage block that makes people stand higher, as for a choir.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A pipe going upwards in a building.↗ Example: Grandma is an early riser and gets up at five.↗ · I'm a late riser at weekends.↗ · Each stair riser is 18 centimetres high.↗ · The choir stood on risers so everyone could be seen.↗ · The water riser pipe runs up the building for the firefighters.↗ · If there are 12 steps with 20 cm risers, the stairs are 240 cm high.↗