ripen
part of speech
verb (ripen, ripens, ripened, ripening)
meaning for a pupil
1) To ripen means to become ready to eat, soft and sweet, as fruit and crops do. tree →
2) To ripen something means to make it ripe. tree →
3) A plan or a situation ripens when it becomes ready or right for action. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it describes how the wheat and spelt were not harmed by the plague of hail because they ripen late. Interpretation: Tradition notes that the late crops were spared as a sign of God's careful control over the plagues. In the primary lessons: In science, fruits ripen as they change colour and their starch turns to sugar; bananas give off a gas (ethylene) that ripens other fruit. In farming, wheat ripens before harvest. «Ripen» uses «-en» to mean «become»: ripe → ripen, wide → widen.
examples
- But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late. — (Torah EXO.9.32, JPS 1917) tree →
- The tomatoes ripened in the sun. tree →
- Put the avocado in a bag with a banana to ripen it. tree →
- The wheat ripens in late summer. tree →
- Green bananas ripen in a few days. tree →
- The apples are ripening on the tree. tree →
- Cheese ripens slowly in a cave. tree →
note
Past: ripened. Adjective: ripe. Opposite: unripe; too ripe = overripe.
In the corpora
- But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late. —
- Unripe fruit is more acidic; as fruit ripens, sugar goes up and acid goes down.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «ripen» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.