unripe
part of speech
adjective (unripe)
meaning for a pupil
1) Unripe means not ready to eat yet: an unripe banana is still green. tree →
2) Unripe fruit is often hard and sour. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Job it is a picture of the wicked person whose life is cut off early, like a vine dropping its unripe grapes. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as the idea that the wicked do not finish their days in success, though Job's friends used the picture wrongly against him. In the primary lessons: Maths: the part of fruit not yet ripe, taken from the total: ripe = total − unripe. Science: fruit ripens over time; some fruit ripens after picking. Health: unripe fruit can give you a tummy ache.
examples
- He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. (Writings JOB.15.33, JPS 1917) tree →
- Of 30 tomatoes, 8 are unripe. tree →
- She picked only the ripe apples and left 5 unripe ones. tree →
- A third of the bananas are unripe. tree →
- How many are not unripe? tree →
- Unripe strawberries are white or green. tree →
- Put unripe pears in a paper bag to ripen them. tree →
- Don't eat unripe plums; they are sour. tree →
- The persimmon is as hard as stone when it is unripe. tree →
note
Prefix un- (not) + ripe. Splits a set: ripe = total − unripe. Trap: «not unripe» means ripe.
In the corpora
- He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
- Unripe fruit is more acidic; as fruit ripens, sugar goes up and acid goes down.
Trees and pragmatics
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