ripe

«ripe» in Mova's school dictionary: ready to eat or pick; it is soft, sweet and has its full… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (ripe, riper, ripest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Ripe fruit or grain is ready to eat or pick; it is soft, sweet and has its full colour. tree →

2) Ripe can mean ready for something: «The time is ripe». tree →

3) «A ripe old age» means a very old age. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: sorts fruit into ripe and not ripe; ripe and unripe add up to the total; fractions of the fruit that are ripe. In science: fruit ripens as starch turns to sugar; bananas give off a gas that ripens other fruit. In everyday life: picking ripe fruit, checking if an avocado is ripe. In stories: «ripe golden wheat».

examples

• Of 30 bananas, 18 are ripe. tree →
• How many tomatoes are not ripe? tree →
• 3/4 of the apples are ripe. tree →
• She picked only the ripe strawberries. tree →
• A ripe banana is yellow with brown spots. tree →
• Green tomatoes are not ripe yet. tree →
• Put the pears in a paper bag to help them ripen. tree →
• My great-grandpa lived to a ripe old age. tree →
• The time was ripe for a change. tree →
• ‘Oh! shake me, shake me, my apples are all quite ripe.’ tree →

note

Ripe + not ripe = all; a fraction ripe means the rest is not ripe. Trap: the question may ask about the unripe ones. Opposite: unripe. «Ripen» is the verb. Overripe means too ripe, starting to go bad. Safety: some unripe fruit can upset your stomach.

In the corpora

• And the first colour: chervOnyi, red — the colour of a football shirt, a fire engine or a ripe tomato.
• Thou shalt come to thy grave in a ripe age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.
• Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ripe» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.