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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripe/#m1)

2) Ripe can mean ready for something: «The time is ripe». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripe/#m2)

3) «A ripe old age» means a very old age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripe/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripe/#x1)
- How many tomatoes are not ripe? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripe/#x2)
- 3/4 of the apples are ripe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripe/#x3)
- She picked only the ripe strawberries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripe/#x4)
- A ripe banana is yellow with brown spots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripe/#x5)
- Green tomatoes are not ripe yet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripe/#x6)
- Put the pears in a paper bag to help them ripen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripe/#x7)
- My great-grandpa lived to a ripe old age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripe/#x8)
- The time was ripe for a change. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripe/#x9)
- ‘Oh! shake me, shake me, my apples are all quite ripe.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripe/#x10)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/4/)
- [Thou shalt come to thy grave in a ripe age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.116/)
- [Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.750/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ripe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.