Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 69
Ringmen (n. pl. ) of Ringman
Ringman (n.) The ring finger. [Obs.] -- Ascham
Ringmaster (n.) One in charge of the performances (as of horses) within the ring in a circus.
Ringmaster (n.) The person in charge of performances in a circus ring.
Compare: Scaup
Scaup (n.) A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp. [Scot.]
Scaup (n.) (Zool.) A scaup duck. See below.
Scaup duck (Zool.), Any one of several species of northern ducks of the genus Aythya, or Fuligula. The adult males are, in large part, black. The three North American species are: the greater scaup duck ({Aythya marila, var. nearctica), called also broadbill, bluebill, blackhead, flock duck, flocking fowl, and raft duck; the lesser scaup duck ({Aythya affinis}), called also little bluebill, river broadbill, and shuffler; the tufted, or ring-necked, scaup duck ({Aythya collaris), called also black jack, ringneck, ringbill, ringbill shuffler, etc. See Illust. of Ring-necked duck, under Ring-necked. The common European scaup, or mussel, duck ({Aythya marila), closely resembles the American variety.
Ringneck (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus Aegialitis, having a ring around the neck. The ring is black in summer, but becomes brown or gray in winter. The semipalmated plover (Ae. semipalmata) and the piping plover (Ae. meloda) are common North American species. Called also ring plover, and ring-necked plover.
Ringneck (n.) (Zool.) The ring-necked duck.
Ring-necked (a.) (Zool.) Having a well defined ring of color around the neck.
Ring-necked duck (Zool.), An American scaup duck ({Aythya collaris). The head, neck, and breast of the adult male are black, and a narrow, but conspicuous, red ring encircles the neck. This ring is absent in the female. Called also ring-neck, ring-necked blackhead, ringbill, tufted duck, and black jack.
Compare: Ringtail
Ringtail (n.) (Zool.) A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier.
Ringtail (n.) (Naut.) A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
Ringtail boom (Naut.), A spar which is rigged on a boom for setting a ringtail.
Ringsail (n.) (Naut.) See Ringtail, 2.
Ringstraked (a.) Ring-streaked.
Cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. -- Gen. xxx. 39.
Ring-streaked (a.) Having circular streaks or lines on the body; as, ring-streaked goats.
Ringtail (n.) (Zool.) A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier.
Ringtail (n.) (Naut.) A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
Ringtail boom (Naut.), A spar which is rigged on a boom for setting a ringtail.
Ringtail (n.) Raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings [syn: bassarisk, cacomistle, cacomixle, coon cat, raccoon fox, ringtail, ring-tailed cat, civet cat, miner's cat, Bassariscus astutus].
Ringtail (n.) North American raccoon [syn: common raccoon, common racoon, coon, ringtail, Procyon lotor]
Ringtail (n.) Monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl [syn: capuchin, ringtail, Cebus capucinus].
Ringtail (n.) An immature golden eagle.
Ring-tailed (a.) (Zool.) Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color.
Ring-tailed cat (Zool.), The cacomixle.
Ring-tailed eagle (Zool.), A young golden eagle.
Ringtoss (n.) A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.
Ringworm (n.) (Med.) A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton).
Ringworm (n.) Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches [syn: tinea, ringworm, roundworm].
Rink (n.) The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.
Rink (n.) An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor.
Rink (n.) Building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating [syn: rink, skating rink].
Rinker (n.) One who skates at a rink. [Colloq.]
Rinking (n.) Skating in a rink. [Colloq.]
Rinsed (imp. & p. p.) of Rinse
Rinsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rinse
Rinse (v. t.) To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.
Rinse (v. t.) To cleancse by the introduction of water; -- applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle. "Like a glass did break i' the rinsing." -- Shak.
Rinse (n.) The act of rinsing.
Rinse (n.) A liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint.
Rinse (n.) The removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing [syn: rinse, rinsing].
Rinse (n.) The act of giving a light tint to the hair.
Rinse (n.) Washing lightly without soap.
Rinse (v.) Wash off soap or remaining dirt [syn: rinse, rinse off].
Rinse (v.) Clean with some chemical process [syn: wash, rinse].
Rinse (v.) Rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash; "gargle with this liquid" [syn: gargle, rinse].
Rinser (n.) One who, or that which, rinses.
Riot (n.) 暴動，喧鬧，奔放 Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
Riot (n.) Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
Riot (n.) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
Rioted (imp. & p. p.) of Riot.
Rioting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Riot.
Riot (v. i.) 參加暴動，縱情，放蕩 To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.
Riot (v. i.) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3.
Riot (v. t.) 浪費，揮霍 To spend or pass in riot.
Riot (n.) (C1) [ C ] 暴亂；騷亂；聚衆鬧事 A noisy, violent, and uncontrolled public meeting.
// Inner-city riots erupted when a local man was shot by police.
Riot (n.) [ S ] (Old-fashioned informal) 非常有趣的人（或事物）；令人愉快的場合（或人） A very funny or entertaining occasion or person.
// "How was the party?" "It was great - we had a riot."
// I met Mike's brother for the first time - he's a riot.
Idiom:
A riot of colour (C2) 絢麗多彩；色彩斑斕 Extremely colourful and bright.
// Jim's rose garden is a riot of colour.
Idiom: Run riot
Run riot (C2) 喧鬧；嘈雜（人們的行為舉止不受控制，四處亂跑，變得吵鬧或暴力） If people run riot, they behave in a way that is not controlled, running in all directions or being noisy or violent.
// I dread them coming here because they let their kids run riot.
Run riot 放縱於，沉緬於（驚奇、刺激的思想） If your imagination runs riot, you have a lot of strange, exciting, or surprising thoughts.
// My imagination was running riot, thinking of all the ways that I could spend the money.
Riot (v.) [ I ] (C2) 暴亂；騷亂；聚衆鬧事 To take part in a riot.
// Students are rioting in the streets of the capital.
Rioter (n.) 暴徒，暴民；喧鬧者 One who riots; a reveler; a roisterer. -- Chaucer.
Rioter (n.) (Law) One who engages in a riot. See Riot, n., 3.
Rioter (n.) Troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace; someone who rises up against the constituted authority.
Riotise (n.) Excess; tumult; revelry.
Riotour (n.) A rioter.
Riotous (a.) 暴亂的，聚眾鬧事的 [Z]；狂歡的，狂鬧的 Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious.
The younger son . . . took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. -- Luke xv. 13.
Riotous (a.) Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly or its acts; seditious. -- Ri"ot*ous*ly, adv. -- Ri"ot*ous*ness, n.
Riotous (a.) Produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming" [syn: exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous].
Riotous (a.) Characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood" [syn: disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent].
Riotous (a.) Unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast].
Riotry (n.) The act or practice of rioting; riot.
Rip (n.) A wicker fish basket.
Rip (n.) A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.
Rip (n.) A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse. [Slang.]
Rip (n.) A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.
Ripped (imp. & p. p.) of Rip.
Ripping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rip.
Rip (v. t.) To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off.
Rip (v. t.) To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.
He'll rip the fatal secret from her heart. -- Granville.
Rip (v. t.) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.
They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion. -- Clarendon.
For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy . . . is neither wise nor comely. -- Milton.
Rip (v. t.) To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.
Ripping chisel (Carp.), A crooked chisel for cleaning out mortises. -- Knight.
Ripping iron. (Shipbuilding) Same as Ravehook.
Ripping saw. (Carp.) See Ripsaw.
To rip out, To rap out, to utter hastily and violently; as, to rip out an oath. [Colloq.] See To rap out, under Rap, v. t.
Rip (n.) A dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue].
Rip (n.) An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" [syn: rip, rent, snag, split, tear].
Rip (n.) A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current [syn: rip, riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrent].
Rip (n.) The act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip" [syn: rent, rip, split].
Rip (v.) Tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips" [syn: rend, rip, rive, pull].
Rip (v.) Move precipitously or violently; "The tornado ripped along the coast."
Rip (v.) Cut (wood) along the grain.
Rip (v.) Criticize or abuse strongly and violently; "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly."
RIP, () Raster Image Processor (DTP).
RIP, () Return Instruction Pointer (CPU, RAM).
RIP, () Remote Imaging Protocol (BBS).
RIP, () Routing Information Protocol (BSD, IGP, RFC
1721, IP).
Rip (v.) To extract the digital representation of a piece of music from an audio CD. Software that does this is often called a ?CD ripper?.
Rip (v.) [Amiga hackers] To extract sound or graphics from a program that they have been compiled/assembled into, or which generates them at run-time. In the case of older Amiga games this entails searching through memory shortly after a reboot. This sense has been in use for many years and probably gave rise to the (now more common) sense 1.
RIP, () Routing Information Protocol.
RIP, () Raster Image Processor.
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Rip
Ripper, ()
(From "rip off" - to steal) To copy audio or video, typically from a compact disc or DVD, to a file on a computer hard disk. A dedicated program to do this is called a "ripper" though it is often a function of player software.
Ripping usually includes converting the data to a format that is more suitable for computer playback, e.g. MP3 digital audio or DivX video. The process is entirely digital so it is possible to make a perfect copy of the data. However the resulting files are large (a few megabytes for an audio track, a few gigabytes for a film) so the conversion often includes compression to reduce the file size at the cost of some loss of quality.
While it may be legal to do this for personal use, distributing a ripped copyright work to others could result in prosecution.
See also ripcording.
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R.I.P. () A careless abbreviation of _requiescat in pace_, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than _reductus in pulvis_.
Riparian (a.) Of or pertaining to the bank of a river; as, riparian rights.
Riparian (a.) Of or relating to or located on the banks of a river or stream; "riparian land."
Riparious (a.) Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
Ripe (n.) The bank of a river. [Obs.]
Ripe (a.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap. -- Milton.
Ripe (a.) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
Ripe (a.) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate. "Ripe courage." -- Chaucer.
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one. -- Shak.
Ripe (a.) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
Ripe (a.) Ready for action or effect; prepared.
While things were just ripe for a war. -- Addison.
I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies. -- Burke.
Ripe (a.) Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
Those happy smilets, That played on her ripe lip. -- Shak.
Ripe (a.) Intoxicated. [Obs.] "Reeling ripe." -- Shak.
Syn: Mature; complete; finished. See Mature.
Ripe (v. i.) To ripen; to grow ripe. [Obs.]
Ripe (v. t.) To mature; to ripen. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Ripe (a.) Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; "ripe peaches"; "full-bodied mature wines" [syn: ripe, mature] [ant: green, immature, unripe, unripened].
Ripe (a.) Fully prepared or eager; "the colonists were ripe for revolution."
Ripe (a.) Most suitable or right for a particular purpose; "a good time to plant tomatoes"; "the right time to act"; "the time is ripe for great sociological changes" [syn: good, right, ripe].
Ripe (a.) At the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge; "a ripe mind."
Ripe (a.) Far along in time; "a man of advanced age"; "advanced in years"; "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90" [syn: advanced, ripe].
RIPE () Reseaux IP Europeenne (Europenet).
Réseaux IP Européens () RIPE (RIPE) A collaboration between European networks which use the TCP/ IP protocol suite to provide Internet services. (1994-11-30)
Ripely (adv.) Maturely; at the fit time.
Ripened (imp. & p. p.) of Ripen
Ripening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ripen
Ripen (v. i.) To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.
Ripen (v. i.) To approach or come to perfection.
Ripen (v. t.) To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.
Ripen (v. t.) To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.
Ripeness (n.) The state or quality of being ripe; maturity;; completeness; perfection; as, the ripeness of grain; ripeness of manhood; ripeness of judgment.
Ripidolite (n.) (Min.) 鐵綠泥石 A translucent mineral of a green color and micaceous structure, belonging to the chlorite group; a hydrous silicate of alumina, magnesia, and iron; -- called also clinochlore.
Ripienist (n.) (Mus.) A player in the ripieno portion of an orchestra. See Ripieno.
Ripieno (a.) [It.] (Mus.) Filling up; supplementary; supernumerary; -- a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato. Ripler
Compare: Obbligato
Obbligato (n.) A persistent but subordinate motif [syn: obbligato, obligato].
Obbligato (n.) A part of the score that must be performed without change or omission [syn: obbligato, obligato].
Ripler (n.) Alt. of Ripper.
Ripper (n.) (O.E. Law) One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns. [Obs.]
But what's the action we are for now ?
Robbing a ripper of his fish. -- Beau. & Fl. Ripost
Ripost (n.) In fencing, a return thrust after a parry.
Ripost (n.) A quick and sharp refort; a repartee. -- J. Morley.
Ripper (n.) One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool.
Ripper (n.) A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
Ripper (n.) Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc. [Slang.] Ripper act
Ripple (n.) 漣漪，細浪；波紋 [C]；（頭髮的）波浪式；（衣裙的）褶子 [C] An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
Ripple (v. t.) 使起漣漪；使呈波狀；使發出潺潺聲 To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
Ripple (v. t.) Hence, to scratch or tear. -- Holland.
Rippled (imp. & p. p.) of Ripple.
Rippling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ripple.
Ripple (v. i.) 輕輕蕩漾；起漣漪；（頭髮等）呈波狀 To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain.
Ripple (v. i.) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
Ripple (v. t.) To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake.
Ripple (n.) The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves.
Ripple (n.) A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter.
Ripple grass. (Bot.) See Ribwort.
Ripple marks, A system of parallel ridges on sand, produced by wind, by the current of a steam, or by the agitation of wind waves; also (Geol.), a system of parallel ridges on the surface of a sandstone stratum.
Ripple (n.) A small wave on the surface of a liquid [syn: ripple, rippling, riffle, wavelet].
Ripple (n.) (Electronics) An oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value.
Ripple (v.) Stir up (water) so as to form ripples [syn: ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate].
Ripple (v.) Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle].
Ripple (n.) A small wave on the surface of water or other liquids for which the driving force is not gravity, but surface tension.
Ripple (n.) The residual AC component in the DC current output from a rectifier, expressed as a percentage of the steady component of the current.
Ripple-marked (a.) Having ripple marks.
Ripplet (n.) A small ripple.
Ripplingly (adv.) In a rippling manner.
Ripply (a.) 起漣漪的；波紋狀的；漣漪聲的 Having ripples; as, ripply water; hence, resembling the sound of rippling water; as, ripply laughter; a ripply cove. -- Keats.
Riprap (n.) (Masonry) A foundation or sustaining wall of stones thrown together without order, as in deep water or on a soft bottom, or in a river channel.
Riprapped (imp. & p. p.) of Riprap.
Riprapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Riprap.
Riprap (v. t.) To form a riprap in or upon.
Ripsaw (n.) (Carp.) A handsaw with coarse teeth which have but a slight set, used for cutting wood in the direction of the fiber; -- called also ripping saw.
Ripsaw (n.) A handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood [syn: ripsaw, splitsaw].