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Narrator: Today's word is "Ripe" — adjective, pronounced /raɪp/, with the stress on "ripe".
Narrator: Ripe means fully developed and ready to be picked or eaten.
Narrator: In plain English, ripe means ready.
Narrator: It comes from Old English rīpe.
Narrator: A common collocation is "ripe banana", which describes a yellow, sweet banana.
Narrator: It differs from "mature", because ripe is for fruit and timing, while mature is for people and cheese.
Narrator: In a second sense, "the time is ripe" means it is the right moment, and "a ripe old age" means very old.
Narrator: Farming, cooking, business and everyday speech all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: ripe means ready, just in time.
Speaker A: Is the avocado ready?
Speaker B: Press it gently, if it gives it's RIPE! It comes from Old English rīpe.
Speaker A: Soft but not mushy?
Speaker B: Exactly right.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "The tomatoes are ripe", the garden. "The time is ripe for change", politics. "He lived to a ripe old age", a life.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Use "ripen" as the verb, as in "bananas ripen fast", not "ripe" alone.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Mature is its cousin, ready its twin, and mellow an alternative — yet ripe keeps its juicy charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "ripe" in AI prompts — useful for shopping apps and market timing.
Speaker A: How for shopping apps?
Speaker B: Advise buyers.
Prompt: Explain how to tell if a mango, melon and avocado are ripe.
Speaker A: And markets?
Speaker B: Timing.
Prompt: Analyse this data and say whether the market is ripe for a budget electric bike.
Speaker A: Could it help farming?
Speaker B: Yes, for harvests.
Prompt: Predict when these apples will be ripe from bloom dates and temperatures.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Food waste.
Prompt: Suggest recipes for very ripe bananas before they go off.
Ripe — meaning in Arabic & definition More R courses GL Dictionary