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"RIPS" is a plural of: rip. |
Date "RIPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
RIPS | English | Runway Incursion Prevention System | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: RIPS |
| Specialty definitions using "RIPS": back-shoe operator ♦ hand luggage repairer, HIDE PULLER, HOBBING-PRESS OPERATOR ♦ LUGGAGE REPAIRER ♦ MATTRESS STRIPPER ♦ ODD-SHOE EXAMINER ♦ SHOE-REPAIRER HELPER, STAVE-LOG-RIPSAW OPERATOR ♦ UPHOLSTERER HELPER, UPHOLSTERY REPAIRER, used-car conditioner, USED-CAR RENOVATOR. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "RIPS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (rep), Romanian (dimity, rep, reps), Serbo-Croatian (rep), Swedish (rep). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Why don't we ask it what it is after it rips our heads off? (So Weird; writing credit: John Mandel) Rock rips through paper. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) | |
Lyrics | Baby this town rips the bones from your back ("Born to Run"; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) The velvet it rips, In the city (Semi-Charmed Life; performing artist: Third Eye Blind) | |
Clever | Typhoon Rips through Cemetery, Hundreds Dead (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rips and Rushes (1917) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A view of the power block as the net is coming on board. The tremendous power of the winches hauling the net through the powerblock rips apart fish entangled in the net. Credit: Fisheries. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "RIPS" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 68.42% of the time. "RIPS" is used about 57 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 68.42% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (plural) | 29.82% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.75% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "RIPS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 裂口 (nick, rift, RIP). (various references) | |
German | reißt (tears, wrenches), zerreißt (disrupts, ruptures, tears). (various references) | |
Korean | 찢음 (RIP, ripping, tearing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ipsray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "RIPS": ripsaw, ripsaws, ripsnorter, ripsnorters, ripsnorting, ripstop, ripstops. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "RIPS": airstrips, cantrips, drips, fieldstrips, filmstrips, grips, handgrips, outstrips, scrips, strips, thrips, tiderips, trips, unrips. (additional references) | |
Words containing "RIPS": dripstone, dripstones, gripsack, gripsacks, lithotripsies, lithotripsy. (additional references) | |
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"RIPS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: irps, raphs, rapsw, repps, Repse, repts, resp, respi, rfp, rhp, rics, rifs, riis, Rijp, rios, ripa, riph, Riposo, rippy, ript, risj, risp, Riss, riys, roip, Rops, rp, Rpis, rps, rpsi, rpts, rpvs, rrip, rrp, rsis, rvps, rzip. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "RIPS" (pronounced ri"ps) |
| 4 | r i" p s | drips, grips, outstrips, strips, thrips, trips. |
| 3 | -i" p s | blips, chips, clips, dips, eclipse, ellipse, equips, flips, hips, lips, microchips, pips, quips, ships, sips, skips, slips, snips, tips, whips, zips. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: pis, psi, rip, sip, sir, sri. | |
-2 letters: is, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: crisp, drips, grips, pairs, paris, peris, piers, pirns, pries, prigs, prims, prise, prism, priss, puris, ripes, scrip, sirup, speir, spier, spire, spirt, spiry, sprig, sprit, stirp, strip, trips. | |
+2 letters: aspire, capris, chirps, crimps, cripes, crisps, crispy, esprit, gripes, lisper, orpins, paries, parish, parvis, perils, perish, pikers, pipers, pisser, pliers, poiser, pooris, porism, praise, praxis, precis, prices, pricks, prides, priers, priest, prills, primas, primes, primos, primps, primus, prinks, prints, prions, priors, prised, prises, prisms, prison, prissy, prizes, prosit, purins, purism, purist, raphis, rapids, rapist, redips, repins, reship, ripens, ripest, ripost, ripsaw, scrimp, scrips, script, shrimp, simper, sipper, sirups, sirupy, sniper, sparid, speirs, spicer, spider, spiers, spiker, spinor, spiral, spirea, spired, spirem, spires, spirit, spirts, sprain, sprier, sprigs, spring, sprint, sprite, sprits, spritz, stirps, stripe, strips, stript, stripy, tapirs, thrips, tripes, tripos, twirps, unrips, uprise, upstir, vipers, wipers. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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