Talk:rip

Rip also has the following meaning:

(computing) - creating a .mp3 file from tracks on a compact disc or creating a compressed movie from from the chapters on a DVD.

(slang) - an action which occurs quickly and unexpectedly (and has a negative connotation). "John just ripped a huge fart!"

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The second computing verb sense: not extracting from a disc, but copying back onto it. Equinox ◑ 20:38, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Sense has been deleted in the interim. Closing. Equinox ◑ 17:44, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

rip, sewing

In sewing, to rip is to deconstruct, to take apart a seam, e.g., with a stitch/seam ripper[1]. I can't find it in a dictionary, but it is in common use in sewing. Here is an example in the title of a book, "Rip It!: How to Deconstruct and Reconstruct the Clothes of Your Dreams"[2].

Taxlady 15:53, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

unrip

what meaning of rip is used in unrip? --Backinstadiums (talk) 19:04, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

The meaning "to tear". Here "un-" suggests you are "undoing" or opening a previously closed thing. It should not be understood as "reversing the process of ripping". Equinox ◑ 19:06, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

@Equinox: OED:

.9 The redundant use of un- is rare, but occurs in OE. unlíesan, and ME. unloose, which has succeeded in maintaining itself. Later instances are unbare, unsolve, unstrip (16–17th cent.), and the modern dialect forms unempt(y), unrid, unthaW (also locally uneave). Another redundant or extended use (= ‘peel off’) exists in unpeel v. For occasional misuses of un- see unloaden, unranked. --Backinstadiums (talk) 13:14, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

R.I.P. but lowercase?

On the one Discord server I'm on, someone posted "rip to #mod-election". (The channel was only open and visible during the election.) This pretty clearly means "R.I.P.", but it's not listed here on the lowercase page. The server link requires an invite, though. HotdogPi (talk) 14:17, 7 February 2023 (UTC)