Commentary: Includes: RIP UP, RIP INTO, RIP FROM, RIP AWAY, RIP APART
NOTE: may include metaphorical usages
NOTE: please compare carefully to sense 6, meaning "to open". Also compare carefully to sense 4 - if the metaphorical RIP INTO/RIP TO PIECES/RIP APART can be construed in any way to mean 'to criticize' tag as sense 4. Syntax Is: NP1 RIP NP2
Examples:
The pen ripped the paper.
He winced as his sleeve caught on a splinter and the cloth ripped.
Skewers of white-hot metal from the explosion had ripped into the Stryker.
Dozens of bullets ripped into the creature's Armani suit and it finally fell to the ground.
This was the economic change that ripped into the fabric of American society.
Soon after, winds up to 200 mph ripped the roof from the school as the twister struck.
The different forces acting on its two constituent bodies would have ripped them apart.
His cherished base of operations is ripped from his grasp by the cold-eyed French bean-counters.
So, I am not the only person to have my heart ripped out of my chest and presented to me on a canoe polo paddle.
It seems to have to be ripped from my cold, dead fingers.
I'm sorry all your dreams for me have all been ripped away.
Mappings:
VerbNet: break-45.1,cut-21.1-1,split-23.2
FrameNet: Cause_to_fragment,Damaging
PropBank: rip.01,rip.03
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
rip_up 1
Commentary:
NOTE: This implies that the NP is moving along a path. Compare to sense 1, material isn't being torn apart. In this sense, NP2 must be a location. Syntax Includes: NP1 RIP {PP NP[location]} NP1 RIP {PP[directional]}
Examples:
The tornado ripped along the coast.
She hurled herself to the side as a bolt of lightning ripped into the ground.
The staccato of the coaxial machine gun ripped into the night.
A turquoise Iroc with the t-top popped ripped into the teachers' parking lot.
Deadly Hurricane Ivan ripped into Jamaica with powerful winds, torrential rains and huge waves today.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: rip.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2
Commentary: IS: RIP OFF Syntax Is: NP1[agent] RIP OFF NP2
Examples:
I can almost guarantee you that the people that ripped her off do not own property.
They even ripped off the documentation, copying this bit of text directly from the documentation.
Also his mechanics ripped him off for the time they said it took.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: rip.04
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
rip_off 1
Commentary:
NOTE: Compare to senses 1 and 6. This sense does not include physically ripping or ripping open. Includes: RIP INTO Syntax Is: NP1[agent[human]] RIP (INTO) NP2[patient[human]]
Examples:
The father ripped into the teachers for teaching the kids lies.
He ripped into the White House throughout the article.
The Senator ripped into the President's plans for personal savings accounts.
He also wrote, produced and directed his own film, which critics ripped into like ravenous monkeys in a banana patch.
The press ripped the senator apart in light of the recent scandal.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4
Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1[agent[animate]] RIP NP2[patient[abstract]] Includes: RIP OUT, RIP INTO
NOTE: compare carefully to sense 6; the objects and surrounding context for this sense imply activity; in sense 6, the same nouns in a different context may imply the contents of a container; compare also to sense 2 where the beginning of the process is not emphasized.
Examples:
He ripped into the opener and the crowd started screaming.
Then they ripped into the song faultlessly.
We had dinner and ripped into the present exchange. (note: it is the 'exchange'--an activity--being 'ripped into,' not the presents.)
He ripped out a vicious oath.
I haven't ripped into the project yet, so I do not know what is under the present deck.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
rip_out 1
Commentary: Includes: RIP INTO
NOTE: Compare to sense 1. This sense only includes opening, while sense 1 includes separating or splitting. Syntax Is: NP1[agent] RIP INTO NP2[patient[concrete]]
Examples:
I still haven't ripped into the macbook, this is big for me.
And they weren't let down when i finally got home an ripped into my new toy.
After she got home she ripped into the packages and started to eat. (note: initiation of eating is not implied by the verb phrase containing 'rip,' but by the second verb phrase, 'started to eat.')
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
Examples:
I ripped the pieces to the correct width, then cross cut them to the right.
To start, I ripped the workpiece down the middle, parallel to the face grain.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3
Examples:
I ripped the same John Coltrane album to MP3.
You can carry your collection with you once you've ripped the files from the discs with iTunes.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM