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(1) Converting an audio CD from its native CD-DA format to MP3, AAC or some other compressed audio format. When the term was coined, it had a perverse meaning. Many loved the idea they were "ripping off" the music industry by making copyrighted works available in a compact format that could be quickly downloaded over the Internet. Ripping is also called "importing." See MP3, AAC and import.

(2) Decrypting a DVD movie and storing it on a hard disk. Ripping a DVD does not result in a smaller, compressed version of the original as it does with audio files. See DeCSS.

(3) Converting an analog recording to a digital format. See VHS ripping, USB turntable and cassette ripping.

(4) Using a raster image processor, which prepares a page for display or printing. See RIP.
ripsawing, flat cutting, ripping
Sawing lumber parallel to the grain direction.
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Thus does dear Hulot take in his one and only coaching lesson; and come the match, of course, he serves with the old crone's precise action to such rippingly unstoppable effect that whizzing ace follows whizzing ace as he utterly routs the fuming fancypants champ to win lovely Martine.
Hulot serves up a real box-office smash by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Ripped-up mags have never seemed so rippingly magnificent.
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He emphasizes the play's farcical side, an approach that works rippingly well in the Act 2 scene in which various ingenues, cuckolded husbands and jealous lovers converge on Garry's studio in a door-slamming frenzy of romantic recrimination.
A COWARD-LY PETER PAN by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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