Sekirov Dictionary

ripple

/ˈɹɪp(ə)l/

noun 8
verb 7
forms 5

noun8

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A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.
- I dropped a small stone into the pond and watched the ripples spread.
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One of a series of corrugations in flat surface.
- The ebbing tide had left ripples in the sand.
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(figurative) A small spreading change, impact, or effect produced by a larger or more consequential action.
- Investments in research, deployment and scaling existing technologies are the initial ripples that will have to build to a groundswell of further action. — 2025
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A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
- I enjoy fudge ripple ice cream, but I especially like to dig through the carton to get at the ripple part and eat only that.
A sound similar to that of undulating water.
A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
(dialect, historical) thripple, cart ladder (extension for cart or wagon)

verb7

To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
To shape into a series of ripples.
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To propagate like a moving wave.
- These problems were complicated by a foreign exchange crunch which rippled through the economy in 1961-1962, […] — 2008
To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
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To launch or unleash in rapid succession.
- Hearns' 'Mech rippled fifteen missiles. Austen watched the missiles go in. They smashed into a copse of trees, smashing the trunks aside. — 2019
•
To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze
- An horsemans javelin[…]having slightly rippled the skinne of his left arme, pierced within his short ribs. — 1609
To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.

forms

rippled · rippling · ripples · rippleth · ripplest

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