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ripple
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /???p(?)l/
- Rhymes: -?p?l
Etymology 1
From an alteration of rimple.
Noun
ripple (plural ripples)
- A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.
- I dropped a small stone into the pond and watched the ripples spread.
- The ebbing tide had left ripples in the sand.
- A sound similar to that of undulating water.
- 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.
- (electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
ripple (third-person singular simple present ripples, present participle rippling, simple past and past participle rippled)
- (intransitive) To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
- (intransitive) To propagate like a moving wave.
- (intransitive) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
- (transitive) To shape into a series of ripples.
- (transitive) To launch or unleash in rapid succession.
- 2019, Jason M. Hardy, Phaedra M. Weldon, Herbert A. Beas II, BattleTech: Weapons Free: BattleCorps Anthology, Volume 3
- Hearns' 'Mech rippled fifteen missiles. Austen watched the missiles go in. They smashed into a copse of trees, smashing the trunks aside.
- 2019, Jason M. Hardy, Phaedra M. Weldon, Herbert A. Beas II, BattleTech: Weapons Free: BattleCorps Anthology, Volume 3
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English *ripelen, repulen, equivalent to rip +? -le (frequentative suffix).
Verb
ripple (third-person singular simple present ripples, present participle rippling, simple past and past participle rippled)
- (transitive) To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze
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Etymology 3
Compare German Low German Repel, Dutch repel, German Riffel, extended forms (with instrumental or diminutive -le) of Low German Repe (“ripple”), Dutch repe (“ripple”). Compare also Dutch repen, German reffen, Swedish repa (“to beat; ripple”).
The verb is from Middle English ripplen, rypelen. Compare Low German repelen, Dutch repelen, German riffeln.
Alternative forms
- reeple, riple
Noun
ripple (plural ripples)
- An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
Translations
Verb
ripple (third-person singular simple present ripples, present participle rippling, simple past and past participle rippled)
- To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
Anagrams
- Prilep, Rippel
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gurgle
English
Etymology
Back formation from Middle English gurguling (“a rumbling in the belly”). Akin to Middle Dutch gorgelen (“to gurgle”), Middle Low German gorgelen (“to gurgle”), German gurgeln (“to gargle”), and perhaps to Latin gurguli? (“throat”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /????.??l/
- (US) IPA(key): /???.??l/
- Rhymes: -??(r)??l
Verb
gurgle (third-person singular simple present gurgles, present participle gurgling, simple past and past participle gurgled)
- To flow with a bubbling sound.
- The bath water gurgled down the drain.
- 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame
- Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.
- To make such a sound.
- The baby gurgled with delight.
Translations
Noun
gurgle (plural gurgles)
- A gurgling sound.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
Translations
Anagrams
- glurge, lugger
German
Verb
gurgle
- inflection of gurgeln:
- first-person singular present
- singular imperative
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
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