different between ripple vs slosh

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /???p(?)l/
• Rhymes: -?p?l

Etymology 1

From an alteration of rimple.

Noun

ripple (plural ripples)

1. 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.

2. A sound similar to that of undulating water.
3. 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.

4. (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)

1. (intransitive) To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
2. (intransitive) To propagate like a moving wave.
3. (intransitive) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
4. (transitive) To shape into a series of ripples.
5. (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.

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)

1. (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)

1. 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)

1. To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.

Anagrams

• Prilep, Rippel

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

(onomatopoeia); compare splash, splosh.

Verb

slosh (third-person singular simple present sloshes, present participle sloshing, simple past and past participle sloshed)

1. (intransitive, of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

   The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.

2. (transitive, of a liquid) To cause to slosh

   The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.

3. (intransitive) To make a sloshing sound.

   They were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.

4. (transitive, of a liquid) To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts

   The coffee was nice and hot, so she sloshed some into a cup and went back to her desk.

   He really sloshed on the sauce- they were a bit strong for my taste.

5. (intransitive) to move noisily through water or other liquid.

   The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.

6. (Britain, colloquial, transitive) To punch (someone).

Derived terms

• aslosh

Translations

Noun

slosh (countable and uncountable, plural sloshes)

1. (countable) A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.

   We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.

2. (countable) A sloshing sound or motion.
3. (uncountable) Slush.
   • 2012, Cathy Gohlke, Promise Me This (page 299)

     Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet.

Coordinate terms

• splash

Etymology 2

By analogy with slash.

Noun

slosh (plural sloshes)

1. (computing, slang) backslash, the character \.

Anagrams

• Sohls