ripple

ripple

See also: Ripple

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪp(ə)l/

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• Rhymes: -ɪpəl

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

• raspberry ripple
• ripple carry
• ripple effect
• ripple mark
• ripple voltage

 

Translations

moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Basque: please add this translation if you can Catalan: ona (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 波 (zh) (bō), 波纹 (zh) (bōwén), (specifically, of water) 水波 (zh) (shuǐbō), (literary) 漣漪／涟漪 (zh) (liányī) Dutch: rimpeling (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: väre (fi), kare (fi), väreily French: ondulation (fr) f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Kräuseln n, kleine Welle f Hebrew: אַדְוָה‎ (he) f (advá) Irish: cuilithín m Italian: increspatura f Japanese: 漣 (ja) (さざなみ, sazanami), 漣漪 (ja) (れんい, ren'i) Khmer: កង្កាញ់ (kɑŋkaɲ), អង្កាញ់ (km) (ɑŋkaɲ) Korean: 물결 (ko) (mulgyeol) Manx: tonnane m Maori: hāki, kare, pōkarekare, karetai, kōtaotao Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Navajo: yilkʼooł Occitan: onda (oc) f, ondulacion Polish: zmarszczka (pl) f Portuguese: ondulação (pt) f Romanian: cerc (în apă) n Russian: рябь (ru) f (rjabʹ), зыбь (ru) f (zybʹ) Spanish: ondulación (es) f Swedish: krusning (sv) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: dalgacık (tr), dalgalanma (tr) Vietnamese: gợn (vi), gợn sóng

sound similar to that of undulating water

Bulgarian: ромон (bg) m (romon) Dutch: kabbelen (nl) n Finnish: liplatus (fi) Maori: orowaru Russian: журча́ние (ru) n (žurčánije) Serbo-Croatian: bućkanje n Swedish: skvalp n

style of ice cream

Swedish: rippel c

small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal

Bulgarian: пулсация f (pulsacija) Finnish: värinä (fi) French: ondulation résiduelle f German: Welligkeit f Occitan: ondulacion residuala Russian: колеба́ния (ru) n pl (kolebánija), пульса́ции (ru) f pl (pulʹsácii)

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.
   • 2008, Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, page 65:

     These problems were complicated by a foreign exchange crunch which rippled through the economy in 1961-1962, […]

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

to move like the undulating surface of a body of water

Bulgarian: правя вълнички (pravja vǎlnički) Catalan: onejar (ca) Dutch: kabbelen (nl) Esperanto: ondeti Finnish: väreillä, karehtia French: onduler (fr) Maori: māhitihiti, pōkarekare, wiki Ottoman Turkish: طالغه‌لانمق‎ (dalgalanmak) Polish: marszczyć się impf, zmarszczyć się pf Portuguese: ondular (pt) Spanish: ondular (es)

to make a sound as water running across shallows

Bulgarian: ромоля (bg) (romolja) Maori: wīwī

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
   • 1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, Philemon Holland, transl., The Roman Historie, […], London: […] Adam Jslip, OCLC 606525206:

     An horsemans javelin […] having slightly rippled the skinne of his left arme, pierced within his short ribs.

References

• ripple in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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. (textiles) An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.

Translations

implement for removing the seeds from flax

Bulgarian: гребен (bg) m (greben) Dutch: repel (nl) m French: drège (fr) f Galician: ripo, ripanzo m, ripa (gl) f German: Riffel (de) f, Riffelkamm m Italian: scapecchiatoio m Swedish: frörepa c, repa (sv) c

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