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- [rip-uh l]
- /ˈrɪp əl/
- /ˈrɪp.l̩/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [rip-uh l]
- /ˈrɪp əl/
Definitions of ripple word
- verb without object ripple (of a liquid surface) to form small waves or undulations, as water agitated by a breeze. 1
- verb without object ripple to flow with a light rise and fall or ruffling of the surface. 1
- verb without object ripple (of a solid surface) to form or have small undulations, ruffles, or folds. 1
- verb without object ripple (of sound) to undulate or rise and fall in tone, inflection, or magnitude. 1
- verb with object ripple to remove the seeds or capsules from (flax or hemp) with a ripple. 1
- noun ripple a toothed or comblike device for removing seeds or capsules from flax, hemp, etc. 1
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Origin of ripple
First appearance:
before 1660 One of the 46% oldest English words
First recorded in 1660-70; origin uncertain
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Ripple
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
ripple popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 94% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
ripple usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for ripple
noun ripple
- beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
- bivalve — any marine or freshwater mollusc of the class Pelecypoda (formerly Bivalvia or Lamellibranchia), having a laterally compressed body, a shell consisting of two hinged valves, and gills for respiration. The group includes clams, cockles, oysters, and mussels
- cockle — Cockles are small edible shellfish.
- comber — a person, tool, or machine that combs wool, flax, etc
- crepitation — the act of crepitating
verb ripple
- bellied — having a belly, esp. of a specified kind
- billow — When something made of cloth billows, it swells out and moves slowly in the wind.
- bubble — Bubbles are small balls of air or gas in a liquid.
- corkscrew — A corkscrew is a device for pulling corks out of bottles.
- crisped — (especially of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle: crisp toast.
adj ripple
- frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
adjective ripple
- mirrorlike — Resembling a mirror; reflective.
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