ALL meanings of riffle
rif·fle
R r - transitive verb riffle flip through sth 1
- transitive verb riffle leaf through: pages 1
- transitive verb riffle ripple, ruffle 1
- noun riffle a rapid, as in a stream. 1
- noun riffle a ripple, as upon the surface of water. 1
- noun riffle Mining. the lining of transverse bars or slats on the bed of a sluice, arranged so as to catch heavy minerals, as gold or platinum. 1
- noun riffle a hopper for distributing bulk material. 1
- noun riffle the act or method of riffling cards. 1
- verb riffle If you riffle through the pages of a book or riffle them, you turn them over quickly, without reading everything that is on them. 0
- verb riffle to flick rapidly through (the pages of a book, magazine, etc), esp in a desultory manner 0
- verb riffle to shuffle (playing cards) by halving the pack and flicking the adjacent corners together 0
- verb riffle to make or become a riffle 0
- noun riffle a rapid in a stream 0
- noun riffle a rocky shoal causing a rapid 0
- noun riffle a ripple on water 0
- noun riffle a contrivance on the bottom of a sluice, containing transverse grooves for trapping particles of gold 0
- noun riffle the act or an instance of riffling 0
- noun riffle a shoal, reef, or shallow in a stream, producing a stretch of ruffled or choppy water 0
- noun riffle a stretch of such water 0
- noun riffle a ripple or the ripples of such water 0
- noun riffle a contrivance, as of bars or slats, put across the bottom of a sluice to form grooves or open spaces for catching and holding particles of gold in mining 0
- noun riffle any of the bars, slats, etc. 0
- noun riffle any of the grooves or spaces 0
- noun riffle the act or a manner of riffling cards 0
- verb transitive riffle to form, become, or flow over or through, a riffle 0
- verb transitive riffle to leaf rapidly through (a book, etc.), as by letting the edges or corners of the pages slip lightly across the thumb 0
- verb transitive riffle to shuffle (playing cards) by holding part of the deck in each hand, raising the corners or edges slightly, and causing the cards to fall alternately together 0