Dictionary Definition
ripple
Noun
2 (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude
imposed on top of a steady value
Verb
2 flow in an irregular current with a bubbling
noise; "babbling brooks" [syn: babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪpəl
Noun
- A moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid.
- A sound similar to that or undulating water.
- A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
- A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
Translations
a sound similar to that or undulating
water
a style of ice cream in which flavors have been
coarsely blended together
a small oscillation of an otherwise steady
signal
Verb
- To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
Translations
- Finnish: väreillä
Extensive Definition
Ripple can refer to:
- Ripple (charitable organisation)
- Ripple (fluid dynamics) for capillary waves
- Ripple (electrical), as for instance received by the Zellweger off-peak hot water switch
- Ripple (wine)
- Ripple (Naruto episode)
- Ripple effect
- Ripple marks, as identified in sediments and sedimentary rocks
- Ripple, Kent, a village in Kent, England
- Ripple monetary system
- The Ripple (newspaper), the student newspaper at the University of Leicester
- "Ripple", a song by the Grateful Dead from their 1970 album American Beauty
- Ripples (song), a song by Genesis from their album A Trick of the Tail
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
agitate, agitation, babble, beat, beat up, billow, bore, breakers, broken ground, broken
water, bubble, burble, chop, choppiness, chopping sea,
churn, churn up, chute, cocker, cockle, comb, comber, convulse, corduroy, corduroy road,
corrugate, corrugation, crankle, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crumple, dimple, dirty water, disarrange, discompose, disquiet, disturb, eagre, excite, ferment, flurry, flutter, fret, furrow, goose bumps, goose
pimples, gooseflesh,
gravity wave, ground swell, guggle, gurgle, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell,
hint, horripilation, knit, knot, lap, lift, lop, paddle, peak, perturb, perturbate, perturbation, plash, popple, pucker, purl, purse, rapid, rapids, ridge, riff, riffle, rile, rimple, ripple of applause,
ripple of laughter, rise,
rivel, roil, roll, roller, rough, rough water, roughen, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, sandpaper, sault, scend, sea, send, shake, shake up, shirr, shoot, slosh, soupcon, splash, stir, stir up, suggestion, surf, surge, swash, swell, swirl, swish, tidal bore, tidal wave,
tide wave, trill, trouble, trough, tsunami, undulate, undulation, upset, wash, washboard, water wave,
wave, wavelet, whip, whip up, whisk, white horses, whitecaps, wimple, work up, wrinkle