Ripple

English

Noun

Ripple (plural Ripples)

1. A moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid.
2. A sound similar to that of undulating water.
3. A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
4. (electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.

2. ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle (flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise) "babbling brooks"

Verb

Ripple (third-person singular simple present ripples, present participle rippling, simple past and past participle rippled)

1. To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
2. 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, [...].

Adverbs for Ripple

idly; sleekly; liquidly; bubblingly; luminously; gildedly.

Thesaurus

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

Etymology

Middle English rypelen, frequentative of rippen 'to rip'. More at rip.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪpəl

Translations

Noun

moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid

Dutch: rimpeling (nl) Finnish: väre (fi), kare (fi), väreily (fi) Mandarin: 波 (cmn) (bō) Manx: tonnane (gv) m.

Polish: zmarszczka (pl) f. Portuguese: ondulação (pt) f. Spanish: ondulación (es) f.

sound similar to that or undulating water

Dutch: kabbelen (nl) n.

Finnish: liplatus (fi)

style of ice cream

small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal

Finnish: värinä (fi)

Verb

to move like the undulating surface of a body of water

Dutch: kabbelen (nl) Finnish: väreillä (fi), karehtia (fi)

Portuguese: ondular (pt)

Anagrams

• Prilep