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Definition: Riffle |
RiffleNoun1. A small wave on the surface of a liquid. 2. Shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners. Verb1. Twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked". 2. Look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume". 3. Stir up (water) so as to form ripples. 4. Shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "riffle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Expanse of shallow water flowing over a riffle or the head of a rapids. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Uneven edges on sheet metal. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A natural shallows extending across a stream bed over which the water flows swiftly and the water surface is broken into waves; a shallow rapids of comparatively little fall b. The lining of the bottom of a sluice, made of blocks or slats of wood or stones, arranged in such a manner that chinks or slots are left between them, into which heavy mineral grains fall and are held for recovery. c. The raised portions of the deck of a concentrating table, that serve to trap the heaviest particles. Syn:ripple d. A device used to reduce the volume or weight of a sample consisting of a thin metal plate on which is mounted a series of metal strips to guide or deflect a small portion of the sample material into a separate container. CF:sample splitter e. Sample reducing device such as Clark riffler or Jones riffle, which splits a batch sample of ground ore into two equal streams as it falls across an assembly of deflecting chutes. See also:sludge samplerCF:Jones splitter. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: RiffleSynonyms: rippling (n), wavelet (n), cockle (v), flick (v), flip (v), leaf (v), riff (v), ripple (v), ruffle (v), thumb (v), undulate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
River | Gelasma/gr>; beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps; rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Riffle |
| Specialty definitions using "riffle": compound cradle ♦ DRY-PLACER-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ SAMPLE COLLECTOR. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "riffle": Rifle. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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| "Riffle" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 54.55% of the time. "Riffle" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 54.55% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 45.45% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "riffle" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Riffle | Last name | 2,000 | 6,632 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Riffle, WV |
Expression using "riffle": riffle through. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
riffle | 19 |
dave riffle | 10 |
assault riffle | 9 |
association national riffle | 8 |
sniper riffle | 5 |
riffle river | 4 |
air riffle | 4 |
denise riffle | 4 |
riffle tank | 4 |
riffle shuffle | 3 |
andrea riffle | 3 |
riffle runner | 3 |
dave gun riffle | 3 |
beetle riffle | 3 |
michigan riffle river | 2 |
riffle wayne | 2 |
pass riffle | 2 |
riffle scope | 2 |
chip poker riffle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "riffle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shfletim, krehje (carding, comb out, combing, drag-net). (various references) | |
Arabic | تصفح سريعا, سلب (bereave, depredation, desiccation, despoil, dispossess, dispossession, divest, evisceration, flay, fleece, harrow, loot, looting, maraud, milk, pillage, piracy, plunder, plundering, raid, ransack, rape, rapine, ravish, ravishment, rejoice, rifle, rob, robbery, sack, skin, spoil, spoliation, steal, stick up, strip), سطا (burgle), خلط ورق اللعب (ruffle, shuffle), جرد (denude, deprive, dispossess, divest, empty, inventory, oust, shear, stocking, strip, sucker, unclothe), بندقية طويلة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | розетка (favour, patera, rosace, rose, rosette), шум от розетка, въртя нещо в ръка, вълнички, образувам вълнички, образувам бързеи (purl), бързей (overfall, purl, rapids, rip, shoot), правя розетка. (various references) | |
Danish | kantboelger (cockle, ripples), bølgeformet rifling. (various references) | |
Dutch | bank (bank, bench, easel, sandbank, tressle, workbench). (various references) | |
Finnish | madaltuma. (various references) | |
French | riffle, parcourir, ondulation de rives (ripples), haut-fond, gué, feuilleter rapidement, diviseur d'échantillon cloisons. (various references) | |
German | Riffelung (grip), riffeln. (various references) | |
Greek | κυμάτιο (ripple, wavelet), κυματισμοί (buckle, cockle, ripples, rippling, waviness), φυλλομετρώ (browse, thumb), αβαθές ταχύρευμα, ανακατώνω (admix, alligate, commingle, confound, intermix, jumble, mash, mingle, mix, muss, puddle, rumple, shuffle, tousle), ταχύρευμα επί αβαθούς κοίτης. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"פ"ף (browse, leaf, thumb, turn pages). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vályú (chow hall, lobe, manger, trough). (various references) | |
Italian | ondulature ai bordi (cockle, ripples), bassofondo (shallow, shoal, tideland, watts). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iffleray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rápido (active, clear-sighted, crisp, double-quick, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleet-footed, light-legged, nimble, nippy, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, speedy, sudden, swift, swift-handed, tantivy, tripping, volant, winged), ondulações nos bordos de uma chapa fina (cockle, ripples), embaralhar cartas, cascata (cascade, waterfall), ação de embaralhar cartas. (various references) | |
Russian | желобок (coulisse, flute, groove, rabbet, slot), порог (doorstep, door-step, lip, rapids, rift, sill, threshold). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slap (cascade, chute, overfall, waterfall). (various references) | |
Spanish | rápido (agile, darting, express, express train, fast, fast train, fasting, fleeting, heel bar, live, lively, nippy, prompt, quick, quick fire, quick-firing, rapid, rapids, rathe, rattling, shoot, short, slapping, slashing, slick, snappy, spanking, speedy, swift, swift-flowing, twinkling), ondulación de los bordes (cockle, ripples), hojear rápidamente, barajar (make, shuffle, throw in). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppgrundning (shallowing, shoaling), bläddra (bladder, browse, bubble, scroll, turn over the leaves). (various references) | |
Thai | ปืนยาว. (various references) | |
Turkish | yiv (chamfer, chase, flute, groove, rabbet, slot, spline, stria), oluk açmak (chamfer, groove, gutter, rabbet), oluk (chamfer, channel, chase, chute, conduit, flute, gangway, gouge, groove, gully, gully drain, gutter, rabbet, runnel, slot, spline, throat, trough), kâğıtları ikiye bölüp karıştırma, iskambil kâğıtlarını karmak, ayırma ızgarası, aceleyle çevirmek, çabuk çabuk çevirmek, ızgara (broiler, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grill, grille, grilled, grilled meat, griller). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | утворювати пороги, тихо гриміти, канавка (rabbet, slot), бистрінь (overfall), поріг (altar, apron, cataract, door step, sill, sole, threshold). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "riffle": riffled, riffler, rifflers, riffles. (additional references) | |
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"Riffle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Criffel, niffle, rafale, raffel, Raffell, rafle, reflew, rifel, riffel, rifley, rifly, ruffler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "riffle" (pronounced ri"ful) |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, reshuffle, resourceful, respectful, restful, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-f-i-l-r" | |
-1 letter: fifer, filer, flier, lifer, rifle. | |
-2 letters: fief, fife, file, fire, lief, lier, life, lire, reif, riel, rife, riff, rile. | |
-3 letters: eff, elf, fer, fie, fil, fir, iff, ire, lei, lie, ref, rei, rif. | |
-4 letters: ef, el, er, if, li, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-f-i-l-r" | |
+1 letter: firefly, riffled, riffler, riffles. | |
+2 letters: cliffier, fluffier, rifflers, rufflier, rufflike, siffleur, sniffler, whiffler. | |
+3 letters: afterlife, falsifier, fiberfill, fibrefill, fieldfare, fireflies, fulfiller, rafflesia, ruffliest, siffleurs, snifflers, snufflier, whifflers. | |
+4 letters: affirmable, falsifiers, fiberfills, fibrefills, fieldfares, fisherfolk, forklifted, fulfillers, rafflesias. | |
+5 letters: cliffhanger, differently, faultfinder, flimflammer, floriferous, forefeeling, forfeitable, fruitfuller, overfulfill, pilferproof, reshuffling, trafficable, whiffletree. | |
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