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Definition: Ripple |
RippleNoun1. A small wave on the surface of a liquid. 2. (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value. Verb1. Stir up (water) so as to form ripples. 2. Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise, as of water; "babbling brooks". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ripple" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | The figure produced by a type of fine wavy grain found in e. g. species of Acer. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | Periodic deviations around an average measured or supplied value, occurring at frequencies which may be related to that of the mains supply or of some other definite source, such as chopper. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An alternating component in a unidirectional current usually originating in the source of supply. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | The coarse steel comb used to remove leaves, seeds, and other foreign substances from flax straw. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A groove or bar across sluices for washing gold. See also:riffle. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In physics, ripples are surface waves on a liquid with wavelengths so short that the liquid's motion is governed almost entirely by surface tension forcess. The wavelength of a ripple must be less thanλc = 2π√(γ/ρg)
where γ is surface tension and ρ is liquid density. For water, λc = 1.7cm.
In electricity, ripple is the alternating current component from a direct current power supply arising from sources within the power supply. Unless otherwise specified, percent ripple is the ratio of the root mean square value of the ripple voltage to the absolute value of the total voltage.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ripple."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
RIPPLE | English | Radioactive Isotope Powered Pulsed Light Equipment | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: RippleSynonyms: rippling (n), wavelet (n), babble (v), bubble (v), burble (v), cockle (v), guggle (v), gurgle (v), riffle (v), ruffle (v), undulate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agitation | Noun: agitation, stir, tremor, shake, ripple, jog, jolt, jar, jerk, shock, succussion, trepidation, quiver, quaver, dance; quassation; shuffling c. Verb: twitter, flicker, flutter. |
River | Wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple; |
Roughness | Noun: roughness; Adjective: tooth, grain, texture, ripple; asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity; arborescence; pilosity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ripple |
| English words defined with "ripple": Fish slide ♦ placid ♦ quiet ♦ Ripple-marked, Ripplet ♦ still ♦ To cut a feather, tranquil ♦ unruffled. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ripple": binary counter ♦ Cat's Paw ♦ d.c.filter, DC filter, DIMPLE, direct current filter ♦ facing of strata, FREEZER OPERATOR ♦ ice-cream freezer ♦ rhomboid ripple mark, ripple index ♦ syngenetic. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ripple": Crease. (references) |
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Screenplays | Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple. (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ripple (1999) Raspberry Ripple (1986) A Ripple of Time (1974) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Tidal stream at low tide showing parallel ripple pattern in deeper areas versus hummocky pattern in shallower areas. Parallel ripples form perpendicular to tidal flow. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Ripple pattern offshore with green algae drifting close to shore. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Monk seal on the beach at Laysan Island. Note ripple pattern in coral sand. Credit: Small World. |  | Mr. Ripple wanted to take his wife by the arm. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Air plane crash--Broad Ripple Park, Indianapolis, Ind. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Ripple; caw; gull. | | Water cooler; babble; bubble; crow; lap; murmur; plash; purl; ripple; slosh; splash; wash; gurgle; gurgling. |
| Agitate; alternate; bob; bounce; buffet; flap; flicker; fluctuate; flutter; heave; jerk; jounce; oscillate; palpitate; pitch; pound; pulsate; pulse; quake; quaver; quiver; ripple; shake; shiver; swing; thrill; throb; thump; tremble; twitch; undulate; vibr. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | My Lady turned her head away to conceal the broad grin of triumph that spread over her vast face, like a ripple on a lake |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He had disappeared in the sea, without making even a ripple, as though he had fallen into a cask of oil. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Once or twice I saw a ripple where he approached the surface, just put his head out to reconnoitre, and instantly dived again |
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Business | The ripple effect of Brazil's currency devaluation (January 1999) certainly made an impact on Argentina’s economy. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ripple" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.22% of the time. "Ripple" is used about 227 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 87.22% | 198 | 21,729 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 6.17% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.29% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.32% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 227 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ripple" 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 |
| Ripple | Last name | 1,000 | 13,172 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "ripple": having a ripple ♦ rhomboid ripple mark ♦ ripple cloth ♦ ripple comb ♦ ripple current ♦ ripple effect ♦ ripple electromotive force ♦ ripple finish ♦ ripple grass ♦ ripple mark ♦ ripple marks ♦ ripple of applause ♦ ripple of laughter ♦ ripple shed ♦ ripple tank ♦ ripple voltage ♦ Rocky Ripple. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ripple": ripple-dissolving, ripple-grass, ripple-laminated, Ripple-marked, ripple-puddles, ripple-smoothing, ripple-velvet. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "ripple"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | valëzohet (undulated), plluquritje, plluqurit, llokoçitje (lap, plash, squelch), gurgulloj (babble, Bicker, bubble, gurgle, purl, seethe), gurgullimë (gurgitation, gurgle, murmur, purl). (various references) | |
Arabic | موجة صغيرة (ruffle), هدير (boom, brawler, plash, roar, thunder), تموج (corrugate, fluctuate, roll, ruffle, stream, undulate, undulation, vibration, wave), خريرالماء (murmur, purl). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ромон (babble, burble, chatter, murmur, purl, susurration), ромоля (babble, brawl, murmur, purl), разчесвам (hackle, raise), гребен (comb, crest, edge, heckle, rack, ridge, screw), вълнувам (affect, agitate, excite, perturb, stir, trouble, vex, work up), вълничка (dimple, ruffle, wavelet), накъдрям (frizzle), малък бързей, лея се звънливо, леко вълнение (tingle, touch), леки вълни, падам на меки гънки, падам на меки вълни. (various references) | |
Chinese | 波纹, 波紋 (corrugation), 波 (storm, surge, wave), 漪 , 漣漪 , 漣 (tearful), 淶 (brook). (various references) | |
Czech | zurèení (gurgle, purl), vochlovat (comb), vochlice, vlnka (wavelet), vlnit se (Crimp, curl, surge, sweep, undulate, wave), vlnìní (surge, swell, undulation), èeřit se, èeření, šum (buzz, hum), šplouchat (splash, splatter, swash). (various references) | |
Danish | ripple, rippel (periodic and random deviation), udsving (amplitude, excursion, oscillation), pulsation (pulsation), overfladerille, kædestolsvare med fantasimønster, flammet ved til violiners bagside (fiddleback, fiddleback figure). (various references) | |
Dutch | rupsgolf, rimpel (furrow, wrinkle), tekening van de lasrups, spanningsgrimpel (periodic and random deviation), onderbroken golfdraad (fiddleback, fiddleback figure), fantasie-opzet. (various references) | |
Farsi | موج دارشدن (Squiggle), ماننداب مواج شدن , دارای سطح ناهموار, بطورموجی حرکت کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | väreillä (hover, quiver, shimmer), väre, palon pintaväre, liristä (purl), karehtia (play), hurina (hum), huojunta (beat, beating, fluctuations, hunting), aaltoisuus (distortion, periodic and random deviation, settle wave, warp, waviness). (various references) | |
French | ondulation (rippling). (various references) | |
German | Welligkeit (buckling, cockling, curling, distortion, settle mark, settle wave, shadow, warp, wave, waviness). (various references) | |
Greek | κελαρύζω (babble, gurgle, purl, swish). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"ת'לין (fluctuate, undulate), ל"עלות א"ו", א"ו" (wavelet), רשרוש (murmur, rustle, rustling, sough). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fodrozódás (riffle, ruffle). (various references) | |
Indonesian | riak, gelembur, beriak. (various references) | |
Italian | ondulazione (undulation, wave), increspatura (ruffle). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 波紋 (ring on the water). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リップル , リプル , さざなみ (ripples on water, wavelets), はも" (anathema, excommunication, ring on the water). (various references) | |
Korean | "물결. (various references) | |
Manx | tonnane (wavelet), ribley (rippling), freayney (flow, flow of sea, foam, foaming, fume, heave, heave of sea, overflow, raging, rippling, ruffle, surge), cur freayney brishlagh er. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ippleray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ondulação (corrugation, curl, curling, dimple, fold, friz, frizz, popple, undulation, wave, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Romanian | ropot (burst, round, salvo, storm, thunder, tramp, tramping), pulsaţie (palpitation, pulse, throb, variant), încreţiturã pe suprafaţa apei, buclã (coil, curl, forelock, frizzle, knot, lock, loop, ringlet, tress), cascadã (cascade, chute, fall, falls, waterfall), clipoci (lop), clipocit (dash, lop, rippling), murmur (babble, babbling, Bicker, brawl, chatter, garrulity, hum, moan, mumbling, murmur, mutter, prattle, rhubarb, rustle, rustling, warble), încreţi (corrugate, crisp, curl, dimple, fold, frizz, frizzle, knit, pleat, purse, ridge, ruffle, shrivel, wave, wrinkle), ondula (corrugate, crape, Crimp, crisp, curl, float, ridge, roll, wave, wind), zbârli (tousle), se încreţi (corrugate, crease, crisp, crumple, dimple, ruck, wrinkle), susur (babble, brawl, chatter, gurgle, murmur, prattle, warble, whisper), susura (babble, Bicker, brawl, chatter, gurgle, hum, murmur, Pearl, prattle, purl, swish), tremura (cower, dither, falter, flicker, palpitate, quail, quake, quaver, quiver, reel, rock, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, throb, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobble), tulbura (agitate, bewilder, cloud, confuse, disconcert, distract, disturb, flurry, flutter, fret, incommode, indispose, interrupt, intrude upon, Mar, muddle, muddy, perturb, puddle, stir, trouble, upset, vex, worry), undã (wave), murmura (babble, Bicker, brawl, breathe, chatter, croak, growl, grumble, gurgle, kick, moan, mumble, murmur, mutter, Pearl, prattle, purl, round, rustle, sough, warble, whisper). (various references) | |
Russian | чесалка (comb, hackle), волнистость (undulation, waviness), пульсация (palpitation, pulsation, sphygmus, throb), пульсировать пульсация волновой, покрывать рябью. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | talasati (ruffle), talasanje (backwash, rolling, undulation, welter), peraja, namreškati, grebenati (card), greben (card, comb, crag, crest, mull, overfall, reef, ridge, skerry), žubor (burble, gurgle, purl), žamoriti (babble, hum). (various references) | |
Spanish | onda (wave). (various references) | |
Swedish | krusning (curl, ruffle), krusa (Crimp, Crinkle, crisp, curl, frizz, frizzle, frounce, stand on ceremony). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำให้กระเพื่อม (ruffle), กระเพื่อม (ruffle, ruffly), คลื่นเล็กๆ. (various references) | |
Turkish | su sesi (gurgle, splash), keten tarağı (hackle, hatchel), keten ayıklama aleti, kırışmak (become wrinkled, bunch, cockle, corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crumple, frill, pucker, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle), hafifçe dalgalanmak, dalgalanmak (balance, float, flourish, fluctuate, flutter, fly, ruffle, shiver, stream, surge, undulate, wave, whip), dalgalanma (fluctuation, roll, ruffle, surge, surging, sway, undulation), dalgalandırmak (cause to undulate, cockle, corrugate, crisp, curl, ruffle, undulate, vex, wave), dalgacık, dalga dalga yayılma, daire şeklinde yayılan dalga, şırıltı (babling, gurgle, plash, plashing, purl), çağlayarak akmak, çağlama (gurgle, murmuring). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | струменіти (flow, glide), хвилястість (undulation, wave, waviness), чесати (card, comb, hackle), чесалка (comb, hackle), брижі (ruffle, surge), дзюрчати (babble, chatter, gurgle, murmur, whimper), дзюрчання (babble, babbling, bickering, chatter, murmuring, purl). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiếng róc rách. (various references) | |
Welsh | crychu (pucker, ruffle, wrinkle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | crispanti. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ripple": rippled, rippler, ripplers, ripples, ripplet, ripplets. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ripple": cripple, gripple. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ripple": crippled, crippler, cripplers, cripples, uncrippled. (additional references) | |
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"Ripple" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dripple, Ippel, kipple, rapple, rephlex, ripal, ripel, ripely, ripie, ripoli, Ripoll, rippal, rippl, ripplr, ripply, Rippoe, Ripul, Rupolei, Ruppel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ripple" (pronounced ri"pul) |
| 5 | r i" p u l | cripple, triple. |
| 4 | -i" p u l | fipple, nipple, tipple. |
| 3 | -p u l | ample, Appel, apple, archetypal, businesspeople, carpal, chapel, congresspeople, couple, craftspeople, crumple, decouple, dimple, disciple, episcopal, example, gospel, grapple, hopple, spokespeople, staple, steeple, subprincipal, supple, temple, laypeople, maple, metacarpal, multiple, municipal, newspeople, oedipal, opal, papal, people, pimple, pineapple, Popple, principal, principle, pupil, purple, quadruple, quintuple, rumple, salespeople, sample, scalpel, scruple, Semple, simple, topple, townspeople, trample, uncouple. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lipper. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-p-p-r" | |
-1 letter: peril, piper, plier. | |
-2 letters: lier, lipe, lire, peri, perp, pier, pile, pipe, plie, prep, repp, riel, rile, ripe. | |
-3 letters: ire, lei, lie, lip, pep, per, pie, pip, rei, rep, rip. | |
-4 letters: el, er, li, pe, pi, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-p-p-r" | |
+1 letter: applier, clipper, cripple, flipper, gripple, lippers, lippier, loppier, prepill, pulpier, rippled, rippler, ripples, ripplet, slipper, tippler. | |
+2 letters: appliers, clippers, crippled, crippler, cripples, flappier, flippers, floppier, lippered, liripipe, oilpaper, pimplier, preppily, presplit, rippable, ripplers, ripplets, ripplier, slippers, slippery, slippier, sloppier, stippler, supplier, tipplers. | |
+3 letters: cripplers, dipperful, lappering, lippering, liripipes, loppering, oilpapers, papergirl, perilymph, periplast, pimpernel, piperonal, preputial, principle, prolepsis, proleptic, rappeling, reapplied, reapplies, rippliest, slippered, stipplers, suppliers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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