ripple

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪpəl

Noun

ripple (plural ripples)

1. A moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid.

   I dropped a small stone into the pond and watched the ripples.

2. A sound similar to that of undulating water.
3. A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.

   I enjoy fudge ripple ice cream, but I especially like to dig through the carton to get at the ripple part and eat only that.

4. (electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.

Translations

moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid

• Dutch: rimpeling (nl)
• Finnish: väre (fi), kare (fi), väreily (fi)
• French: ondulation (fr) f
• German: Kräuseln (de) n, kleine Welle (de) f
• Italian: increspatura (it) f
• Mandarin: 波 (cmn) (bō)

• Manx: tonnane (gv) m
• Navajo: yilkʼooł
• 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)
• French: ondulation résiduelle (fr) f

• German: Welligkeit (de) f

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, [...].

3. To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.

Translations

to move like the undulating surface of a body of water

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

• French: onduler (fr)
• Portuguese: ondular (pt)

Anagrams

• Prilep