ripple

See also: Ripple

English edit

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Pronunciation edit

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪp(ə)l/
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Rhymes: -ɪpəl

Etymology 1 edit

From an alteration of rimple.

Noun edit

ripple (plural ripples)

A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.
I dropped a small stone into the pond and watched the ripples spread.

The ebbing tide had left ripples in the sand.
- 2009, Helen Oon, “New Territories”, in Hong Kong (Globetrotters Travel Guide)‎^[1], 1st edition, New Holland Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80:
  Ripples in the water betray the presence of the fish waiting for a chance to pounce on the insects skirting over the water.
A sound similar to that of undulating water.
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.
(electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Basque: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: рабізна́ f (rabizná), зыб m (zyb)
Catalan: ona (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 波 (zh) (bō), 波纹 (zh) (bōwén), (specifically, of water) 水波 (zh) (shuǐbō), (literary) 漣漪／涟漪 (zh) (liányī)
Czech: vlnka f, čeření n
Dutch: rimpeling (nl)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: väre (fi), kare (fi), väreily
French: ondulation (fr) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Kräuseln n, kleine Welle f
Hebrew: אַדְוָה (he) f (advá)
Ingrian: kare
Irish: cuilithín m
Italian: increspatura (it) f
Japanese: 漣 (ja) (さざなみ, sazanami), 漣漪 (ja) (れんい, ren'i)
Khmer: កង្កាញ់ (kɑŋkaɲ), អង្កាញ់ (km) (ɑŋkaɲ)
Korean: 물결 (ko) (mulgyeol)
Macedonian: мрешкање n (mreškanje)
Manx: tonnane m
Maori: hāki, kare, pōkarekare, karetai, kōtaotao
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Navajo: yilkʼooł
Occitan: onda (oc) f, ondulacion (oc)
Ottoman Turkish: طالغه (dalga), موج (mevc)
Polish: zmarszczka (pl) f
Portuguese: ondulação (pt) f
Romanian: cerc (în apă) n
Russian: рябь (ru) f (rjabʹ), зыбь (ru) f (zybʹ)
Slovene: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: ondulación (es) f
Swedish: krusning (sv)
Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: dalgacık (tr), dalgalanma (tr)
Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: gợn (vi), gợn sóng
Welsh: please add this translation if you can

sound similar to that of undulating water

Bulgarian: ромон (bg) m (romon)
Czech: zurčení (cs) n, šumění n
Dutch: kabbelen (nl) n
Finnish: liplatus (fi)
Maori: orowaru
Russian: журча́ние (ru) n (žurčánije)
Serbo-Croatian: bućkanje n
Swedish: skvalp (sv) n

style of ice cream

Swedish: rippel (sv) c

small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal

Bulgarian: пулсация f (pulsacija)
Finnish: värinä (fi)
French: ondulation résiduelle f
German: Welligkeit f
Occitan: ondulacion residuala
Russian: колеба́ния (ru) n pl (kolebánija), пульса́ции (ru) f pl (pulʹsácii)

Verb edit

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

(intransitive) To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
(intransitive) 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, […]
(intransitive) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
(transitive) To shape into a series of ripples.
(transitive) To launch or unleash in rapid succession.
- 2019, Jason M. Hardy, Phaedra M. Weldon, Herbert A. Beas II, BattleTech: Weapons Free: BattleCorps Anthology, Volume 3:
  Hearns' 'Mech rippled fifteen missiles. Austen watched the missiles go in. They smashed into a copse of trees, smashing the trunks aside.

Translations edit

to move like the undulating surface of a body of water

Bulgarian: правя вълнички (pravja vǎlnički)
Catalan: onejar (ca)
Dutch: kabbelen (nl)
Esperanto: ondeti
Finnish: väreillä, karehtia
French: onduler (fr)
Macedonian: мрешка (mreška)
Maori: māhitihiti, pōkarekare, wiki
Old English: ȳþian
Ottoman Turkish: طالغه‌لانمق (dalgalanmak)
Polish: marszczyć się impf, zmarszczyć się pf
Portuguese: ondular (pt)
Spanish: ondular (es)

to make a sound as water running across shallows

Bulgarian: ромоля (bg) (romolja)
Maori: wīwī

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle English *ripelen, repulen, equivalent to rip +‎ -le (frequentative suffix).

Verb edit

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

(transitive) To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze
- 1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, translated by Philemon Holland, The Roman Historie, […], London: […] Adam Jslip, →OCLC:
  An horsemans javelin […] having slightly rippled the skinne of his left arme, pierced within his short ribs.

References edit

“ripple”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Etymology 3 edit

Compare German Low German Repel, Dutch repel, German Riffel, extended forms (with instrumental or diminutive -le) of Low German Repe (“ripple”), Dutch repe (“ripple”). Compare also Dutch repen, German reffen, Swedish repa (“to beat; ripple”).