Ripplename

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  A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3450).

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  A village and civil parish in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8737).

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  A surname.

ripplenoun詞源 1/ˈɹɪp(ə)l/

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  A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.

  • I dropped a small stone into the pond and watched the ripples spread.
  • What seamen call the "ripples" are also very violent in the straits, the sea appearing to boil and foam and dance like the rapids below a cataract; vessels are swept about helplessly, and small ones are occasionally swamped in the finest weather and under the brightest skies.
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  One of a series of corrugations in flat surface.

  • The ebbing tide had left ripples in the sand.
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  A sound similar to that of undulating water.

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  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.
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  businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityA small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.

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  A small spreading change, impact, or effect produced by a larger or more consequential action.

  • Investments in research, deployment and scaling existing technologies are the initial ripples that will have to build to a groundswell of further action.

rippleverb詞源 1/ˈɹɪp(ə)l/

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  To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.

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  To propagate like a moving wave.

  • These problems were complicated by a foreign exchange crunch which rippled through the economy in 1961-1962, […]
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  To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.

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  To shape into a series of ripples.

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  To launch or unleash in rapid succession.

  • Hearns' 'Mech rippled fifteen missiles. Austen watched the missiles go in. They smashed into a copse of trees, smashing the trunks aside.

rippleverb詞源 2/ˈɹɪp(ə)l/

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  To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze

  • An horsemans javelin[…]having slightly rippled the skinne of his left arme, pierced within his short ribs.

ripplenoun詞源 3/ˈɹɪp(ə)l/

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  businessmanufacturingtextilesAn implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.

rippleverb詞源 3/ˈɹɪp(ə)l/

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  To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.

ripplenoun詞源 4/ˈɹɪp(ə)l/

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  historicaldialectalthripple, cart ladder (extension for cart or wagon)