Meaning of Ripple | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3450).
   countable, uncountable
2. A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.
3. An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
4. thripple, cart ladder (extension for cart or wagon)
   dialectal, historical
5. A village and civil parish in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8737).
   countable, uncountable
6. One of a series of corrugations in flat surface.
7. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
8. A sound similar to that of undulating water.
9. A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
10. A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
11. A small spreading change, impact, or effect produced by a larger or more consequential action.
    figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Ripples in the water betray the presence of the fish waiting for a chance to pounce on the insects skirting over the water.”

“The ebbing tide had left ripples in the sand.”

“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.”

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

CEFR level