(v.) An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
(v. t.) To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
(v. t.) Hence, to scratch or tear.
(v. i.) To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain.
(v. i.) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
(v. t.) To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake.
(n.) The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves.
(n.) A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter.
(n.) a small wave on the surface of water or other liquids for which the driving force is not gravity, but surface tension.
(n.) the residual AC component in the DC current output from a rectifier, expressed as a percentage of the steady component of the current.
Example Sentences:
(1) Past measurements have shown that the intensity range is reduced at the extremes of the F0 range, that there is a gradual upward tilt of the high- and low-intensity boundaries with increasing F0, and that a ripple exists at the boundaries.
(2) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
(3) Shares in energy companies lost ground as the impact of the drop in oil prices rippled through European stock markets.
(4) The market is lightly regulated and any problems could ripple out into a wider credit crunch.
(5) But the move to inflate the price of Daraprim, which is the brand name for the generic drug pyrimethamine and was originally developed in the 1940s by corporate elements of the pharmaceutical giant now known as GlaxoSmithKline, has set off ripples of concern across the medical community.
(6) At least that seemed to be the lesson last week when the autumn statement confirmed a further £600m raid on the troubled universal credit – a move that didn't cause a ripple.
(7) Although only relatively few of the mildly impaired elderly in the nursing home volunteered for the joint activity, the ripple effect of the project extended beyond the direct participants.
(8) Panic rippled through the crowd as riot police advanced repeatedly with batons drawn before being later backed up by dozens of mounted police.
(9) He has described himself as "semi-retired" and, as unrest rippled through Tibetan areas in 2008, threatened to resign as leader of the administration-in-exile if violence continued.
(10) There is a ripple of applause and the odd cheer each time.
(11) The result suggests that the rearrangement of the ripple structure takes place during temperature change successively.
(12) The time has come to relegate psychoanalysis to its proper place as a moment in the historical development of psychiatry and a ripple in 20th century western culture.
(13) However, while the return of rising property prices which started in London has been rippling out to the regions, Zoopla claimed that in some parts of the country homes are worth less than at the turn of the year.
(14) (The day before, they filmed a car chase down the main street and the excitement still ripples through the glutinous air.)
(15) Random grenade blasts and gunfire sent ripples of tension through the crowds, tearful women ducking as explosions rocked the courtyard.
(16) The a parameter (proportional to the lamellar repeat distance) increases with increasing water content, while the b parameter (a measure of the ripple periodicity) decreases with increasing water content.
(17) Secondary rippled structures are observed in the low temperature L beta'-phase for cholesterol content below approx.
(18) They were formed by parallel filaments of 6-10 nm beaded periodically by electron-dense particles of 10-18 nm in a lattice, hexagonal or parallel-ripple pattern.
(19) Meanwhile, barely a ripple was caused by the seeming incongruity of insisting on those on higher incomes to shoulder more of the burden, while failing to repeat the pledge from last year’s Westminster manifesto to introduce a 50p top rate of tax.
(20) In contrast, application of 4-AP to nerves injured by the placement of loose ligatures results in the appearance of late rippled components in the compound action potential.
Rumble
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance.
(v. i.) To murmur; to ripple.
(n.) A noisy report; rumor.
(n.) A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railroad train.
(n.) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
(n.) A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
(v. t.) To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
(2) In two exceptional patients with a prolonged PR interval, this apical sound was separated from a presystolic rumble that occurred during an accelerated phase of mitral inflow or at the A wave of mitral valve echograms.
(3) So little wonder that the spectacle of five safety incidents in a week – however minor – could trigger rumblings of distrust from a nervous public.
(4) As soon as the feed-in tariff was removed, that position looked very different.” What’s more, Rumble believes that solar energy was just a few years away from being cheap enough not to require government support to grow.
(5) The students said they were told in London that a journalist would accompany them and that they risked deportation or detention if they were rumbled.
(6) It was here in 1974 that the heavyweights fought the Rumble in the Jungle under the gaze of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko .
(7) The LV dimension was significantly decreased in HCM with rumble as compared with those of HCM without rumble and the normal subjects.
(8) It sounds like the rumblings of a typical North Korean purge.
(9) Sir Richard Dalton, former UK ambassador to Iran "Iran seems to have been tipped off and come clean because it knew it was about to be rumbled.
(10) "Fortunately Denmark seem to have rumbled this sneaky Dutch trick just in time to bench him... " 1 min: Denmark set the game in motion ... 2 min: Already the game has settled into the pattern we all foresaw, with Holland staking out the full width of the pitch and stroking the ball around deliberately.
(11) Rumblings of discontent had been circulating for months with the two clashing over player recruitment following a summer of inexplicable inactivity at Bloomfield Road , and the point of no return appeared to be reached when then-Burton boss Gary Rowett was openly offered the job in September.
(12) 1 Muhammad Ali's 'rope-a-dope' Ali's "rope-a-dope" plan for 1974's Rumble in the Jungle – his fight against unbeaten George Foreman for the world heavyweight title – was one of the riskiest strategies ever seen in boxing.
(13) On cardiac examination, a pansystolic bruit and a diastolic rumble were audible at the tricuspid focus.
(14) Less noticed, because less obviously political, are current intellectual rumblings, of which French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century , a withering indictment of growing inequality, is the latest manifestation.
(15) All that changed on China’s “Black Monday” last week, when the stock market sell-off that had been rumbling along for weeks turned into a rout.
(16) There are rumblings that Goldman and UBS should go without some of their fees if it is found they got the valuation wrong.
(17) Turkish police appeared uneasy at the size of the crowd gathered near a fragile border fence and fired teargas grenades to disperse them, adding the crack of smaller explosions to the rumbling of the Isis advance.
(18) Factors necessary for the production of a diastolic rumble appear to include central flow, a flexible stent, and the presence of biologic material.
(19) Discontent has been rumbling at New York fashion week since 2010, when the official catwalks were relocated from the more intimate Bryant Park space to the Lincoln Centre.
(20) Perhaps because few of us know what a gene actually does, the debate about whether we are a product of our DNA or our environment rumbles on.