(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.
Rustle
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.
(v. i.) To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about.
(v. t.) To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.
(n.) A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(2) There is the sound of engines hissing and crackling, which have been mixed to seem as near to the ear as the camera was to the cars; there is a mostly unnoticeable rustle of leaves in the trees; periodically, so faintly that almost no one would register it consciously, there is the sound of a car rolling through an intersection a block or two over, off camera; a dog barks somewhere far away.
(3) From ovary we can perceive a rustle produced by gas crossing in abdominal cavity.
(4) With the eight lanes of France’s most famous avenue cleared of all traffic on Paris’s first car-free day , the usual cacophony of car-revving and thundering motorbike engines had given way to the squeak of bicycle wheels, the clatter of skateboards, the laughter of children on rollerblades and even the gentle rustling of wind in the trees.
(5) The hillsides of the West Bank are rustling with industry.
(6) Recipe supplied by Sasha Martin, globaltableadventure.com Merguez sausage and sweet potato hash This unusual take on hash is quick to rustle up.
(7) Late summer light glances off stubble-filled fields, a delicate breeze rustles through the trees and birds chirp contentedly.
(8) On the cash-strapped Independent, they worry the money will dry up if Lebedev is jailed, while Evening Standard staff wonder how the local TV station is going to be rustled up out of an operation that has already been shorn of all journalistic fat.
(9) As the chancellor has found, even after Mervyn King has thrown the best part of £400bn at the economy, a recovery can't be rustled up to order.
(10) They used the guns they found there to rustle cattle in neighbouring Kenya and what is now South Sudan.
(11) It was once the scene of cattle rustling, with the various clans – including the Matheniko, Gei and Dodoth – of the Karamojong people stealing from and ambushing one another using guns looted from armouries after the fall of Idi Amin.
(12) There are lots of menacing notices about ‘DON’T COUGH – you will deafen millions of people’, ‘DON’T RUSTLE YOUR PAPERS’, and ‘Don’t turn to the announcer and say was that all right?
(13) You relax with a glass of local vin rosé , listening to the river and the rustling trees.
(14) He considers one of the key challenges to be starting a dialogue with spiritual leaders, known as spear masters, who get young men fired up to go cattle rustling in exchange for hefty fees.
(15) But first let it be said, whatever the merits of this latest policy, it would not have been rustled up unless the US economy was in the doldrums.
(16) Another wet, grey morning – and another rustle of music on the wind, this time by Tchaikovsky and this time in New Cross, south-east London, played by children at Myatt Garden primary school.
(17) Nasa scrambled to get replacement equipment aboard Dragon, as did schoolchildren who rustled up new science projects.
(18) Fifteen years after the fledgling business failed to rustle up $2m from Silicon Valley, Alibaba will be raising $21bn or more and will be valued at around $160bn, with dealings due to start next Friday.
(19) A thick tropical garden protects the breakfast terrace from the street, and Arthur often rustles up the egg and bacon himself.
(20) Or she's just stepped off Christopher Kane's catwalk at LFW and is rustling up a quick cake before she heads back to the after party.