1. ripple - Noun
2. ripple - Verb
4. Ripple - Proper noun
An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
Hence, to scratch or tear.
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.
To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake.
The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves.
A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter.
a small wave on the surface of water or other liquids for which the driving force is not gravity, but surface tension.
the residual AC component in the DC current output from a rectifier, expressed as a percentage of the steady component of the current.
Source: Webster's dictionaryRemember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. Scott Adams
When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain. Algernon Charles Swinburne
Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places. George Eliot
The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. F. Scott Fitzgerald
A ripple of laughter is worth a flood of tears. American Proverb
A ripple of laughter is worth a flood of tears. Albanian Proverb