rippleとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From an alteration of rimple.

名詞

ripple (複数形 ripples)

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

   I dropped a small stone into the pond and watched the ripples spread.

   The ebbing tide had left ripples in the sand.

2. A sound similar to that of undulating water.
3. 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.

4. (electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.

派生語

動詞

ripple (三人称単数 現在形 ripples, 現在分詞 rippling, 過去形および過去分詞形 rippled)

1. (intransitive) To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
2. (intransitive) To propagate like a moving wave.
   • 2008, Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, page 65:

     These problems were complicated by a foreign exchange crunch which rippled through the economy in 1961-1962, […]

3. (intransitive) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
4. (transitive) To shape into a series of ripples.
5. (transitive) To launch or unleash in rapid succession.
   • 2019, Jason M. Hardy, Phaedra M. Weldon, Herbert A. Beas II, BattleTech: Weapons Free: BattleCorps Anthology, Volume 3

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

語源 2

From Middle English *ripelen, repulen, equivalent to rip +‎ -le (frequentative suffix).

動詞

ripple (三人称単数 現在形 ripples, 現在分詞 rippling, 過去形および過去分詞形 rippled)

1. (transitive) To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze
   • 1609, Ammianus Marcelluius, Philemon Holland, transl., Roman Historie […] :

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

参照

• “ripple” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

語源 3

Compare German Low German Repel, Dutch repel, German Riffel, extended forms (with instrumental または diminutive -le) of Low German Repe (“ripple”), Dutch repe (“ripple”). Compare also Dutch repen, German reffen, Swedish repa (“to beat; ripple”).

The verb is from Middle English ripplen, rypelen. Compare Low German repelen, Dutch repelen, German riffeln.

別の表記

• reeple, riple

名詞

ripple (複数形 ripples)

1. (textiles) An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.