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.

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

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語源 3

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

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. To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.

アナグラム

• Prilep, Rippel