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RIPPLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small wave on the surface of a liquid
Synonyms:
riffle; ripple; rippling; wavelet
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rippling" is a kind of...):
moving ridge; wave (one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water))
Derivation:
ripple (stir up (water) so as to form ripples)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb ripple
Context examples:
His shoulders were sloping rather than bulky, and his chest was deep rather than broad, but the muscle was all in the right place, rippling down in long, low curves from neck to shoulder, and from shoulder to elbow.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Somehow the kind act finished her despondency, and when all the rest went to show themselves to Mrs. Moffat, she saw a happy, bright-eyed face in the mirror, as she laid her ferns against her rippling hair and fastened the roses in the dress that didn't strike her as so very shabby now.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
All round the hull, in the blackness, the rippling current bubbled and chattered like a little mountain stream.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
There was field upon field of ripening grain, with well-paved roads running between, and pretty rippling brooks with strong bridges across them.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
In the fall of the year they penetrated a weird lake country, sad and silent, where wildfowl had been, but where then there was no life nor sign of life—only the blowing of chill winds, the forming of ice in sheltered places, and the melancholy rippling of waves on lonely beaches.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
He was certainly a splendidly built young athlete, and one could not have wished to look upon a finer sight as his white skin, sleek and luminous as a panther’s, gleamed in the light of the morning sun, with a beautiful liquid rippling of muscles at every movement.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had the face and beard which I associate with an Assyrian bull; the former florid, the latter so black as almost to have a suspicion of blue, spade-shaped and rippling down over his chest.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All this I shall some day write at fuller length, and amidst these more stirring days I would tenderly sketch in these lovely summer evenings, when with the deep blue sky above us we lay in good comradeship among the long grasses by the wood and marveled at the strange fowl that swept over us and the quaint new creatures which crept from their burrows to watch us, while above us the boughs of the bushes were heavy with luscious fruit, and below us strange and lovely flowers peeped at us from among the herbage; or those long moonlit nights when we lay out upon the shimmering surface of the great lake and watched with wonder and awe the huge circles rippling out from the sudden splash of some fantastic monster; or the greenish gleam, far down in the deep water, of some strange creature upon the confines of darkness.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
