RIPPLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rippling mean? 

• RIPPLING (noun)
  The noun RIPPLING has 1 sense:

1. a small wave on the surface of a liquid

  Familiarity information: RIPPLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIPPLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small wave on the surface of a liquid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

riffle; ripple; rippling; wavelet

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)

 Context examples 

For an immeasurable period, lapped in the rippling of placid centuries, I enjoyed and pondered my tremendous flight.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In the second place, the ebb was now making—a strong rippling current running westward through the basin, and then south'ard and seaward down the straits by which we had entered in the morning.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Three miles away he came upon a fresh trail that sent his neck hair rippling and bristling, It led straight toward camp and John Thornton.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

While she talked, he seemed to hear, rippling softly, the song of the Lorelei.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was a pleasant arternoon when she awoke; and so quiet, that there warn't a sound but the rippling of that blue sea without a tide, upon the shore.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I had a last impression of red cheeks, blue rippling beard, and intolerant eyes, as he waved me out of the room.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When it was daylight, the girl bathed her face in a little rippling brook, and soon after they all started toward the Emerald City.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The rippling motion of muscles in the intestine or other tubular organs characterized by the alternate contraction and relaxation of the muscles that propel the contents onward.

(Peristalsis, NCI Dictionary)

All this Alleyne listened to, until the dark keep of Twynham towered above them in the gloaming, and they saw the red sun lying athwart the rippling Avon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)