ripple

«ripple» in Mova's school dictionary: A small wave on the surface of water, like the rings when… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a ripple, ripples); verb (ripple, ripples, rippled, rippling)

meaning for a pupil

1) A small wave on the surface of water, like the rings when you drop a stone in a pond. tree →

2) To move in small waves: "The flag rippled in the wind." tree →

3) Something that spreads slowly: "a ripple of laughter". tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons ripples show how waves spread out from a point. In everyday life you see ripples on a puddle or pond. "The ripple effect" means one small action causes more and more effects, like kindness spreading. Phrases: ripple effect, a ripple of applause, ripples on the water.

examples

• I threw a pebble and watched the ripples spread. tree →
• The wind made ripples on the lake. tree →
• A ripple of laughter went round the class. tree →
• The curtains rippled in the breeze. tree →
• Ripples spread out in circles from where the stone landed. tree →
• One kind act can have a ripple effect. tree →
• The sand on the beach had ripples from the waves. tree →

note

Countable: a ripple, ripples. Regular verb: ripple, rippled, rippling. In science, ripples move outward in circles, but the water itself mostly goes up and down, not along.

In the corpora

• Stop stroking a cat when its tail twitches, its skin ripples or its ears turn back.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ripple» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.