Synonyms of the word

riffle

• n. A fast-flowing, shallow part of a stream causing broken water.
• n. A succession of small waves.
• n. A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching…
• n. A quick skim through the pages of a book.
• n. The act of shuffling cards; the sound made while shuffling cards.
• v. (intransitive) To flow over a fast moving shallow part of a stream.
• v. (transitive) To ruffle with a rippling action.
• v. (intransitive) To skim or flick through the pages of a book.
• v. (transitive) To leaf through rapidly.
• v. (transitive) To shuffle playing cards by separating the deck in two and sliding the thumbs along the edges…
• v. (transitive) To idly manipulate objects with the fingers.
• v. (transitive) To prepare samples of material using a riffler.

cockle

• n. Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
• n. The shell of such a mollusk.
• n. (in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
• n. (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker.
• n. (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep.
• n. (mining, Britain, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
• n. (Britain) The fire chamber of a furnace.
• n. (Britain) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
• n. (Britain) The dome of a heating furnace.
• v. To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
• n. Any of several field weeds, such as the corncockle, Agrostemma githago, and Lolium temulentum.

displace

• v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
• v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
• v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
• v. (psycology) to repress.

flick

• n. A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
• n. (informal) A motion picture; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
• n. (fencing) A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike…
• n. (tennis) A powerful underarm volley shot.
• n. The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
• n. A flitch.
• v. To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.

flip

• n. A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
• n. A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.
• n. (US, slang) A slingshot.
• v. (transitive) To throw (as in to turn over).
• v. (transitive) To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.
• v. (transitive, US politics) To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To go berserk or crazy.
• v. To buy an asset (usually a house), improve it and sell it quickly for profit.
• v. (computing) To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.
• interj. (Britain, mildly vulgar) used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.
• adj. (Britain, informal) Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.
• adj. Sarcastic.
• adj. (informal) Disrespectful.
• n. A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a flip dog).

flow

• n. A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.
• n. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
• n. (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of…
• n. The rising movement of the tide.
• n. Smoothness or continuity.
• n. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
• n. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
• n. The emission of blood during menstruation.
• n. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
• v. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
• v. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
• v. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
• v. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
• v. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
• v. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated…
• v. (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
• v. (transitive) To cover with varnish.
• v. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

flux

• n. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
• n. A state of ongoing change.
• n. A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
• n. (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity) through a given surface, specifically…
• n. (archaic) A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
• n. (archaic) Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
• n. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
• v. To use flux.
• v. To melt.
• v. To flow as a liquid.
• adj. (uncommon) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.

leaf

• n. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
• n. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
• n. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
• n. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
• n. (in the plural) Tea leaves.
• n. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
• n. A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms…
• n. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise…
• n. (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
• n. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
• n. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
• v. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.

make

• v. (transitive, heading) To create.
• v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
• v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
• v. To constitute.
• v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
• v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
• v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
• v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
• v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
• v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
• v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
• v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
• v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
• v. To appoint; to name.
• v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
• v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
• v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
• v. To enact; to establish.
• v. To develop into; to prove to be.
• v. To form or formulate in the mind.
• v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
• v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
• v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
• v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
• n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
• n. How a thing is made; construction.
• n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
• n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
• n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
• n. A person's character or disposition.
• n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
• n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
• n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
• n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
• n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
• n. (slang, military) A promotion.
• n. A home-made project.
• n. (basketball) A made basket.
• n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

mix

• v. To stir two or more substances together.
• v. To combine items from two or more sources normally kept separate.
• v. To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts.
• v. To use a mixer (machine) on.
• v. (music) To combine several tracks.
• v. (music) To produce a finished version of a recording.
• v. To unite with in company; to join; to associate.
• n. The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.
• n. The result of combining items normally kept separate.
• n. (music) The result of mixing several tracks.
• n. (music) The finished version of a recording.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

peruse

• n. An examination or perusal; an instance of perusing.
• v. (transitive) To examine or consider with care.
• v. (transitive) To read completely.
• v. (transitive, informal) To look over casually; to skim.
• v. (intransitive, regional) To go from place to place; to wander.

riff

• n. A repeated instrumental melody line in a song.
• n. A clever or witty remark.
• n. A variation on something.
• n. A spoof.
• v. To improvise in the performance or practice of an art, especially by expanding on or making novel use…

ripple

• n. A moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid.
• n. A sound similar to that of undulating water.
• n. A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
• n. (electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
• v. To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
• v. To propagate like a moving wave.
• v. To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
• v. (transitive) To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze.
• n. An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom…
• v. To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.

rippling

• v. present participle of ripple.
• adj. Moving in a chaotic, undulating fashion, as in a flow of water or a flag blowing in the wind.
• n. A motion or sound that ripples.

ruffle

• n. Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
• n. Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
• n. (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
• n. (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine…
• v. (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
• v. (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
• v. (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
• v. (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
• v. (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
• v. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
• v. To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
• v. (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
• v. To throw together in a disorderly manner.

shuffle

• n. The act of shuffling cards.
• n. An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
• n. (by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music. Consists of a series of triplet notes with…
• n. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
• v. To put in a random order.
• v. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
• v. To change; modify the order of something.
• v. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
• v. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
• v. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
• v. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

shuffling

• v. present participle of shuffle.
• n. The act or motion of one who shuffles.
• n. The noise created by something moving about.
• n. (dated) trickery.
• adj. Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
• adj. evasive.

thumb

• n. The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved…
• n. (computing) The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
• n. (colloquial, Internet) A thumbnail picture.
• v. (transitive) To touch or cover with the thumb.
• v. (transitive, with through) To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.
• v. (travel) To hitchhike.
• v. To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
• v. using the thumb to manipulate an object, such as to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
• v. a method of firing single action revolvers quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depresses.

undulate

• v. (transitive) To cause to move in a wavelike motion.
• v. (transitive) To cause to resemble a wave.
• v. (intransitive) To move in wavelike motions.
• v. (intransitive) To appear wavelike.
• adj. Wavy in appearance or form.
• adj. Changing the pitch and volume of one's voice.
• adj. (botany, of a margin) sinuous, winding up and down.

wave

• v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion,…
• v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
• v. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
• v. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
• n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
• n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
• n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
• n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
• n. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of…
• v. Obsolete spelling of waive.

wavelet

• n. A small wave; a ripple.
• n. (mathematics) A fast-decaying oscillation.