Synonyms of the word

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.

babble

• n. Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.
• n. Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.
• n. A sound like that of water gently flowing around obstructions.
• v. (intransitive) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds.
• v. (intransitive) To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words.
• v. (intransitive) To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.
• v. (intransitive) To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones.
• v. (transitive) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way…
• v. (transitive) To reveal; to give away (a secret).

bubble

• n. A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
• n. A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
• n. Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
• n. (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational…
• n. (obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
• n. (figuratively) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed; circumstances,…
• n. (Cockney rhyming slang) a Greek (also: bubble and squeak).
• n. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
• n. The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
• n. Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
• n. (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh. (also: bubble bath).
• n. (computing) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
• n. (poker) The point in a poker tournament when the last player without a prize loses all their chips and…
• v. (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cheat, delude.
• v. (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.

burble

• n. A bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek.
• n. A gush of rapid speech.
• n. The turbulent boundary layer about a moving streamlined body.
• v. To bubble; to gurgle.
• v. To babble; to speak in an excited rush.

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.

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.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

guggle

• v. To make a sound as of liquid being poured from a small-necked container.
• v. (of a liquid) To pour from a container and make this sound.
• n. Such a sound.

gurgle

• v. To flow with a bubbling sound.
• v. To make such a sound.
• n. A gurgling sound.

oscillation

• n. the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated.
• n. a regular periodic fluctuation in value about some mean.
• n. a single such cycle.

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.

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.

sound

• adj. Healthy.
• adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
• adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
• adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
• adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
• adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
• adv. Soundly.
• interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
• n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
• n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
• n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
• n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
• v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
• v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
• v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
• v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
• v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
• n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
• n. The air bladder of a fish.
• n. A cuttlefish.
• v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
• v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
• v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
• v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
• n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
• n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

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.

vibration

• n. The act of vibrating or the condition of being vibrated.
• n. (physics) Any periodic process, especially a rapid linear motion of a body about an equilibrium position.
• n. A single complete vibrating motion.
• n. (slang) An instinctively sensed emotional aura or atmosphere; vibes.

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.