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Riffle

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Noun

1. riffle, ripple, rippling, wavelet

a small wave on the surface of a liquid

2. riffle

shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners

Verb

3. flick, riffle, ruffle

twitch or flutter

Example Sentences:
'the paper flicked'

4. flick, flip, leaf, riff, riffle, thumb

look through a book or other written material

Example Sentences:
'He thumbed through the report'
'She leafed through the volume'

5. cockle, riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate

stir up (water) so as to form ripples

6. riffle

shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Riffle

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verb
1. (when intr, often foll by through)
to flick rapidly through (the pages of a book, magazine, etc), esp in a desultory manner
2. 
to shuffle (playing cards) by halving the pack and flicking the adjacent corners together
3. 
to make or become a riffle
noun
4. US and Canadian
a. 
a rapid in a stream
b. 
a rocky shoal causing a rapid
c. 
a ripple on water
5. mining
a contrivance on the bottom of a sluice, containing transverse grooves for trapping particles of gold
6. 
the act or an instance of riffling

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Riffle

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noun
1.  US
a. 
a shoal, reef, or shallow in a stream, producing a stretch of ruffled or choppy water
b. 
a stretch of such water
c. 
a ripple or the ripples of such water
2. 
a. 
a contrivance, as of bars or slats, put across the bottom of a sluice to form grooves or open spaces for catching and holding particles of gold in mining
b. 
any of the bars, slats, etc.
c. 
any of the grooves or spaces
3. 
the act or a manner of riffling cards
verb transitive, verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈriffled or ˈriffling
4. 
to form, become, or flow over or through, a riffle
5. 
to leaf rapidly through (a book, etc.), as by letting the edges or corners of the pages slip lightly across the thumb
6. 
to shuffle (playing cards) by holding part of the deck in each hand, raising the corners or edges slightly, and causing the cards to fall alternately together

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Riffle

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n.
1.
a. A rocky shoal or sandbar lying just below the surface of a waterway.
b. A stretch of choppy water caused by such a shoal or sandbar; a rapid.
c. A wave or ripple in such water.
2.
a. In mining, the sectional stone or wood bottom lining of a sluice, arranged for trapping mineral particles, as of gold.
b. A groove or block in such a lining.
3. Games The act or an instance of shuffling cards.
v. rif·fled, rif·fling, rif·fles
v.tr.
1. Games To shuffle (playing cards) by holding part of a deck in each hand and raising up the edges before releasing them to fall alternately in one stack.
2. To thumb through (the pages of a book, for example).
v.intr.
1. Games To shuffle cards.
2. To flow in rough waves or become choppy, as water.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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