Ripple vs Frizzle - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between ripple and frizzle

is that ripple is a moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid while frizzle is a curl; a lock of hair crisped.

As verbs the difference between ripple and frizzle

is that ripple is to move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate while frizzle is (label) to fry something until crisp and curled.

ripple

English

Noun

(en noun)

A moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid.

I dropped a small stone into the pond and watched the ripples .

A sound similar to that of undulating water.

A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.

I enjoy fudge ripple''' ice cream, but I especially like to dig through the carton to get at the '''ripple part and eat only that.

(electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.

An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.

Verb

To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.

To propagate like a moving wave.

* 2008 , Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns , page 65:

These problems were complicated by a foreign exchange crunch which rippled through the economy in 1961-1962, [...].

To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.

To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.

(by extension) To scratch or tear.

(Holland)

Anagrams

frizzle

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l), (l)

Verb

(en-verb)

(label) To fry something until crisp and curled.

(label) To scorch.

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3 , passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”}}

(label) To fry noisily.

To curl or crisp, as hair; to frizz; to crinkle.

(Gay)

Noun

(en noun)

A curl; a lock of hair crisped.

* 1911 , (Jack London), The Whale Tooth

*:The frizzle -headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.