Ripple vs Flow - What's the difference?
ripple | flow |
A moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid.
A sound similar to that of undulating water.
A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
(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.
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:
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.
A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
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The rising movement of the tide.
Smoothness or continuity.
The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
(psychology) The state of being at one with.
Menstruation fluid
To move as a fluid from one position to another.
To proceed; to issue forth.
* Milton
To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
* Dryden
To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
* Bible, Joel iii. 18
* Prof. Wilson
To hang loosely and wave.
* A. Hamilton
To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb .
* Shakespeare
(computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
To cover with varnish.
To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
As nouns the difference between ripple and flow
is that ripple is a moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid while flow is a movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.As verbs the difference between ripple and flow
is that ripple is to move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate while flow is to move as a fluid from one position to another.ripple
English
Noun
(en noun)- I dropped a small stone into the pond and watched the ripples .
- 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.
Verb
- These problems were complicated by a foreign exchange crunch which rippled through the economy in 1961-1962, [...].
- (Holland)
Anagrams
*flow
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Noun
Antonyms
* (movement of the tide) ebbExternal links
* (wikipedia "flow") *Verb
(en verb)- Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
- Tears flow from the eyes.
- Wealth flows from industry and economy.
- Those thousand decencies that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
- The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow .
- Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
- In that day the hills shall flow with milk.
- the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
- a flowing''' mantle; '''flowing locks
- the imperial purple flowing in his train
- The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
- The river hath thrice flowed , no ebb between.
