Ripple vs Quivering - What's the difference?
ripple | quivering |
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.
shaking, shivering
* 1853 , , Tom Taylor (editor), The Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon ,
A motion by which something quivers or trembles.
* 1837 , '' in ''Twice-Told Tales ,
* 1921 , ,
* 1954 , ,
As nouns the difference between ripple and quivering
is that ripple is a moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid while quivering is a motion by which something quivers or trembles.As verbs the difference between ripple and quivering
is that ripple is to move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate while quivering is .As an adjective quivering is
shaking, shivering.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
*quivering
English
Adjective
(head)- The quivering mass of jello rocked back and forth incessantly but remained on the plate.
- You envied me in all my great successes — Jerusalem, Lazarus, Mock Election, pupils, drawings, lectures ; and at all times tried to prove they were not successes, with a pale face and quivering' lip — more pale and more ' quivering than usual.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- quiverings of the eyelid
- The quiverings of incipient harmony were hushed, and the divine sat in speechless and almost terrified astonishment, while she undid the door, and stood up in the sacred desk from which his maledictions had just been thundered.
- And now the lion lunged suddenly to earth and with a few spasmodic quiverings lay still.
- There remained only the quiverings —the windows, the steel springs of the bed, the dishes, a chair touching the wall.
- There came at last a silence so complete she could hear the ticking of the clock under the bed, and the snoring of Sophronie's children behind the wall of the girls' bedroom.
