Rippled vs Tippled - What's the difference?
rippled | tippled |
(ripple)
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.
(tipple)
An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.
(rail transport) An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done.
(slang) Any alcoholic drink.
To sell alcoholic liquor by retail.
To drink too much alcohol.
To drink alcohol regularly or habitually, but not to excess.
* Macaulay
To put up (hay, etc.) in bundles in order to dry it.
As verbs the difference between rippled and tippled
is that rippled is (ripple) while tippled is (tipple).rippled
English
Verb
(head)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
*tippled
English
Verb
(head)tipple
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (alcoholic drink) seeVerb
(tippl)- Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets.