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Ripple vs Slosh - What's the difference?

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Ripple is a related term of slosh.


As nouns the difference between ripple and slosh

is that ripple is a moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid while slosh is a quantity of a liquid; more than a splash or slosh can be (computing) backslash, the character.

As verbs the difference between ripple and slosh

is that ripple is to move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate while slosh is (of a liquid) to shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

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

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    slosh

    English

    (wikipedia slosh)

    Etymology 1

    (onomatopoeia); compare splash, splosh.

    Verb

    (es)
  • (of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
  • The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.
  • (British, colloquial, transitive) To punch (someone).
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VIII , passage=She greeted me with a bright smile, and said: “Back already? Did you find it?” With a strong effort I mastered my emotion and replied curtly but civilly that the answer was in the negative. “No,” I said, “I did not find it.” “You can't have looked properly.” Again I was compelled to pause and remind myself that an English gentleman does not slosh a sitting redhead, no matter what the provocation.}}

    Noun

    (es)
  • A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash
  • As the show progressed, a dollop of backfin crabmeat and a slice of mozzarella was added to the veal, fresh sliced white mushrooms to the beef, followed by a slosh''' of white wine in one pan and a '''slosh of brandy in the other.
    Coordinate terms
    * splash

    Etymology 2

    By analogy with (slash).

    Noun

    (es)
  • (computing) backslash, the character .