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[ rif-uhl ] / ˈrɪf əl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR riffle ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used with or without object), rif·fled, rif·fling.to turn hastily; flutter and shift: to riffle a stack of letters; to riffle through a book. Cards. to shuffle by dividing the deck in two, raising the corners slightly, and allowing them to fall alternately together. to cause or become a riffle. nouna rapid, as in a stream. a ripple, as upon the surface of water. Mining. the lining of transverse bars or slats on the bed of a sluice, arranged so as to catch heavy minerals, as gold or platinum. a hopper for distributing bulk material. the act or method of riffling cards. Origin of riffle1630–40; blend of ripple1 and ruffle1 OTHER WORDS FROM riffleun·rif·fled, adjectiveWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH riffleriffle , rifleWords nearby rifflerifampin, rifamycin, rife, riff, riffage, riffle, riffler, riffola, riffraff, rifle, rifle bird Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for riffleRiffle strips keep them in position, these latter being laid crosswise on the bottom. The A B C of Mining|Charles A. Bramble The fifth riffle merely puts two cards above the top selected card, and the shuffle is complete. Sharps and Flats|John Nevil Maskelyne One individual was taken from a riffle, fin-clipped, and released at the foot of the next riffle downstream. Fish Populations, Following a Drought, in the Neosho and Marais des Cygnes Rivers of Kansas|James Everett Deacon The way past the worst of the first riffle looked so clear on the right that I did not trouble to pull across to the other side. Down the Yellowstone|Lewis R. Freeman
British Dictionary definitions for riffle
verb(when intr , often foll by through) to flick rapidly through (the pages of a book, magazine, etc), esp in a desultory manner to shuffle (playing cards) by halving the pack and flicking the adjacent corners together to make or become a riffle nounUS and Canadian - a rapid in a stream
- a rocky shoal causing a rapid
- a ripple on water
mining a contrivance on the bottom of a sluice, containing transverse grooves for trapping particles of gold the act or an instance of riffling Word Origin for riffleC18: probably from ruffle 1, influenced by ripple 1 Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to riffledisorder, disturb, confuse, shift, disarray, disorganize, discompose, intermix, change, jumble, dislocate, disrupt, scramble, disarrange, feed, leaf, scan, read, nibble, peruse |