单词 | riffle |
释义 | riffle (once / 13955 pages) 1nv 2nv 3v 4v WORD FAMILY riffle: riffled, riffles, riffling USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s as if Mr. Mills were riffling through an encyclopedia, searching for the perfect entry, which he’s creating before your eyes. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) Nature editors riffle through shelves and memories for favourites old and new. Nature(Dec 06, 2016) Walter Johnson eventually scored three goals over the final 10 minutes of regulation, with juniors Max Yodice and senior Bobby Riffle adding insurance tallies late. Washington Post(Nov 18, 2016) 1 1n shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners Hyper make, shuffle, shuffling the act of mixing cards haphazardly 2v shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix 2Hyper mix, ruffle, shuffle mix so as to make a random order or arrangement 1n a small wave on the surface of a liquid Syn|Hyper ripple, rippling, wavelet moving ridge, wave one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) 2v stir up (water) so as to form ripples 3Syn|Hyper cockle, ripple, ruffle, undulate flow, flux move or progress freely as if in a stream v look through a book or other written material 4Syn|Hyper flick, flip, leaf, riff, thumb peruse examine or consider with attention and in detail v twitch or flutter Syn|Hyper flick, ruffle displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
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