Crossword clues for riffle
riffle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Riffle \Rif"fle\ (r[i^]f"f'l), n. [CF. G. riffeln, riefeln, to groove. Cf. Rifle a gun.]
(Mining) A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple.
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A ripple in a stream or current of water; also, a place where the water ripples, as on a shallow rapid. [Local, U. S.]
The bass have left the cool depth beside the rock and are on the riffle or just below it.
--James A. Henshall.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1754, "to make choppy water," American English, perhaps a variant of ruffle "make rough." The word meaning "shuffle" (cards) is first recorded 1894, probably echoic; hence that of "skim, leaf through quickly" (of papers, etc.) is from 1922. Related: Riffled; riffling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A fast-flowing, shallow part of a stream causing broken water. 2 A succession of small waves. 3 A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed. Also one of the cleats, grooves or steps in such trough. 4 A quick skim through the pages of a book. 5 The act of shuffling cards; the sound made while shuffling cards. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To flow over a fast moving shallow part of a stream. 2 (context transitive English) To ruffle with a rippling action. 3 (context intransitive English) To skim or flick through the pages of a book. 4 (context transitive English) To leaf through rapidly. 5 (context transitive English) To shuffle playing cards by separating the deck in two and sliding the thumbs along the edges of the cards to mix the two parts. 6 (context transitive English) To idly manipulate objects with the fingers. 7 (context transitive English) To prepare samples of material using a riffler.
WordNet
n. a small wave on the surface of a liquid [syn: ripple, rippling, wavelet]
shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners
v. twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked" [syn: flick, ruffle]
look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume" [syn: flick, flip, thumb, leaf, riff]
stir up (water) so as to form ripples [syn: ripple, ruffle, cockle, undulate]
shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix
Wikipedia
A riffle is a shallow section of a stream or river with rapid current and a surface broken by gravel, rubble or boulders.
Riffles are instrumental in the formation of meanders, with deeper pools forming alternately. Although simple fluid flow suggests slower flow in deeper water and faster flow over riffles, the true flow pattern pool and riffle waters is often helicoidal flow or turbulent, which permits more rapid erosion of the wetted perimeter. Nevertheless, the coarse-grained bedding of riffles suggests erosion of smaller particles, according to the Hjulström curve. Riffles are typically found in the middle course of rivers, and are theoretically found at intervals around 6 times the width of the river, although local conditions cause this to vary.
Riffle is an anonymity network developed at MIT, that employs a verifiable shuffle and is said to be ten times faster than an onion-based network.
Usage examples of "riffle".
As Martinez touched his lips with his glass, the front door boomed open and a gust of wind riffled papers on the side table.
Buck noticed that while the attention refocused on Viv Ivins, Leon went to work on his backside, riffling his fingers over the area.
Halcyon was slumped unconscious in one chair, Roddle sat in another, and the Doctor had the hot seat, riffling through pages in a bubblescreen.
Pulling open a bureau drawer, I riffled through folded underwear and tweezed out a pink panty.
Since Rolland had appropriated an antique French for a historical setting more than halfway back from modern times to medieval, and since Nabokov would have to riffle through Dahl for equally venerable Russian equivalents, there could have been no more apt exercise for someone taking the Modern and Medieval tripos in those two languages.
And as the somber clouds gathering from the east extended farther out over the peaks, threatening to cut off the sun, a tentative wind swept down the Caballo Peak slope, riffled across the lake, and a few seconds later streaked on by the agent.
Mo took them and riffled through them like a cardsharp, a glint of commerce in his eye.
He had dashed outside, thrown himself down on the curb and riffled through the magazine till he found the second installment of the cliffhanging serial.
It tumbled as it fell, its dustjacket blowing loose and away, its pages riffling in the still air.
She was sitting in a field of clover in the shade of a shaggy bark tree, chestnut mare nibbling on a handful of gumdrops scattered among the dandelions, mild wind riffling the sunny grass, clear sky soft as felt.
For a time the contest was in doubt, and then Kathy was struggling upright in the shallows, just above where the riffles started.
Just an interesting chip bobbing in the riffles, or a drifting piece of wood such as a log with a viable knot.
In twenty-four hours he would be in a farmhouse which smelt of paraffin and beeswax and good cooking, looking out on a green valley with a shallow brown stream tumbling in riffles and drowsing in pools under banks of yellow bent.
Pulling open a bureau drawer, I riffled through folded underwear and tweezed out a pink panty.
She would not respond to him, not to the way the breeze riffled his sleek raven hair, not to the way his damnably compelling eyes glowed as they caressed her face, not to that cocksure tilt of his head, nor that mischievous-little boy grin dimpling his cheeks.