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# ripple

«ripple» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small wave on the surface of water, like the rings when…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a ripple, ripples); verb (ripple, ripples, rippled, rippling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small wave on the surface of water, like the rings when you drop a stone in a pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripple/#m1)

2) To move in small waves: "The flag rippled in the wind." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripple/#m2)

3) Something that spreads slowly: "a ripple of laughter". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripple/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons ripples show how waves spread out from a point. In everyday life you see ripples on a puddle or pond. "The ripple effect" means one small action causes more and more effects, like kindness spreading. Phrases: ripple effect, a ripple of applause, ripples on the water.

### examples

- I threw a pebble and watched the ripples spread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripple/#x1)
- The wind made ripples on the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripple/#x2)
- A ripple of laughter went round the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripple/#x3)
- The curtains rippled in the breeze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripple/#x4)
- Ripples spread out in circles from where the stone landed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripple/#x5)
- One kind act can have a ripple effect. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripple/#x6)
- The sand on the beach had ripples from the waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripple/#x7)

### note

Countable: a ripple, ripples. Regular verb: ripple, rippled, rippling. In science, ripples move outward in circles, but the water itself mostly goes up and down, not along.

### In the corpora

- [Stop stroking a cat when its tail twitches, its skin ripples or its ears turn back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ripple» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ripple/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.