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Riffle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A rocky shoal or sandbar lying just below the surface of a waterway.

n. A stretch of choppy water caused by such a shoal or sandbar; a rapid.

n. In mining, the sectional stone or wood bottom lining of a sluice, arranged for trapping mineral particles, as of gold.

n. A groove or block in such a lining.

n. Games The act or an instance of shuffling cards.

v. Games To shuffle (playing cards) by holding part of a deck in each hand and raising up the edges before releasing them to fall alternately in one stack.

v. To thumb through (the pages of a book, for example).

verb-intransitive. Games To shuffle cards.

verb-intransitive. To become choppy, as water.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A fast-flowing, shallow part of a stream causing broken water.

n. A succession of small waves.

n. 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.

n. A quick skim through the pages of a book.

n. The act of shuffling cards; the sound made while shuffling cards.

v. To flow over a fast moving shallow part of a stream.

v. To ruffle with a rippling action.

v. To skim or flick through the pages of a book.

v. To leaf through rapidly.

v. 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.

v. To idly manipulate objects with the fingers.

v. To prepare samples of material using a riffler.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. 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.

n. A ripple in a stream or current of water; also, a place where the water ripples, as on a shallow rapid.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In mining, the lining of the bottom of a sluice, made of blocks or slats of wood, or stones, arranged in such a manner that chinks are left open between them.

n. A piece of plank placed transversely in, and fastened to the bottom of, a fish-ladder.

n. In seal-engraving, a very small iron disk at the end of a tool, used to develop a high polish.

n. A ripple, as upon the surface of water; hence, a rapid; a place in a stream where a swift current, striking upon rocks, produces a boiling motion in the water.

To shuffle a pack of cards by butting the two parts of the pack into each other and then bending them so that they slip together.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. stir up (water) so as to form ripples

n. shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners

v. shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix

v. look through a book or other written material

n. a small wave on the surface of a liquid

v. twitch or flutter

Word Usage

"The standard way to mix a deck of playing cards—the one used everywhere from casinos to rec rooms—is what is known as a riffle or "dovetail" shuffle."

Verb Form

riffled riffles riffling

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

flux flow shuffling shuffle make

Cross Reference

to make the riffle

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

rapid channel

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

sniffle