flitter vs ripple

flitter

verb
  • To scatter in pieces. 

  • To flutter or quiver. 

  • To move about rapidly and nimbly. 

  • To move quickly from one condition or location to another. 

noun
  • Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genus Hyarotis. 

  • A fluttering movement 

  • A small aircraft or spacecraft. 

  • A small perceptible feeling 

  • A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment. 

ripple

verb
  • To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze 

  • To shape into a series of ripples. 

  • To launch or unleash in rapid succession. 

  • To propagate like a moving wave. 

  • To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate. 

  • To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple. 

  • To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore. 

noun
  • A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together. 

  • An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc. 

  • A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal. 

  • A sound similar to that of undulating water. 

  • A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid. 

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