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UK
/ɹˈɪfəl/
]
[ US /ˈɹɪfəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɪfəɫ/ ]
VERB
-
look through a book or other written material
She leafed through the volume
He thumbed through the report - stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix
-
twitch or flutter
the paper flicked
NOUN
- a small wave on the surface of a liquid
- shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners
How To Use riffle In A Sentence
- In natural streams coho salmon and steelhead trout fry tend to occupy pools and riffles, respectively.
- Two strips of wood, about an inch square, called riffle-bars, were nailed across the bottom of the cradle-box, one at the middle and the other near the lower end. The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49
- The mild rapids turn to riffles and become fewer and fewer from here to the takeout.
- Emerald-headed mallards bob alongside kayakers in the river's riffles of whitewater.
- 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. Pick a Card, Any Card
- Katie crept up the stairs to her room and quickly riffled through her desk drawer to find her wallet.
- We look hopefully at markings on our map like Pablo's Rapid and Dead Man Rapid, but they prove to be little more than riffles and a slight acceleration in the current.
- Because you can bet your life, a loaded EU assort riffle pointed at yours, will get you running home to mummy soon enough. LE WAR ON CAPITALISM
- A mediocrity, not disagreeable, always rules; supremity has been, is, and always will be the stick in the riffle around which the little whirlpool will always centre. The Common Law
- He rubbed a weary hand over his face and turned towards the small kitchen where he riffled through the fridge, searching for something, anything, that was edible.
