Overview of noun riffle

The noun riffle has 2 senses

• ripple, rippling, riffle, wavelet -- (a small wave on the surface of a liquid)


• riffle -- (shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners)

Overview of verb riffle

The verb riffle has 4 senses

• flick, ruffle, riffle -- (twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked")


• flick, flip, thumb, riffle, leaf, riff -- (look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume")


• ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate -- (stir up (water) so as to form ripples)


• riffle -- (shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix)