What part of speech is rippling?

Rippling can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. rippling is a verb, gerund of ripple (infinitive).
  • 2. rippling is a noun, singular of ripplings.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does rippling mean?

Definitions

Verb

ripple - flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks"
ripple - stir up (water) so as to form ripples

Noun

rippling - a small wave on the surface of a liquid

Examples of rippling

#   Sentence  
1. verb I could see the rippling waves on my right.
2. verb Heat is rippling through my body.
3. verb The glorious ocean, crisped with a thousand rippling waves of silver, extended on the other side of the castle, in awful yet complacent majesty, to the verge of the horizon.
4. verb One only vestige of his fate appeared. A large sable feather had been detached from his hat, and the rippling waves of the rising tide wafted it to Caleb's feet.
5. verb But those who insist the U.S. did not put astronauts on the moon have claimed their own "evidence" to a faked landing. They question why the flag astronaut Neil Armstrong planted on the moon could not possibly be rippling, because there is no air on the moon. In reality, the astronauts bent the metal frame holding the flag, causing the ripples.
6. noun The French language, by the way, is a clear stream that affected writers have never been, and will never be able to ripple. Each century has thrown in this limpid current its fashions, its pretentious archaisms and its preciousness, without anything surfacing from those useless attempts, those powerless efforts. The nature of this language is to be clear, logical and nervous. It won't let itself be weakened, obscured or corrupted.
7. noun The French language, by the way, is a clear stream that affected writers have never been, and will never be able to ripple. Each century has thrown in this limpid current its fashions, its pretentious archaisms and its preciousness, without anything surfacing from those useless attempts, those powerless efforts. The nature of this language is to be clear, logical and nervous. It won't let itself be weakened, obscured or corrupted.
Sentence  
verb
I could see the rippling waves on my right.
Heat is rippling through my body.
The glorious ocean, crisped with a thousand rippling waves of silver, extended on the other side of the castle, in awful yet complacent majesty, to the verge of the horizon.
One only vestige of his fate appeared. A large sable feather had been detached from his hat, and the rippling waves of the rising tide wafted it to Caleb's feet.
But those who insist the U.S. did not put astronauts on the moon have claimed their own "evidence" to a faked landing. They question why the flag astronaut Neil Armstrong planted on the moon could not possibly be rippling, because there is no air on the moon. In reality, the astronauts bent the metal frame holding the flag, causing the ripples.
noun
The French language, by the way, is a clear stream that affected writers have never been, and will never be able to ripple. Each century has thrown in this limpid current its fashions, its pretentious archaisms and its preciousness, without anything surfacing from those useless attempts, those powerless efforts. The nature of this language is to be clear, logical and nervous. It won't let itself be weakened, obscured or corrupted.
The French language, by the way, is a clear stream that affected writers have never been, and will never be able to ripple. Each century has thrown in this limpid current its fashions, its pretentious archaisms and its preciousness, without anything surfacing from those useless attempts, those powerless efforts. The nature of this language is to be clear, logical and nervous. It won't let itself be weakened, obscured or corrupted.

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