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Meaning of riffle

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  riffle
      n 1: a small wave on the surface of a liquid [syn: {ripple},
           {rippling}, {riffle}, {wavelet}]
      2: shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two
         halves at their corners
      v 1: twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked" [syn: {flick},
           {ruffle}, {riffle}]
      2: look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed
         through the report"; "She leafed through the volume" [syn:
         {flick}, {flip}, {thumb}, {riffle}, {leaf}, {riff}]
      3: stir up (water) so as to form ripples [syn: {ripple},
         {ruffle}, {riffle}, {cockle}, {undulate}]
      4: shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts
         and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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