kare — meaning in English

English meaning

• riffle noun A fast, shallow stretch of a stream where the water breaks up on the surface.
• ripple noun A small wave or series of waves on the surface of water.
• wavelet noun A little wave on the surface of water.

Senses

kare is used for these senses in English:

• riffle A succession of small waves.
• ripple A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.
• wavelet A small wave; a ripple.

riffle — full definition

1. noun A fast, shallow stretch of a stream where the water breaks up on the surface.
2. noun A series of small ripples or waves.
3. noun A channel or sluice fitted with ridges, grooves or steps along its base, used to hold mercury and trap flecks of gold as gold-bearing soil is washed through it; also, one of those ridges, grooves or steps.
4. noun A fast flick through a book's pages.

ripple — full definition

1. noun A small wave or series of waves on the surface of water.
2. verb To form small waves, or to spread gradually through something like a crowd.

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