riffle through

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• riffle through — search quickly through. → riffle …   English new terms dictionary

• riffle — ► VERB 1) turn over something, especially pages, quickly and casually. 2) (riffle through) search quickly through. 3) shuffle (playing cards) by flicking up and releasing the corners of two piles of cards so that they intermingle. ► NOUN ▪ an act …   English terms dictionary

• riffle — /ˈrɪfəl / (say rifuhl) noun 1. Mining a. the lining at the bottom of a sluice or the like, made of blocks or slats of wood, or of stones, arranged in such a manner that grooves or openings are left between them for catching and collecting… …  

• riffle — UK [ˈrɪf(ə)l] / US verb [transitive] Word forms riffle : present tense I/you/we/they riffle he/she/it riffles present participle riffling past tense riffled past participle riffled riffle or riffle through to quickly turn over pages or papers She …   English dictionary

• riffle — I. verb (riffled; riffling) Etymology: 2riffle Date: 1754 intransitive verb 1. to form, flow over, or move in riffles 2. to flip cursorily ; thumb < riffle through the catalog > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• riffle — [[t]rɪ̱f(ə)l[/t]] riffles, riffling, riffled VERB If you riffle through the pages of a book or riffle them, you turn them over quickly, without reading everything that is on them. [V through n] I riffled through the pages until I reached the… …   English dictionary

• riffle — rif|fle [ rıfl ] verb transitive riffle or riffle through to quickly turn over pages or papers: She riffled through the magazine as she sat in the waiting room …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• riffle — /rif euhl/, v., riffled, riffling, n. v.t., v.i. 1. to turn hastily; flutter and shift: to riffle a stack of letters; to riffle through a book. 2. Cards. to shuffle by dividing the deck in two, raising the corners slightly, and allowing them to… …   Universalium

• riffle — rif|fle [ˈrıfəl] v also riffle through [T] [Date: 1700 1800; Origin: Perhaps from ripple + ruffle] to move and quickly look at pieces of paper or the pages of a book, magazine etc →↑flip through ▪ He riffled through the papers on his desk …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• riffle — verb 1》 turn over something, especially pages, quickly and casually.     ↘(riffle through) search quickly through.     ↘disturb the surface of; ruffle. 2》 shuffle (playing cards) by flicking up and releasing the corners of two piles of cards so… …   English new terms dictionary

• riffle — also riffle through verb (T) informal to quickly turn over the pages of a book, magazine etc …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English