waveletn.

Brit.

/ˈweɪvlᵻt/, U.S.

/ˈweɪvlᵻt/

Etymology: < wave n. + -let suffix.

a. A little wave, a ripple.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > small wave or ripple

wrinkle1633

ruffle1655

curl1766

ripple1785

ripplet1805

wavelet1813

pirl1817

wimple1845

riffle1925

ankle-slapper1991

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab viii. 100 Like the vague sighings of a wind at even, That wakes the wavelets of the slumbering sea.

1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Amos Barton ii, in Scenes Clerical Life I. 36 The head, with its thin wavelets of brown hair, indents the little pillow.

1873 W. Black Princess of Thule v. 83 The white wavelets that were breaking on the beach.

b. transferred and figurative.

ΚΠ

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 360 You only hide it by foam and bubbles, by wavelets and steam-clouds, of ebullient rhetoric.

1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist i. 3 The transcendent Intelligence which presides over the law and measure of every wavelet of the universal energy.

1879 G. MacDonald Paul Faber I. vi. 61 Slowly she rose through a sky freckled with wavelets of cloud.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wavelet
释义	waveletn. Brit. /ˈweɪvlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈweɪvlᵻt/ Etymology: < wave n. + -let suffix. a. A little wave, a ripple. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > small wave or ripple wrinkle1633 ruffle1655 curl1766 ripple1785 ripplet1805 wavelet1813 pirl1817 wimple1845 riffle1925 ankle-slapper1991 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab viii. 100 Like the vague sighings of a wind at even, That wakes the wavelets of the slumbering sea. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Amos Barton ii, in Scenes Clerical Life I. 36 The head, with its thin wavelets of brown hair, indents the little pillow. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule v. 83 The white wavelets that were breaking on the beach. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 360 You only hide it by foam and bubbles, by wavelets and steam-clouds, of ebullient rhetoric. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist i. 3 The transcendent Intelligence which presides over the law and measure of every wavelet of the universal energy. 1879 G. MacDonald Paul Faber I. vi. 61 Slowly she rose through a sky freckled with wavelets of cloud. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1813
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