verb Download 🔗Share To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also rifflehttp//verbmall.blogspot.com/2008/05/riffle-or-rifle.html) Examples : "She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document." action process Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To commit robbery or theft. Examples : "Someone was rifling through the student's lockers after school, looking for valuables to steal. " property action police Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder. Examples : "The burglar was rifling through the drawers, looking for jewelry and cash. " property action police Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage. Examples : "After the earthquake, looters began rifling the abandoned stores for food and valuables. " property police action law Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off. Examples : "The bully was rifling the smaller child's backpack, grabbing his lunch money. " property action police military war Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy. Examples : "The gunsmith was carefully riffling the barrel of the new rifle. " weapon military technology machine science war Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory. Examples : "The engineer designed the barrel's rifling to ensure the projectile traveled accurately with a flat trajectory. " weapon technology military physics science Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet). Examples : "The bullet was rifling through the air toward the target after being fired from the sniper's rifle. " military weapon technical physics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To dispose of in a raffle. Examples : "The teacher riffled the tickets for the class bake sale raffle. " entertainment business Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To engage in a raffle. Examples : "The school is rifling a new bicycle to raise money for the field trip. " entertainment game Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel. Examples : "The factory specialized in the rifling of new gun barrels, ensuring accuracy for each weapon produced. " military weapon technical machine process Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves. Examples : "The engineer inspected the cannon barrel, noting the precise depth and angle of the rifling to ensure the projectile would spin correctly. " weapon military technology machine part Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The act or process of letting playing cards cascade down one at a time towards the table (or one's hand), controlling the speed and flow with one's thumb, which sits on the top edges of the cards. Examples : "The magician's flourish ended with a perfect rifling, the cards flowing smoothly like a waterfall. " entertainment game action sport Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
