Frill vs. Ruffle

Frill and Ruffle Definitions
Frill
A ruffled, gathered, or pleated border or projection, such as a fabric edge used to trim clothing.
Ruffle
A strip of frilled or closely pleated fabric used for trimming or decoration.
Frill
A projection as of hair, feathers, bone, or cartilage, about the neck of an animal.
Ruffle
A ruff on a bird.
Frill
A wrinkling of the edge of a photographic film.
Ruffle
An irregularity or a slight disturbance of a surface
The ruffle on the lake.
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Frill
(Informal)Something that is desirable but not a necessity; a luxury.
Ruffle
A beating or rustling sound
The ruffle of drums in the distance.
The ruffle of a skirt on the floor.
Frill
To make into a ruffle or frill.
Ruffle
A low continuous beating of a drum that is not as loud as a roll. Also called ruff4.
Frill
To add a ruffle or frill to.
Ruffle
To disturb the smoothness or regularity of; ripple
The wind ruffled the water.
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Frill
To become wrinkled along the edge.
Ruffle
To pleat or gather (fabric) into a ruffle.
Frill
A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
Ruffle
To put a ruffle on (a garment, for example).
Frill
(figurative) A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.
Ruffle
To erect (the feathers). Used of birds.
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Frill
(photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
Ruffle
To discompose or annoy; fluster
A book that is bound to ruffle some people.
Frill
(figurative) Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.
Ruffle
To flip through (the pages of a book).
Frill
(zoology) The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.
Ruffle
To shuffle (cards).
Frill
(transitive) To make into a frill.
Ruffle
To become irregular or rough
His hair ruffled in the wind.
Frill
(intransitive) To become wrinkled.
Ruffle
To become annoyed or flustered
What teacher doesn't ruffle when students act up in class?.
Frill
(transitive) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
Ruffle
To flip through the pages of a book
Ruffled through the book until I found the picture.
Frill
To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk).
Ruffle
To search for something in a container
Ruffled in her bag looking for the keys.
Frill
To cry (with reference to a bird of prey).
Ruffle
To make a beating or rustling sound.
Frill
To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
Ruffle
To beat a ruffle on (a drum).
Frill
To wrinkle; - said of the gelatin film.
Ruffle
(Obsolete) To behave arrogantly or roughly; swagger.
Frill
To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.
Ruffle
Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
She loved the dress with the lace ruffle at the hem.
Frill
A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
Ruffle
Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
To put the mind in a ruffle
Frill
A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.
Ruffle
(military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
Frill
Something superfluous, such as an ornament, or an additional function on a device or in a system not essential to the basic operation. - Commonly used in the phrase no frills, used adjectively to indicate a fully functional but economical device or service; as, an economical no-frills airline.
Ruffle
(zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.
Frill
A strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
Ruffle
(transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
Ruffle the end of the cuff.
Ruffle
(transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
The wind ruffled the papers.
Her sudden volley of insults ruffled his composure.
Ruffle
(intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
Ruffle
(intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
Ruffle
(intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
Ruffle
To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
Ruffle
To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
Ruffle
(military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
Ruffle
To throw together in a disorderly manner.
Ruffle
To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
Ruffle
To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.
Ruffle
To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion.
The fantastic revelries . . . that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile.
She smoothed the ruffled seas.
Ruffle
To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
[the swan] ruffles her pure cold plume.
Ruffle
To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
Ruffle
To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.
These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind.
But, ever after, the small violence doneRankled in him and ruffled all his heart.
Ruffle
To throw into disorder or confusion.
Where bestHe might the ruffled foe infest.
Ruffle
To throw together in a disorderly manner.
I ruffled up falen leaves in heap.
Ruffle
To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
The night comes on, and the bleak windsDo sorely ruffle.
Ruffle
To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined,Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind.
Ruffle
To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
They would ruffle with jurors.
Gallants who ruffled in silk and embroidery.
Ruffle
That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.
Ruffle
A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.
Ruffle
A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; - called also ruff.
Ruffle
The connected series of large egg capsules, or oöthecæ, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Oötheca.
Ruffle
A strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
Ruffle
A high tight collar
Ruffle
A noisy fight
Ruffle
Stir up (water) so as to form ripples
Ruffle
Trouble or vex;
Ruffle somebody's composure
Ruffle
To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others;
He struts around like a rooster in a hen house
Ruffle
Discompose;
This play is going to ruffle some people
She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues
Ruffle
Twitch or flutter;
The paper flicked
Ruffle
Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement;
Shuffle the cards
Ruffle
Erect or fluff up;
The bird ruffled its feathers
Ruffle
Disturb the smoothness of;
Ruffle the surface of the water
Ruffle
Pleat or gather into a ruffle;
Ruffle the curtain fabric