Ruffle vs. Raffle — What's the Difference?

Disorder or disarrange (someone's hair), typically by running one's hands through it

A raffle is a gambling competition in which people obtain numbered tickets, each of which has the chance of winning a prize. At a set time, the winners are drawn at random from a container holding a copy of each number.

Ornament with or gather into a frill

A lottery in which a number of persons buy chances to win a prize.

An ornamental gathered or goffered frill of lace or other cloth on a garment, especially around the wrist or neck.

Rubbish; debris.

A vibrating drum beat.

To dispose of in a raffle. Often used with off.

A strip of frilled or closely pleated fabric used for trimming or decoration.

To conduct or take part in a raffle.

A ruff on a bird.

A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.

An irregularity or a slight disturbance of a surface

(obsolete) A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.

A beating or rustling sound

Refuse; rubbish

A low continuous beating of a drum that is not as loud as a roll. Also called ruff4.

(transitive) To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off.

To disturb the smoothness or regularity of; ripple

(intransitive) To participate in a raffle.

To pleat or gather (fabric) into a ruffle.

A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.

To put a ruffle on (a garment, for example).

A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.

To erect (the feathers). Used of birds.

Refuse; rubbish; raff.

To discompose or annoy; fluster

To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.

To flip through (the pages of a book).

To dispose of by means of a raffle; - often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse.

To shuffle (cards).

A lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money

To become irregular or rough

Dispose of in a lottery;

To become annoyed or flustered

To flip through the pages of a book

To search for something in a container

To make a beating or rustling sound.

To beat a ruffle on (a drum).

(Obsolete) To behave arrogantly or roughly; swagger.

Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.

Disturbance; agitation; commotion.

(military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.

(zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.

(transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.

(transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.

(intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.

(intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.

(intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

To erect in a ruff, as feathers.

(military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

To throw together in a disorderly manner.

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.

To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion.

To erect in a ruff, as feathers.

To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.

To throw into disorder or confusion.

To throw together in a disorderly manner.

To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.

To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.

To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.

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.

A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.

A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; - called also ruff.

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.

A strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

A high tight collar

A noisy fight

Stir up (water) so as to form ripples

Trouble or vex;

To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others;

Discompose;

Twitch or flutter;

Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement;

Erect or fluff up;

Disturb the smoothness of;

Pleat or gather into a ruffle;