wave
see also: WAVE
Pronunciation Verb
WAVE
Noun
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see also: WAVE
Pronunciation Verb
wave (waves, present participle waving; past and past participle waved)
- (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
- The flag waved in the gentle breeze.
- (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
- (transitive, metonymic) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iv]:
- Look, with what courteous action / It waves you to a more removed ground.
- 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 2024748 ↗, part 2:
- She spoke, and bowing waved / Dismissal.
- I waved goodbye from across the room.
- (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
- (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene vi]:
- horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea
- (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
- 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
- There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […].
- (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
- Jones waves at strike one.
- (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
- The starter waved the flag to begin the race.
- (transitive, metonymic) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
- c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:
- He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm.
- (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
- French: (flag) flotter
- German: wedeln, schwenken, flattern, wogen
- Italian: ondeggiare
- Portuguese: ondular
- Russian: (e.g. a flag) развева́ться
- Spanish: ondular
- German: ondulieren, wellen
- Portuguese: ondear
- Spanish: ondular
- Spanish: abanicar
wave (plural waves)
- A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
- The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.
- (poetic) The ocean.
- 1895, Fiona Macleod (William Sharp (writer)), The Sin-Eater and Other Tales
- […] your father Murtagh Ross, and his lawful childless wife, Dionaid, and his sister Anna—one and all, they lie beneath the green wave or in the brown mould.
- 1895, Fiona Macleod (William Sharp (writer)), The Sin-Eater and Other Tales
- (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
- A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
- Her hair had a nice wave to it.
- sine wave
- Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
- A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
- He dismissed her with a wave of the hand.
- (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
- Synonyms: rush
- A wave of shoppers stampeded through the door when the store opened for its Christmas discount special.
- A wave of retirees began moving to the coastal area.
- A wave of emotion overcame her when she thought about her son who was killed in battle.
- (video games, by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
- (usually "the wave") A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.
- (an undulation) und (obsolete, rare)
- (group activity) Mexican wave (chiefly Commonwealth)
- French: vague, flot
- German: Welle, Woge
- Italian: onda
- Portuguese: onda, vaga
- Russian: волна́
- Spanish: onda, ola
- French: ondulation
- German: Welle
- Portuguese: onda, ondulação
- Spanish: onda
- Portuguese: ola
wave (waves, present participle waving; past and past participle waved)
- Obsolete spelling of waive#English|waive
WAVE
Noun
wave (plural WAVES)
- (US, historical) A members of the WAVES; a member of the US Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve).
- a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces:
- [H]e read the faded sticker on the crystal of the door, “A slip of the lip can sink a ship.” Below a WAVE held her finger to lips that had turned tan.
- a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces:
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