wave
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sports
video-games
Etymology: From Middle English waven, from Old English wafian (“to wave, fluctuate, waver in mind, wonder”), from Proto-West Germanic *wabōn, from Proto-Germanic *wabōną, *wabjaną (“to wander, sway”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to move to and from, wander”).
Cognate with Middle High German waben (“to wave”), German wabern (“to waft”), Icelandic váfa (“to fluctuate, waver, doubt”). See also waver.
Inflected forms:
form: waves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: waving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: waved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: waved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: waves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The flag waved in the gentle breeze.
But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try.
gloss: To move one's hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I raised my arms in a final salute. I smiled. I waved goodbye. I turned into the helicopter, the door was closed, the red carpet was rolled up.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: metonymically
transitive
examples: I waved goodbye from across the room.
Look, with what courteous action / It waves you to a more removed ground.
She spoke, and bowing waved / Dismissal.
gloss: To have an undulating or wavy form.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea
gloss: To style (the hair) so as to produce a wavy texture.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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;[…].
gloss: To swing and miss at a pitch.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Jones waves at strike one.
gloss: To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The starter waved the flag to begin the race.
His father has waved bills in front of face and said to him — see what you've cost me.
gloss: To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
pos: verb
tags: metonymically
transitive
gloss: To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm.
gloss: To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
intransitive
examples: But in the last, this dotted line, by the twisting as well as the bending of the horn, is changed from the waving into the serpentine line
the flowers will not bloom less brightly, nor the grass be less green and fresh because it is waving over the head of one who loved to look upon their tender beauty while living.
The cypresslike ferns were not waving over these, as they waved over the corals in the wood, but the little spleenwort, called Wall-rue, was resolved that their tomb should not be without verdure.
The moonlight fell into the room, and the shadows waved over him
Walking through the fields, where the maize was now waving over his head, pale gold with a froth of white, the sharp dead leaves scything crisply against the wind, he could see nothing but that black foetid hut
A chill waved over my consciousness as my worst nightmare erupted into reality.
The two stood in the window peering down where parents moved across grass, pointing tongues of colour waving over them.
gloss: A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
pos: noun
examples: The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.
O God! can I not save / One from the pitiless wave? / Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?
A wave simulator in the tank can re-enact tsunamis and northeasters, and imitate wave conditions from midocean.
The new sea wall may stop the waves from the sea, but not from the children who enthusiastically greet our train as it passes. It's great to see this ages-old habit is still going strong.
gloss: The ocean.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: 1895, Fiona Macleod (William Sharp), 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.
Whoever rules the waves rules the world...
gloss: A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
pos: noun
examples: Gravity waves, while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect.
Beyond military applications, cloaking devices are drawing interest from telecommunications companies, who see them as a way to send information by light more efficiently. One idea is to use the new materials to build "superantennas" that can concentrate light and other electromagnetic waves to make laser-like beams.
gloss: A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
pos: noun
examples: Her hair had a nice wave to it.
sine wave
gloss: Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
pos: noun
gloss: A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
pos: noun
examples: He dismissed her with a wave of the hand.
gloss: A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 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.
Foster had been left unsighted by Scott Dann's positioning at his post, but the goalkeeper was about to prove his worth to Birmingham by keeping them in the game with a series of stunning saves as West Ham produced waves after wave of attack in their bid to find a crucial second goal.
gloss: Any of a series of orders to be fulfilled in one short interval of time, planned as part of wave picking.
pos: noun
gloss: A movement or trend in popular culture.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: New Wave
Korean Wave
gloss: One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: As the player eliminates each wave of 55 aliens, the next wave begins lower than the one previous.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
Derived words: wave aside
wave away
wave down
wave goodbye
wave in
waver
wave the bloody shirt
wave the white flag
wave through
æther wave
aether wave
afterwave
airwave
Alfven wave
Alfvén wave
alpha wave
audience wave
autowave
awave
Bangemann wave
beta wave
bewave
blastwave
Bloch wave
blow-wave
body wave
bow wave
brain wave
brainwave
capillary wave
catch a wave
charge-density wave
coldwave
cold wave
compression wave
continuous wave
cosmic gravitational-wave background
cosmic gravitational wave background
counterwave
crimewave
crime wave
crimson wave
crowd wave
darkwave
dark wave
de Broglie wave
dipole wave
eigenwave
electron wave function
electrowave
ethereal wave
Eugene wave
fifth-wave feminism
finger wave
first-wave feminism
fixed wave
four-lined wave
fourth-wave feminism
freak wave
French new wave
Gaussian wave packet
Gerstner wave
gravitational-wave
gravitational wave background
gravitational-wave background
green wave
halfwave
hand-wave
heatwave
heat wave
Hertzian wave
high-frequency gravitational wave
high frequency gravitational wave
hot wave
hybrid wave function
interwave
Kallang wave
Kondratieff wave
Kondratiev wave
Korean Wave
Korean wave
K-wave
longwave
make waves
marcel wave
matter wave
matterwave
matter waves
mediumwave
microwave
midwave
minimal wave
Moreton wave
multiwave
neoclassical dark wave
new-wave
nonwave
no wave
oscillating wave test system
outwave
pabebe wave
pay-by-wave
perfect wave
permanent wave
pilot wave
pink wave
planetary wave
pooping wave
Portland ribbon wave
pulse wave
quadriwave
quarter-wave plate
red wave
ride the crest of the wave
ride the wave
Rossby wave
rosy wave
sand wave
sawtooth wave
Schrödinger's wave equation
Schrödinger wave function
sea-wave
second wave
second-wave feminism
seismic sea wave
semiwave
shear wave
shoaling wave
short-wave
shortwave
significant wave height
sneaker wave
solitary wave
soundwave
space wave
spatial wave function
spin-density wave
spin wave
square wave
stationary wave
submillimeter wave radiation
superwave
synthwave
theta wave
third-wave coffee
third-wave feminism
third wave feminist
third-wave feminist
thought wave
tidal wave
tide wave
timewave
traveling wave
traveling wave tube
traveling-wave tube
travelling wave
travelling-wave tube
travelling wave tube
triangle wave
T wave
T-wave
ultrawave
wavable
waveband
wave base
wavecut
wave dash
wave drag
wave election
wave equation
wavefield
wave field synthesis
wavefolding
wave form
waveform
wavefront
waveful
wavefunction
wave function
waveguide
wavelength
waveless
wavelet
wavelike
wave loaf
wavemaker
wavemark
wave-mechanical
wave mechanics
wavemeter
wave model
wave motion
wave node
wave number
wavenumber
waveoff
wave offering
wave of the hand
wave of translation
wave operator
wave packet
wave-particle
wave-particle duality
wave picking
wave plate
waveplate
wave pool
wave power
wave processing
waveproof
wavepulse
wave reflection
wave-rider
wave rider
waverider
waverunner
wave runner
wave-runner
wave scroll
waveshape
waveshaper
waveshaping
wave shoaling
wave ski
wavespeed
wavestacking
wavetable
wave theory
wavetop
wave train
wave turn
wave vector
waveward
wave washing
wavewise
wavicle
Wavoid
wavy
Windsor wave
zone-batch-wave picking
zone-wave picking
μwave
μ-wave
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: rendem
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܪܲܦܪܸܦ
roman: raprip
lang: Bashkir
word: елберләү
roman: yelberləw
lang: Bashkir
word: елпелдәү
roman: yelpeldəw
lang: Bashkir
word: ялпылдау
roman: yalpıldaw
lang: Bashkir
word: өлтәнләү
roman: öltənləw
lang: Belarusian
word: развява́цца
roman: razvjavácca
lang: Belarusian
word: ві́цца
roman: vícca
lang: Bulgarian
word: ве́я се
roman: véja se
lang: Danish
word: vifte
lang: Danish
word: vaje
lang: Dutch
word: zwaaien
lang: Dutch
word: zwenken
lang: Dutch
word: wapperen
lang: Esperanto
word: svingi
lang: Finnish
word: aaltoilla
lang: Finnish
word: hulmuta
lang: Finnish
word: liehua
lang: French
word: flotter
lang: West-Frisian
word: wuiven
lang: Galician
word: ondular
lang: German
word: wedeln
lang: German
word: schwenken
lang: German
word: flattern
lang: German
word: wogen
lang: Greek
word: κυματίζω
roman: kymatízo
lang: Hungarian
word: leng
lang: Ingrian
word: viuhkaa
lang: Irish
word: croith
lang: Italian
word: ondeggiare
lang: Japanese
word: 揺れる
roman: yureru
lang: Korean
word: 흔들리다
roman: heundeullida
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: pêl
lang: Latin
word: quassō
lang: Latvian
word: viļņot
lang: Māori
word: tāwhiu
lang: Māori
word: tāwhiuwhiu
lang: Māori
word: pīwari
lang: Māori
word: manana
lang: Māori
word: pioi
lang: Māori
word: pīoi
lang: Māori
word: rurerure
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: vaie
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: vaie
lang: Polish
word: falować
lang: Polish
word: łopotać
lang: Polish
word: powiewać
lang: Portuguese
word: ondular
lang: Romanian
word: undui
lang: Romanian
word: ondula
lang: Romanian
word: învălura
lang: Russian
word: развева́ться
roman: razvevátʹsja
lang: Russian
word: ви́ться
roman: vítʹsja
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: smèid
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: crath
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: вихорити
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: лепршати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vihoriti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: lepršati
lang: Spanish
word: ondular
lang: Spanish
word: olear
lang: Spanish
word: ondear
lang: Swedish
word: vaja
lang: Tagalog
word: kumaway
lang: Tagalog
word: ikaway
lang: Tagalog
word: kumampay
lang: Tagalog
word: ikampay
lang: Tagalog
word: magwagayway
lang: Tagalog
word: iwagayway
lang: Ukrainian
word: майорі́ти
roman: majoríty
lang: Ukrainian
word: розвіва́тися
roman: rozvivátysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: ви́тися
roman: výtysja
lang: Yiddish
word: פאָכען
roman: fokhen