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| wave | |
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| wave | |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly. |  |
| The flag waved in the gentle breeze. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure. | |
| 3. v. (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. | |
| I waved goodbye from across the room. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form. | |
| 5. v. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to. | |
| 6. v. To produce waves to the hair. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch. | |
| Jones waves at strike one. | |
| 8. v. To cause to move back and forth repeatedly. | |
| The starter waved the flag to begin the race. | |
| 9. v. (transitive, metonymic) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. | |
| 12. subst. 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. | |
| 13. subst. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field. | |
| Gravity waves, while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect. | |
| 14. subst. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions. | |
| Her hair had a nice wave to it. | |
| sine wave | |
| 15. subst. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced. | |
| 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. | |
| 16. subst. A sideway movement of the hand(s). | |
| He dismissed her with a wave of the hand. | |
| 17. subst. (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. | |
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| 1. subst. wave | |
