Wave

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  • intransitive verb. To move freely back and forth or up and down in the air, as branches in the wind.
  • intransitive verb. To make a signal with an up-and-down or back-and-forth movement of the hand or an object held in the hand.
  • intransitive verb. To have an undulating or wavy form; curve or curl.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to move back and forth or up and down, either once or repeatedly.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To move or swing as in giving a signal: synonym: flourish.
  • intransitive verb. To signal or express by waving the hand or an object held in the hand.
  • intransitive verb. To signal (a person) by using the hand to move in a specified direction.
  • intransitive verb. To arrange into curves, curls, or undulations.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A ridge or swell moving through or along the surface of a large body of water.
  • noun. A small ridge or swell moving across the interface of two fluids and dependent on surface tension.
  • noun. The sea.
  • noun. Something that suggests the form and motion of a wave in the sea, especially.
  • noun. A moving curve or succession of curves in or on a surface; an undulation.
  • noun. A curve or succession of curves, as in the hair.
  • noun. A curved shape, outline, or pattern.
  • noun. A movement up and down or back and forth.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A surge or rush, as of sensation.
  • noun. A sudden great rise, as in activity or intensity.
  • noun. A rising trend that involves large numbers of individuals.
  • noun. One of a succession of mass movements.
  • noun. A maneuver in which fans at a sports event simulate an ocean wave by rising quickly in sequence with arms upraised and then quickly sitting down again in a continuous rolling motion.
  • noun. A widespread, persistent meteorological condition, especially of temperature.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A disturbance that travels through a medium. Energy is transferred by a wave from one region of the medium to another without causing any permanent displacement of the medium.
  • noun. A graphic representation of the variation of such a disturbance with time.
  • noun. A single cycle of a periodic wave.
  • phrasal verb. To dismiss or refuse by waving the hand or arm.
  • phrasal verb. To cancel or nullify by waving the arms, usually from a crossed position.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A manufacturers' name for a defect in articles of glass, consisting in a slightly protuberant ridge on the surface due to the glass having cooled irregularly and too much before blowing.
  • To move up and down or to and fro; undulate; fluctuate; bend or sway back and forth; flutter.
  • To have an undulating form or direction; curve alternately in opposite directions.
  • To give a signal by a gesture of movement up and down or to and fro.
  • To waver in mind; vacillate.
  • To move to and fro; cause to shake, rock, or sway; brandish.
  • Specifically To offer as a wave-offering. See wave-offering.
  • To shape or dispose in undulations; cause to wind in and out, as a line in curves, or a surface in ridges and furrows.
  • To decorate with a waving or winding pattern.
  • To signal by a wave of the hand, or of a flag, a handkerchief, or the like; direct by a waving gesture or other movement, as in beckoning.
  • To express, as a command, direction, farewell, etc., by a waving movement or gesture.
  • To water, as silk. See water, v. t., 3.
  • A former spelling of waive.
  • An obsolete preterit of weave.
  • noun. A disturbance of the surface of a body in the form of a ridge and trough, propagated by forces tending to restore the surface to its figure of equilibrium, the particles not advancing with the wave.
  • noun. Water; a stream; the sea.
  • noun. A form assumed by parts of a body which are out of equilibrium, such that as fast as the particles return they are replaced by others moving into neighboring positions of stress, so that the whole disturbance is continually propagated into new parts of the body while preserving more or less perfectly the same shape and other characters.
  • noun. One of a series of curves in a waving line, or of ridges in a furrowed surface; an undulation; a swell.
  • noun. Figuratively, a flood, influx, or rush of anything, marked by unusual volume, extent, uprising. etc., and thus contrasted with preceding and following periods of the opposite character; something that swells like a sea-wave at recurring intervals; often, a period of intensity, activity, or important results: as, a wave of religious enthusiasm; waves of prosperity.
  • Word Usage
    "IMPORT:transormers nerrd seriously if he takes another and full of classic transformers and throws them in a desert i will be very upset, completely ignoring their story lines and introducing sound wave was a big mistake because of the first film "TRANSFORMERS"not G-1 pushed frenzy in with out bringing in sound wave_ rewrite the script before you make the film, ask a couple of original TF fans if it works out, not your toilet_anyway all we can do is wait nothing more nothing less OR go to his house with a stack of vhs tapes of the original series and a box of marvel comics,trans formers spotlight comics."
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    Dave  aftershave  behave  brave  cave  
    Same Context
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    God  account  bay  burst  care  
    Synonym
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    Afro  accost  address  advertise  affect  
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    undulation  waive  
    verb-form
    waved  waves  waving