wave

[Wave]

A member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy; originally organized during World War II but now no longer a separate branch

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See Wave.

Noun
a movement like that of an ocean wave; "a wave of settlers"; "troops advancing in waves"

Noun
a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair

Noun
the act of signaling by a movement of the hand

Noun
(physics) a movement up and down or back and forth

Noun
one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)

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Noun
something that rises rapidly; "a wave of emotion swept over him"; "there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed"; "a wave of conservatism in the country led by the hard right"

Noun
a member of the women''s reserve of the United States Navy; originally organized during World War II but now no longer a separate branch

Noun
a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)

Noun
an undulating curve

Verb
set waves in; "she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair"

Verb
signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably"

Verb
twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"

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move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"

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move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"

v. t.
See Waive.

v. i.
To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.

v. i.
To be moved to and fro as a signal.

v. i.
To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.

v. t.
To move one way and the other; to brandish.

v. t.
To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.

v. t.
To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.

v. t.
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.

v. i.
An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation.

v. i.
A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation.

v. i.
Water; a body of water.

v. i.
Unevenness; inequality of surface.

v. i.
A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.

v. i.
The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.

v. i.
Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.

n.
Woe.

Wave

Wave , v. t. See Wave. Sir H. Wotton. Burke.

Wave

Wave, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Waving.] [OE. waven, AS. wafian to waver, to hesitate, to wonder; akin to w'91fre wavering, restless, MHG. wabern to be in motion, Icel. vafra to hover about; cf. Icel. v'befa to vibrate. Cf. Waft, Waver.] 1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.

His purple robes waved careless to the winds.

Where the flags of three nations has successively waved.

2. To be moved to and fro as a signal. B. Jonson. 3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate. [Obs.]

He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm.

Wave

Wave, v. t. 1. To move one way and the other; to brandish. "['92neas] waved his fatal sword." Dryden. 2. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.

Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea.

3. To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. 4. 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.

Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground.

She spoke, and bowing waved Dismissal.

Wave

Wave, n. [From Wave, v.; not the same word as OE. wawe, waghe, a wave, which is akin to E. wag to move. . See Wave, v. i.] 1. An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation.

The wave behind impels the wave before.

2. (Physics) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation. 3. Water; a body of water. [Poetic] "Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave." Sir W. Scott.

Build a ship to save thee from the flood, I 'll furnish thee with fresh wave, bread, and wine.

4. Unevenness; inequality of surface. Sir I. Newton. 5. A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc. 6. The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel. 7. Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm. Wave front (Physics), the surface of initial displacement of the particles in a medium, as a wave of vibration advances. -- Wave length (Physics), the space, reckoned in the direction of propagation, occupied by a complete wave or undulation, as of light, sound, etc.; the distance from a point or phase in a wave to the nearest point at which the same phase occurs. -- Wave line (Shipbuilding), a line of a vessel's hull, shaped in accordance with the wave-line system. -- Wave-line system, Wave-line theory (Shipbuilding), a system or theory of designing the lines of a vessel, which takes into consideration the length and shape of a wave which travels at a certain speed. -- Wave loaf, a loaf for a wave offering. Lev. viii. 27. -- Wave moth (Zo'94l.), any one of numerous species of small geometrid moths belonging to Acidalia and allied genera; -- so called from the wavelike color markings on the wings. -- Wave offering, an offering made in the Jewish services by waving the object, as a loaf of bread, toward the four cardinal points. Num. xviii. 11. -- Wave of vibration (Physics), a wave which consists in, or is occasioned by, the production and transmission of a vibratory state from particle to particle through a body. -- Wave surface. (a) (Physics) A surface of simultaneous and equal displacement of the particles composing a wave of vibration. (b) (Geom.) A mathematical surface of the fourth order which, upon certain hypotheses, is the locus of a wave surface of light in the interior of crystals. It is used in explaining the phenomena of double refraction. See under Refraction. -- Wave theory. (Physics) See Undulatory theory, under Undulatory.

Wave

Wave , n. [See Woe.] Woe. [Obs.]

See Wave.

To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.

To move one way and the other; to brandish.

An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation.

Woe.

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Usage Examples

I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.

The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.

Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.

The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'