Word: Wave
How to pronounce: weɪv
Verb
Definitions:
1. Move one's hand to and fro in greeting or as a signal.
Example sentences: "He waved to me from the train"
2. Move to and fro with a swaying or undulating motion while remaining fixed to one point.
Example sentences: "The flag waved in the wind"
3. Style (hair) so that it curls slightly.
Example sentences: "Her hair had been carefully waved for the evening"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A long body of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore.
Example sentences: "He was swept out to sea by a freak wave"
2. A sudden occurrence of or increase in a specified phenomenon, feeling, or emotion.
Example sentences: "A wave of strikes had effectively paralyzed the government"
3. A gesture or signal made by moving one's hand to and fro.
Example sentences: "He gave a little wave and walked off"
4. A slightly curling lock of hair.
Example sentences: "His hair was drying in unruly waves"
5. A periodic disturbance of the particles of a substance which may be propagated without net movement of the particles, such as in the passage of undulating motion, heat, or sound.
Example sentences: "Song production clearly involves some metabolic cost to a bird because energy is transmitted to the surroundings in the form of sound pressure waves."
Synonyms:
surge
billow
tide
ripple
undulation
wavelength
undulatory
undular
waving
flap
waveform
fluctuation
brush off
brandish
flutter
undulate
flourish
swell
curl
roll
beckon
Derivations:
wavy
waving
waved
wavelet
waveband
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Wave in Other Languages...
Spanish: Ola
German: Welle
French: Onde
Italian: Onda
Turkish: Dalgalandırmak
