WAVE
/weɪv/ ► audio Scrabble 10 Words With Friends 11
Definition
- verb signal with the hands or nod.
— synonyms: beckon
- verb move or swing back and forth.
— synonyms: brandish, flourish
- verb move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion.
— synonyms: roll, undulate, flap
- verb twist or roll into coils or ringlets.
— synonyms: curl
- verb set waves in.
- noun one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water).
— synonyms: moving_ridge
- noun a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon.
- noun (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth.
— synonyms: undulation
- noun something that rises rapidly.
- noun the act of signaling by a movement of the hand.
— synonyms: waving, wafture
- noun a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair.
- noun an undulating curve.
— synonyms: undulation
- noun a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures).
- noun a member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy.
Examples
- “The flag waved in the gentle breeze.”
- “I waved goodbye from across the room.”
- “Jones waves at strike one.”
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