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Meaning wave meaning

What does wave mean?
Definitions in simple English

wave Noun

— A wave is the motion of water up and down.

wave Verb

— To move from side to side again and again. The flag waved in the wind.

wave

— noun one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) — verb signal with the hands or nod She waved to her friends He waved his hand hospitably — noun a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon a wave of settlers troops advancing in waves — noun (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth — verb move or swing back and forth She waved her gun — verb (= roll, undulate) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion The curtains undulated the waves rolled towards the beach — 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 the act of signaling by a movement of the hand — noun a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair — noun a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures) a heat wave — verb set waves in she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair — noun an undulating curve — verb (= curl) twist or roll into coils or ringlets curl my hair, please

Wave

— 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

Synonyms wave synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as wave?

wave English » English

swing flutter shake sway billow brandish flap wag ripple surge rock flourish undulate beckon fan dangle undulation swell oscillate move heave curl wield waggle flicker surf breaker waving toss agitate whirl wave about sweep stroke roller roll quiver quake gesture fly fling dangling wobble waves waft tremble tide strike stream signal

Topics wave topics

What do people use wave to talk about?
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Wave
States Quantity Plural

Many, much
Language and thought Communication Sign, symbol

Gesture
Physical actions Move Move in a direction

Move back and forth
Universe, creation Sky

Weather
Universe, creation World Land

Earthquake
Language and thought Communication Say Speak with others

Greet
Social behavior Religion Miracle, supernatural power

Sorcery
States Quality

Light
States Quality

Hot

Conjugation wave conjugation

How do you conjugate wave?

wave · verb

Examples wave examples

How do I use wave in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A cold wave hit this district.
They weren't warned of the tidal wave.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
History is like Quantum Physics, the observer affects the event observed. Is the Kennedy assasination a particle or a wave?
We're in the second week of an unrelenting heat wave.
We're suffering from an unbearable heat wave for the second week straight.
Tom asked Mary to wave to him from the balcony.
Our town is facing a wave of student protest.
Tom gave Mary a wave.
Suddenly a huge wave came and the boat disappeared.
The policeman asked if Maria had greeted me with a wave, a hug or a kiss.
Is light a wave or a particle?
Tom surfed the large wave.
The ship was hit by a big wave.
A big wave turned the ferry over.
A sudden wave of sickness overpowered him.
Wave after wave surged upon the beach.
He listens to a short wave radio station.
Tom gave Mary a friendly wave.
A wave of tenderness swept over her.
Wave to Tom.

Movie subtitles

Second wave of attack, coming from the eastern sector!
Count de Guiche, riding high on a wave of power rolled up by his uncle, Cardinal Richelieu.
God's people, when Venus Astarte, daughter of the bitter wave.
Don't wave important clues in telephone boxes.
You know. uh. detectives in glass houses shouldn't wave clues.
I wave my hand.
The host of our Lord shall fall upon Islam like a mighty wave of the sea.
I once saw six men washed overboard on one wave.
You ain't putting the wave in right.
When he was here, on top of the wave. he felt nothing but kindIiness and warmth for his fellow man.
He's now at the bottom of the wave: depressed, melancholy.
Wave come at night and wash him overboard.
Now, Mrs. Upjohn, I want you to take your arms and let them wave through the air with the greatest of ease.
The Germans are coming like a tidal wave!
The higher the tone, the higher the frequency of the sound wave (shorter wavelength).
When he was here, on top of the wave, he felt nothing but kindliness and warmth for his fellow man.
This is a tidal wave, and unless we stop it quick.
You think that all you have to do is wave a check and no woman can resist you, but let me tell you something.
What makes the flag on the mast to wave?
Don't forget to wave that flag.
OK, OK. Don't wave it no more. I saw you.
If you're referring to New Year's Eve. that drunk didn't have any right to pick up your garter and wave it around.
Don't you ever wave again unless you see the Statue of Liberty. Okay.
Wave goodbye.
All over Prague. I've even heard people blaming the underground. for this new wave of German terror.
Give me something white to wave.
Yeah, he likes those short-wave police calls.
Let's go up on deck and wave goodbye to.
Okay, okay. Don't wave it no more.
Wave the fan once and the fire goes out.
Princess Iron Fan blew me here with a single wave of her fan.
I'm not going, a single wave of her fan could blow me to some faraway land.
This time I won't move no matter how much you wave, as sure as I call myself am a man!
Wave your hat or point your finger. Go on.
Oh, don't waste a wave on that one.
Every seventh wave.

News and current affairs

But, at the same time, a wave of idealism swept across the wreckage, a collective sense of determination to build a more equal, peaceful, and safer world.
Like the new wave of populists worldwide, Wilders promises to take his country back for his followers, to stop immigration (especially of Muslims), and to make the Netherlands Dutch again, whatever that means.
Many Muslims who have been fighting for years for their countries' modernization have so far failed to find a lucid response to the progressive wave of radical Islam.
France's basic problem, like that of the countries most affected by the crisis, is that the wave of cheap credit that the euro's introduction made possible fueled an inflationary bubble that robbed it of its competitiveness.
Some months ago Poland faced a wave of peasant strikes.
It would be ironic, though, if developed countries - which led the FDI liberalization wave of the past two decades - now led a backlash against FDI.
England would be left to wave its flag of St. George over Wales and Northern Ireland, a rather sour prospect.
Gore prefers to maintain the system essentially as it is and to use the budget surplus to eliminate the deficit in the pension system that will open in the second decade of this century, when a wave of baby boomers reaches retirement age.
Large fiscal deficits and slow growth might convince foreign exchange markets that there is little future in the euro, fueling a wave of selling - and hence losses for central bank holders.
But, whereas we are likely to see a wave of defaults and IMF programs this time, too, fiscal meltdown does not have to hit every highly indebted country.
Indeed, what a country like Greece should be doing is pulling out all the stops to stay clear of the first and second wave of restructurings and IMF programs.
The result is a currency collapse and a wave of bankruptcies.
Riding the populist wave, several politicians have proposed a ban on CDSs.
Even in a number of European countries with old democratic traditions, a wave of populist, radical political parties opposed to minorities and immigrants has achieved success, sometimes even winning elections.
In the Arab world, it is mainly extreme Islamists who are hijacking the young generation's wave, stealing their revolution.
A wave of state defaults followed in the late 1830's.
The liberalization process has exposed the country's long-standing religious divisions, leading to a wave of sectarian violence aimed primarily at the minority Muslim community.
If the revolutionary wave that began in Tunisia spreads to the rest of the Arab world, how many countries will be tempted by Turkish openness, and how many by Iranian fundamentalism?
Pakistan is hit hard by a wave of monstrous Taleban attacks, and in Afghanistan NATO troops die and are terribly injured in large numbers.
In Munich, the number of self-employed tilers increased in 2004 and 2005, the first two years after the first eastern enlargement wave, from 119 to 970.
After the Great Depression of the 1930's, the vast wave of investment in industrial capacity during World War II made up the shortfall of the lost decade.
One of the more striking regularities that Reinhart and I found is that after a wave of international banking crises, a wave of sovereign defaults and restructurings often follows within a few years.
What if Iran becomes a nuclear power, the region's democratic movements are swept away by a wave of anti-Western Islamic solidarity, and the Iranian regime emerges even stronger?
MUNICH - Europe is currently experiencing a huge wave of migration between its east and west.
The trigger for this wave of scorn was Li's sell-off of some of his prime Shanghai properties, after relocating his corporate registry from Hong Kong to the Cayman Islands.

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