wave
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Is wave a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of wave?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.Examples: "The flag waved in the gentle breeze."; "But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To move one's hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.Examples: "I raised my arms in a final salute. I smiled. I waved goodbye. I turned into the helicopter, the door was closed, the red carpet was rolled up."intransitive
3. (transitive, metonymic) 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.Examples: "I waved goodbye from across the room."; "Look, with what courteous action / It waves you to a more removed ground."; "She spoke, and bowing waved / Dismissal."metonymicallytransitive
4. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.intransitive
5. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.Examples: "horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea"transitive
6. (transitive) To style (the hair) so as to produce a wavy texture.Examples: "There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…]."transitive
noun (English)
1. (poetic) The ocean.Examples: "1895, Fiona Macleod (William Sharp), The Sin-Eater and Other Tales […] your father Murtagh Ross, and his lawful childless wife, Dionaid, and his sister Anna—one and all, they lie beneath the green wave or in the brown mould."; "Whoever rules the waves rules the world..."poetic
2. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.Examples: "Gravity waves, while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect."
3. (figurative) A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.Examples: "A wave of shoppers stampeded through the door when the store opened for its Christmas discount special."; "A wave of retirees began moving to the coastal area."; "A wave of emotion overcame her when she thought about her son who was killed in battle."Synonyms: rushfiguratively
4. (logistics) Any of a series of orders to be fulfilled in one short interval of time, planned as part of wave picking.
5. (figurative) A movement or trend in popular culture.Examples: "New Wave"; "Korean Wave"figuratively
6. (video games, by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.Examples: "As the player eliminates each wave of 55 aliens, the next wave begins lower than the one previous."broadly
noun (English)
1. (US, historical) A members of the WAVES; a member of the US Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve).Examples: "[H]e read the faded sticker on the crystal of the door, “A slip of the lip can sink a ship.” Below a WAVE held her finger to lips that had turned tan."UShistorical
Definition source: Wiktionary