Definition of Wave

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Definition of Wave

Wave

Something resembling or likened to a water wave, as in rising unusually high, in being of unusual extent, or in progressive motion; a swelling or excitement, as of feeling or energy; a tide; flood; period of intensity, usual activity, or the like; as, a wave of enthusiasm.

See Waive.

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

To be moved to and fro as a signal.

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

To move one way and the other; to brandish.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Water; a body of water.

Unevenness; inequality of surface.

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

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

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

Woe.

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Wave Quotations

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Thomas Jefferson

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
Steven Wright

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau

It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.
Mitch Hedberg

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.
Jimi Hendrix

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.
Gilda Radner

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Alan Watts

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

This is a ridiculous heat wave we're in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that for the entire month of June, he will stop blowing hot air.
Bill Maher

Wave Translations

wave in Afrikaans is swaai
wave in Dutch is gebaren, wuiven, zwaaien
wave in Finnish is heiluttaa, laine
wave in French is brandir, vague, onde, flottge
wave in German is Welle, wehen, Woge, flattern, Welle
wave in Italian is flutto, sventolare, soffiare, svolazzare, onda
wave in Latin is undo, crispo, fluctus
wave in Portuguese is onda
wave in Spanish is ablandir, aletear, ola

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