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Definition of Wave |
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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. Related Definitions: Activity, Advancing, All, An, And, Any, As, Assemblage, Attention, Be, Beckon, Being, Body, Brandish, By, Calendered, Call, Cloth, Command, Composing, Damask, Direction, Disturbed, Elastic, Energy, Enthusiasm, Excitement, Extent, Feeling, Fig, Flag, Float, Floating, Flood, Fluctuate, Flutter, Force, Form, Fro, From, Give, Hand, High, In, Indicate, Inequalities, Inequality, Intensity, Into, It, Like, Likened, Line, Liquid, Loosely, Luster, Made, Medium, Motion, Move, Moved, No, Of, On, One, Or, Oscillatory, Other, Particle, Period, Phase, Phases, Play, Position, Progressive, Propagated, Raise, Repeated, Resembling, Rest, Resulting, Ridge, Rising, Sea, See, Signal, Signify, Something, Sound, State, Steel, Streak, Surface, Swell, Swelling, The, Their, Thought, Through, Tide, To, Transmission, Undulate, Undulating, Undulation, Unusual, Usual, Vacillate, Vibrating, Vibration, Waft, Waive, Water, Watered, Wave, Waver, Waving, Way, When, With, Woe |
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Wave Quotations
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Henry David Thoreau The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike. Ralph Waldo Emerson Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. Ovid Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one. Duke Kahanamoku The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. Thomas Jefferson |
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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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