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Meaning Of Wave

  1. v. t.
    See Waive.
  2. v. i.
    To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
  3. v. i.
    To be moved to and fro as a signal.
  4. v. i.
    To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.
  5. v. t.
    To move one way and the other; to brandish.
  6. v. t.
    To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
  7. v. t.
    To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
  8. v. t.
    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.
  9. v. i.
    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.
  10. v. i.
    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.
  11. v. i.
    Water; a body of water.
  12. v. i.
    Unevenness; inequality of surface.
  13. v. i.
    A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
  14. v. i.
    The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.
  15. v. i.
    Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.
  16. n.
    Woe.



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