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ˈwave-like, a. and adv.
[f. wave n. + -like.]
A. adj. Resembling a wave, or what pertains to a wave.
1685Boyle Effects of Motion iii. (1690) 18, I see no necessity of having recourse to any thing but the wave-like motion of the Air for the production of our Phænomenon. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 468 The wave like motion of the ground during earthquakes. 1887T. Stevens Around World on Bicycle I. 3 The wave-like macadam abruptly terminates, and I find myself on a common dirt road. 1889Hardwicke's Sci.-Gossip XXV. 124 Every now and then a wave-like movement is seen to traverse through them.
B. adv. After the manner of a wave or waves.
1872Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 215 The dark solid wall of the enemy's infantry rolled, wave-like against this position. 1884J. Payn Lit. Recoll. 33 When I think of that inimitable scene, the humour of it sweeps wavelike over all. |