| 单词 | to wave one's way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wave one's way a. intransitive. To turn aside. Also transitive. To move (a person) aside. to wave one's way: ? to take a divergent route. [But this may belong to waive v.1] ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)] > diverge from course bowa1000 swervec1330 wrya1350 crookc1380 to turn asidea1382 depart1393 decline14.. wryc1400 divert1430 desvoy1481 wave1548 digress1552 prevaricate1582 yaw1584 to turn off1605 to come off1626 deviate1635 sag1639 to flinch out1642 deflect1646 de-err1657 break1678 verge1693 sheera1704 to break off1725 lean1894 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > cause to move sideways [verb (transitive)] > move (a person) to the side wave1548 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > change course or turn off turnc1330 to turn asidea1382 to turn in1535 to wave one's way1548 strike1576 to turn off1605 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccvjv The Kynges train waued on the lefte hande, to geue the Frenche Kyng and his train the right hande. a1639 H. Wotton View Life & Death Duke of Buckingham in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 109 Notwithstanding all which importunity, he resolved not [1642 omits not] to wave his way upon this reason;..that if..he should but once by such a diversion make his Enemy believe he were afraid of danger, he should never live without. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xviii. 381 Æschilus..was brained by a Tortoise which an Eagle let fall upon it... Some men..would perhaps from hence confute the opinion of Copernicus, never conceiving how the motion of the earth below should not wave him from a knock perpendicularly directed from a body in the ayre above. View more context for this quotation < as lemmas |
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