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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
wave /weɪv/USA pronunciation   n., v., waved, wav•ing. 
n. [countable]
  1. Oceanographya moving ridge or swell on the surface of water:The ocean waves crashed against the rocks.
  2. a movement of the hand, as in greeting:gave us a wave and a smile.
  3. a movement or part resembling a wave:a wave in her hair.
  4. a sudden surge or rush, as of a feeling;
    esp., a widespread, typically surging feeling, attitude, opinion, tendency, belief, activity, etc.:felt a wave of nausea; a crime wave.
  5. a period of unusually hot or cold weather:a heat wave.
  6. Physicsa disturbance sent out or across from one point to another in a medium or space, without progress or advance by the points themselves, as in the transmission of sound or light:a sound wave;a light wave;electromagnetic waves.

v. 
  1. to (cause to) move back and forth or up and down: [no object]flags waving in the wind.[+ object]They waved their arms.
  2. to signal, esp. in greeting, by raising the hand and moving the fingers: [no object]He waved to us in greeting.[+ object]He waved his hand in greeting.
  3. to curve back and forth in opposite directions:[+ object]to wave one's hair.
Idioms
  1. Idioms, Informal Terms make waves, [Informal.]to create a disturbance:tried not to make waves when things were going well.


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
wave  (wāv),USA pronunciation n., v., waved, wav•ing. 
n. 
  1. Oceanographya disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
  2. any surging or progressing movement or part resembling a wave of the sea:a wave of the pulse.
  3. a swell, surge, or rush, as of feeling or of a certain condition:a wave of disgust sweeping over a person; a wave of cholera throughout the country.
  4. a widespread feeling, opinion, tendency, etc.:a wave of anti-intellectualism; the new wave of installment buying.
  5. a mass movement, as of troops, settlers, or migrating birds.
  6. an outward curve, or one of a series of such curves, in a surface or line;
    undulation.
  7. an act or instance of waving.
  8. a fluttering sign or signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.:a farewell wave.
  9. natural waviness of the hair, or a special treatment to impart waviness:to have a wave in one's hair; to get a shampoo and a wave.
  10. a period or spell of unusually hot or cold weather.
  11. Physicsa progressive disturbance propagated from point to point in a medium or space without progress or advance by the points themselves, as in the transmission of sound or light.
  12. [Literary.]
    • water.
    • a body of water.
    • the sea.
  13. (at sports events, esp. baseball games) a momentary standing and sitting back down by spectators in a sequential, lateral way to create, en masse, a wavelike effect visually.
  14. make waves, [Informal.]to disturb the status quo;
    cause trouble, as by questioning or resisting the accepted rules, procedures, etc.:The best way to stay out of trouble at the office is not to make waves.

v.i. 
  1. to move freely and gently back and forth or up and down, as by the action of air currents, sea swells, etc.:The flags were waving in the wind.
  2. to curve alternately in opposite directions;
    have an undulating form:The road waved along the valley.
  3. to bend or sway up and down or to and fro, as branches or plants in the wind.
  4. to be moved, esp. alternately in opposite directions:The woman's handkerchief waved in encouragement.
  5. to give a signal by fluttering or flapping something:She waved to me with her hand.

v.t. 
  1. to cause to flutter or have a waving motion in:A night wind waves the tattered banners.
  2. to cause to bend or sway up and down or to and fro:The storm waved the heavy branches of the elm.
  3. to give an undulating form to;
    cause to curve up and down or in and out.
  4. to give a wavy appearance or pattern to, as silk.
  5. to impart a wave to (the hair).
  6. to move, esp. alternately in opposite directions:to wave the hand.
  7. to signal to by waving a flag or the like;
    direct by a waving movement:to wave a train to a halt; to wave traffic around an obstacle.
  8. to signify or express by a waving movement:to wave a last good-bye.
  • 1325–75; Middle English waven (verb, verbal), Old English wafian to wave the hands; cognate with Middle High German waben; compare waver1
waveless, adj. 
waveless•ly, adv. 
waving•ly, adv. 
wavelike′, adj. 
    • 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged undulation, whitecap. Wave, ripple, breaker, surf refer to a ridge or swell on the surface of water. Wave is the general word:waves in a high wind.A ripple is the smallest kind of wave, such as is caused by a stone thrown into a pool:ripples in a brook.A breaker is a wave breaking, or about to break, upon the shore or upon rocks:the roar of breakers.Surf is the collective name for breakers:Heavy surf makes bathing dangerous.
    • 15.See corresponding entry in Unabridged undulate, flutter, float, sway, rock; fluctuate.

Wave  (wāv),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a member of the Waves.
Also, WAVE 
  • see Waves 1942

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