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wave::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | beckon |
| Type of | motion, gesture, gesticulate |
| Derivation | waving, waver |
She waved to her friends.
He waved his hand hospitably.
wave::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | undulation |
| Type of | movement, motion |
| Has types | standing wave, stationary wave, flapping, acoustic wave, flap, traveling wave, travelling wave, shock wave, sine wave, impulse, sound wave, vibration, wave form, gravity wave, wave shape, waveform, gravitation wave, blast wave, fluttering, flutter, oscillation, pulsation, pulse, pulsing, fluctuation, seiche |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | undulation |
| Type of | curved shape, curve |
| Has types | sine curve, sinusoid |
wave::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | moving ridge |
| Type of | movement, motion |
| Has types | tidal wave, backwash, billow, breaker, breakers, comber, crestless wave, lift, riffle, ripple, rippling, rise, roll, roller, rolling wave, surf, surge, swash, swell, tsunami, wake, wavelet, white horse, whitecap |
| Derivation | wavelet |
wave::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | hairdo, hairstyle, coif, coiffure, hair style |
| Has types | permanent, perm, permanent wave, finger wave |
| Derivation | wavy |
wave::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | adult female, woman, reservist |
wave::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | conditions, atmospheric condition, weather condition, weather |
| Has types | heat wave, cold wave |
a heat wave.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | rise |
a wave of emotion swept over him.
there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed.
a wave of conservatism in the country led by the hard right.
Examples of wave
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Their first intimation of the incoming wave was its roaring sound just offshore.
From the newsweek.com
The first fast-moving swell pushed Trette down the face of the wave as it broke.
From the ocregister.com
It was the latest in a growing wave of unrest that has left several people dead.
From the washingtontimes.com
Simultaneously, the region itself has been riding a wave of cultural ascendance.
From the online.wsj.com
So there is a limit as far as the wave height for being able to recover the BOP.
From the kentucky.com
After mid-week a new wave of money options and job openings will begin arriving.
From the kentucky.com
Ride the wave of good fortune through Saturday night and then hop off the board.
From the sfgate.com
That's not the only dilemma faced by this new wave of goal-oriented minimalists.
From the time.com
Tax crises are brewing all over right now, and a wave of bankruptcies is coming.
From the businessweek.com
- One of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
- Beckon: signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably"
- A movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon; "a wave of settlers"; "troops advancing in waves"
- Brandish: move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"
- (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
- Roll: move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
- In mathematics and science, a wave is a disturbance that travels through space and time, usually by the transfer of energy. Waves are described by a wave equation that can take on many forms depending on the type of wave. ...
- WAVe stands for Web Analysis of the Variome is a next-generation web-based bioinformatics tool for the human variome research domain.
- WGTK (970 AM) is a News/Talk radio formatted radio station in the Louisville, Kentucky metropolitan area. It is currently owned by Salem Communications. It was once WAVE-AM, the sister station of WAVE 3 television, and later, WLKY (Channel 32)'s sister operation.
