Wave: English to English |
Wave (n.) Woe. |
Wave (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 Undulati |
Wave (v. i.) A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc. |
Wave (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. |
Wave (v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm. |
Wave (v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel. |
Wave (v. i.) To be moved to and fro as a signal. |
Wave (v. i.) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate. |
Wave (v. i.) To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate. |
Wave (v. i.) Unevenness; inequality of surface. |
Wave (v. i.) Water; a body of water. |
Wave (v. t.) See Waive. |
Wave (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. |
Wave (v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. |
Wave (v. t.) To move one way and the other; to brandish. |
Wave (v. t.) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to. |