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Defenition of the word wave

    • Defenition of the word wave

      • A disturbance in an fluid medium.
      • A computer file format, better known as WAV.
      • A disturbance that propagates through space and time.
      • To signal with the hands or nod.
      • To move or swing back and forth.
      • To move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion.
      • signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably"
      • move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun."
      • twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
      • move in a wavy pattern, as of curtains
      • a movement like that of an ocean wave; "a wave of settlers"; "troops advancing in waves"
      • a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
      • something that rises rapidly and dies away; "a wave of emotion swept over him"; "there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed"
      • an undulating curve
      • set waves in; of hair
      • one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
      • (physics) a progressive disturbance propagated without displacement of the medium itself
      • the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
      • (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
      • something that rises rapidly; "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"
      • a member of the women''s reserve of the United States Navy; originally organized during World War II but now no longer a separate branch
      • a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
      • set waves in; "she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair"
      • move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"
      • move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
      • a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon
      • something that rises rapidly
      • a member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy; originally organized during World War II but now no longer a separate branch
      • set waves in
      • signal with the hands or nod
      • twist or roll into coils or ringlets
      • move or swing back and forth
      • move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion

    Synonyms for the word wave

      • beckon
      • brandish
      • curl
      • flap
      • flourish
      • moving ridge
      • undulate
      • undulation
      • wafture
      • waving

    Meronymys for the word wave

      • wave front

    Hyponyms for the word wave

      • acoustic wave
      • backwash
      • billow
      • blast wave
      • brandish
      • breaker
      • breakers
      • cold wave
      • comber
      • crape
      • crestless wave
      • crimp
      • finger wave
      • flap
      • flapping
      • flourish
      • fluctuation
      • flutter
      • fluttering
      • frizz
      • frizzle
      • gauffer
      • goffer
      • gravitation wave
      • gravity wave
      • heat wave
      • impulse
      • kink
      • kink up
      • lift
      • luff
      • marcel
      • oscillation
      • perm
      • permanent
      • permanent wave
      • pulsation
      • pulse
      • pulsing
      • riffle
      • ripple
      • rippling
      • rise
      • roll
      • roller
      • rolling wave
      • seiche
      • shock wave
      • sine curve
      • sine wave
      • sinusoid
      • sound wave
      • standing wave
      • stationary wave
      • surf
      • surge
      • swash
      • swell
      • tidal wave
      • traveling wave
      • travelling wave
      • tsunami
      • vibration
      • wake
      • wave form
      • wave shape
      • waveform
      • wavelet
      • white horse
      • whitecap
      • wigwag

    Hypernyms for the word wave

      • adult female
      • arrange
      • atmospheric condition
      • coif
      • coiffe
      • coiffure
      • conditions
      • curve
      • curved shape
      • displace
      • do
      • dress
      • gesticulate
      • gesticulation
      • gesture
      • hair style
      • hairdo
      • hairstyle
      • motility
      • motion
      • move
      • movement
      • periodic event
      • recurrent event
      • reservist
      • rise
      • set
      • twist
      • weather
      • weather condition
      • woman

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