Definitions for WAVE

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WAVE wave

Spelling: [weyv]

IPA: /weɪv/

Wave is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in WAVE (aevw).

Definitions for WAVE

noun

1. a 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:
3. a swell, surge, or rush, as of feeling or of a certain condition:
4. a widespread feeling, opinion, tendency, etc.:
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.:
9. natural waviness of the hair, or a special treatment to impart waviness:
10. a period or spell of unusually hot or cold weather.
11. Physics. a 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, especially 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. a member of the Waves.

Idioms

1. make waves, Informal. to disturb the status quo; cause trouble, as by questioning or resisting the accepted rules, procedures, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to flutter or have a waving motion in:
2. to cause to bend or sway up and down or to and fro:
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, especially alternately in opposite directions:
7. to signal to by waving a flag or the like; direct by a waving movement:
8. to signify or express by a waving movement:

verb (used without object)

1. to move freely and gently back and forth or up and down, as by the action of air currents, sea swells, etc.:
2. to curve alternately in opposite directions; have an undulating form:
3. to bend or sway up and down or to and fro, as branches or plants in the wind.
4. to be moved, especially alternately in opposite directions:
5. to give a signal by fluttering or flapping something:

Origin of WAVE

1325-75; Middle English waven (v.), Old English wafian to wave the hands; cognate with Middle High German waben; cf. waver¹

Examples for WAVE

He lifted Dennet on his shoulder, and bade her wave her parchment.

What are your feelings about the wave of support that always immediately presents itself from the other side?

We prefer to wave away the warning signs; like The Interview, Mulholland Drive was comfortably downplayed as over-the-top satire.

"That's all right, my boy," cried Yates loftily, with a wave of his hand.

Initially, I thought, “OK, they have to throw in a wave… that looks gratuitous.”

Her pity for Priscilla went through and through her in wave after wave.

The wave of humanity that swept down the steps carried Mike in its front wash.

Her heart ascended on a wave of thanks to the giver of song.

When de Merode heard the sound of an approaching car he emerged from hiding and tried to wave it down.

Thus it attracted a wave of cowboy operators to fly passengers and cargo between cities.