Definitions for WAVES

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WAVES Waves

Spelling: [weyvz]

IPA: /weɪvz/

Waves is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in WAVES (aesvw).

Definitions for WAVES

noun

1. the Women's Reserve of the U.S. Naval Reserve, the distinct force of women enlistees in the U.S. Navy, organized during World War II.
2. a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
3. any surging or progressing movement or part resembling a wave of the sea:
4. a swell, surge, or rush, as of feeling or of a certain condition:
5. a widespread feeling, opinion, tendency, etc.:
6. a mass movement, as of troops, settlers, or migrating birds.
7. an outward curve, or one of a series of such curves, in a surface or line; undulation.
8. an act or instance of waving.
9. a fluttering sign or signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.:
10. natural waviness of the hair, or a special treatment to impart waviness:
11. a period or spell of unusually hot or cold weather.
12. 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.
13. Literary. water. a body of water. the sea.
14. (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.
15. 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 WAVES

1942; W(omen) A(ccepted for) V(olunteer) E(mergency) S(ervice)

Examples for WAVES

The Waves are whirling their boat past the rocks into the shallows.

One by one, each uttering the name of her beloved, leaped into the Waves.

Late in the afternoon of April 26, 1937 Waves of bombers obliterated the ancient capital of Basque Spain, Guernica.

I watch them accumulating just as I watch the Waves of the sea.

But soon the tide returns, and once more I hear the roistering of the Waves.

As Democrats mutter privately that their Senate majority is sinking beneath the Waves, their leadership has sent out an SOS.

The Waves plashed on the shore and told stories to the pebbles and the sands.

The seas are calm, no Waves violently knocking the hull, as they inevitably will during long stretches of the race.

The heat creates mirages with Waves that ripple through the air.

Piketty only Waves his hands around the all-important question of whether economic inequality undermines democracy.