Word Finder - wave

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To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.

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The flag waved in the gentle breeze.

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To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.

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(metonymic) 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.

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I waved goodbye from across the room.

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To have an undulating or wavy form.

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To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.

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To produce waves to the hair.

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To swing and miss at a pitch.

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Jones waves at strike one.

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To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.

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The starter waved the flag to begin the race.

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(metonymic) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.

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To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.

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To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.

Jackson felt an intense wave of emotion.

Dean asked, with a wave of his hands.

He indicated the space behind him with a wave of a hand.

On land only the grass and trees wave, but the water itself is rippled by the wind.

A wave of warmth rushed up her neck and broke over her cheeks.

Janet gave a wave of her hand.

Another wave of dizziness washed over her.

A wave of loneliness washed over her.

In the future, if you don't recognize someone, don't wave at them.

Lydia simply gave a dismissive wave of her hand and went inside, leaving Dean to follow.

But wherever it may turn there always will be the wave anticipating its movement.

Again the wave moved as one when the three were sighted.

In spite of the disaster of her revelation, a wave of relief passed over me.

She indicated her face with a wave of the hand and then changed the subject.

After I had recovered from my first experience in the water, I thought it great fun to sit on a big rock in my bathing-suit and feel wave after wave dash against the rock, sending up a shower of spray which quite covered me.

All trailed by Gabriel, who paused to look up and wave at her.

He gave a wave but no further comment as he hurried to his Jeep and left.

After greeting the group with a hearty wave, he proudly handed a surprised Cynthia Dean a wad of bills.

But the wave they feel to be rising does not come from the quarter they expect.

Dean cautioned Pumpkin to keep his hand on his wallet, but the young hiker dismissed the advice with a wave of his hand.

Jennifer gave her a ta-ta wave before they entered the Dean's office.

She had loosened her hair and her long tresses fell in a wave, over her shoulder and across her small breasts.

In the FTSE 100 at least, we are some way from being in a wave of irrational exuberance.

When the ship moves in one direction there is one and the same wave ahead of it, when it turns frequently the wave ahead of it also turns frequently.

She jumped toward the child, apparently crying out and evoking a threatening wave of the knife by Grasso.

There was no verbal reply—only a returning wave of her light.

He turned with a wave, "I'll see you later, honey bunch!"

The local vehicles that passed him invariable gave him a wave and a wide berth.

Dean climbed from her car and she was off with a wave.

There was a sense of cold and the ooze of blood filling his boot, and a reeling wave of lightheadedness, but little pain.

A wave of grief engulfed him and ripped through to his core, knocking the breath from him.

Fred dismissed the news with a wave of his hand.

Dean dismissed the comment with a wave of his hand, sorry he'd opened his mouth.

Between these cyclonic storms come areas of high pressure, or anticyclones, with dry cool air in summer, and dry cold air in winter, sometimes with such decided changes in temperature as to merit the name cold wave.

She died from apparent heat exhaustion in the same heat wave.

A tuning fork produces a single note - a pure sine wave.

Again, as at the church in Khamovniki, a wave of general curiosity bore all the prisoners forward onto the road, and Pierre, thanks to his stature, saw over the heads of the others what so attracted their curiosity.

She gave a nervous wave, watching for his reaction and relieved when he offered a warm smile.

Jackson drank deeply and enjoyed his venom coursing through Elisabeth, eliciting wave after wave of euphoria.

With a return wave, Lana set her gaze on the door to her own apartment up the stairs.

Dean smiled, gave a wave goodnight and climbed the stairs.

Fred dismissed Dean's comments with a wave of his hand.

One minute he'd be drinking in the beauty of the countryside and the next feeling a wave of anxiety, realizing what had begun as a mild suspicion was close to culminating in a face-to-face confrontation with Jeffrey Byrne.

When the road straightened once more, he heard a noise behind him and a dozen daredevils in the tuck posi­tion sped on by him with a wave and a rush of air.

Thus he approximates to the wave theory of light, though he supposed that the transmission of light was instantaneous.

In many cases additional condensers or inductance coils are inserted in various places so that the arrangement is somewhat disguised, but by far the larger part of the electric wave wireless telegraphy in 1907 was effected by transmitters having antennae either inductively or directly coupled to a closed condenser circuit containing a spark gap.

It was then found that when electric waves fell on the antenna a sound was heard in the telephone as each wave train passed over it, so that if the wave trains endured for a longer or shorter time the sound in the telephone was of corresponding duration.

An innumerable number of forms of coherer or wave detector depending upon the change in resistance produced at a loose or imperfect contact have been devised.

When electric oscillations are set up in these two classes of electric radiators, the first class send out a highly damped wave train and the second a feeble damped wave train provided that they have sufficient capacity or energy storage and low resistance.

All of them couple the transmitting antenna directly or inductively to a capacity-inductive circuit serving as a storage of energy, and all of them create thereby electric waves of the same type moving over the earth's surface with the magnetic force of the wave parallel to it.