verb

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To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.

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If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.

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To put aside, avoid.

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To outlaw (someone).

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To abandon, give up (someone or something).

verb

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To move from side to side; to sway.

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To stray, wander.

verb

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To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.

example

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.

example

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.

noun

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A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.

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The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.

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The ocean.

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A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.

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A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.

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Her hair had a nice wave to it.

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Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.

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A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.

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He dismissed her with a wave of the hand.

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A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.

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A wave of emotion overcame her when she thought about her son who was killed in battle.

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(by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.

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(usually "the wave") A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.

Examples of waves in a Sentence

The waves had pulled her under before darkness took her.

The moon was non-existent, and the waves sparkled in starlight.

Jenn cried out, her body bucking from waves of agony.

He has spoken to me in whispers, in the dark of the night, how waves of guilt over our relationship are with him every waking moment, and yet he loves me so as to risk all for my embrace.

He'd managed to miss the hurricane, though the waters were still rough and the waves high.

The other rider doffed her helmet, spilling waves of blond hair.

Rhyn rested back on the boulder and closed his eyes to the rhythmic sounds of waves and Gabriel trying to kill the practice dummy.

A breeze picked up at the shoreline, wrinkling the water as the waves slowly rolled toward him in silver lines.

They quickly melted into the heat waves again.

It was so close to the sea that those who lived in it could hear the waves forever beating against the shore.

She was closer to the top than to the waves, but the cliff had too few hand and footholds for her to try to climb.

The waves seemed to be playing a game with me, and tossed me from one to another in their wild frolic.

Waves of wind-driven rain pummeled the terminal with a fury.

The gully shimmered in heat waves.

The sound of the ocean was calming under the full moon, the steady ebb and flow of waves drawing him to sit on the beach.

The sound of waves rushing the shore and the firm sand beneath his feet indicated its location a few yards from them.

On her walks at Lover's Lane near Evelyn's row house, she'd often seen couples entranced by the rhythmic movement of waves stand at a railing, the man's arms wrapped around the woman in front of him, his chin on her head.

She baited the hook and threw it in the pond, watching as tiny waves rippled out from the bobber and gently lapped at the grassy shore.

Bianca took one cautious step onto the frozen waves.

The shores are covered with coral; earthquakes and tidal waves are frequent, the latter not taking the form of bores, but of a sudden steady rise and equally sudden fall in the level of the sea; the climate is rather tropical than temperate, but sickness is almost unknown among the residents.

The difficulty of connecting lightships and isolated lighthouses to the mainland by submarine cables, owing to the destructive action of the tides and waves on rocky coasts on the wll- shore ends, led many inventors to look for a way out of the difficulty by the adoption of some form of inductive Smith.

Owing to the rough seas sweeping over the Fastnet, the conditions are such that any ordinary submarine cable would be broken by the wearing action of the waves at the rock boundary in a very short time.

Such a sequence of decreasing electric oscillations and corresponding set of waves is called a damped train.

The process of reflection in the case of a wave motion involves the condition that the wave-length shall be small compared with the dimensions of the mirror, and hence the attempt to reflect and converge electric waves loon ft.

Enhanced waves in these regions could play a major role in electron acceleration to relativistic energies during periods of prolonged substorm activity.

He also made 100 by running a silent auction with his wonderful image of the two dolphins in the waves.

We saw towering tabular bergs around the ship being battered by the waves.

After I had learned a great many interesting things about the life and habits of the children of the sea--how in the midst of dashing waves the little polyps build the beautiful coral isles of the Pacific, and the foraminifera have made the chalk-hills of many a land--my teacher read me "The Chambered Nautilus," and showed me that the shell-building process of the mollusks is symbolical of the development of the mind.

I thrust out my hands to grasp some support, I clutched at the water and at the seaweed which the waves tossed in my face.

I had the same feeling once before when I first stood by the great ocean and felt its waves beating against the shore.

These small waves raised by the evening wind are as remote from storm as the smooth reflecting surface.

At length the wind rose, the mist increased, and the waves began to run, and the perch leaped much higher than before, half out of water, a hundred black points, three inches long, at once above the surface.

Moreover, the waves, I suspect, do not so much construct as wear down a material which has already acquired consistency.

Historic figures were not borne by the waves from one shore to another as before.

In whatever direction a ship moves, the flow of the waves it cuts will always be noticeable ahead of it.

The riders were a blur in the heat waves, but she was sure one was Pete.

She climbed frozen hills of waves through the raindrops, surprised when they popped like tiny water balloons.

Bianca moved away from Talon towards the violent waves and then sat with her back to a wave as high as her waist.

He took in the various scenes, to include the local news, which blasted photos of the black skies and mounting waves of the tropical-storm-turned-hurricane.

Dean pulled down the top on his Jeep and slowly drove uptown, giving off what he hoped were candidate smiles and waves to the locals, all of whom seemed to be walking the sun drenched street.

Gabriel sat in silent thought, comforted by the ebb and flow of the waves.

Some of the gems had been carried by gentle waves to the edges of the lake and deposited away from the bulk of the jewels.

She followed, startled, only to see a massive black bird the size of a pterodactyl coasting along the tops of the waves.

She appeared to be in her early thirties, had chestnut brown hair that fell in soft waves around her shoulders with thin streaks of what looked like fire running through it.

The house looked so far away as it shimmered in heat waves.

Aside from the infrequent sound of a passing car on the avenue, only the murmur of unseen waves lapping at the sand broke the stillness.

The weather remained ominous with dark clouds rolling in, pushed by an ever-increasing wind that churned the sky in threatening waves.

There in the blur of a passing auto and mirrored in descending waves of rain was the huddled figure of Cynthia Byrne stumbling across the parking lot toward the road and the beach beyond.

The fragrant ocean breeze was chilly as it brushed his skin, and his movements fell into the rhythm of the ebb and flow of waves.

The third line gives the range of the regular diurnal inequality, the next four lines the amplitudes of the first four Fourier waves into which the regular diurnal inequality has been analysed.

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