Phonetics:
Meanings:
verb
Definition: To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
Example: If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
Definition: To put aside, avoid.
Definition: To outlaw (someone).
Definition: To abandon, give up (someone or something).
verb
Definition: To move from side to side; to sway.
Definition: To stray, wander.
verb
Definition: To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
Example: The flag waved in the gentle breeze.
Definition: To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
Definition: (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.
Example: I waved goodbye from across the room.
Definition: To have an undulating or wavy form.
Definition: To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
Definition: To produce waves to the hair.
Definition: To swing and miss at a pitch.
Example: Jones waves at strike one.
Definition: To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
Example: The starter waved the flag to begin the race.
Definition: (metonymic) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
Definition: To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
Definition: To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
noun
Definition: A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
Example: The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.
Definition: The ocean.
Definition: A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
Definition: A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
Example: Her hair had a nice wave to it.
Definition: Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
Definition: A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
Example: He dismissed her with a wave of the hand.
Definition: A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
Example: A wave of emotion overcame her when she thought about her son who was killed in battle.
Synonyms: rush,
Definition: (by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
Definition: (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.