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WAVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon
Example:
troops advancing in waves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("wave" is a kind of...):
motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)
Derivation:
wave (move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wave" is a kind of...):
coif; coiffure; hair style; hairdo; hairstyle (the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wave"):
finger wave (a wave made with the fingers)
perm; permanent; permanent wave (a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals)
Derivation:
wave (set waves in)
wave (twist or roll into coils or ringlets)
wavy ((of hair) having waves)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The act of signaling by a movement of the hand
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("wave" is a kind of...):
gesture; motion (the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wave"):
brandish; flourish (the act of waving)
Derivation:
wave (signal with the hands or nod)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
Synonyms:
undulation; wave
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wave" is a kind of...):
motion; movement (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wave"):
flap; flapping; flutter; fluttering (the motion made by flapping up and down)
impulse; pulsation; pulse; pulsing ((electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients))
blast wave; shock wave (a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity)
wave form; wave shape; waveform (the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time)
acoustic wave; sound wave ((acoustics) a wave that transmits sound)
traveling wave; travelling wave (a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave)
standing wave; stationary wave (a wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time)
seiche (a wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay; caused by atmospheric or seismic disturbances)
fluctuation (a wave motion)
oscillation; vibration ((physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean)
sine wave (a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve)
gravitation wave; gravity wave ((physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light)
Sense 5
Meaning:
One of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
Synonyms:
moving ridge; wave
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("wave" is a kind of...):
motion; movement (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wave"):
white horse; whitecap (a wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white)
comber (a long curling sea wave)
roll; roller; rolling wave (a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore)
tsunami (a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption)
tidal wave (an unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide)
tidal wave (a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun)
billow; surge (a large sea wave)
lift; rise (a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground)
crestless wave; swell (the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea)
riffle; ripple; rippling; wavelet (a small wave on the surface of a liquid)
swash (the movement or sound of water)
backwash; wake (the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward)
breaker; breakers; surf (waves breaking on the shore)
Derivation:
wavelet (a small wave on the surface of a liquid)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Something that rises rapidly
Example:
a wave of conservatism in the country led by the hard right
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("wave" is a kind of...):
rise (a growth in strength or number or importance)
Sense 7
Meaning:
A member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy; originally organized during World War II but now no longer a separate branch
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Wave" is a kind of...):
reservist (a member of a military reserve)
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Sense 8
Meaning:
A persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
Example:
a heat wave
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("wave" is a kind of...):
atmospheric condition; conditions; weather; weather condition (the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation)
Meronyms (parts of "wave"):
wave front (all the points just reached by a wave as it propagates)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wave"):
cold wave (a wave of unusually cold weather)
heat wave (a wave of unusually hot weather)
Sense 9
Meaning:
An undulating curve
Synonyms:
undulation; wave
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("wave" is a kind of...):
curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wave"):
sine curve; sinusoid (the curve of y=sin x)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they wave ... he / she / it waves
Past simple: waved
Past participle: waved
-ing form: waving
Sense 1
Meaning:
Set waves in
Example:
she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "wave" is one way to...):
arrange; coif; coiffe; coiffure; do; dress; set (arrange attractively)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wave"):
marcel (make a marcel in a woman's hair)
gauffer; goffer (make wavy with a heated goffering iron)
perm (give a permanent wave to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They wave their hair
Derivation:
wave (a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Signal with the hands or nod
Example:
He waved his hand hospitably
Synonyms:
beckon; wave
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "wave" is one way to...):
gesticulate; gesture; motion (show, express or direct through movement)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s to somebody
Derivation:
wave (the act of signaling by a movement of the hand)
waver (someone who communicates by waving)
waving (the act of signaling by a movement of the hand)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Twist or roll into coils or ringlets
Example:
curl my hair, please
Synonyms:
curl; wave
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "wave" is one way to...):
twist (turn in the opposite direction)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wave"):
crape; crimp; frizz; frizzle; kink; kink up (curl tightly)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They wave their hair
Derivation:
wave (a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Move or swing back and forth
Example:
She waved her gun
Synonyms:
brandish; flourish; wave
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "wave" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
"Wave" entails doing...:
hold; take hold (have or hold in one's hands or grip)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wave"):
wigwag (send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
waver (someone who communicates by waving)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
Example:
the waves rolled towards the beach
Synonyms:
flap; roll; undulate; wave
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "wave" is one way to...):
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wave"):
luff (flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
wave (a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon)
Context examples:
“God save the king!” said I, waving my cap. “And there's an end to Captain Silver!”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
They always looked back before turning the corner, for their mother was always at the window to nod and smile, and wave her hand to them.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Led by Philippe Peigneux, ULB Neuroscience Institute, a group of researchers found that our learning capabilities are limited during slow wave sleep.
(Learning While Sleeping?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Kindly turn round and wave him away like that.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"No, no, not at all," Martin answered, shaking hands and waving him to the solitary chair, himself taking to the bed.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The pause after the blocked P wave is less than twice the PP interval.
(Mobitz I, NCI Thesaurus)
But is not that my Lord Delewar who waves to us?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This recalled him to himself, and he leaned out of the window and waved his hand, calling out: "Love to Madam Mina; I shall write so soon as ever I can."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It may have a slight wave on its back, but the coat is otherwise straight.
(Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever, NCI Thesaurus)
The sea sucked the ship in to where the waves beat white, and it ground upon the rocks and broke open its sides.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
