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1. v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
The flag waved in the gentle breeze. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
2. v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
3. v. (transitive, 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. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
I waved goodbye from across the room. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
4. v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
5. v. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
6. v. To produce waves to the hair. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
7. v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
Jones waves at strike one. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
8. v. To cause to move back and forth repeatedly. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
The starter waved the flag to begin the race. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
9. v. (transitive, metonymic) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
10. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
11. v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
12. s. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
13. s. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
Gravity waves, while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
14. s. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
Her hair had a nice wave to it. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
sine wave | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
15. s. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
A wave of shoppers stampeded through the door when the store opened for its Christmas discount special. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
A wave of retirees began moving to the coastal area. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
A wave of emotion overcame her when she thought about her son who was killed in battle. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
16. s. A sideway movement of the hand(s). | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
He dismissed her with a wave of the hand. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
17. s. (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. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |