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Sounds | wey'v |
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Rhymes | airwave, architrave, autoclave, and 26 more rhymes in eyv at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | One of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water). |
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Synonyms | moving ridge |
Narrower | surf, breaker, breakers; wake, backwash; swash; ripple, rippling, riffle, wavelet; swell, crestless wave; lift, rise; billow, surge; tidal wave, tsunami; roller, roll, rolling wave; whitecap, white horse |
Broader | movement, motion |
Meaning | A movement like that of an ocean wave. |
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Examples | "a wave of settlers"; "troops advancing in waves" |
Broader | motion, movement, move, motility |
Verbs | wave |
Meaning | (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth. |
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Synonyms | undulation |
Category | physics, physical science, natural philosophy |
Narrower | gravity wave, gravitation wave; sine wave; oscillation, vibration; fluctuation; seiche; standing wave, stationary wave; traveling wave; sound wave, acoustic wave; wave form, waveform, wave shape; shock wave, blast wave; pulsation, pulsing, pulse, impulse; flap, flapping, flutter, fluttering |
Broader | movement, motion |
Meaning | Something that rises rapidly. |
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Examples | "a wave of emotion swept over him"; "there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed"; "a wave of conservatism in the country led by the hard right" |
Broader | rise |
Meaning | The act of signaling by a movement of the hand. |
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Synonyms | waving, wafture |
Narrower | flourish, brandish |
Broader | gesture, motion |
Verbs | wave |
Meaning | A hairdo that creates undulations in the hair. |
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Narrower | finger wave; permanent wave, permanent, perm |
Broader | hairdo, hair style, coiffure |
Verbs | wave; wave |
Meaning | An undulating curve. |
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Synonyms | undulation |
Narrower | sine curve, sinusoid |
Broader | curve, curved shape |
Meaning | A persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures). |
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Parts | wave front |
Narrower | cold wave; heat wave |
Broader | weather, weather condition, atmospheric condition |
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. |
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Broader | reservist; woman, adult female |
Meaning | Signal with the hands or nod. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s to somebody |
Examples | "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably" |
Synonyms | beckon |
Broader | gesticulate, gesture, motion |
Nouns | waver; wave, waving |
Meaning | Move or swing back and forth. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "She waved her gun" |
Synonyms | brandish, flourish |
Entails | hold, take hold |
Narrower | wigwag |
Broader | move, displace |
Nouns | waver |
Meaning | Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "the waves rolled towards the beach" |
Synonyms | roll, undulate, flap |
Narrower | luff |
Broader | move |
Nouns | wave |
Meaning | Twist or roll into coils or ringlets. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Model | They wave their hair |
Synonyms | curl |
Narrower | crimp, crape, frizzle, frizz, kink up, kink |
Broader | twist |
Nouns | wave |
Meaning | Set waves in. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | They wave their hair |
Examples | "she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair" |
Narrower | marcel; gauffer, goffer; perm |
Broader | dress, arrange, set, do, coif, coiffe, coiffure |
Nouns | wave |