wave
- Verb. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
- Verb. (intransitive) To wave one’s hand in greeting or departure.
- Verb. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
- Verb. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
- Verb. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
- Verb. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
- Verb. (transitive) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
- Verb. (intransitive) To try, in public, to attract people into a business establishment.
- Noun. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; undulation.
- Noun. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
- Noun. A shape which alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
- Noun. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
- Noun. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
- Noun. 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. Usually referred to as "the wave".
- Verb. (obsolete spelling of, waive) .
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