A Quick and Simple Dictionary

wave

1. Verb.  (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
2. Verb.  (intransitive) To wave one’s hand in greeting or departure.
3. Verb.  (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
4. Verb.  (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
5. Verb.  (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
6. Verb.  (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
7. Verb.  (transitive) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
8. Verb.  (intransitive) To try, in public, to attract people into a business establishment.
9. Noun.  A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; undulation.
10. Noun.  (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
11. Noun.  A shape which alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
12. Noun.  (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
13. Noun.  A sideway movement of the hand(s).
14. 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".
15. Verb.  (obsolete spelling of, waive) .