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Words related to wave

Related / Similar Words: waving, wafture, undulation, moving ridge, Wave, beckon, curl, brandish, flourish, roll, undulate, flap

Definition:

a movement like that of an ocean wave; "a wave of settlers"; "troops advancing in waves";

a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair;

the act of signaling by a movement of the hand;

(physics) a movement up and down or back and forth;

one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water);

something that rises rapidly; "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";

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;

a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures);

an undulating curve;

set waves in; "she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair";

signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably";

twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please";

move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun";

move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach";

Hyponyms: finger wave, permanent wave, permanent, perm, flourish, brandish, 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, 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, cold wave, heat wave, sine curve, sinusoid, marcel, gauffer, goffer, crimp, crape, frizzle, frizz, kink up, kink, wigwag, luff

Entailments: hold, take hold

Derivational Morphology: roll, undulate, flap, curl, beckon, waving, wafture, waver, lock, ringlet, whorl, curler, hair curler, roller, crimper, flourish, brandish, flapping, flutter, fluttering, undulation, rolling wave

Language Translations:
Bosnian: mahati and talas		Chinese: 招手 and 波浪
Croatian: mahati and val		Danish: bølge
Dutch: golf and zwaaien		Estonian: laine
Finnish: aalto		French: saluer and vague
German: Welle and winken		Greek: κύμα
Hungarian: hullám		Indonesian: gelombang
Irish: tonn		Italian: agitare and onda
Japanese: 振り動かす and 波		Korean: 파도 and 흔들다
Latin: unda		Maltese: mewġa
Norwegian: bølge and vinke		Portuguese: acenar and onda
Russian: волна and махать		Spanish: hacer señal and onda
Swedish: vinka		Telugu: అల and ఊపు
Turkish: dalga

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