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Wave   /weɪv/   Listen
noun
Wave  n.  
1.
An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation. "The wave behind impels the wave before."
2.
(Physics) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation.
3.
Water; a body of water. (Poetic) "Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave." "Build a ship to save thee from the flood, I 'll furnish thee with fresh wave, bread, and wine."
4.
Unevenness; inequality of surface.
5.
A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
6.
The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.
7.
Something resembling or likened to a water wave, as in rising unusually high, in being of unusual extent, or in progressive motion; a swelling or excitement, as of feeling or energy; a tide; flood; period of intensity, usual activity, or the like; as, a wave of enthusiasm; waves of applause.
Wave front (Physics), the surface of initial displacement of the particles in a medium, as a wave of vibration advances.
Wave length (Physics), the space, reckoned in the direction of propagation, occupied by a complete wave or undulation, as of light, sound, etc.; the distance from a point or phase in a wave to the nearest point at which the same phase occurs.
Wave line (Shipbuilding), a line of a vessel's hull, shaped in accordance with the wave-line system.
Wave-line system, Wave-line theory (Shipbuilding), a system or theory of designing the lines of a vessel, which takes into consideration the length and shape of a wave which travels at a certain speed.
Wave loaf, a loaf for a wave offering.
Wave moth (Zool.), any one of numerous species of small geometrid moths belonging to Acidalia and allied genera; so called from the wavelike color markings on the wings.
Wave offering, an offering made in the Jewish services by waving the object, as a loaf of bread, toward the four cardinal points.
Wave of vibration (Physics), a wave which consists in, or is occasioned by, the production and transmission of a vibratory state from particle to particle through a body.
Wave surface.
(a)
(Physics) A surface of simultaneous and equal displacement of the particles composing a wave of vibration.
(b)
(Geom.) A mathematical surface of the fourth order which, upon certain hypotheses, is the locus of a wave surface of light in the interior of crystals. It is used in explaining the phenomena of double refraction. See under Refraction.
Wave theory. (Physics) See Undulatory theory, under Undulatory.


verb
Waive  v. t.  (past & past part. waived; pres. part. waiving)  (Written also wave)  
1.
To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego. "He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all." "We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others."
2.
To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
3.
(Law)
(a)
To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
(b)
(O. Eng. Law) To desert; to abandon. Note: The term was applied to a woman, in the same sense as outlaw to a man. A woman could not be outlawed, in the proper sense of the word, because, according to Bracton, she was never in law, that is, in a frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and held as abandoned.


Wave  v. t.  See Waive.


Wave  v. t.  
1.
To move one way and the other; to brandish. "(Aeneas) waved his fatal sword."
2.
To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to. "Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea."
3.
To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. (Obs.)
4.
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. "Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground." "She spoke, and bowing waved Dismissal."


Wave  v. i.  (past & past part. waved; pres. part. waving)  
1.
To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate. "His purple robes waved careless to the winds." "Where the flags of three nations has successively waved."
2.
To be moved to and fro as a signal.
3.
To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate. (Obs.) "He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm."





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"Wave" Quotes from Famous Books



... jumping nervously from side to side in short springing leaps. The starter paused, watch in hand. A shout of admiration and wonder went up from the crowd as the splendid creature dancing down the track was recognized. The next instant it was succeeded by a cry of horror that rolled in a great wave ...
— The Ramblin' Kid • Earl Wayland Bowman
... another occasion—but here it is sufficient to notice that, whether good or bad, their mental attitude at the time of death alters wholly their subsequent position. They, too, have to wait on within the "Region of Desires" until their wave of life runs on to and reaches its appointed shore, but they wait on, wrapped in dreams soothing and blissful, or the reverse, according to their mental and moral state at, and prior to the fatal hour, but ...
— Death--and After? • Annie Besant
... you present your cigar, the lighted end towards the speaker. He takes the cigar delicately between his thumb and fore-finger, lights his own, and then, with a quick, graceful motion, turns yours in his fingers, presenting you, with another wave, the mouth end, makes you a hand salute, utters his gracios, and leaves you studying out the 'motions' and thinking what a charming ...
— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce • E. R. Billings
... pass, was rugged and broken by rocks and ridges of water-borne stones, but presently it smoothed itself into mere grassy swellings and knolls, and at last into a fair and fertile plain swelling up into a green wave, as it were, against the rock-wall which encompassed it on all sides save where the river came gushing out of the strait pass at the east end, and where at the west end it poured itself out of the Dale toward the lowlands and the plain of ...
— The Roots of the Mountains • William Morris
... no object that touches it, whether it be the cart that ploughs the wave for sea-weed, or the boat or plank that rides upon it, but is brought at once from the demesne of coarse utilities into that of picture. All trades, all callings, become picturesque by the water's side, or on the water. The soil, the slovenliness, is washed ...
— At Home And Abroad - Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe • Margaret Fuller Ossoli


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