wave

Definitions of wave in various dictionaries:

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

noun - a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon

noun - (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth

noun - something that rises rapidly

noun - the act of signaling by a movement of the hand

noun - a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair

noun - an undulating curve

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

noun - a member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy

verb - signal with the hands or nod

verb - move or swing back and forth

verb - move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion

verb - twist or roll into coils or ringlets

verb - set waves in

To move freely back and forth or up and down in the air, as branches in the wind.

To make a signal with an up-and-down or back-and-forth movement of the hand or an object held in the hand: waved as she drove by.

To have an undulating or wavy form; curve or curl: Her hair waves naturally.

To cause to move back and forth or up and down, either once or repeatedly: She waved a fan before her face.

To signal or express by waving the hand or an object held in the hand: We waved good-bye.

To signal (a person) to move in a specified direction: The police officer waved the motorist into the right lane.

To arrange into curves, curls, or undulations: wave one’s hair.

A ridge or swell moving through or along the surface of a large body of water.

A small ridge or swell moving across the interface of two fluids and dependent on surface tension.

A moving curve or succession of curves in or on a surface; an undulation: waves of wheat in the wind.

A curve or succession of curves, as in the hair.

A curved shape, outline, or pattern.

A movement up and down or back and forth: a wave of the hand.

A surge or rush, as of sensation: a wave of nausea; a wave of indignation.

A sudden great rise, as in activity or intensity: a wave of panic selling on the stock market.

A rising trend that involves large numbers of individuals: a wave of conservatism.

One of a succession of mass movements: the first wave of settlers.

A maneuver in which fans at a sports event simulate an ocean wave by rising quickly in sequence with arms upraised and then quickly sitting down again in a continuous rolling motion.

A widespread, persistent meteorological condition, especially of temperature: a heat wave.

Physics.

A disturbance traveling through a medium by which energy is transferred from one particle of the medium to another without causing any permanent displacement of the medium itself.

A graphic representation of the variation of such a disturbance with time.

A single cycle of such a disturbance.

verb - to move freely back and forth or up and down

WAVE - In physics, a wave is a disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space, with little or no associated mass transport. Waves consist of osci...