Wave

Verb

 * 1)  To move back and forth repeatedly.
 * 2)  To wave one’s hand in greeting or departure.
 * 3)  To have an undulating or wavy form.
 * 4)  To produce waves to the hair.
 * 5)  To swing and miss at a pitch.
 * 6)  To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
 * 7)  To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
 * 8)  To try, in public, to attract people into a business establishment.

Noun

 * 1) A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; undulation.
 * 2)  A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
 * 3) A shape which alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
 * 4)  A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
 * 5) A sideway movement of the hand(s).
 * 6) A motion of a crowd caused by its members' successively putting their arms in the air, so that those in one part of the crowd do so immediately after their immediate neighbors on one side, and the crowd looks as though a disturbance is going through it.

Adjectives for Wave
sanguine; dark; voiceless; weltering; moon-whitened; tremendous; accompanying; playful;  petulant;   warring;   transcendent; plunging; troubled; unnumbered (plural); sloping; foaming; sordid; successive (plural); tidal; glowing; bounteous; scornful; long; throbbing; turbid; surging; bright; translucent; dignified; furious; lava; fleecy; towering; gliding; rugged; all-powerful; rolling; never-tiring; feathery; lustrous; charming; fluctuating; delicate; glittering; eternal; greedy; burning; whirling; immeasurable; lapsing; flashing; drunken; dividual (plural); yeasty; sparkling; fierce; green; wintry; dull; monstrous; amber; petrified; vivid; haunted; oblivious; rippling; inveterate; hurrying; turbulent; startled; bellowing; rebellious; reckless; inflated; chilly; mounting; softening; impressive; weltering; painted; great; white-crested; pent; impetuous; flinging; whispering; hiding; fiery; yellow; breaking; indented; wobbly; uneven; glossy; frolicsome; audacious; gleaming; lasting; tempestuous; surf; glooming; dissolving;  sheltering;  dashing; sullen; conquered; starry; blackening; high-rolling; engulfing; melodious; wireless; caressing; calm; ruthless; careless; moon-lit; mirrored; full-flushed; late; rhythmical; curling; ever-deepening; undulating; tossing; wide-wallowing; blind; restless; migratory; lustrous; tractable; bounding; peaceful; dashing; refluent; shattered; wan; slumberous; sparNing; tepid; intermingled (plural); electric; brimming;  peaked;  mountainous; slimy; salt; wandering; pandemic; infinitesimal; frantic; breaking;  foam-figured; whistling; slight; creative; lambent; thin-edged; unfathomable; lonely; mournful; eerie; uncharted; rival; enormous; conflicting; angry; burnished; grassy; conciliatory; crisp;  dimpled;  quivering;  advancing; sable;  sympathetic;  spent;  implacable; ruffled; alarming; loyal; urgent; wildered; jostling; rising; shallow; fretting; mighty; mimic; sonorous; receding; gurgling; siren-haunted; sun-kissed; charmed; frothy; inconstant; unsullied; raging; heaving; peristaltic; stormy; summer; western; blind.

Adverbs for Wave
gaily; gracefully; magically; helplessly; frantically; amicably; cheerfully; energetically; desolately; tremulously; rhythmically; constantly; languidly; erratically; impudently; mournfully; eloquently; gently; contemptuously ; surreptitiously.

Thesaurus
ripple, rise, rise and fall, rivulation, rock, roll, roll out, roller, rough water, salutation, salute, scend, sea, seismic wave, send, set forth, shake, shaking, shingle, shock wave, show, show forth, sign, signal, signalize, sinuation, sinuosity, sinuousness, slat, slinkiness, smash, smile, smile of recognition, snakiness, sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, sound wave, speak, splutter, sport, spotlight, sputter, surf, surface wave, surge, swag, sway, swell, swing, swinging, throb, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, token, torsion, tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, toss, touch, transverse wave, trim, trot out, trough, trumpet, trumpet forth, tsunami, turning, twisting, undulate, undulation, unfold, unfurl a flag, vacillate, vaunt, vibrate, wag, waggle, water wave, wave a flag, wave equation, wave motion, wave number, wave the hand, wavelength, wavelet, waver, waving, white horses, whitecaps, wield, wigwag, winding, wink, wobble, Afro, accost, address, advertise, affect, air, ambages, amplitude, anfractuosity, antinode, barber, be poised, beat, beat the drum, betoken, bicker, billow, blazon forth, bob, bobble, bore, bow, brandish, brandishing, break, breakers, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, careen, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, coggle, coif, coiffure, cold wave, comb, comber, conk, convolution, crash, crest, crinkle, crinkling, curtsy, dance, dangle, dash, de Broglie wave, demonstrate, develop, diffraction, dip, dirty water, disclose, display, divulge, dramatize, eagre, ebb and flow, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, emblazon, embody, embrace, enact, evidence, evince, exchange colors, exhibit, expose to view, express, flag, flag down, flap, flash, flaunt, flaunting, flexuosity, flexuousness, flick, flicker, flip, flit, flitter, float, flop, flourish, flourishing, fluctuate, flutter, fly, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, give a signal, give sign, give the nod, give token, glance, go pitapat, gravity wave, greeting, ground swell, guided wave, gutter, hail, hail and speak, haircut, hairdo, hairstyle, half-mast, hand-clasp, handshake, headdress, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, hello, highlight, hoist a banner, hold up, home permanent, how-do-you-do, hug, illuminate, in phase, incarnate, indicate, interference, intorsion, involution, kick, kiss, leer, librate, lift, light, longitudinal wave, lop, lurch, make a sign, make clear, make plain, manifest, materialize, mean, meander, meandering, mechanical wave, natural, nod, node, nudge, nutate, oscillate, out of phase, palpitate, parade, peak, pendulate, perform, period, periodic wave, permanent, permanent wave, pitch, pitter-patter, poke, pompadour, popple, present, process, produce, pulse, put forth, put forward, radio wave, raise a cry, ray, reel, reinforcement, represent, resonance, resonance frequency, resonate, reveal, riffle,

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: waive
 * Homophones: waive
 * Homophones: waive

Etymology 1
From waven:, from  wafian:, from, from. Cognate with waben:,  váfa:. See also.

Etymology 2
From *undefined:, wawe:, waghe:, partially from waven: (see above) and partially from  wæg:, from, from. Cognate with weage:,  Woge:,  vague: (< ),  𐍅𐌴𐌲𐍃:. See also.

Etymology 3
Variant forms.

Derived terms

 * waver
 * Elliott wave theory
 * make waves
 * waveband
 * wave field synthesis
 * wave function
 * waveguide
 * wavelength
 * wavelet
 * wave mechanics
 * wave number
 * wave packet
 * wave-particle duality
 * wave ski
 * wave train
 * wave vector
 * wavy

Verb

 * Bosnian: vihoriti, lepršati
 * Croatian: vihoriti, lepršati
 * Danish: vifte,
 * Finnish: aaltoilla, hulmuta
 * French: flotter (flag)
 * German: wedeln, schwenken, flattern, wogen
 * Greek: κυματίζω
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 흔들리다


 * Latvian: viļņot
 * Polish: falować, łopotać, powiewać
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: вихорити, лепршати
 * Roman: vihoriti, lepršati
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: vanka, vanka av och an


 * Arabic: (rafráfa)
 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese: 招手 (zhāoshǒu)
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: vilkuttaa, heiluttaa
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: γνέφω
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: agitare la mano
 * Japanese: 振り動かす (ふりうごかす, furi ugokasu)
 * Korean: 흔들다 (heundeulda)


 * Latvian: māt
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: machać
 * Portuguese: acenar com a mão
 * Russian: махать (maχát’)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: махати
 * Roman: mahati
 * Spanish: hacer señal
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఊపు (oopu)


 * Finnish: aaltoilla
 * French:


 * Greek: κυματίζω


 * Finnish: kähertää


 * Finnish: vilkuttaa


 * Finnish: heiluttaa


 * Polish: zamachać


 * Finnish: vilkuttaa


 * Polish: zamachać


 * Finnish: vinkata

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: dalğa
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese: 波浪 (bōlàng)
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: vágur,
 * Finnish: aalto (1-4)
 * French: vague (1,4), onde  (2), ondulation(s)  (3)
 * German: Welle, Woge (1-4)
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: gelombang
 * Irish: tonn (1,4),  croitheadh,  casadh  (3)
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 물결 (mul-gyeol), 파도 (波濤, pado)
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: pêl, sîpel
 * Sorani: شه‌پۆل
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: vilnis
 * Maltese: mewġa
 * Manx: tonn
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: (1-3),  (1-3)
 * Old Irish:
 * Persian: (mowj)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: unda
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: талас, вал
 * Roman: talas, val
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, bölja
 * Telugu: అల (ala) (1), తరంగం (taraMgaM) (2), కెరటం (keraTaM) (4)
 * Turkish:
 * Tuvaluan: ngalu
 * Welsh: ton, gwaneg
 * Yiddish: כוואַליע
 * Zazaki: phêl