Dictionary Entry
wave
wave is a 4-letter English word with 30 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Waive. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 30 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
See Waive.
- 2intransitive verb
To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
- 3intransitive verb
To be moved to and fro as a signal.
- 4intransitive verb
To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.
- 5transitive verb
To move one way and the other; to brandish.
- 6transitive verb
To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
- 7transitive verb
To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
- 8transitive verb
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.
- 9intransitive verb
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.
- 10intransitive verb
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.
- 11intransitive verb
Water; a body of water.
- 12intransitive verb
Unevenness; inequality of surface.
- 13intransitive verb
A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
- 14intransitive verb
The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.
- 15intransitive verb
Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.
- 16noun
Woe.
- 17noun
a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon
"a wave of settlers"
"troops advancing in waves"
- 18noun
a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
- 19noun
the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
- 20noun
(physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
Synonyms
- 21noun
one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
- 22noun
something that rises rapidly
"a wave of emotion swept over him"
"there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed"
- 23noun
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
- 24noun
a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
"a heat wave"
- 25noun
an undulating curve
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- 26verb
set waves in
"she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair"
- 27verb
signal with the hands or nod
"She waved to her friends"
"He waved his hand hospitably"
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- 28verb
twist or roll into coils or ringlets
"curl my hair, please"
Synonyms
- 29verb
move or swing back and forth
"She waved her gun"
- 30verb
move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
"The curtains undulated"
"the waves rolled towards the beach"
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