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

1. transitive verb. See Waive.
2. intransitive verb. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
3. intransitive verb. To be moved to and fro as a signal.
4. intransitive verb. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.
5. transitive verb. To move one way and the other; to brandish.
6. transitive verb. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
7. transitive verb. To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
8. transitive 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.
9. intransitive 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.
10. intransitive 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.
11. intransitive verb. Water; a body of water.
12. intransitive verb. Unevenness; inequality of surface.
13. intransitive verb. A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
14. intransitive verb. The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.
15. intransitive verb. Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.
16. noun. Woe.
17. noun. a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon

    "a wave of settlers"

    "troops advancing in waves"

18. noun. a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
19. noun. the act of signaling by a movement of the hand

    Synonyms: wafture, waving

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

    Synonyms: undulation

21. noun. one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
22. noun. something that rises rapidly

    "a wave of emotion swept over him"

    "there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed"

23. noun. 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
24. noun. a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)

    "a heat wave"

25. noun. an undulating curve

    Synonyms: undulation

26. verb. set waves in

    "she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair"

27. verb. signal with the hands or nod

    "She waved to her friends"

    "He waved his hand hospitably"

    Synonyms: beckon

28. verb. twist or roll into coils or ringlets

    "curl my hair, please"

    Synonyms: curl

29. verb. move or swing back and forth

    "She waved her gun"

    Synonyms: brandish, flourish

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

    "The curtains undulated"

    "the waves rolled towards the beach"

    Synonyms: flap, roll, undulate

Synonyms

wafture, waving, undulation, beckon, curl, brandish, flourish, flap, roll, undulate

Common word forms

waved, waver, waves, waving, waveless, wavement

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