wave
挥手,挥,挥动,挥舞
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- : a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
- : any surging or progressing movement or part resembling a wave of the sea: a wave of the pulse.
- : a swell, surge, or rush, as of feeling or of a certain condition: a wave of disgust sweeping over a person; a wave of cholera throughout the country.
- : a widespread feeling, opinion, tendency, etc.: a wave of anti-intellectualism; the new wave of installment buying.
- : a mass movement, as of troops, settlers, or migrating birds.
- : an outward curve, or one of a series of such curves, in a surface or line; undulation.
- : an act or instance of waving.
- : a fluttering sign or signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.: a farewell wave.
- : natural waviness of the hair, or a special treatment to impart waviness: to have a wave in one's hair; to get a shampoo and a wave.
- : a period or spell of unusually hot or cold weather.
- : Physics. a progressive disturbance propagated from point to point in a medium or space without progress or advance by the points themselves, as in the transmission of sound or light.
- : Literary. water. a body of water.the sea.
- : a momentary standing and sitting back down by spectators in a sequential, lateral way to create, en masse, a wavelike effect visually.
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waved, wav·ing.
- : to move freely and gently back and forth or up and down, as by the action of air currents, sea swells, etc.: The flags were waving in the wind.
- : to curve alternately in opposite directions; have an undulating form: The road waved along the valley.
- : to bend or sway up and down or to and fro, as branches or plants in the wind.
- : to be moved, especially alternately in opposite directions:The woman's handkerchief waved in encouragement.
- : to give a signal by fluttering or flapping something: She waved to me with her hand.
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waved, wav·ing.
- : to cause to flutter or have a waving motion in: A night wind waves the tattered banners.
- : to cause to bend or sway up and down or to and fro: The storm waved the heavy branches of the elm.
- : to give an undulating form to; cause to curve up and down or in and out.
- : to give a wavy appearance or pattern to, as silk.
- : to impart a wave to.
- : to move, especially alternately in opposite directions: to wave the hand.
- : to signal to by waving a flag or the like; direct by a waving movement: to wave a train to a halt; to wave traffic around an obstacle.
- : to signify or express by a waving movement: to wave a last goodbye.
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Examples
This year has marked a new wave of organizing among tech workers.
It’s a beach break, so the sand is constantly shifting and changing the way the wave breaks.
Influencer marketing is witnessing Micro-influencers making waves.
He suggested gravitational waves might be a good way to study the sun’s massive eddies.
To keep the old one going, Newton will have to jump-start a mediocre offense, and Belichick will have to ride out an unprecedented wave of defensive defections.
Thus it attracted a wave of cowboy operators to fly passengers and cargo between cities.
There have been previous waves of people moving to Texas, and we are now experiencing the latest wave.
The army has since conducted a brutal wave of jailings against activists and journalists.
We prefer to wave away the warning signs; like The Interview, Mulholland Drive was comfortably downplayed as over-the-top satire.
What are your feelings about the wave of support that always immediately presents itself from the other side?
But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?
The wave-like movement of these animals is particularly graceful and cleverly done.
While you were admiring the long roll of the wave, a sudden spray would be dashed over you, and make you catch your breath!
"Yes," said Punch, lifted up in his father's arms to wave good-bye.
"I've brought ye thet Injun I wuz tellin' ye uv," she said, with a wave of her hand toward Alessandro.