wave-off
挥手告别,挥别,挥发,挥手
Definitions
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- : the last-minute signaling to an aircraft making its final landing approach that it is not to land on that particular pass but is to go around and come in again.
- : the postponement of a scheduled landing, as of a space shuttle, due to bad weather anticipated at the landing site.
Examples
Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.
But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?
A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
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.