waving
挥手,挥舞着,挥挥手,挥舞
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Definitions
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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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North Dakota, on the other hand, is one of the states that’s been hardest-hit by this current wave of outbreaks, with 1 in every 1,000 residents now dead from the virus.
By the end of 2021, at least ten elephants will be sporting the new collars in selected parks across Africa, in partnership with the World Wildlife Fund and Vulcan’s EarthRanger, unleashing a new wave of conservation, learning and defending.
Normally, in a recession of the magnitude that we’ve had, we would have already been in the midst of a wave of corporate bankruptcies.
The wave of hospitalizations and deaths had lagged behind cases, but it crashed down over the past few weeks.
Standing as close to the windows as they dared, the villagers watched as the waves climbed to 15 feet high.
Islamists stood next to communists waving Palestinian flags and hurling insults at Israeli officials.
Waving a silk cloth, he declared, “Gentlemen, I will have this land just as surely as I now have this handkerchief.”
“Check the dining hall,” a young woman exclaimed, waving to her left, and a dozen persons surged in that direction.
The mother keeps gesturing at them, waving her hands in the air.
From a balcony on one side, a few people looked down on us as we entered, waving hello.
His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
The Cockalorum pondered over this for a moment, and then murmuring, "I prefer croquet," floundered away through the waving grass.
Haggard leant from the window, waving his hand; his wife gazed after the vanishing train, standing like Niobe, dissolved in tears.
"Certainly—certainly," said the Assistant Commissioner, waving one large hand in the direction of a bookshelf.
"There was a pile of 'em that high, Mark," said Perry, waving his hands about a foot above the table.