Wave
Something resembling or likened to a water wave, as in rising unusually high, in being of unusual extent, or in progressive motion; a swelling or excitement, as of feeling or energy; a tide; flood; period of intensity, usual activity, or the like; as, a wave of enthusiasm.
See Waive.
To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
To be moved to and fro as a signal.
To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.
To move one way and the other; to brandish.
To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
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.
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.
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.
Water; a body of water.
Unevenness; inequality of surface.
A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.
Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.
Woe.
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Wave Quotations
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Thomas Jefferson
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.
Jimi Hendrix
It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.
Mitch Hedberg
If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
Steven Wright
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Alan Watts
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Albert Schweitzer
Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that time probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not.
Henry L. Stimson
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Wave Translations
wave in Afrikaans is swaai
wave in Dutch is gebaren, wuiven, zwaaien
wave in Finnish is heiluttaa, laine
wave in French is brandir, vague, onde, flottge
wave in German is Welle, wehen, Woge, flattern, Welle
wave in Italian is flutto, sventolare, soffiare, svolazzare, onda
wave in Latin is undo, crispo, fluctus
wave in Portuguese is onda
wave in Spanish is ablandir, aletear, ola
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