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| Shopping | The largest selection of WAVE products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | wey'v |
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| Rhymes | airwave, architrave, autoclave, and 26 more rhymes in eyv... |
| Meaning | One of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water). |
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| Synonyms | moving ridge |
| Broader | movement, motion |
| Narrower | surf, breaker, breakers; wake, backwash; swash; ripple, rippling, riffle, wavelet; swell, crestless wave; lift, rise; billow, surge; tidal wave; tidal wave; tsunami; roller, roll, rolling wave; whitecap, white horse |
| Nouns | wavelet |
| Meaning | A movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon. |
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| Examples | "a wave of settlers"; "troops advancing in waves" |
| Broader | motion, movement, move, motility |
| Verbs | wave |
| Meaning | (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth. |
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| Synonyms | undulation |
| Category | physics, physical science, natural philosophy |
| Broader | movement, motion |
| Narrower | gravity wave, gravitation wave; sine wave; oscillation, vibration; fluctuation; seiche; standing wave, stationary wave; traveling wave; sound wave, acoustic wave; wave form, waveform, wave shape; shock wave, blast wave; pulsation, pulsing, pulse, impulse; flap, flapping, flutter, fluttering |
| Meaning | Something that rises rapidly. |
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| Examples | "a wave of emotion swept over him"; "there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed"; "a wave of conservatism in the country led by the hard right" |
| Broader | rise |
| Meaning | The act of signaling by a movement of the hand. |
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| Synonyms | waving, wafture |
| Broader | gesture, motion |
| Narrower | flourish, brandish |
| Verbs | wave |
| Meaning | A hairdo that creates undulations in the hair. |
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| Broader | hairdo, hairstyle, hair style, coiffure, coif |
| Narrower | finger wave; permanent wave, permanent, perm |
| Adjectives | wavy; wavy |
| Verbs | wave; wave |
| Meaning | An undulating curve. |
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| Synonyms | undulation |
| Broader | curve, curved shape |
| Narrower | sine curve, sinusoid |
| Meaning | A persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures). |
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| Examples | "a heat wave" |
| Parts | wave front |
| Broader | weather, weather condition, atmospheric condition |
| Narrower | cold wave; heat wave |
| Meaning | 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. |
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| Broader | reservist; woman, adult female |
| Meaning | Signal with the hands or nod. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s to somebody |
| Examples | "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably" |
| Synonyms | beckon |
| Broader | gesticulate, gesture, motion |
| Nouns | wave, waving; waver |
| Meaning | Move or swing back and forth. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "She waved her gun" |
| Synonyms | brandish, flourish |
| Broader | move, displace |
| Narrower | wigwag |
| Entails | hold, take hold |
| Nouns | waver |
| Meaning | Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "the waves rolled towards the beach" |
| Synonyms | roll, undulate, flap |
| Broader | move |
| Narrower | luff |
| Nouns | wave |
| Meaning | Twist or roll into coils or ringlets. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Model | They wave their hair |
| Synonyms | curl |
| Broader | twist |
| Narrower | crimp, crape, frizzle, frizz, kink up, kink |
| Nouns | wave |
| Meaning | Set waves in. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Model | They wave their hair |
| Examples | "she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair" |
| Broader | dress, arrange, set, do, coif, coiffe, coiffure |
| Narrower | marcel; gauffer, goffer; perm |
| Nouns | wave |
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