Synonym: flap, flutter, gesture, move, signal, sway, swing. Similar words: have, cave, leave, slave, weave, have on, save up, have to. Meaning: [weɪv] n. 1. one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) 2. a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon 3. (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth 4. something that rises rapidly 5. the act of signaling by a movement of the hand 6. a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair 7. an undulating curve 8. a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures) 9. 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. v. 1. signal with the hands or nod 2. move or swing back and forth 3. move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion 4. twist or roll into coils or ringlets 5. set waves in.
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211. Truffaut was an important film director of the French New Wave.
212. The nation had been buffeted by a wave of strikes.
213. A wave of self-consciousness can wash over her when someone new enters the room.
214. I wish I could wave a magic wand and make everything all right again.
215. We need more young scientists to fill the gap left by a wave of retirements expected over the next decade.
216. Well, if you've argued with senior management you can wave goodbye to any chances of promotion!
217. The ship heaves with wave.
218. I wave airily and the face moves away.
219. Their mutual self - supporting pose is continuously almost - falling , like a standing wave in a spring creek.
220. Meanwhile, the wave of consolidation in financial services has reduced the pool of big advertisers on news and finance shows.
221. So who should receive the accolade of riding the biggest wave?
222. He was seen to wave that he was O.K. to one of the other aircraft.
223. The wave accelerates into the nearly circular cavity from all sides(sentencedict.com/wave.html), converging on the center of the crater.
224. With another wave, the bureaucrats were banished, gone for ever, scurrying like little, fat rats into the alleyways.
225. And, as always, I feel the usual wave of uncontrollable anguish at the sight of him.
226. As I came up out of the trough, the wave was pouting out a lip like the deck of an aircraft carrier.
227. And each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices.
228. Symington can wave good-bye to his plan to abolish income taxes.
229. On the contrary the markets have been hit by a wave of instability unparalleled since the 1995 Marrakesh trade agreements.
230. Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. Ovid
231. Here is the wavelength and is the angular frequency of the wave.
232. The playing with words to achieve effect in the description of the progress of the wave is fascinating.
233. He acknowledged that it could prove up to four times more expensive than wind or wave power.
234. The vibration takes the form of an acoustic wave travelling down the rod.
235. On other sites it is no more than an amused smile and a wave of the hand.
More similar words: have, cave, leave, slave, weave, have on, save up, have to, save for, cave in, leave out, slavery, leave off, traveler, have a ball, leave alone, leave behind, have to do with, machiavellian, have a good time.