Dictionary entry details
• WAVE (noun)
Meaning:
One of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
moving ridge; wave
Hypernyms ("wave" is a kind of...):
motion; movement (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wave"):
tidal wave (a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun)
tidal wave (an unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide)
tsunami (a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption)
roll; roller; rolling wave (a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore)
white horse; whitecap (a wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white)
billow; surge (a large sea wave)
lift; rise (a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground)
crestless wave; swell (the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea)
riffle; ripple; rippling; wavelet (a small wave on the surface of a liquid)
swash (the movement or sound of water)
backwash; wake (the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward)
breaker; breakers; surf (waves breaking on the shore)
Meaning:
A movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context examples:
a wave of settlers / troops advancing in waves
Hypernyms ("wave" is a kind of...):
motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)
Meaning:
(physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
wave; undulation
Hypernyms ("wave" is a kind of...):
motion; movement (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physical science; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wave"):
flap; flapping; flutter; fluttering (the motion made by flapping up and down)
impulse; pulsation; pulse; pulsing ((electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients))
blast wave; shock wave (a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity)
wave form; wave shape; waveform (the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time)
acoustic wave; sound wave ((acoustics) a wave that transmits sound)
traveling wave (a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave)
standing wave; stationary wave (a wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time)
seiche (a wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay; caused by atmospheric or seismic disturbances)
fluctuation (a wave motion)
oscillation; vibration ((physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean)
sine wave (a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve)
gravitation wave; gravity wave ((physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light)
Meaning:
Something that rises rapidly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Context 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
Hypernyms ("wave" is a kind of...):
rise (a growth in strength or number or importance)
Meaning:
The act of signaling by a movement of the hand
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
wafture; waving; wave
Hypernyms ("wave" is a kind of...):
gesture; motion (the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wave"):
brandish; flourish (the act of waving)
Meaning:
A hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("wave" is a kind of...):
coif; coiffure; hair style; hairdo; hairstyle (the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wave"):
finger wave (a wave made with the fingers)
perm; permanent; permanent wave (a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals)
Meaning:
An undulating curve
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
undulation; wave
Hypernyms ("wave" is a kind of...):
curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wave"):
sine curve; sinusoid (the curve of y=sin x)
Meaning:
A persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Context example:
a heat wave
Hypernyms ("wave" is a kind of...):
atmospheric condition; weather; weather condition (the meteorological conditions: temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation)
Meronyms (parts of "wave"):
wave front (all the points just reached by a wave as it propagates)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wave"):
heat wave (a wave of unusually hot weather)
cold wave (a wave of unusually cold weather)
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Wave" is a kind of...):
reservist (a member of a military reserve)
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
• WAVE (verb)
Meaning:
Signal with the hands or nod
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
beckon; wave
Context examples:
She waved to her friends / He waved his hand hospitably
Hypernyms (to "wave" is one way to...):
gesticulate; gesture; motion (show, express or direct through movement)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s to somebody
Meaning:
Move or swing back and forth
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
brandish; wave; flourish
Context example:
She waved her gun
Hypernyms (to "wave" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
"Wave" entails doing...:
hold; take hold (have or hold in one's hands or grip)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wave"):
wigwag (send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
flap; undulate; wave; roll
Context examples:
The curtains undulated / the waves rolled towards the beach
Hypernyms (to "wave" is one way to...):
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wave"):
luff (flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Twist or roll into coils or ringlets
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
curl; wave
Context example:
curl my hair, please
Hypernyms (to "wave" is one way to...):
twist (turn in the opposite direction)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wave"):
crape; crimp; frizz; frizzle; kink; kink up (curl tightly)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They wave their hair
Meaning:
Set waves in
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Context example:
she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair
Hypernyms (to "wave" is one way to...):
arrange; coif; coiffe; coiffure; do; dress; set (arrange attractively)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wave"):
marcel (make a marcel in a woman's hair)
gauffer; goffer (make wavy with a heated goffering iron)
perm (give a permanent wave to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They wave their hair
