wave" : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: wave	by the DICT Development Group
9 results for wave
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wave n one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) Synonym(s): wave, moving ridge a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon; "a wave of settlers"; "troops advancing in waves" (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth Synonym(s): wave, undulation something that rises rapidly; "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" the act of signaling by a movement of the hand Synonym(s): wave, waving, wafture a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair an undulating curve Synonym(s): wave, undulation a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures); "a heat wave" 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 signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably" Synonym(s): beckon, wave move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun" Synonym(s): brandish, flourish, wave move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach" Synonym(s): roll, undulate, flap, wave twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please" Synonym(s): curl, wave set waves in; "she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waive \Waive\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Waived}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Waiving}.] [OE. waiven, weiven, to set aside, remove, OF. weyver, quesver, to waive, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. veifa to wave, to vibrate, akin to Skr. vip to tremble. Cf. {Vibrate}, {Waif}.] [Written also {wave}.] 1. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego. He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all. --Chaucer. We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others. --Barrow. 2. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert. 3. (Law) (a) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses. (b) (O. Eng. Law) To desert; to abandon. --Burrill. Note: The term was applied to a woman, in the same sense as outlaw to a man. A woman could not be outlawed, in the proper sense of the word, because, according to Bracton, she was never in law, that is, in a frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and held as abandoned. --Burrill.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wave \Wave\ (w[amac]v), v. t. See {Waive}. --Sir H. Wotton. Burke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wave \Wave\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waved} (w[amac]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Waving}.] [OE. waven, AS. wafian to waver, to hesitate, to wonder; akin to w[91]fre wavering, restless, MHG. wabern to be in motion, Icel. vafra to hover about; cf. Icel. v[be]fa to vibrate. Cf. {Waft}, {Waver}.] 1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate. His purple robes waved careless to the winds. --Trumbull. Where the flags of three nations has successively waved. --Hawthorne. 2. To be moved to and fro as a signal. --B. Jonson. 3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate. [Obs.] He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wave \Wave\, v. t. 1. To move one way and the other; to brandish. [bd][[92]neas] waved his fatal sword.[b8] --Dryden. 2. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to. Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea. --Shak. 3. To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. 4. 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. Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground. --Shak. She spoke, and bowing waved Dismissal. --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wave \Wave\, n. [From {Wave}, v.; not the same word as OE. wawe, waghe, a wave, which is akin to E. wag to move. [root]136. See {Wave}, v. i.] 1. 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. The wave behind impels the wave before. --Pope. 2. (Physics) 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}. 3. Water; a body of water. [Poetic] [bd]Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. Build a ship to save thee from the flood, I 'll furnish thee with fresh wave, bread, and wine. --Chapman. 4. Unevenness; inequality of surface. --Sir I. Newton. 5. A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc. 6. The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel. 7. Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm. {Wave front} (Physics), the surface of initial displacement of the particles in a medium, as a wave of vibration advances. {Wave length} (Physics), the space, reckoned in the direction of propagation, occupied by a complete wave or undulation, as of light, sound, etc.; the distance from a point or phase in a wave to the nearest point at which the same phase occurs. {Wave line} (Shipbuilding), a line of a vessel's hull, shaped in accordance with the wave-line system. {Wave-line system}, {Wave-line theory} (Shipbuilding), a system or theory of designing the lines of a vessel, which takes into consideration the length and shape of a wave which travels at a certain speed. {Wave loaf}, a loaf for a wave offering. --Lev. viii. 27. {Wave moth} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of small geometrid moths belonging to {Acidalia} and allied genera; -- so called from the wavelike color markings on the wings. {Wave offering}, an offering made in the Jewish services by waving the object, as a loaf of bread, toward the four cardinal points. --Num. xviii. 11. {Wave of vibration} (Physics), a wave which consists in, or is occasioned by, the production and transmission of a vibratory state from particle to particle through a body. {Wave surface}. (a) (Physics) A surface of simultaneous and equal displacement of the particles composing a wave of vibration. (b) (Geom.) A mathematical surface of the fourth order which, upon certain hypotheses, is the locus of a wave surface of light in the interior of crystals. It is used in explaining the phenomena of double refraction. See under {Refraction}. {Wave theory}. (Physics) See {Undulatory theory}, under {Undulatory}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wave \Wave\, n. [See {Woe}.] Woe. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wave \Wave\, n. 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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
WAVE A {robotics} language. ["WAVE: A Model-Based Language for Manipulator Control", R.P. Paul, Ind Robot 4(1):10-17, 1979]. (1996-09-08)