Wave: Definition and part of speech

Wave

  1. v. t. See Waive.
  2. v. i. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
  3. v. i. To be moved to and fro as a signal.
  4. v. i. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.
  5. v. t. To move one way and the other; to brandish.
  6. v. t. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
  7. v. t. To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
  8. v. t. 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.
  9. v. i. 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.
  10. v. i. 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.
  11. 1v. t. 1 See Waive.
  12. 1v. i. 1 To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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