wave (original) (raw)

wave verb [I or T] (MOVE HAND)

wave to/at I waved to/at him from the window but he didn't see me.

wave your hand about/around She waves her hands about/around a lot when she's talking.

wave someone/something away, on, etc.

See more

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

wave verb [I or T] (MOVE REPEATEDLY)

wave verb [I or T] (CURL HAIR)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Idiom

Phrasal verbs

wave noun [C] (HAND MOVEMENT)

give (someone) a wave We gave Grandpa a wave from the window.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

wave noun [C] (BY A CROWD)

wave noun [C] (STRONG FEELING)

wave noun [C] (HAIR CURVES)

Merethe Svarstad Eeg/EyeEm/GettyImages

Idioms

(Definition of wave from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

wave | American Dictionary

wave verb [I/T] (MOVE)

wave noun [C] (WATER MOVEMENT)

wave noun [C] (ENERGY FORM)

wave noun [C] (MOVE)

(Definition of wave from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of wave

wave

Here we consider some dustcharging effects on plasma waves on the macroscopic level.

The disper sion equation for the waves was obtained as the product of two equations.

To illustrate this effect, we solve (1) numerically for right-hand polarized waves.

Such a distribution function is formed mainly owing to pitch-angle scattering caused by ultralow-frequency hydromagnetic waves.

The stabilization of self-excited (linearly unstable) ionization waves (using centre manifold theory) is a topic that will be presented in a forthcoming paper.

The resulting (not self-generated) wavepackets are called waves of stratification.

In the compressible case magnetosonic waves should also be taken into account.

The moon and sun's gravitational forces mostly drive the longest waves (tides).

To take advantage of the benefits offered by this approach, four waves of data were collected across the 3-week time span of this study.

The movements are worm-like, the contractions passing along the body in waves.

Future research with multiple waves of data collection will help to better quantify these associations.

They showed that the intrusion initially propagates along the middle layer as a bulbous head, leaving a train of interfacial waves in its wake.

Special attention is given to solutions for which there is a train of waves on each side of the distribution of pressure.

In particular, it is shown that (depending on the values of the parameters) short waves may appear on either side of the pressure distribution.

Therefore, the waves of shorter wavelength are now on the back.

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.