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Definition wave

Etymology 1

From Middle English waven, from Old English wafian (“to wave, fluctuate, waver in mind, wonder”), from Proto-Germanic *wab?n?, *wabjan? (“to wander, sway”), from Proto-Indo-European *web?- (“to move to and from, wander”). Cognate with Middle High German waben (“to wave”), Icelandic váfa (“to fluctuate, waver, doubt”). See also waver.

Verb

wave (third-person singular simple present waves, present participle waving, simple past and past participle waved)

1. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
2. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
3. (transitive, metonymically) 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.
4. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
5. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
6. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
7. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
8. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
9. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
10. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
11. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *wave, partially from waven (“to fluctuate, wave”) (see above) and partially from Middle English wawe, waghe (“wave”), from Old English w?g (“a wave, billow, motion, water, flood, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *w?gaz (“motion, storm, wave”), from Proto-Indo-European *we??- (“to drag, carry”). Cognate with North Frisian weage (“wave, flood, sea”), German Woge (“wave”), French vague (“wave”) (from Germanic), Gothic ???? (w?gs, “a wave”). See also waw.

Noun

wave (plural waves)

1. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
2. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
3. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
4. Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
5. A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
6. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
7. (video games, by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
8. (usually "the wave") A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.

Etymology 3

See waive.

Verb

wave (third-person singular simple present waves, present participle waving, simple past and past participle waved)

1. Obsolete spelling of waive

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