WAVEnoun

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  historicalA members of the WAVES; a member of the US Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve).

  • [H]e read the faded sticker on the crystal of the door, “A slip of the lip can sink a ship.” Below a WAVE held her finger to lips that had turned tan.

waveverb詞源 1/weɪv/

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  To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.

  • The flag waved in the gentle breeze.
  • But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try.
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  To move one's hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.

  • I raised my arms in a final salute. I smiled. I waved goodbye. I turned into the helicopter, the door was closed, the red carpet was rolled up.
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  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.

  • I waved goodbye from across the room.
  • Look, with what courteous action / It waves you to a more removed ground.
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  To have an undulating or wavy form.

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  To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.

  • horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea
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  To style (the hair) so as to produce a wavy texture.

  • There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].
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  ball-gamesbaseballgamesTo swing and miss at a pitch.

  • Jones waves at strike one.
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  To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.

  • The starter waved the flag to begin the race.
  • His father has waved bills in front of face and said to him — see what you've cost me.

wavenoun詞源 2/weɪv/

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  A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.

  • The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.
  • O God! can I not save / One from the pitiless wave? / Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?
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  The ocean.

  • 1895, Fiona Macleod (William Sharp), The Sin-Eater and Other Tales […] your father Murtagh Ross, and his lawful childless wife, Dionaid, and his sister Anna—one and all, they lie beneath the green wave or in the brown mould.
  • Whoever rules the waves rules the world...
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  natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.

  • Gravity waves, while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect.
  • Beyond military applications, cloaking devices are drawing interest from telecommunications companies, who see them as a way to send information by light more efficiently. One idea is to use the new materials to build "superantennas" that can concentrate light and other electromagnetic waves to make laser-like beams.
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  A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.

  • Her hair had a nice wave to it.
  • sine wave
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  Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.

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  A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.

  • He dismissed her with a wave of the hand.
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  A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.

  • A wave of shoppers stampeded through the door when the store opened for its Christmas discount special.
  • A wave of retirees began moving to the coastal area.
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  Any of a series of orders to be fulfilled in one short interval of time, planned as part of wave picking.

waveverb詞源 2/weɪv/

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  To generate a wave.

  • If the electron had wavelike properties, then what was disturbing the medium in which the wave existed? What was waving?

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• waive