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wave
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?v, IPA(key): /we?v/
- Homophone: waive
- Rhymes: -e?v
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”), German wabern (“to waft”), 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)
- (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
- (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
- (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.
- She spoke, and bowing waved / Dismissal.
- (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
- (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
- (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
- 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; […].
- (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
- (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
- (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
- (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
Hyponyms
- wave off
Derived terms
- waver
Related terms
- wave the white flag
Translations
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)
- A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
- (poetic) 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.
- 1895, Fiona Macleod (William Sharp), The Sin-Eater and Other Tales
- (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
- A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
- Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
- A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
- He dismissed her with a wave of the hand.
- (figuratively) A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
- Synonym: rush
- (video games, by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
- (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.
Synonyms
- (an undulation): und (obsolete, rare)
- (group activity): Mexican wave (chiefly Commonwealth)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
References
- wave at OneLook Dictionary Search
- wave in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Etymology 3
See waive.
Verb
wave (third-person singular simple present waves, present participle waving, simple past and past participle waved)
- Obsolete spelling of waive
Middle English
Verb
wave
- Alternative form of waven
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blazon
English
Etymology
Old French blason (“shield”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ble?z?n/
- Rhymes: -e?z?n
Noun
blazon (countable and uncountable, plural blazons)
- (heraldry) A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.
- 1894, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry:
- ...it should never be forgotten that the best blazon is that which is the most perspicuous
- 1894, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry:
- (heraldry) A formalized language for describing a coat of arms.
- 1997, Gerard J. Brault, Early Blazon:
- We must banish, therefore, the persistent but wholly erroneous notion that the heralds invented many of the terms used in blazon and borrowed the rest from the everyday lexicon of terms...
- 1997, Gerard J. Brault, Early Blazon:
- (heraldry) A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms.
- Ostentatious display, verbal or otherwise; publication; description; record.
- 1709, Jeremy Collier, Essays upon several moral subjects
- Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company.
- 1709, Jeremy Collier, Essays upon several moral subjects
Translations
Verb
blazon (third-person singular simple present blazons, present participle blazoning, simple past and past participle blazoned)
- (transitive) To describe a coat of arms.
- 10 July 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian, No. 104
- the following coat of arms, which I will send you in the original language, not being herald enough to blazon it in English
- 10 July 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian, No. 104
- To make widely or generally known, to proclaim.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, w:Cymbeline, Act VI-III:
- O thou goddess/ thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st/ in these two princely boys.
- 1774, John Trumbull, An Elegy on the Times
- There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow.
- 18th century, William Cowper, Retirement
- In drawing pictures of forbidden joys,
Retires to blazon his own worthless name
- In drawing pictures of forbidden joys,
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, w:Cymbeline, Act VI-III:
- To display conspicuously or publicly.
- To shine; to be conspicuous.
- To deck; to embellish; to adorn.
- 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary
- She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.
- 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary
Related terms
- blazonable
- device
- emblazon
Translations
Anagrams
- nazbol
Esperanto
Noun
blazon
- accusative singular of blazo
Romanian
Etymology
From French blason
Noun
blazon n (plural blazoane)
- blazon
Declension
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