different between wave vs puls

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)

1. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
2. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) 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.
   • She spoke, and bowing waved / Dismissal.

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.

   • 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; […].

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.

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)

1. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
2. (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.

3. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.

4. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.

5. Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
6. A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.

   He dismissed her with a wave of the hand.

7. (figuratively) A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.

   Synonym: rush
8. (video games, by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
9. (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)

1. Obsolete spelling of waive

Middle English

Verb

wave

1. Alternative form of waven

English

Noun

puls

1. plural of pul

Anagrams

• LPUS, ULPs, plus, ulps

Czech

Noun

puls m inan

1. Alternative form of pulz

Further reading

• puls in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• puls in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?ls/
• Hyphenation: puls
• Rhymes: -?ls

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English pulse, from Latin pulsus.

Noun

puls m (plural pulsen, diminutive pulsje n)

1. A pulse (e.g. of a shock, heartbeat or sonar).

Derived terms

• pulskor

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

puls

1. first-person singular present indicative of pulsen
2. imperative of pulsen

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (póltos, “porridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /puls/, [p???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /puls/, [puls]

Noun

puls f (genitive pultis); third declension

1. meal, porridge

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Descendants

References

• puls in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• puls in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• puls in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• puls in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pols

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French pouls, pols, from Latin puls, probably from Ancient Greek ?????? (póltos) from a Proto-Indo-European *pel (“dust, flour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?puls/

Noun

puls (uncountable)

1. Legumes or their seeds.
2. (rare) A legume.

Descendants

• English: pulse

References

• “puls, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-18.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin pulsus

Noun

puls m (definite singular pulsen, indefinite plural pulser, definite plural pulsene)

1. (physiology) pulse

Derived terms

• pulsåre

Related terms

• pulsere

References

• “puls” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin pulsus

Noun

puls m (definite singular pulsen, indefinite plural pulsar, definite plural pulsane)

1. (physiology) pulse

Derived terms

• pulsåre

References

• “puls” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pouls, Latin pulsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puls/

Noun

puls n (plural pulsuri)

1. pulse

Declension

Related terms

• pulsa
• pulsa?ie

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

p?ls m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. pulse (physiology) (beat of heart)

Declension

Volapük

Noun

puls

1. plural of pul