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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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vibrate
English
Etymology
From Latin vibr?tus, perfect passive participle of vibr? (“agitate, set in tremulous motion”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /va??b?e?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?va?.b?e?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Verb
vibrate (third-person singular simple present vibrates, present participle vibrating, simple past and past participle vibrated)
- (intransitive) To shake with small, rapid movements to and fro.
- (intransitive) To resonate.
- Her mind was vibrating with excitement.
- (transitive) To brandish; to swing to and fro.
- to vibrate a sword or a staff
- (transitive) To mark or measure by moving to and fro.
- a pendulum vibrating seconds
- (transitive) To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
- 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech
- Breath vocalized, i.e., vibrated or undulated, may […] impress a swift, tremulous motion.
- 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech
- (transitive, slang, dated) To please or impress someone.
- 1949, Ladies' Home Journal (volume 66, page 115)
- And if he wants to give you high praise, he'll answer, "That vibrates me"; "That has a large charge"; or "That's oogley."
- 1961, Congressional Record
- […] standing side by side under a Grecian column, tapping their feet in unison and saying such things as "Hot-diggety,” “Razz-ma-tazz," “That vibrates me," and other expressions of praise current in their youth.
- 1949, Ladies' Home Journal (volume 66, page 115)
- (intransitive, music) To use vibrato.
Related terms
Translations
Noun
vibrate (uncountable)
- The setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to vibrate rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms.
- Please put your cellphones on vibrate for the duration of the meeting.
Translations
Further reading
- vibrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- vibrate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- vrbaite
Italian
Verb
vibrate
- second-person plural present indicative of vibrare
- second-person plural imperative of vibrare
- feminine plural of vibrato
Anagrams
- brevità, trabevi
Latin
Verb
vibr?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of vibr?
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