wave

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

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. (metonymically, transitive) 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 style (the hair) so as to produce a wavy texture.
7. (intransitive) To swing and miss at a pitch.
8. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
9. (metonymically, transitive) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
10. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
11. (ergative, intransitive) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.

Noun

1. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
2. (poetic) The ocean.
3. 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.
7. (figuratively) A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
8. Any of a series of orders to be fulfilled in one short interval of time, planned as part of wave picking.
9. (figuratively) A movement or trend in popular culture.
10. (broadly) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
11. 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.

Sinonieme

swing

flutter

shake

🫨

sway

billow

brandish

flap

wag

ripple

surge

rock

🪨

flourish

beckon

undulate

dangle

fan

oscillate

swell

undulation

move

heave

curl

waggle

wield

flicker

breaker

surf

waving

toss

agitate

roll

roller

quiver

wave about

quake

whirl

sweep

gesture

dangling

stroke

fling

fly

✈️

waves

flapping

waft

tide

tremble

beat

stream

signal

Vertalings

Welle

👋

vague

👋

onda

👋

onde

👋

ola

👋

onda

👋

agiter

onda

👋

κύμα

golf

👋

unda

👋

se balancer

onduler

Woge

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/weɪv/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: waven

Geërf van Old English: wafian

Verwante met Middle High German: waben

Verwante met Duits: wabern

Verwante met Yslands: váfa

Geërf van Middle English: *wave

Geërf van Middle English: wawe

Geërf van Old English: wǣg

Verwante met Noord-Fries: weage

Verwante met Duits: Woge

Verwante met Frans: vague

Verwante met Goties: 𐍅𐌴𐌲𐍃

In summary

From Middle English waven, from Old English wafian (“to wave, fluctuate, waver in mind, wonder”), from Proto-West Germanic *wabōn, from Proto-Germanic *wabōną, *wabjaną (“to wander, sway”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“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.