wave

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Significat (anglès)

1. To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
2. To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
3. 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. To have an undulating or wavy form.
5. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
6. To produce waves to the hair.
7. To swing and miss at a pitch.
8. To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
9. To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
10. (obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
11. To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.

swing

wield

wave about

moving ridge

beat fast

dash against

sea wave

move to and fro

raise one’s voice

wave at

yield to

make sign with hands

tap a toofull cooking pot

audience wave

hanging down

rise and fall

stand up energetically

wave crest

be swayed by

remove a spell

let off a trap

remove a

beckon with the hand

ocean wave

wave the hand

cinkle

flap about

cause to shake

cause to tremble

move onwards

frounce

finger wave

rough water

ripple markings

ocean surface wave

hang down

up-and-down

Freqüència

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/weɪv/

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.