wave
Signification
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- To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
- To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
- 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.
- To have an undulating or wavy form.
- To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
- To produce waves to the hair.
- To swing and miss at a pitch.
- To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
- To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
- (obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
- To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/weɪv/
Étymologie
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.
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