wave

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

vague

👋

onde

👋

agiter

se balancer

onduler

brandir

flotter

balancer

battre

palpiter

ondulation

voltiger

vagues

ondoyer

lame

remuer

saluer

hauteur

déferlement

faire signe de la main

s’agiter

ondoiement

geste

s'agiter

trembler

revenir sur ses paroles

changer de sens

retourner dans sa tête

être influencé par qqun

penduler

faire signes

tire-d'aile

battement

bouger

céder

changer

coup

dépasser

flirter

😘

flot

flux

houle

laine

mode

mouvement

osciller

salut

👋

secouer

se retourner

se rétracter

Synonymes

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

Traductions

Welle

👋

onda

👋

ola

👋

onda

👋

onda

👋

κύμα

golf

👋

unda

👋

Woge

zwaaien

wehen

onada

👋

fluctus

👋

sventolare

👋

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/weɪv/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: waven

Hérité de ancien anglais: wafian

Appartenant à moyen haut-allemand: waben

Appartenant à allemand: wabern

Appartenant à islandais: váfa

Hérité de moyen anglais: *wave

Hérité de moyen anglais: wawe

Hérité de ancien anglais: wǣg

Appartenant à frison septentrional: weage

Appartenant à allemand: Woge

Appartenant à français: vague

Appartenant à gotique: 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.