wave

(Inglês)

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.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/weɪv/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: waven

Herdado de inglês arcaico: wafian

Cognato com alto alemão médio: waben

Cognato com alemão: wabern

Cognato com islandês: váfa

Herdado de inglês médio: *wave

Herdado de inglês médio: wawe

Herdado de inglês arcaico: wǣg

Cognato com frísio setentrional: weage

Cognato com alemão: Woge

Cognato com francês: vague

Cognato com gótico: 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.

Conceitos

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👋

sacolejar

tiritar

tremer

borboletear

enrolar

esvoaçar

flutuar

amotinar

vagalhão

ondulação

sacudir

o bater

acenar com a mão

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gesto

jeito

menear

oscilar

tremular

brandir

enxame

movimentar

movimento

remada

bater de asas

leva

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dar tchau

fazer acenos

sinais

ola

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Sinônimos

swing

flutter

shake

🫨

sway

billow

brandish

flap

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ripple

surge

rock

🪨

flourish

beckon

undulate

dangle

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oscillate

swell

undulation

move

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curl

waggle

wield

flicker

breaker

surf

waving

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roll

roller

quiver

wave about

quake

whirl

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fling

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✈️

waves

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tide

tremble

beat

stream

signal

Traduções

Welle

👋

vague

👋

onda

👋

onde

👋

ola

👋

agiter

onda

👋

κύμα

golf

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fala

unda

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se balancer

onduler

Woge

zwaaien