Definizione monolingua

wave

wave (third-person singular simple present waves, present participle waving, simple past and past participle waved)

1. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.

   The flag waved in the gentle breeze.

   • 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, BBC Sport:

     But the World Cup winning veterans left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try.

2. (intransitive) To wave one’s hand in greeting or departure.

   I waved goodbye from across the room.

3. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
4. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
5. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.

   Jones waves at strike one.

6. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.

   The starter waved the flag to begin the race.

7. (transitive) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
8. (intransitive) To try, in public, to attract people into a business establishment.

wave (plural waves)

1. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; undulation.

   The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.

2. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.

   Gravity waves, while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect.

3. A shape which alternatingly curves in opposite directions.

   Her hair had a nice wave to it.

   sine wave

4. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.

   A wave of shoppers stampeded through the door when the store opened for its Christmas discount special.

   A wave of retirees began moving to the coastal area.

   A wave of emotion overcame her when she thought about her son who was killed in battle.

   • 2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, BBC:

     Foster had been left unsighted by Scott Danns positioning at his post, but the goalkeeper was about to prove his worth to Birmingham by keeping them in the game with a series of stunning saves as West Ham produced waves after wave of attack in their bid to find a crucial second goal.

5. A sideway movement of the hand(s).

   With a wave of the hand.

6. 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. Usually referred to as ""the wave""

Definizione dizionario wave

	onda
	undulation
	In electronics, the time-amplitude profile of an electrical signal.

	agitare
	to wave one’s hand

	ondeggiare
	to move back and forth repeatedly

tremare

	ondata
	Diffusione ed affermazione di una tendenza, di un gusto e sim.

agitare la mano

brandire

cenno

dimenare

flutto

fluttuare

gesto

ondulare

ondulazione

rimescolare

sbandierare

soffiare

sventolare

svolazzare

Altri significati:

(intransitive) To wave one’s hand in greeting or departure.

A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; undulation.

(intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.

(figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.

to have an undulating or wavy form

(transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.

(physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.

(intransitive) To try, in public, to attract people into a business establishment.

Obsolete spelling of waive.

wave (about)

A shape which alternatingly curves in opposite directions.

A disturbance in an fluid medium.

wave (physics)

A motion of a crowd caused by its members' successively putting their arms in the air, so that those in one part of the crowd do so immediately after their immediate neighbors on one side, and the crowd looks as though a disturbance is going through it.

to cause to move back and forth repeatedly

(intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.

beat fast (heart)

to signal with a waving movement

wave (i.e. a flag)

A disturbance that propagates through space and time.

(transitive) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.

(transitive) To produce waves to the hair.

change (mind)

A sideway movement of the hand(s).

(intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.

A computer file format, better known as WAV.