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wave

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wave verb [I or T] (MOVE HAND)

to raise your hand and move it from side to side as a way of greeting someone, telling someone to do something, or adding emphasis to an expression:

wave to/at I waved to/at him from the window but he didn't see me.

I was waving my hand like mad but he never once looked in my direction.

She was so annoyed she wouldn't even wave us goodbye/wave goodbye to us.

wave your hand about/around She waves her hands about/around a lot when she's talking.

wave someone/something away, on, etc.

to make a movement with your hand that tells someone or something to move in a particular direction:

You'll have to wait till the policeman waves the car on.

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He would always turn and wave at the end of the street.
They waved at us as we drove by.
Mary waved at the man but he didn't seem to notice.
She suddenly espied someone waving at her from the window.
I wished her a safe journey and waved her off.

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Welcoming, greeting & greetings

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Gestures & gesturing

wave verb [I or T] (MOVE REPEATEDLY)

to move from side to side, or to make something move like this while holding it in the hand:

The corn waved gently in the summer breeze.

A crowd of people ran down the street waving banners.

He seems to think I can wave a magic wand and everything will be all right.

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Shaking, swinging and vibrating

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wave verb [I or T] (CURL HAIR)

If hair waves, it curls slightly:

If she leaves her hair to dry on its own, it just waves naturally.

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Hairdressing

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Idiom

wave/say goodbye to something

Partikkelverb

wave something aside
wave someone/something down
wave someone off

wave

noun [ C ]

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wave noun [C] (WATER)

a raised line of water that moves across the surface of an area of water, especially the sea:

wave breaks/crashes At night, I listened to the sound of the waves breaking/crashing against the shore.

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A large wave swept away half the sandcastle.
The boat was swamped by an enormous wave.
Wind and wave power are now being seriously canvassed as the solution to our energy problems.
A huge wave capsized the yacht.
The murmur of the waves on the beach lulled me to sleep.

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Waves

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wave noun [C] (HAND MOVEMENT)

the action of raising your hand and moving it from side to side as a way of greeting someone, etc.:

give (someone) a wave We gave Grandpa a wave from the window.

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Welcoming, greeting & greetings

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Gestures & gesturing

wave noun [C] (BY A CROWD)

the Wave

(UK Mexican wave)

a wave-like movement made by a crowd watching a sports game, when everyone stands and lifts up their arms and then sits down again one after another:

The crowd did the Wave.

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Spectators & commentators at sports events

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wave noun [C] (ENERGY)

the pattern in which some types of energy, such as sound, light, and heat, are spread or carried:

radio waves

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The microphone converts acoustic waves to electrical signals for transmission.
The unit emits an electromagnetic wave.
Radio Seven transmits on 201 medium wave.
Waves of light and sound are transmitted in every direction.
These sound waves travel at over 1000 feet per second.

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Physics: the state of matter

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wave noun [C] (LARGE NUMBER)

a larger than usual number of events of a similar, often bad, type, happening within the same period:

a crime wave

wave of The country was swept by a wave of protests.

a new, second, etc. wave of something

a number of events of a particular type that happen again or are repeated after a pause:

A new wave of job losses is expected this year.

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The Met Office says that the heat wave will continue for most of the week.
The vineyard is representative of the new wave of wine producers.
Wave on wave of refugees has crossed the border to escape the fighting.
This recent wave of terrorism has ruled out any chance of peace talks.
A wave of strikes swept the country.

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Order and sequence - general words

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wave noun [C] (STRONG FEELING)

a sudden strong feeling that gets stronger as it spreads:

wave of A wave of panic swept through the crowd.

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brainwave (IDEA) UK informal

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Strong feelings

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wave noun [C] (HAIR CURVES)

a series of slight curves in a person's hair:

Your hair has a natural wave, but mine's just straight.

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wavy

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Hair

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Idiomer

make waves

wave after/upon wave

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wave

verb [ I/T ]

/weɪv/

wave verb [I/T] (MOVE)

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to raise your hand and move it from side to side as a greeting, or to get someone's attention or give information:

[ I ] She leaned out the window and waved (good-bye).

[ M ] As soon as we showed our papers as journalists, the policeman waved us in (= moved his hand to allow us to go in).

If you wave something or something waves, you move it from side to side while holding it in the hand, or something else moves it in this way:

[ T ] He was very excited and rushed into the room waving a piece of paper.

[ I ] Flags waved in the breeze.

wave

noun [ C ]

/weɪv/

wave noun [C] (WATER MOVEMENT)

a raised movement of water rolling across the surface esp. of the sea:

We were so close we could hear the waves breaking on the beach.

A wave is also a sudden increase in an activity or in the strength of a condition or feeling:

A wave of emotion swept through her as she visited her home town.

wave noun [C] (ENERGY FORM)

physics

the continuous, repeating pattern in which some types of energy, such as sound, light, and heat, are spread or carried:

electromagnetic waves

wave noun [C] (MOVE)

a movement of your raised hand from side to side or up and down as a greeting or goodbye, or to get someone's attention or give information:

She looked at him for a long time, and then, with a wave of her hand, she was off.

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wave

noun [ C ]

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a larger than usual number of events of a similar, often bad, type, happening within the same period:

a wave of sth During the recession there was a wave of bankruptcies and mass unemployment.

a crime wave

the pattern in which some types of energy, such as sound, light, and heat, are spread or carried:

light/sound/radio waves Large amounts of data is transmitted via light waves inside fiberoptic cables.

make waves

to do things that make people notice you, often in a way that causes trouble:

Sometimes, an employee feels intimidated by workplace bullying, but, they don't want to make waves.

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Here we consider some dustcharging effects on plasma waves on the macroscopic level.

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The disper sion equation for the waves was obtained as the product of two equations.

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To illustrate this effect, we solve (1) numerically for right-hand polarized waves.

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Such a distribution function is formed mainly owing to pitch-angle scattering caused by ultralow-frequency hydromagnetic waves.

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The stabilization of self-excited (linearly unstable) ionization waves (using centre manifold theory) is a topic that will be presented in a forthcoming paper.

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The resulting (not self-generated) wavepackets are called waves of stratification.

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In the compressible case magnetosonic waves should also be taken into account.

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The moon and sun's gravitational forces mostly drive the longest waves (tides).

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To take advantage of the benefits offered by this approach, four waves of data were collected across the 3-week time span of this study.

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The movements are worm-like, the contractions passing along the body in waves.

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Future research with multiple waves of data collection will help to better quantify these associations.

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They showed that the intrusion initially propagates along the middle layer as a bulbous head, leaving a train of interfacial waves in its wake.

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Special attention is given to solutions for which there is a train of waves on each side of the distribution of pressure.

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In particular, it is shown that (depending on the values of the parameters) short waves may appear on either side of the pressure distribution.

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Therefore, the waves of shorter wavelength are now on the back.

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