WAVE

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.

   “The flag waved in the gentle breeze.”

2. fiil To move one's hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.

   “I raised my arms in a final salute. I smiled. I waved goodbye. I turned into the helicopter, the door was closed, the red carpet was rolled up.”

3. fiil 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.

   “I waved goodbye from across the room.”

4. fiil To have an undulating or wavy form.
5. fiil To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.

   “horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea”

6. fiil To style (the hair) so as to produce a wavy texture.

   “There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].”

7. fiil To swing and miss at a pitch.

   “Jones waves at strike one.”

8. fiil To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.

   “The starter waved the flag to begin the race.”

9. fiil To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
10. fiil To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.

    “He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm.”

11. fiil To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.

    “But in the last, this dotted line, by the twisting as well as the bending of the horn, is changed from the waving into the serpentine line”

12. isim A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.

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

13. isim The ocean.

    “1895, Fiona Macleod (William Sharp), The Sin-Eater and Other Tales […] your father Murtagh Ross, and his lawful childless wife, Dionaid, and his sister Anna—one and all, they lie beneath the green wave or in the brown mould.”

14. isim A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.

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

15. isim A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.

    “Her hair had a nice wave to it.”

16. isim Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
17. isim A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.

    “He dismissed her with a wave of the hand.”

18. isim A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.

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

19. isim Any of a series of orders to be fulfilled in one short interval of time, planned as part of wave picking.
20. isim A movement or trend in popular culture.

    “New Wave”

21. isim One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.

    “As the player eliminates each wave of 55 aliens, the next wave begins lower than the one previous.”

22. isim 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.
23. fiil To generate a wave.

    “If the electron had wavelike properties, then what was disturbing the medium in which the wave existed? What was waving?”

24. fiil Obsolete spelling of waive.

    “Ladies and gentlemen—I am ordered by Miss Woodhouse to say, that she waves her right of knowing exactly what you may all be thinking of, and only requires something very entertaining from each of you, in a general way.”

25. isim A members of the WAVES; a member of the US Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve).

    “[H]e read the faded sticker on the crystal of the door, “A slip of the lip can sink a ship.” Below a WAVE held her finger to lips that had turned tan.”