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What does wave mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
  2. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
  3. (metonymy) 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 produce waves to the hair.
  7. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
  8. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
  9. (metonymy) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
  10. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
  11. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
Noun
  1. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
  2. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
  3. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
  4. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
  5. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
  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"
Verb
  1. Obsolete spelling of waive
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