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wave /ˈwev/
波,波浪,波動,起伏,高潮,潮湧,揮手致意,突變(vi.)波動,飄動,揮手示意
wave /ˈwev/ 名詞
波,波浪,波(浪)形曲線,波動,揮動,示波圖,飄動,成波浪形,使起伏
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Wave, n.
1. An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation.
The wave behind impels the wave before. --Pope.
2. Physics A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation.
3. Water; a body of water. [Poetic] “Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave.”
Build a ship to save thee from the flood,
I 'll furnish thee with fresh wave, bread, and wine. --Chapman.
4. Unevenness; inequality of surface.
5. A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
6. The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.
7. Something resembling or likened to a water wave, as in rising unusually high, in being of unusual extent, or in progressive motion; a swelling or excitement, as of feeling or energy; a tide; flood; period of intensity, usual activity, or the like; as, a wave of enthusiasm; waves of applause.
Wave front Physics, the surface of initial displacement of the particles in a medium, as a wave of vibration advances.
Wave length Physics, the space, reckoned in the direction of propagation, occupied by a complete wave or undulation, as of light, sound, etc.; the distance from a point or phase in a wave to the nearest point at which the same phase occurs.
Wave line Shipbuilding, a line of a vessel's hull, shaped in accordance with the wave-line system.
Wave-line system, Wave-line theory Shipbuilding, a system or theory of designing the lines of a vessel, which takes into consideration the length and shape of a wave which travels at a certain speed.
Wave loaf, a loaf for a wave offering. --Lev. viii. 27.
Wave moth Zool., any one of numerous species of small geometrid moths belonging to Acidalia and allied genera; -- so called from the wavelike color markings on the wings.
Wave offering, an offering made in the Jewish services by waving the object, as a loaf of bread, toward the four cardinal points. --Num. xviii. 11.
Wave of vibration Physics, a wave which consists in, or is occasioned by, the production and transmission of a vibratory state from particle to particle through a body.
Wave surface. (a) Physics A surface of simultaneous and equal displacement of the particles composing a wave of vibration. (b) Geom. A mathematical surface of the fourth order which, upon certain hypotheses, is the locus of a wave surface of light in the interior of crystals. It is used in explaining the phenomena of double refraction. See under Refraction.
Wave theory. Physics See Undulatory theory, under Undulatory.
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Wave, v. t.
1. To move one way and the other; to brandish. “[Aeneas] waved his fatal sword.”
2. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea. --Shak.
3. To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. [Obs.]
4. 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.
Look, with what courteous action
It waves you to a more removed ground. --Shak.
She spoke, and bowing waved
Dismissal. --Tennyson.
Wave, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waved p. pr. & vb. n. Waving.]
1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
His purple robes waved careless to the winds. --Trumbull.
Where the flags of three nations has successively waved. --Hawthorne.
2. To be moved to and fro as a signal.
3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate. [Obs.]
He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm. --Shak.
Waive, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waived p. pr. & vb. n. Waiving.] [Written also wave.]
1. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all. --Chaucer.
We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others. --Barrow.
2. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
3. Law (a) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses. (b) O. Eng. Law To desert; to abandon.
Note: ☞ The term was applied to a woman, in the same sense as outlaw to a man. A woman could not be outlawed, in the proper sense of the word, because, according to Bracton, she was never in law, that is, in a frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and held as abandoned.
wave
n 1: one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a
liquid (especially across a large body of water) [syn: moving
ridge]
2: a movement like that of an ocean wave; "a wave of settlers";
"troops advancing in waves"
3: (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth [syn: undulation]
4: something that rises rapidly; "a wave of emotion swept over
him"; "there was a sudden wave of buying before the market
closed"; "a wave of conservatism in the country led by the
hard right"
5: the act of signaling by a movement of the hand [syn: waving,
wafture]
6: a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
7: an undulating curve [syn: undulation]
8: a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition
(especially of unusual temperatures)
9: a member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy;
originally organized during World War II but now no longer
a separate branch
v 1: signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends";
"He waved his hand hospitably" [syn: beckon]
2: move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun" [syn: brandish,
flourish]
3: move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion;
"The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the
beach" [syn: roll, undulate, flap]
4: twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
[syn: curl]
5: set waves in; "she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair"