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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 半波


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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. t. See Waive.


 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"