English Dictionary

wave

/weɪv/

verb

(intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely. / (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.

She waved goodbye to her friends.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.

The flag waved in the gentle breeze.

意味（2）

(intransitive) 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.

意味（3）

(transitive, metonymically) 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.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.

意味（5）

(transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.

horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea

意味（6）

(transitive) To produce waves to the hair.

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;[…].

意味（7）

(intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.

Jones waves at strike one.

意味（8）

(transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.

The starter waved the flag to begin the race.

意味（9）

(transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.

意味（10）

(intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.

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

意味（11）

(intransitive, ergative) 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