wave

Noun

• 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

• a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
  • a heat wave
    

• an undulating curve

• a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair

• the act of signaling by a movement of the hand

• 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
    

• (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth

• a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon
  • a wave of settlers
    
  • troops advancing in waves
    

• one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)

Verb

• set waves in
  • she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair
    

• twist or roll into coils or ringlets
  • curl my hair, please
    

• move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
  • The curtains undulated
    
  • the waves rolled towards the beach
    

• move or swing back and forth
  • She waved her gun
    

• signal with the hands or nod
  • She waved to her friends
    
  • He waved his hand hospitably
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Wave , undulation , waving , wafture , moving ridge , curl , roll , undulate , flap , brandish , flourish , beckon