wave

noun · verbA1
Tiếng Việt:
vẫy tay, sóng

vẫy tay, sóng. Họ từ WAVE — danh từ: wave; động từ: wave.

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Động từ

verb
V_es/s
waves
V_ing/Gerund
waving
V_ed/pp
waved
  1. 1.

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

    The flag waved in the gentle breeze.

  2. 2.

    (intransitive)To move one's hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.

  3. 3.

    (metonymically, transitive)(transitive, metonymic) 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.

    I waved goodbye from across the room.

  4. 4.

    (intransitive)To have an undulating or wavy form.

  5. 5.

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

  6. 6.

    (transitive)To style (the hair) so as to produce a wavy texture.

  7. 7.

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

    Jones waves at strike one.

  8. 8.

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

    The starter waved the flag to begin the race.

  9. 9.

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

  10. 10.

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

  11. 11.

    (ergative, intransitive)To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.

  12. 12.

    To generate a wave.

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
waves
  1. 1.

    A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.

    The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.

  2. 2.

    (poetic)The ocean.

    1895, Fiona Macleod (William Sharp), The Sin-Eater and Other Tales […] your father Murtagh Ross, and his lawful childless wife, Dionaid, and his sister Anna—one and all, they lie beneath the green wave or in the brown mould.

  3. 3.

    (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.

    Gravity waves, while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect.

  4. 4.

    A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.

    Her hair had a nice wave to it.

    sine wave

  5. 5.

    Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.

  6. 6.

    A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.

    He dismissed her with a wave of the hand.

  7. 7.

    (figuratively)(figurative) A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.

    A wave of shoppers stampeded through the door when the store opened for its Christmas discount special.

    A wave of retirees began moving to the coastal area.

    A wave of emotion overcame her when she thought about her son who was killed in battle.

    Đồng nghĩa: rush

  8. 8.

    (logistics) Any of a series of orders to be fulfilled in one short interval of time, planned as part of wave picking.

  9. 9.

    (figuratively)(figurative) A movement or trend in popular culture.

    New Wave

    Korean Wave

  10. 10.

    (broadly)(video games, by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.

  11. 11.

    (usually "the wave") 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.

Cụm từ thường dùng

wave at

giới từ đi kèm

wave goodbye

cụm thông dụng

heat wave

cụm thông dụng

Họ từ

Danh từ

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Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

gesturerushundMexican wavean undulation undgroup activity Mexican wave chiefly Commonwealth

Cùng gốc / liên quan

waverwave awaywave downwave goodbyewave inwave the bloody shirtwave the white flagwave throughwave aside

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English waven, from Old English wafian (to wave, fluctuate, waver in mind, wonder), from *wabōn, from Proto-Germanic *wabōną, *wabjaną (to wander, sway), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (to move to and from, wander).

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