[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

waive \waive\, v. t. imp.  p. p. waived; p. pr.  vb. n.
   waiving. oe. waiven, weiven, to set aside, remove, of.
   weyver, quesver, to waive, of scand. origin; cf. icel. veifa
   to wave, to vibrate, akin to skr. vip to tremble. cf.
   vibrate, waif. written also wave.
   1913 webster
   1. to relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or
      claim; to refuse; to forego.
      1913 webster

            he waiveth milk, and flesh, and all.  --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            we absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions,
            absolutely yielding to the direction of others.
                                                  --barrow.
      1913 webster

   2. to throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
      1913 webster

   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. --burrill.
          1913 webster

   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. --burrill.
         1913 webster
see also:
waived waiving vibrate waif wave 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wave \wave\ w=av, v. t.
   see waive. --sir h. wotton. --burke.
   1913 webster
see also:
waive 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wave \wave\, v. i. imp.  p. p. waved; p. pr.  vb. n.
   waving. oe. waven, as. wafian to waver, to hesitate, to
   wonder; akin to waefre wavering, restless, mhg. wabern to
   be in motion, icel. vafra to hover about; cf. icel. v=afa
   to vibrate. cf. waft, waver.
   1913 webster
   1. to play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the
      other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
      1913 webster

            his purple robes waved careless to the winds.
                                                  --trumbull.
      1913 webster

            where the flags of three nations has successively
            waved.                                --hawthorne.
      1913 webster

   2. to be moved to and fro as a signal. --b. jonson.
      1913 webster

   3. to fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to
      vacillate. obs.
      1913 webster

            he waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither
            good nor harm.                        --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
waved waving waft waver 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wave \wave\, v. t.
   1. to move one way and the other; to brandish. "aeneas
      waved his fatal sword." --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. to raise into inequalities of surface; to give an
      undulating form a surface to.
      1913 webster

            horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. obs. --sir
      t. browne.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            look, with what courteous action
            it waves you to a more removed ground. --shak.
      1913 webster

            she spoke, and bowing waved
            dismissal.                            --tennyson.
      1913 webster

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wave \wave\, n. from wave, v.; not the same word as oe. wawe,
   waghe, a wave, which is akin to e. wag to move. root138.
   see wave, v. i.
   1913 webster
   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.
      1913 webster

            the wave behind impels the wave before. --pope.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   3. water; a body of water. poetic "deep drank lord marmion
      of the wave." --sir w. scott.
      1913 webster

            build a ship to save thee from the flood,
            i 'll furnish thee with fresh wave, bread, and wine.
                                                  --chapman.
      1913 webster

   4. unevenness; inequality of surface. --sir i. newton.
      1913 webster

   5. a waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the
      hand, a flag, etc.
      1913 webster

   6. the undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered,
      or calendered, or on damask steel.
      1913 webster

   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.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
wave undulation wave front wave length wave line wave-line system 
wave-line theory wave loaf wave moth acidalia wave offering 
wave of vibration wave surface refraction wave theory undulatory theory 
undulatory 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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"
see also:
moving ridge undulation waving wafture beckon brandish 
flourish roll undulate flap curl 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

293 moby thesaurus words for "wave":
   afro, accost, address, advertise, affect, air, ambages, amplitude,
   anfractuosity, antinode, barber, be poised, beat, beat the drum,
   betoken, bicker, billow, blazon forth, bob, bobble, bore, bow,
   brandish, brandishing, break, breakers, breathe, bring forth,
   bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, careen,
   chop, choppiness, chopping sea, circuitousness, circumambages,
   circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, coggle, coif,
   coiffure, cold wave, comb, comber, conk, convolution, crash, crest,
   crinkle, crinkling, curtsy, dance, dangle, dash, de broglie wave,
   demonstrate, develop, diffraction, dip, dirty water, disclose,
   display, divulge, dramatize, eagre, ebb and flow,
   electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, emblazon, embody,
   embrace, enact, evidence, evince, exchange colors, exhibit,
   expose to view, express, flag, flag down, flap, flash, flaunt,
   flaunting, flexuosity, flexuousness, flick, flicker, flip, flit,
   flitter, float, flop, flourish, flourishing, fluctuate, flutter,
   fly, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, give a signal,
   give sign, give the nod, give token, glance, go pitapat,
   gravity wave, greeting, ground swell, guided wave, gutter, hail,
   hail and speak, haircut, hairdo, hairstyle, half-mast, hand-clasp,
   handshake, headdress, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, hello,
   highlight, hoist a banner, hold up, home permanent, how-do-you-do,
   hug, illuminate, in phase, incarnate, indicate, interference,
   intorsion, involution, kick, kiss, leer, librate, lift, light,
   longitudinal wave, lop, lurch, make a sign, make clear, make plain,
   manifest, materialize, mean, meander, meandering, mechanical wave,
   natural, nod, node, nudge, nutate, oscillate, out of phase,
   palpitate, parade, peak, pendulate, perform, period, periodic wave,
   permanent, permanent wave, pitch, pitter-patter, poke, pompadour,
   popple, present, process, produce, pulse, put forth, put forward,
   radio wave, raise a cry, ray, reel, reinforcement, represent,
   resonance, resonance frequency, resonate, reveal, riffle, ripple,
   rise, rise and fall, rivulation, rock, roll, roll out, roller,
   rough water, salutation, salute, scend, sea, seismic wave, send,
   set forth, shake, shaking, shingle, shock wave, show, show forth,
   sign, signal, signalize, sinuation, sinuosity, sinuousness, slat,
   slinkiness, smash, smile, smile of recognition, snakiness,
   sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, sound wave, speak, splutter,
   sport, spotlight, sputter, surf, surface wave, surge, swag, sway,
   swell, swing, swinging, throb, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave,
   token, torsion, tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, toss, touch,
   transverse wave, trim, trot out, trough, trumpet, trumpet forth,
   tsunami, turning, twisting, undulate, undulation, unfold,
   unfurl a flag, vacillate, vaunt, vibrate, wag, waggle, water wave,
   wave a flag, wave equation, wave motion, wave number,
   wave the hand, wavelength, wavelet, waver, waving, white horses,
   whitecaps, wield, wigwag, winding, wink, wobble

[8] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

wave
     
         a robotics language.
     
        "wave: a model-based language for manipulator control",
        r.p. paul, ind robot 41:10-17, 1979.
     
        1996-09-08
     
     
see also:
robotics 

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