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How to pronounce wave
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What does wave mean?
verbTo move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
“The flag waved in the gentle breeze.”
To move one's hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
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.”
nounA 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.”
The ocean.
“Whoever rules the waves rules the world...”
A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
“Gravity waves, while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect.”
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