wave

To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.intransitive

• The flag waved in the gentle breeze.

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

• 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.

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.metonymicallytransitive

• I waved goodbye from across the room.

To have an undulating or wavy form.intransitive

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

• horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea

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

• 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;[…].

To swing and miss at a pitch.intransitive

• Jones waves at strike one.

To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.transitive

• The starter waved the flag to begin the race.

To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.metonymicallytransitive

To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.intransitiveobsolete

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

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.

The ocean.poetic

• 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.

A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.

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

A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.

• Her hair had a nice wave to it.
• sine wave

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

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

• He dismissed her with a wave of the hand.

A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.figuratively

• 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.

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

A movement or trend in popular culture.figuratively

• New Wave
• Korean Wave

One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.broadly

• As the player eliminates each wave of 55 aliens, the next wave begins lower than the one previous.

To generate a wave.

• If the electron had wavelike properties, then what was disturbing the medium in which the wave existed? What was waving?

Obsolete spelling of waive.alt-ofobsolete

• Ladies and gentlemen—I am ordered by Miss Woodhouse to say, that she waves her right of knowing exactly what you may all be thinking of, and only requires something very entertaining from each of you, in a general way.