wave

Definition

  • noun: a member of the women's component of the United States Navy formed during World War II and discontinued in the 1970s
  • noun: a moving ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid (as of the sea)
  • noun: an area of moving water that is raised above the main surface of an ocean, a lake, etc.
  • verb: to move your hand or something held in your hand usually in a repeated motion in order to signal or greet someone
  • verb: to motion with the hands or with something held in them in signal or salute
  • usually used as '(be/get) waved'
  • synonyms: float, flutter, undulate

Examples

  • At the age of 80, she's 'riding a/the wave of' renewed interest in her work. [=she's experiencing a time when many people are interested in her work again]

  • The traffic cop 'waved' cars 'through'. [=waved in a way that told drivers to continue driving through a particular area]

  • The new school has triggered a 'wave' of optimism [=has made many people feel optimistic] about the public school system.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) - Do not, my lord I do not set my life at a pin's fee As for my soul, what can it do to that, being a thing immortal as itself? - It waves me forth again, I'll follow it - What if it tempt you towards the flood, my lord? Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff that overlaps his base into the sea'? And there assumes some other horrible form which might deprive you of your reason... ...and draw you into madness. Think of it - It waves me still, I'll follow it - You shall not go, my lord - Hold off your hand - Be ruled, you shall not go My fate cries out, and makes each petty artery (..)
    2015 Hamlet