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Also see: band
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wave/weɪv/
▶verb
- 1 move one's hand to and fro in greeting or as a signal.
■ move (one's hand or arm, or something held in one's hand) to and fro.
■ (wave someone/thing down) wave one's hand to stop a driver or vehicle.
■ (wave something aside) dismiss something as unnecessary or irrelevant.
- 2 move to and fro with a swaying motion while remaining fixed to one point.
- 3 style (hair) so that it curls slightly.
■ (of hair) grow with a slight curl.
- 1 a ridge of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore or between two depressions in open water.
■ (the waves) literary the sea.
- 2 a sudden occurrence of or increase in a specified phenomenon or emotion: a crime wave.
- 3 a gesture or signal made by waving one's hand.
- 4 a slightly curling lock of hair.
■ a tendency to curl in a person's hair.
- 5 Physics a periodic disturbance of the particles of a substance which may be propagated without net movement of the particles, as in the passage of undulating motion or sound.
■ a single curve in the course of this motion.
■ a similar variation of an electromagnetic field in the propagation of light or other radiation.
– phrases
make waves informal
make waves informal
- 1 create a significant impression.
- 2 cause trouble.
– derivatives
waveless adjective.
waveless adjective.
– origin OE wafian (v.), from the Gmc base of waver; the noun by alt. (influenced by the verb) of ME wawe ‘(sea) wave’.
usage: On the confusion between wave and waive, see usage at waive.

