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# undulate

«undulate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to move up and down or side to side in smooth waves** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (undulate, undulates, undulated, undulating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To undulate is to move up and down or side to side in smooth waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undulate/#m1)

2) Land or a surface that undulates has a gentle wavy shape, with soft rises and dips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undulate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography: undulating hills and countryside. In science: snakes, eels and jellyfish undulate to move. In descriptive writing it gives a calm, flowing picture. The adjective «undulating» is the most common form.

### examples

- The snake undulated across the sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undulate/#x1)
- The road undulated over gentle hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undulate/#x2)
- Seaweed undulates in the waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undulate/#x3)
- We walked through undulating farmland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undulate/#x4)
- The flag undulated in the breeze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undulate/#x5)
- A ribbon undulated behind the gymnast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undulate/#x6)
- Upon my word, as the head came waving and undulating through the air, and reaching almost within arm's length of Prince Jason, it was a very hideous and uncomfortable sight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undulate/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. From Latin «unda», a wave. Formal or descriptive; in everyday speech say «roll», «ripple» or «wave».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «undulate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undulate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.