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# wave

«wave» in Mova's school dictionary: **A moving ridge of water on the sea or a lake** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (wave, waves); verb (wave, waves, waved, waving)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A moving ridge of water on the sea or a lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wave/#m1)

2) A movement of your hand to say hello, goodbye or to get attention. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wave/#m2)

3) As a verb, to move your hand or something in your hand from side to side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wave/#m3)

4) In science, a way energy travels: sound waves, light waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wave/#m4)

5) A sudden rise of something: "a heat wave", "a wave of sadness". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wave/#m5)

6) A curl in hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wave/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In science, waves carry energy: sound travels in waves, light travels in waves; wind makes sea waves. In safety at the beach: big waves and rip currents can be dangerous; wave your arm and shout if you need help in the water. Phrases: wave goodbye, heat wave, Mexican wave, wave hello, crime wave.

### examples

- The waves crashed on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wave/#x1)
- Wave goodbye to Grandma. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wave/#x2)
- She waved to me from the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wave/#x3)
- Sound travels in waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wave/#x4)
- It was a hot summer with a heat wave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wave/#x5)
- Wave your arm if you need help in the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wave/#x6)
- A huge wave knocked me over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wave/#x7)
- The crowd did a Mexican wave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wave/#x8)
- Now a wave came rolling onward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wave/#x9)

### note

He/she form: "waves"; past "waved". "Wave" (hand) and "wave" (water) look the same. "Waive" (give up a right) sounds the same — homophone.

### In the corpora

- [A scan picture is made by a machine that uses sound waves to see the baby inside the body without hurting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/10/)
- [It comes and goes like waves, and people show it in many ways, from tears to casseroles on the doorstep.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/6/)
- [That is honest; claiming you felt the waves would not be.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/4/)
- [The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai is a woodblock print, so many copies were made from the carved blocks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/42-olympiad-picture-puzzles/9/)
- [Dolphins ride the waves made by boats and whales, which saves energy and seems to be fun for them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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