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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A motion of a crowd caused by its members' successively putting their arms in the air, so that those in one part of the crowd do so immediately after their immediate neighbors on one side, and the crowd looks as though a disturbance is going through it.
  • A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; undulation.
  • A shape which alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
  • A sideway movement of the hand(s).
  • A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
  • physics A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.

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Verb:

  • baseball To swing and miss at a pitch.
  • intransitive To have an undulating or wavy form.
  • intransitive To move back and forth repeatedly.
  • intransitive To try, in public, to attract people into a business establishment.
  • intransitive To wave one?s hand in greeting or departure.
  • waive
  • transitive To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
  • transitive To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.

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