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The correct spelling is wave.
How to pronounce wave
/weɪv/
verbIPA: /weɪv/
Say it like: Wav-e
The correct spelling is wave. To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely. For example: "The flag waved in the gentle breeze."
Usage Examples
“The flag waved in the gentle breeze.”
“I waved goodbye from across the room.”
“Jones waves at strike one.”
Meanings
verb
- 1.To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
- 2.To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
- 3.(metonymic) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
- 4.To have an undulating or wavy form.
- 5.To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
noun
- 1.A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
- 2.The ocean.
- 3.A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
- 4.A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
- 5.Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
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