heat wave
A period of exceptionally hot weather.
We're havin a heat wave / A tropical heat wave / The temperatures rising, it isn't surprising / She certainly can, can can! / She started a heat wave / By letting her seat wave, /
wave
UK /weɪv/ US /weɪv/
verb 7noun 6
Definitions
verb
1
To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
The flag waved in the gentle breeze.
But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try.
2
To move one's hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
I raised my arms in a final salute. I smiled. I waved goodbye. I turned into the helicopter, the door was closed, the red carpet was rolled up.
3
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.
I waved goodbye from across the room.
Look, with what courteous action / It waves you to a more removed ground.
4
To have an undulating or wavy form.
5
To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea
noun
1
A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.
O God! can I not save / One from the pitiless wave? / Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?
2
The ocean.
1895, Fiona Macleod (William Sharp), The Sin-Eater and Other Tales […] your father Murtagh Ross, and his lawful childless wife, Dionaid, and his sister Anna—one and all, they lie beneath the green wave or in the brown mould.
Whoever rules the waves rules the world...
3
A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
Gravity waves, while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect.
4
A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
Her hair had a nice wave to it.
sine wave
5
Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
verb
1
To generate a wave.
If the electron had wavelike properties, then what was disturbing the medium in which the wave existed? What was waving?
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