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wave

IPA(Pronunciation)

/weɪv/

Noun

poetic figuratively broadly

A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation. / (poetic) The ocean. / (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.

Japanese Meaning

液体中の動く擾乱、またはうねりとしての波。 / （詩的な表現で）海を指す。 / 物理学で、エネルギー場などにおける動的な擾乱、波動としての波。

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A single rogue wave rose suddenly above the ship, drenching the deck.

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突如として一つの巨大な波が船の上に押し寄せ、甲板をびしょ濡れにした。

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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.

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(poetic) The ocean.

[…] 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.

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(physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.

Gravity waves, while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect.

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A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.

Her hair had a nice wave to it.

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A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.

He dismissed her with a wave of the hand.

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(figuratively) A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.

A wave of shoppers stampeded through the door when the store opened for its Christmas discount special.

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(video games, by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.

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(usually "the wave") A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.

waves

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