English Dictionary

wave

IPA（発音記号）

/weɪv/

名詞

詩語 比喩的用法 広義

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.

日本語の意味

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。

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

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。

意味（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.

意味（2）

(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.

意味（3）

(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.

意味（4）

A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.

Her hair had a nice wave to it.

意味（5）

Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.

意味（6）

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

He dismissed her with a wave of the hand.

意味（7）

(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.

意味（8）

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

As the player eliminates each wave of 55 aliens, the next wave begins lower than the one previous.

意味（9）

(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 （ plural ）