Waive vs. Wave

Waiveverb

To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.

Waiveverb

(particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.

Waiveverb

To put aside, avoid.

Waiveverb

(obsolete) To outlaw (someone).

Waiveverb

(obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).

Waiveverb

(obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.

Waiveverb

To stray, wander.

Waivenoun

A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.

Waivenoun

(obsolete) A waif; a castaway.

Waivenoun

A waif; a castaway.

Waivenoun

A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.

Waiveverb

To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.

Waiveverb

To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.

Waiveverb

To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.

Waiveverb

To turn aside; to recede.

Waiveverb

do without or cease to hold or adhere to;

Waiveverb

lose or lose the right to by some error, offense, or crime

Waiveverb

refrain from insisting on or using (a right or claim)

Waiveverb

refrain from demanding compliance with (a rule or fee)

Waveverb

(intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.

Waveverb

(intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.

Waveverb

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.

Waveverb

(intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.

Waveverb

(transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.

Waveverb

(transitive) To produce waves to the hair.

Waveverb

To swing and miss at a pitch.

Waveverb

(transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.

Waveverb

To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.

Waveverb

To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.

Waveverb

To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.

Waveverb

obsolete spelling of waive

Wavenoun

A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.

Wavenoun

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

Wavenoun

A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.

Wavenoun

(figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.

Wavenoun

One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.

Wavenoun

A sideway movement of the hand(s).

Wavenoun

(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.

Waveverb

See Waive.

Waveverb

To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.

Waveverb

To be moved to and fro as a signal.

Waveverb

To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.

Waveverb

To move one way and the other; to brandish.

Waveverb

To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.

Waveverb

To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.

Waveverb

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.

Wavenoun

An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation.

Wavenoun

A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation.

Wavenoun

Water; a body of water.

Wavenoun

Unevenness; inequality of surface.

Wavenoun

A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.

Wavenoun

The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.

Wavenoun

Something resembling or likened to a water wave, as in rising unusually high, in being of unusual extent, or in progressive motion; a swelling or excitement, as of feeling or energy; a tide; flood; period of intensity, usual activity, or the like; as, a wave of enthusiasm; waves of applause.

Wavenoun

one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)

Wavenoun

a movement like that of an ocean wave;

Wavenoun

(physics) a movement up and down or back and forth

Wavenoun

something that rises rapidly;

Wavenoun

the act of signaling by a movement of the hand

Wavenoun

a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair

Wavenoun

an undulating curve

Wavenoun

a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)

Wavenoun

a member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy; originally organized during World War II but now no longer a separate branch

Waveverb

signal with the hands or nod;

Waveverb

move or swing back and forth;

Waveverb

move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion;

Waveverb

twist or roll into coils or ringlets;

Waveverb

set waves in;

Waveverb

move one's hand to and fro in greeting or as a signal

Waveverb

move (one's hand or arm, or something held in one's hand) to and fro

Waveverb

convey (a greeting or other message) by waving one's hand or something held in it

Waveverb

instruct (someone) to move in a particular direction by moving one's hand

Waveverb

move to and fro with a swaying motion while remaining fixed to one point

Waveverb

style (hair) so that it curls slightly

Waveverb

(of hair) grow with a slight curl

Wavenoun

a long body of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore

Wavenoun

a ridge of water between two depressions in open water

Wavenoun

a shape regarded as resembling a breaking wave

Wavenoun

the sea.

Wavenoun

a sudden occurrence of or increase in a phenomenon, feeling, or emotion

Wavenoun

a gesture or signal made by moving one's hand to and fro

Wavenoun

a slightly curling lock of hair

Wavenoun

a tendency to curl in a person's hair

Wavenoun

a periodic disturbance of the particles of a substance which may be propagated without net movement of the particles, such as in the passage of undulating motion, heat, or sound.

Wavenoun

a single curve in the course of a periodic disturbance of the particles of a substance.

Wavenoun

a periodic variation of an electromagnetic field in the propagation of light or other radiation through a medium or vacuum.

Wave

In physics, mathematics, and related fields, a wave is a propagating dynamic disturbance (change from equilibrium) of one or more quantities, sometimes as described by a wave equation. In physical waves, at least two field quantities in the wave medium are involved.