Définition anglaise de “wave”

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Définition de "wave" - Dictionnaire Anglais

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waveverb [ I or T ]

uk ​ /weɪv/ us ​ /weɪv/

wave verb [ I or T ] (MOVE HAND)

B1 to raise your hand and move it from side to side as a way of greeting someone, telling someone to do something, or adding emphasis to an expression:

I waved to/at him from the window but he didn't see me.
I was waving my hand like mad but he never once looked in my direction.
She was so annoyed she wouldn't even wave us goodbye/wave goodbye to us.
She waves her hands about/around a lot when she's talking.
wave sb away, on, etc.

› to make a movement with your hand that tells someone to move in a particular direction:

You'll have to wait till the policeman waves the car on.
You can't just wave me away as if I were a child!

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wave verb [ I or T ] (CURL HAIR)

› If hair waves, it curls slightly:

If she leaves her hair to dry on its own, it just waves naturally.

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Idiom(s)

wave/say goodbye to sth

Phrasal verb(s)

wave sth aside
wave sb/sth down
wave sb off

wavenoun [ C ]

uk ​ /weɪv/ us ​ /weɪv/

wave noun [ C ] (WATER)

B1 a raised line of water that moves across the surface of an area of water, especially the sea:

At night, I listened to the sound of the waves breaking/crashing against the shore.

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wave noun [ C ] (BY A CROWD)

the Wave

› US UK Mexican wave a wave-like movement made by a crowd watching a sports game, when everyone stands and lifts up their arms and then sits down again one after another:

The crowd did the Wave.

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wave noun [ C ] (LARGE NUMBER)

C2 a larger than usual number of events of a similar, often bad, type, happening within the same period:

a crime wave
The country was swept by a wave of protests.
a new, second, etc. wave of sth

› an activity that is happening again or is being repeated after a pause:

A new wave of job losses is expected this year.

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Idiom(s)

make waves
wave after/upon wave

(Definition of “wave” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Définition de "wave" - Dictionnaire Anglais Américain

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waveverb [ I/T ]

us ​ /weɪv/

wave verb [ I/T ] (MOVE)

› to raise your hand and move it from side to side as a greeting, or to get someone's attention or give information:

[ I ] She leaned out the window and waved (good-bye).
[ M ] As soon as we showed our papers as journalists, the policeman waved us in (= moved his hand to allow us to go in).

› If you wave something or something waves, you move it from side to side while holding it in the hand, or something else moves it in this way:

[ T ] He was very excited and rushed into the room waving a piece of paper.
[ I ] Flags waved in the breeze.

wavenoun [ C ]

us ​ /weɪv/

wave noun [ C ] (WATER MOVEMENT)

› a raised movement of water rolling across the surface esp. of the sea:

We were so close we could hear the waves breaking on the beach.

› A wave is also a sudden increase in an activity or in the strength of a condition or feeling:

A wave of emotion swept through her as she visited her home town.

wave noun [ C ] (ENERGY FORM)

› physics the continuous, repeating pattern in which some types of energy, such as sound, light, and heat, are spread or carried:

electromagnetic waves

wave noun [ C ] (MOVE)

› a movement of your raised hand from side to side or up and down as a greeting or goodbye, or to get someone's attention or give information:

She looked at him for a long time, and then, with a wave of her hand, she was off.

(Definition of “wave” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Définition de "wave" - Dictionnaire Anglais des Affaires

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wavenoun [ C ]

uk ​ /weɪv/ us ​

› a larger than usual number of events of a similar, often bad, type, happening within the same period:

a wave of sth During the recession there was a wave of bankruptcies and mass unemployment.
a crime wave

› the pattern in which some types of energy, such as sound, light, and heat, are spread or carried:

light/sound/radio waves Large amounts of data is transmitted via light waves inside fiberoptic cables.
make waves

› to do things that make people notice you, often in a way that causes trouble:

Sometimes, an employee feels intimidated by workplace bullying, but, they don't want to make waves.

(Definition of “wave” from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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