'Waving' definitions:
Definition of 'waving'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Waving'
From: GCIDE
- Wave \Wave\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waved; p. pr. & vb. n. Waving.] [OE. waven, AS. wafian to waver, to hesitate, to wonder; akin to w[ae]fre wavering, restless, MHG. wabern to be in motion, Icel. vafra to hover about; cf. Icel. v[=a]fa to vibrate. Cf. Waft, Waver.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate. [1913 Webster]
- His purple robes waved careless to the winds. --Trumbull. [1913 Webster]
- Where the flags of three nations has successively waved. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be moved to and fro as a signal. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'waving'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ambages,
- anfractuosity,
- brandish,
- brandishing,
- circuitousness,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- circumvolution,
- convolution,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flexuosity,
- flexuousness,
- flourish,
- flourishing,
- intorsion,
- involution,
- meander,
- meandering,
- rivulation,
- shaking,
- sinuation,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- slinkiness,
- snakiness,
- torsion,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- turning,
- twisting,
- undulant,
- undulating,
- undulation,
- undulatory,
- wave,
- wave motion,
- winding
Words containing 'Waving'
- Wave,
- Waved,
- wave off,
- Cold wave,
- H waves,
- Pulse wave,
- Tidal wave,
- Tide wave,
- Wave front,
- Wave length,
- Wave line,
- Wave loaf,
- Wave moth,
- Wave of vibration,
- Wave offering,
- Wave surface,
- Wave theory,
- acoustic wave,
- air wave,
- alpha wave,
- beta wave,
- blast wave,
- brain wave,
- carrier wave,
- crestless wave,
- crime wave,
- delta wave,
- electromagnetic wave,
- finger wave,
- flag waving,
- gravitation wave,
- gravity wave,
- ground wave,
- heat wave,
- hertzian wave,
- ionospheric wave,
- long wave,
- medium wave,
- new wave,
- permanent wave,
- radio wave,
- rolling wave,
- shock wave,
- short wave,
- sine wave,
- sky wave,
- solitary wave,
- soliton wave,
- sound wave,
- standing wave,
- stationary wave,
- theta wave,
- traveling wave,
- travelling wave,
- wave angle,
- wave equation,
- wave form,
- wave guide,
- wave mechanics,
- wave number,
- wave offerings,
- wave shape,
- wave train,
- wave-off,
- Wave-worn,
- flag-waving,
- schrodinger wave equation,
- wave theory of light,
- Wave-line system,
- Wave-line theory,
- full-wave rectifier,
- wave-particle duality