wave
part of speech
noun (wave, waves); verb (wave, waves, waved, waving)
meaning for a pupil
1) A moving ridge of water on the sea or a lake. tree →
2) A movement of your hand to say hello, goodbye or to get attention. tree →
3) As a verb, to move your hand or something in your hand from side to side. tree →
4) In science, a way energy travels: sound waves, light waves. tree →
5) A sudden rise of something: "a heat wave", "a wave of sadness". tree →
6) A curl in hair. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, waves carry energy: sound travels in waves, light travels in waves; wind makes sea waves. In safety at the beach: big waves and rip currents can be dangerous; wave your arm and shout if you need help in the water. Phrases: wave goodbye, heat wave, Mexican wave, wave hello, crime wave.
examples
- The waves crashed on the beach. tree →
- Wave goodbye to Grandma. tree →
- She waved to me from the bus. tree →
- Sound travels in waves. tree →
- It was a hot summer with a heat wave. tree →
- Wave your arm if you need help in the sea. tree →
- A huge wave knocked me over. tree →
- The crowd did a Mexican wave. tree →
- Now a wave came rolling onward. tree →
note
He/she form: "waves"; past "waved". "Wave" (hand) and "wave" (water) look the same. "Waive" (give up a right) sounds the same — homophone.
In the corpora
- A scan picture is made by a machine that uses sound waves to see the baby inside the body without hurting.
- It comes and goes like waves, and people show it in many ways, from tears to casseroles on the doorstep.
- That is honest; claiming you felt the waves would not be.
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai is a woodblock print, so many copies were made from the carved blocks.
- Dolphins ride the waves made by boats and whales, which saves energy and seems to be fun for them.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wave» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.