wavy

«wavy» in Mova's school dictionary: Having curves like waves; not straight: wavy hair, a wavy… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (wavy, wavier, waviest)

meaning for a pupil

Having curves like waves; not straight: wavy hair, a wavy line. tree →

sense in the lessons

In art and maths: draw a wavy line; in science: sound and light are shown as wavy lines on diagrams. In everyday life: wavy hair, a wavy pattern. Tells the reader the shape goes up and down smoothly.

examples

• She has long wavy hair. tree →
• Draw a wavy line under the mistakes. tree →
• The snake left a wavy track in the sand. tree →
• The flag had a wavy pattern of blue and white. tree →
• On the graph, the sound looked like a wavy line. tree →
• His writing went wavy when the bus bumped. tree →

note

Spelling: wave → wavy (drop the e). Comparative wavier, superlative waviest. Opposite: straight. A wavy line is not the same as a zigzag (which has sharp corners).

In the corpora

• As sugar dissolves you can see wavy streams, because the sugary water bends light differently from plain water.
• Cardboard looks weak, but its wavy middle layer makes it strong, like the arches under a bridge.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wavy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.