waves
UK/weɪvz/
waves is the plural of wave.
waves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wave.
Meaning of wave
Noun
wave (plural waves)
- A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
- The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.
- Synonyms:
- und
- The ocean.
- […] your father Murtagh Ross, and his lawful childless wife, Dionaid, and his sister Anna—one and all, they lie beneath the green wave or in the brown mould.1895, Fiona Macleod (William Sharp), The Sin-Eater and Other Tales
- A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
- Gravity waves, while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect.
- A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
- Her hair had a nice wave to it.
- Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
- A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
- He dismissed her with a wave of the hand.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: WAVES
WAVES
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Waves
Waves
Phrases with waves
- A waves
- P waves
- S waves
- in waves
- waves in
- bow waves
- hot waves
- red waves
- waves off
- beta waves
- blue waves
- body waves
106 more phrasesFewer phrases
- cold waves
- heat waves
- long waves
- Love waves
- Mach waves
- made waves
- make waves
- pink waves
- rosy waves
- sand waves
- sine waves
- spin waves
- tide waves
- waves away
- waves down
- alpha waves
- Bloch waves
- brain waves
- crime waves
- crowd waves
- fixed waves
- freak waves
- gamma waves
- green waves
- human waves
- light waves
- makes waves
- pilot waves
- plane waves
- pulse waves
- radio waves
- rogue waves
- shear waves
- shock waves
- short waves
- sound waves
- space waves
- theta waves
- tidal waves
- waves aside
- æther waves
- aether waves
- Alfven waves
- Alfvén waves
- dipole waves
- Eugene waves
- finger waves
- Kelvin waves
- making waves
- marcel waves
- matter waves
- medium waves
- Rossby waves
- second waves
- square waves
- Alvarez waves
- carrier waves
- Elliott waves
- gravity waves
- Kallang Waves
- Mexican waves
- Moreton waves
- perfect waves
- pooping waves
- seismic waves
- sneaker waves
- thought waves
- waves goodbye
- waves through
- Windsor waves
- audience waves
- episodic waves
- Gerstner waves
- Hertzian waves
- Rayleigh waves
- sawtooth waves
- shoaling waves
- solitary waves
- standing waves
- triangle waves
- capillary waves
- permanent waves
- planetary waves
- traveling waves
- continuous waves
- de Broglie waves
- four-lined waves
- Kondratiev waves
- stationary waves
- transverse waves
- travelling waves
- compression waves
- seismic sea waves
- waves of the hand
- longitudinal waves
- spin-density waves
- gravitational waves
- charge-density waves
- waves of translation
- waves the white flag
- electromagnetic waves
- Portland ribbon waves
- waves the bloody shirt
- whispering-gallery waves
- high frequency gravitational waves
- high-frequency gravitational waves
Words that rhyme with waves
Questions about waves
- What does waves mean?
- Waves means a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Dare County, North Carolina, United States.
- What is waves the plural of?
- Waves is the plural of wave.
- What part of speech is waves?
- Waves is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce waves?
- Waves is pronounced /weɪvz/ (UK).
Words near waves in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: waves (page history and authors); WAVES (page history and authors); Waves (page history and authors); wave (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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