Assert and Wave

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

noun

• One of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water.
  • synonyms: moving ridge
• A movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon.
  • usage: "a wave of settlers"; "troops advancing in waves"
• Physics) a movement up and down or back and forth.
  • synonyms: undulation
• Something that rises rapidly.
  • usage: "a wave of emotion swept over him"; "there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed"; "a wave of conservatism in the country led by the hard right"
• The act of signaling by a movement of the hand.
  • synonyms: waving, wafture
• A hairdo that creates undulations in the hair.
• An undulating curve.
  • synonyms: undulation
• A persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures. )
  • usage: "a heat wave"
• A member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy; originally organized during World War II but now no longer a separate branch.

verb

• Signal with the hands or nod.
  • usage: "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably"
  • synonyms: beckon
• Move or swing back and forth.
  • usage: "She waved her gun"
  • synonyms: brandish, flourish
• Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion.
  • usage: "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
  • synonyms: roll, undulate, flap
• Twist or roll into coils or ringlets.
  • usage: "curl my hair, please"
  • synonyms: curl
• Set waves in.
  • usage: "she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair"

• (n.) Something resembling or likened to a water wave, as in rising unusually high, in being of unusual extent or in progressive motion; a swelling or excitement, as of feeling or energy; a tide; flood; period of intensity, usual activity or the like; as, a wave of enthusiasm.
• (v.i.) To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
• (v.i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.
• (v.i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation.
• (v.t.) To move like a wave or by floating; to waft.
• (v.i.) A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
• (v.t.) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
• (v.t.) See Waive.
• (v.i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation.
• (v.i.) Water; a body of water.
• (v.t.) To move one way and the other; to brandish.
• (v.i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered or calendered or on damask steel.
• (v.i.) To be moved to and fro as a signal.
• (v.i.) Unevenness; inequality of surface.
• (n.) Woe.
• (v.t.) To call attention to or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
• (v.i.) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.

In Elliott' Wave' theory, a sustained move by a market's price in one direction as determined by the reversal points that initiated and terminated it.

(DoD) A formation of forces, including ships, craft, amphibious vehicles or aircraft, required to beach or land about the same time. Waves can be classified by function: scheduled, on-call, or non-scheduled. Waves can also be classified by type of craft, e.g., assault, helicopter, or landing craft.