Attack and Wave

noun

• Military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons. ()
  • usage: "the attack began at dawn"
  • synonyms: onslaught, onset, onrush
• An offensive move in a sport or game.
  • usage: "they won the game with a 10-hit attack in the 9th inning"
• Intense adverse criticism.
  • usage: "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"
  • synonyms: fire, flak, flack, blast
• Ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation.
  • usage: "his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons"; "an attack on inflation"; "his plan of attack was misguided"
  • synonyms: approach, plan of attack
• The act of attacking.
  • usage: "attacks on women increased last year"; "they made an attempt on his life"
  • synonyms: attempt
• A decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase.
  • synonyms: tone-beginning
• A sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition.
  • usage: "an attack of diarrhea"
• The onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent. )
  • usage: "the film was sensitive to attack by acids"; "open to attack by the elements"
• Strong criticism.
  • usage: "he published an unexpected attack on my work"

verb

• Launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with.
  • usage: "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week"
  • synonyms: assail
• Attack in speech or writing.
  • usage: "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
  • synonyms: round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault
• Take the initiative and go on the offensive.
  • usage: "The Serbs attacked the village at night"; "The visiting team started to attack"
  • synonyms: aggress
• Attack someone physically or emotionally.
  • usage: "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
  • synonyms: assail, assault, set on
• Set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task.
  • usage: "I attacked the problem as soon as I got out of bed"
• Begin to injure.
  • usage: "The cancer cells are attacking his liver"; "Rust is attacking the metal"

• (n.) A setting to work upon some task, etc.
• (v.t.) To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
• (n.) An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.
• (v.t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man or his opinions, in a pamphlet.
• (v.t.) To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.
• (v.t.) To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem or some object of labor or investigation.
• (n.) The beginning of corrosive, decomposing or destructive action, by a chemical agent.
• (n.) An access of disease; a fit of sickness.
• (n.) The act of attacking or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense.
• (v.i.) To make an onset or attack.

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.