Wave and Patch

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.

noun

• A small contrasting part of something.
  • usage: "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red"
  • synonyms: spot, speckle, dapple, fleck, maculation
• A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation.
  • usage: "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch"
  • synonyms: plot, plot of land, plot of ground
• A piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole.
• A period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition.
  • usage: "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather"
  • synonyms: while, piece, spell
• A short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program.
• A connection intended to be used for a limited time.
  • synonyms: temporary hookup
• Sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment. )
  • usage: "her stockings had several mends"
  • synonyms: mend, darn
• A protective cloth covering for an injured eye.
  • synonyms: eyepatch
• A piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body.
  • synonyms: bandage

verb

• To join or unite the pieces of.
  • usage: "patch the skirt"
  • synonyms: piece
• Provide with a patch; also used metaphorically.
  • usage: "The field was patched with snow"
• Mend by putting a patch on.
  • usage: "patch a hole"
  • synonyms: patch up
• Repair by adding pieces.
  • usage: "She pieced the china cup"
  • synonyms: piece

• (n.) Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.
• (n.) A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
• (n.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
• (v.t.) To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.
• (v.t.) To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
• (n.) A piece of cloth or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
• (v.t.) To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
• (n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
• (n.) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
• (n.) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck, to hide a defect or to heighten beauty.
• (v.t.) To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather or the like; as, to patch a coat.

Patch is a masculine given name

• Name Meaning: Form of Peter. A rock
• Name Origin: American