Wave and String

wave

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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.

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.

string

noun

A lightweight cord.
- synonyms: twine
Stringed instruments that are played with a bow.
- usage: "the strings played superlatively well"
- synonyms: bowed stringed instrument
A tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed.
A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding.
- usage: "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of thought"
- synonyms: train
A linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases. )
A tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening.
- usage: "he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag"
- synonyms: drawstring, drawing string
A tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod. )
Cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop.
- synonyms: cosmic string
A collection of objects threaded on a single strand.
A necklace made by a stringing objects together.
- usage: "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";
- synonyms: chain, strand

verb

Thread on or as if on a string.
- usage: "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries"
- synonyms: thread, draw
Add as if on a string.
- usage: "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical"
- synonyms: string up
Move or come along.
- synonyms: string along
Stretch out or arrange like a string.
String together; tie or fasten with a string.
- usage: "string the package"
Remove the stringy parts of.
- usage: "string beans"
Provide with strings.
- usage: "string my guitar"

(n.) A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story.
(n.) Act of stringing for break.
(n.) The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; -- called also string line.
(n.) In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
(v.t.) To hoax; josh; jolly.
(v.i.) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched or people who are moving along, etc.
(n.) In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.
(n.) The line or cord of a bow.
(n.) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
(v.t.) To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
(n.) The points made in a game.
(n.) The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.
(v.t.) To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
(n.) Same as Stringcourse.
(n.) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.
(n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
(n.) A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
(v.t.) To make tense; to strengthen.
(v.t.) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
(n.) A small cord, a line, a twine or a slender strip of leather or other substance, used for binding together, fastening or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.
(n.) A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.
(n.) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
(v.t.) To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
(n.) A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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