Waving

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wave \Wave\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Waving}.] [OE. waven, AS. wafian to waver, to hesitate, to
     wonder; akin to w[ae]fre wavering, restless, MHG. wabern to
     be in motion, Icel. vafra to hover about; cf. Icel. v[=a]fa
     to vibrate. Cf. {Waft}, {Waver}.]
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     1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the
        other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
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              His purple robes waved careless to the winds.
                                                    --Trumbull.
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              Where the flags of three nations has successively
              waved.                                --Hawthorne.
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     2. To be moved to and fro as a signal. --B. Jonson.
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     3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to
        vacillate. [Obs.]
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              He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither
              good nor harm.                        --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  waving
       adj : streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current
             of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her";
             "flying banners"; "flags waving in the breeze" [syn: {aflare},
              {flaring}, {flying}]
       n : the act of signaling by a movement of the hand [syn: {wave},
            {wafture}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "waving":
     ambages, anfractuosity, brandish, brandishing, circuitousness,
     circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution,
     convolution, crinkle, crinkling, flaunt, flaunting, flexuosity,
     flexuousness, flourish, flourishing, intorsion, involution,
     meander, meandering, rivulation, shaking, sinuation, sinuosity,
     sinuousness, slinkiness, snakiness, torsion, tortility, tortuosity,
     tortuousness, turning, twisting, undulant, undulating, undulation,
     undulatory, wave, wave motion, winding