n.[C]

1. 波，波浪
2. （手之）揮動，揮手示意
   He gave me a wave.

   他對我揮手。

3. 浪潮；（情緒的）高漲；（活動等的）高潮[（+of）]
   A wave of anger swept over him.

   他心頭湧起一股怒潮。

4. 【物】波；振動
5. （頭髮的）捲曲，燙髮

vt.

1. 對……揮（手，旗等）
   He waved the servant out of his room.

   他揮手叫僕人離開房間。

2. 向……揮手示意；揮手表示（致敬，告別等）[O][O1]
   Martin waved us goodbye.

   馬丁向我們揮手告別。

3. 使成波形；捲（髮），燙（髮）

vi.

1. 揮手（或旗等）示意
   She waved at him.

   她對他揮手。

2. 起伏；搖動；飄揚
   The flags were waving in the wind.

   旗幟在風中飄揚。

3. （頭髮等）呈波形；捲曲
   Her hair waves naturally.

   她的頭髮自然鬈曲。

v.

1. move one's hand to and fro in greeting or as a signal.
   ▸move (one's hand or arm, or something held in one's hand) to and fro.
   ▸ (wave someone/thing down) wave one's hand to stop a driver or vehicle.
   ▸ (wave something aside) dismiss something as unnecessary or irrelevant.
2. move to and fro with a swaying motion while remaining fixed to one point.
3. style (hair) so that it curls slightly.
   ▸(of hair) grow with a slight curl.

n.

1. a ridge of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore or between two depressions in open water.
   ▸ (the waves) literary the sea.
2. a sudden occurrence of or increase in a specified phenomenon or emotion:
   a crime wave.
3. a gesture or signal made by waving one's hand.
4. a slightly curling lock of hair.
   ▸a tendency to curl in a person's hair.
5. Physics  a periodic disturbance of the particles of a substance which may be propagated without net movement of the particles, as in the passage of undulating motion or sound.
   ▸a single curve in the course of this motion.
   ▸a similar variation of an electromagnetic field in the propagation of light or other radiation.