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waves meaning

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    Definition of waves in English Dictionary

  • NounBFwave
    1. plural of wave.
    2. VerbBFwavePRwavingPT, PPwaved
      1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of wave.
      2. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • Mostly clad in red shirts and waving white pompoms, they vastly outnumbered and outcheered Cub fans, who usually have a strong presence here.
          • F wave studies of the right peroneal and right tibial nerves were unelicitable.
          • monstrous wave upbore the chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore. — Alexander Pope
        2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • In live shows, he’s been known to climb atop amps midsolo and pogo exuberantly around the stage in BLK DNM leather pants, his hair a half-undercut, half-mad-Hokusai wave.
          • The mechanism of landmine detection is to ensonify the ground with an acoustic source and measure the intensity of the returning sound waves.
          • THANK goodness for the Kallang Roar and the Kallang Wave.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Nouns
          • Noun forms
            • Noun plural forms
          • Verbs
            • Verb forms
              • Verb singular forms
                • Third-person singular forms
          Related Links:
          1. en wavest
          2. en waveson
          3. en waveshape
          4. en waveshapes
          5. en waveshaper
          Source: Wiktionary

          Meaning of waves for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this word "waves" is a noun, more specifically, a noun form. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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