But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires werewaving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try.
(intransitive) To move one'shand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
I raised my arms in a final salute. I smiled. Iwaved goodbye. I turned into the helicopter, the door was closed, the red carpet was rolled up.
(transitive,metonymic) 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.
There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed,waved, put in curlers overnight,waved with hot tongs;[…].
1803,William Hogarth,Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth: And Explanatory Descriptions of the Plates of Hogarth Restored, page137:
But in the last, this dotted line, by the twisting as well as the bending of the horn, is changed from thewaving into the serpentine line
1850, Pierce Egan,Robin Hood and Little John: or, The merry men of Sherwood forest, page272:
the flowers will not bloom less brightly, nor the grass be less green and fresh because it is waving over the head of one who loved to look upon their tender beauty while living.
1851, Margaret Plues,Rambles in Search of Ferns, page31:
The cypresslike ferns were notwaving over these, as theywaved over the corals in the wood, but the little spleenwort, called Wall-rue, was resolved that their tomb should not be without verdure.
1866, John Saunders,Bound to the Wheel, page89:
The moonlight fell into the room, and the shadowswaved over him
1951,Doris Lessing, “The Second Hut”, inAfrican Stories, published2014, page82:
Walking through the fields, where the maize was nowwaving over his head, pale gold with a froth of white, the sharp dead leaves scything crisply against the wind, he could see nothing but that black foetid hut
1997, Elizabeth Barrett, Victoria Bovard,And His Love Shown Down, page88:
A chillwaved over my consciousness as my worst nightmare erupted into reality.
2015, Arthur Calder-Marshall,About Levy:
The two stood in the window peering down where parents moved across grass, pointing tongues of colourwaving over them.
Thewave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.
1849 March 31,Edgar Allan Poe, “A Dream Within a Dream”, inThe Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe:[…], volumes II (Poems and Miscellanies), New York, N.Y.: J. S. Redfield,[…], published1850,→OCLC,page40:
O God! can I not save /One from the pitilesswave? / Isall that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, inRail, page65:
The new sea wall may stop thewaves from the sea, but not from the children who enthusiastically greet our train as it passes. It's great to see this ages-old habit is still going strong.
1895, Fiona Macleod (William Sharp),The Sin-Eater and Other Tales
[…] your father Murtagh Ross, and his lawful childless wife, Dionaid, and his sister Anna—one and all, they lie beneath the greenwave or in the brown mould.
2024 January 14, Kim Darroch, “Whoever rules the waves rules the world... The Red Sea crisis will show us if that’s true”, inThe Observer[2]:
Awave of shoppersstampeded through the door when the store opened for its Christmas discount special.
Awave of retirees began moving to the coastal area.
Awave of emotion overcame her when she thought about her son who was killed in battle.
2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, inBBC[3]:
Foster had been left unsighted by Scott Dann's positioning at his post, but the goalkeeper was about to prove his worth to Birmingham by keeping them in the game with a series of stunning saves as West Ham producedwaves afterwave of attack in their bid to find a crucial second goal.
(logistics) Any of a series oforders to be fulfilled in one short interval of time, planned as part ofwave picking.
(video games, by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
2011, Raffaele Cecco,Supercharged JavaScript Graphics: With HTML5 Canvas and jQuery:
As the player eliminates eachwave of 55 aliens, the next wave begins lower than the one previous.
(usually "the wave") A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.
Ladies and gentlemen—I am ordered by Miss Woodhouse to say, that shewaves her right of knowing exactly what you may all be thinking of, and only requires something very entertaining from each of you, in a general way.
