wave – English noun declension

English noun forms of wave

Noun: wave
Singularwave
Pluralwaves

Sample Sentences

  • The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.
  • O God! can I not save / One from the pitiless wave? / Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream? [1849 March 31, Edgar Allan Poe, “A Dream Within a Dream”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: […], volumes II (Poems and Miscellanies), New York, N.Y.: J. S. Redfield, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 40:]
  • A wave simulator in the tank can re-enact tsunamis and northeasters, and imitate wave conditions from midocean. [2007 February 20, Tina Kelley, “A Wet Wind Tunnel So Ships Can Move Faster and Better”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2022:]
  • The new sea wall may stop the waves 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. [2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:]
  • 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 green wave or in the brown mould.
  • Whoever rules the waves rules the world... [2024 January 14, Kim Darroch, “Whoever rules the waves rules the world... The Red Sea crisis will show us if that’s true”, in The Observer:]
  • Gravity waves, while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect.
  • Beyond military applications, cloaking devices are drawing interest from telecommunications companies, who see them as a way to send information by light more efficiently. One idea is to use the new materials to build "superantennas" that can concentrate light and other electromagnetic waves to make laser-like beams. [2010 March 18, Ian Sample, “Cloaking device makes objects invisible – to infrared light anyway”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2023:]
  • Her hair had a nice wave to it.
  • sine wave
  • He dismissed her with a wave of the hand.
  • A wave of shoppers stampeded through the door when the store opened for its Christmas discount special.
  • A wave of retirees began moving to the coastal area.
  • A wave of emotion overcame her when she thought about her son who was killed in battle.
  • 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 produced waves after wave of attack in their bid to find a crucial second goal. [2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC:]
  • New Wave
  • Korean Wave
  • As the player eliminates each wave of 55 aliens, the next wave begins lower than the one previous. [2011, Raffaele Cecco, Supercharged JavaScript Graphics: With HTML5 Canvas and jQuery:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English *wave, partially from waven (“to fluctuate, wave”) (see above) and partially from Middle English wawe, waghe (“wave”), from Old English wǣg (“a wave, billow, motion, water, flood, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“motion, storm, wave”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with North Frisian waag (“wave”), West Frisian weach (“wave”), Dutch waag (“wave”), German Woge, Wooge (“wave”), Danish vove, våg (“wave”), Faroese vágur (“bay”), Icelandic vogur (“bay”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish våg (“wave”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌲𐍃 (wēgs, “wave”), French vague (“wave”) (from Old Norse vágr (“ocean, sea; wave”)). See also waw. See: Middle English Nouns '*wave', Middle English Nouns 'wawe', Dutch Nouns 'waag', German Nouns 'Woge', Danish Nouns 'vove', Faroese Nouns 'vágur', Icelandic Nouns 'vogur', Swedish Nouns 'våg', Gothic Nouns '𐍅𐌴𐌲𐍃', French Nouns 'vague', Old Norse Nouns 'vágr'.