WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It was created and is being maintained at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller.
The purpose is twofold: to produce a combination of dictionary and thesaurus that is more intuitively usable, and to support automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.
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half*, climate, weather, arctic, cyclone, storm, woman, meteorology>, prognostication
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beckon, brandish, curl, flap, flourish, moving ridge, roll, undulate, undulation, wafture, wave, waving,
1. NOUN. (wave)
a movement like that of an ocean wave
"a wave of settlers"
"troops advancing in waves"
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2. NOUN. (wave)
a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
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3. NOUN. (wave)
the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
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4. NOUN. (wave)
(physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
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gravity wave, gravitation wave, sine wave, oscillation, vibration, fluctuation, seiche, standing wave, stationary wave, traveling wave, sound wave, acoustic wave, wave form, waveform, wave shape, shock wave, blast wave, pulsation, pulsing, pulse, impulse, flap, flapping, flutter, fluttering,
5. NOUN. (wave)
one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
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surf, breaker, breakers, wake, backwash, swash, ripple, rippling, riffle, wavelet, swell, crestless wave, lift, rise, billow, surge, tidal wave, tsunami, roller, roll, rolling wave, whitecap, white horse,
6. NOUN. (wave)
something that rises rapidly
"a wave of emotion swept over him"
"there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed"
"a wave of conservatism in the country led by the hard right"
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rise,
7. NOUN. (wave)
a member of the women''s reserve of the United States Navy
originally organized during World War II but now no longer a separate branch
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8. NOUN. (wave)
a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
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9. NOUN. (wave)
an undulating curve
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10. VERB. (wave)
set waves in
"she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair"
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11. VERB. (wave)
signal with the hands or nod
"She waved to her friends"
"He waved his hand hospitably"
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12. VERB. (wave)
twist or roll into coils or ringlets
"curl my hair, please"
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13. VERB. (wave)
move or swing back and forth
"She waved her gun"
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14. VERB. (wave)
move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
"The curtains undulated"
"the waves rolled towards the beach"
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wave, flap, flapping, flutter, fluttering, flap, flapping, flutter, fluttering, undulation, wave, undulation, roller, roll, rolling wave,
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move,
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luff,
