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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the act of signaling by a movement of the hand;
[syn: wave, waving, wafture]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wave \Wave\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waved; p. pr. & vb. n. Waving.] [OE. waven, AS. wafian to waver, to hesitate, to wonder; akin to w[ae]fre wavering, restless, MHG. wabern to be in motion, Icel. vafra to hover about; cf. Icel. v[=a]fa to vibrate. Cf. Waft, Waver.] [1913 Webster] 1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate. [1913 Webster] His purple robes waved careless to the winds. --Trumbull. [1913 Webster] Where the flags of three nations has successively waved. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster] 2. To be moved to and fro as a signal. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] 3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

waving n 1: the act of signaling by a movement of the hand [syn: wave, waving, wafture]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

42 Moby Thesaurus words for "waving": ambages, anfractuosity, brandish, brandishing, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, convolution, crinkle, crinkling, flaunt, flaunting, flexuosity, flexuousness, flourish, flourishing, intorsion, involution, meander, meandering, rivulation, shaking, sinuation, sinuosity, sinuousness, slinkiness, snakiness, torsion, tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, turning, twisting, undulant, undulating, undulation, undulatory, wave, wave motion, winding