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Adjective waving has 1 sense
- aflare, flaring, flying, waving - streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her"; "flying banners"; "flags waving in the breeze"
Antonyms: nonmoving, unmoving (indirect, via moving)
Noun waving has 1 sense
- wave, waving, wafture - the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
--1 is a kind of gesture, motion
--1 has particulars: flourish, brandish
Verb wave has 5 senses
- beckon, wave - signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably"
--1 is one way to gesticulate, gesture, motion
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s to somebody
- brandish, flourish, wave - move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"
--2 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- roll, undulate, flap, wave - move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
--3 is one way to move
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
- curl, wave - twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
--4 is one way to twist
Sample sentence:
They wave their hair
- wave - set waves in; "she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair"
--5 is one way to dress, arrange, set, do, coif, coiffe, coiffure
Sample sentence:
They wave their hair
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