Meanings (ES + gloss)
ola • onda • vaga
A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
O God! can I not save / One from the pitiless wave? / Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?
The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.
onda
A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
Gravity waves, while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect.
onda
A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
Her hair had a nice wave to it.
sine wave
oleada
A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
A wave of retirees began moving to the coastal area.
A wave of shoppers stampeded through the door when the store opened for its Christmas discount special.
ola
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.
Phrases
Alfven waveAlfvén waveBangemann waveBloch waveEugene waveFrench new waveGaussian wave packetGerstner waveHertzian waveK-waveKallang waveKondratieff waveKondratiev waveKorean WaveKorean waveMoreton wavePortland ribbon waveRossby waveSchrödinger wave functionSchrödinger's wave equationT waveT-waveWavoidWindsor waveaether waveafterwaveairwavealpha waveaudience waveautowaveawavebeta wavebewaveblastwaveblow-wavebody wavebow wavebrain wavebrainwavecapillary wave
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
holear • saludar con la mano abierta
To move one's hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
I raised my arms in a final salute. I smiled. I waved goodbye. I turned into the helicopter, the door was closed, the red carpet was rolled up.
ondular
To style (the hair) so as to produce a wavy texture.
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 curle…
abanicar
To swing and miss at a pitch.
Jones waves at strike one.
agitar • tremolar
To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
His father has waved bills in front of face and said to him — see what you've cost me.
The starter waved the flag to begin the race.
Phrases