slovo | definícia |
wave (mass) | wave
- vlna, mávnutie, vlniť sa, mávať |
wave (encz) | wave,mávat v: |
wave (encz) | wave,mávnout v: |
wave (encz) | wave,vlna n: |
wave (encz) | wave,vlnit se v: Zdeněk Brož |
wave (gcide) | Waive \Waive\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waived; p. pr. & vb. n.
Waiving.] [OE. waiven, weiven, to set aside, remove, OF.
weyver, quesver, to waive, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. veifa
to wave, to vibrate, akin to Skr. vip to tremble. Cf.
Vibrate, Waif.] [Written also wave.]
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1. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or
claim; to refuse; to forego.
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He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all. --Chaucer.
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We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions,
absolutely yielding to the direction of others.
--Barrow.
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2. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
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3. (Law)
(a) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right
which one may enforce if he chooses.
(b) (O. Eng. Law) To desert; to abandon. --Burrill.
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Note: The term was applied to a woman, in the same sense as
outlaw to a man. A woman could not be outlawed, in the
proper sense of the word, because, according to
Bracton, she was never in law, that is, in a
frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and
held as abandoned. --Burrill.
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Wave (gcide) | Wave \Wave\, v. t.
1. To move one way and the other; to brandish. "[Aeneas]
waved his fatal sword." --Dryden.
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2. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an
undulating form a surface to.
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Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea.
--Shak.
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3. To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. [Obs.] --Sir
T. Browne.
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4. To call attention to, or give a direction or command to,
by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving;
to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
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Look, with what courteous action
It waves you to a more removed ground. --Shak.
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She spoke, and bowing waved
Dismissal. --Tennyson.
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Wave (gcide) | Wave \Wave\ (w[=a]v), v. t.
See Waive. --Sir H. Wotton. --Burke.
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Wave (gcide) | 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.]
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1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the
other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
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His purple robes waved careless to the winds.
--Trumbull.
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Where the flags of three nations has successively
waved. --Hawthorne.
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2. To be moved to and fro as a signal. --B. Jonson.
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3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to
vacillate. [Obs.]
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He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither
good nor harm. --Shak.
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Wave (gcide) | Wave \Wave\, n. [From Wave, v.; not the same word as OE. wawe,
waghe, a wave, which is akin to E. wag to move. [root]138.
See Wave, v. i.]
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1. An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as
of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the
particles composing it when disturbed by any force their
position of rest; an undulation.
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The wave behind impels the wave before. --Pope.
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2. (Physics) A vibration propagated from particle to particle
through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission
of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all
phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of
vibration; an undulation. See Undulation.
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3. Water; a body of water. [Poetic] "Deep drank Lord Marmion
of the wave." --Sir W. Scott.
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Build a ship to save thee from the flood,
I 'll furnish thee with fresh wave, bread, and wine.
--Chapman.
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4. Unevenness; inequality of surface. --Sir I. Newton.
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5. A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the
hand, a flag, etc.
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6. The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered,
or calendered, or on damask steel.
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7. Something resembling or likened to a water wave, as in
rising unusually high, in being of unusual extent, or in
progressive motion; a swelling or excitement, as of
feeling or energy; a tide; flood; period of intensity,
usual activity, or the like; as, a wave of enthusiasm;
waves of applause.
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Wave front (Physics), the surface of initial displacement
of the particles in a medium, as a wave of vibration
advances.
Wave length (Physics), the space, reckoned in the direction
of propagation, occupied by a complete wave or undulation,
as of light, sound, etc.; the distance from a point or
phase in a wave to the nearest point at which the same
phase occurs.
Wave line (Shipbuilding), a line of a vessel's hull, shaped
in accordance with the wave-line system.
Wave-line system, Wave-line theory (Shipbuilding), a
system or theory of designing the lines of a vessel, which
takes into consideration the length and shape of a wave
which travels at a certain speed.
Wave loaf, a loaf for a wave offering. --Lev. viii. 27.
Wave moth (Zool.), any one of numerous species of small
geometrid moths belonging to Acidalia and allied genera;
-- so called from the wavelike color markings on the
wings.
Wave offering, an offering made in the Jewish services by
waving the object, as a loaf of bread, toward the four
cardinal points. --Num. xviii. 11.
Wave of vibration (Physics), a wave which consists in, or
is occasioned by, the production and transmission of a
vibratory state from particle to particle through a body.
Wave surface.
(a) (Physics) A surface of simultaneous and equal
displacement of the particles composing a wave of
vibration.
(b) (Geom.) A mathematical surface of the fourth order
which, upon certain hypotheses, is the locus of a wave
surface of light in the interior of crystals. It is
used in explaining the phenomena of double refraction.
See under Refraction.
Wave theory. (Physics) See Undulatory theory, under
Undulatory.
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wave (wn) | wave
n 1: one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of
a liquid (especially across a large body of water) [syn:
wave, moving ridge]
2: a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a
specified phenomenon; "a wave of settlers"; "troops advancing
in waves"
3: (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth [syn:
wave, undulation]
4: 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"
5: the act of signaling by a movement of the hand [syn: wave,
waving, wafture]
6: a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
7: an undulating curve [syn: wave, undulation]
8: a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition
(especially of unusual temperatures); "a heat wave"
9: 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
v 1: signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends";
"He waved his hand hospitably" [syn: beckon, wave]
2: move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun" [syn:
brandish, flourish, wave]
3: move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion;
"The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the
beach" [syn: roll, undulate, flap, wave]
4: twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
[syn: curl, wave]
5: set waves in; "she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair" |
wave (foldoc) | WAVE
A robotics language.
["WAVE: A Model-Based Language for Manipulator Control",
R.P. Paul, Ind Robot 4(1):10-17, 1979].
(1996-09-08)
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belowaverage (mass) | below-average
- pod priemer |
microwave (mass) | microwave
- mikrovlnný, mikrovlnka |
wave (mass) | wave
- vlna, mávnutie, vlniť sa, mávať |
airwaves (encz) | airwaves,rádiové vlny Zdeněk Brož |
alpha wave (encz) | alpha wave,vlna alfa n: Zdeněk Brož |
be on the same wavelength (encz) | be on the same wavelength,být na stejné vlně [fráz.] rozumět si s
někým Pinobe on the same wavelength,rozumět si [fráz.] být na stejné vlně Pino |
brain wave (encz) | brain wave,mozková vlna Pavel Machek |
brainwave (encz) | brainwave,mozkový impuls Zdeněk Brožbrainwave,náhlé pochopení n: Zdeněk Brož |
carrier wave (encz) | carrier wave, n: |
catch the wave (encz) | catch the wave,připojit se k trendu Zdeněk Brož |
cold wave (encz) | cold wave, n: |
cosmic microwave background (encz) | cosmic microwave background, n: |
cosmic microwave background radiation (encz) | cosmic microwave background radiation, n: |
crestless wave (encz) | crestless wave, n: |
crime wave (encz) | crime wave, n: |
delta wave (encz) | delta wave, n: |
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