Say vs Wave - What's the difference?
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To pronounce.
To recite.
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, title= To communicate, either verbally or in writing.
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, chapter=1 To indicate in a written form.
(impersonal) To have a common expression; (used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact).
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* 1819 , Great Britain Court of Chancery, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery , page 8:
* 1841 , Christopher Marshall, The Knickerbocker (New-York Monthly Magazine) , page 379:
(informal, imperative) Let's say; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
* 1984 , (Martin Amis), Money: a suicide note?
To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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One's stated opinion or input into a discussion or decision.
* 2004 , Richard Rogers, Information politics on the Web
(colloquial) (non-gloss definition, Used to gain one's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion)
For example; let us assume.
(informal) (Used to introduce a hypothetical)
A type of fine cloth similar to serge.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iv:
Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
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* Shakespeare
Tried quality; temper; proof.
* Spenser
Essay; trial; attempt.
(lb) To move back and forth repeatedly.
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(lb) To have an undulating or wavy form.
(lb) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea
(lb) To produce waves to the hair.
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To swing and miss at a pitch.
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(lb) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
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(lb) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm.
To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
:(Sir Thomas Browne)
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.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Look, with what courteous action / It waves you to a more removed ground.
* (1809-1892)
*:She spoke, and bowing waved / Dismissal.
A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
(physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
(figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
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A sideway movement of the hand(s).
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. Usually referred to as "the wave"
As a proper noun say
is .As a verb wave is
(lb) to move back and forth repeatedly or wave can be .As a noun wave is
a moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.say
English
(wikipedia say)Etymology 1
From (etyl) seyen, seien, seggen, &c., from (etyl) .Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
citation, passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said . And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.}}
- They say that Hope is happiness; But genuine Love must prize the past.
- It is said , a bargain cannot be set aside upon inadequacy only.
- It’s said that fifteen wagon loads of ready-made clothes for the Virginia troops came to, and stay in, town to-night.
- I've followed Selina down the strip, when we're shopping, say , and she strolls on ahead, wearing sawn-off jeans and a wash-withered T-shirt
- You have said ; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge.
- To this argument we shall soon have said ; for what concerns it us to hear a husband divulge his household privacies?
Synonyms
* SeeDerived terms
* dessay * doomsaying * nay-say * saith * sayeth * sayer * saying * there is much to be said * what do you say * you don't sayNoun
(en noun)- Above all, however, we would like to think that there is more to be decided, after the engines and after the humans have had their says .
References
* *Etymology 2
Grammaticalization of the verb. In the case of the conjunction, it could be considered an elision of "Let's say that" and for the "for example" sense of "Let's say"Adverb
(-)- Say , what did you think about the movie?
- Pick a color you think they'd like, say , peach.
- He was driving pretty fast, say , fifty miles per hour.
Synonyms
* (used to gain attention) heyConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- Say your family is starving and you don't have any money, is it ok to steal some food?
Etymology 3
From (etyl) saie, from (etyl) saga, plural of .Noun
(-)- All in a kirtle of discolourd say / He clothed was
Etymology 4
Aphetic form of assay.Noun
(en noun)- If those principal works of God be but certain tastes and says , as if were, of that final benefit.
- Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes.
- He found a sword of better say .
- (Ben Jonson)
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) waven, from (etyl) .Verb
(wav)Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland, passage=But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try.}}
Derived terms
* wave off * waver * wave the white flagEtymology 2
From (etyl) *.Noun
(en noun)- The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.
- Gravity waves , while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect.
- Her hair had a nice wave to it.
- sine wave
- A wave of shoppers stampeded through the door when the store opened for its Christmas discount special.
- A wave of retirees began moving to the coastal area.
- A wave of emotion overcame her when she thought about her son who was killed in battle.
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- With a wave of the hand.
