Waived vs Waved - What's the difference?
waived | waved |
(waive)
(obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
(obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
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(legal) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
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To put aside, avoid.
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(obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
(obsolete) To stray, wander.
* c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), "The Merchant's Tale", Canterbury Tales :
(obsolete, legal) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
(obsolete) A waif; a castaway.
* 1624 , (John Donne), Devotions upon Emergent Occasions :
(wave)
(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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*: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 curlers overnight, ' waved with hot tongs;.
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 verbs the difference between waived and waved
is that waived is past tense of waive while waved is past tense of wave.waived
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*waive
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) weyven, from (etyl) .Verb
(waiv)- If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
Derived terms
* waivableEtymology 2
(etyl) weyven, from (etyl) .Verb
(waiv)- ye been so ful of sapience / That yow ne liketh, for youre heighe prudence, / To weyven fro the word of Salomon.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) waive, probably as the past participle of (weyver), as Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)- (John Donne)
Etymology 4
Variant forms.Noun
(en noun)- I know, O Lord, the ordinary discomfort that accompanies that phrase, that the house is visited, and that thy works, and thy tokens are upon the patient; but what a wretched, and disconsolate hermitage is that house, which is not visited by thee, and what a waive and stray is that man, that hath not thy marks upon him?
waved
English
Verb
(head)wave
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.
