Wave vs Cloud - What's the difference?
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(lb) To move back and forth repeatedly.
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, title= (lb) To wave one’s hand in greeting or departure.
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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"
(obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds , it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
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, title= Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
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*(Bible), (w) xii. 1
*:so great a cloud of witnesses
An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
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The Internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
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, title= (figuratively) A negative aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
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, title= (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.
To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
To make obscure.
To make gloomy or sullen.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
* Shakespeare
To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colours.
* Alexander Pope
Wave is a related term of cloud.
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.As a proper noun cloud is
.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.
citation, page= , passage=Foster had been left unsighted by Scott Dann's positioning at his post, but the goalkeeper was about to prove his worth to Birmingham by keeping them in the game with a series of stunning saves as West Ham produced waves' after ' wave of attack in their bid to find a crucial second goal.}}
- With a wave of the hand.
Derived terms
* Elliott wave * make waves * Mexican wave * waveband * wave field synthesis * wave function * waveguide * wavelength * wavelet * wave mechanics * wave number * wave packet * wave-particle duality * wave ski * wave train * wave vector * wavySynonyms
* (an undulation) (l)Etymology 3
See waive.cloud
English
Noun
(en noun)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
Blackpool 2-3 Man Utd, passage=The only cloud on their night was that injury to Rafael, who was followed off the pitch by his anxious brother Fabio as he was stretchered away down the tunnel.}}
Quotations
* (English Citations of "cloud")Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* anvil cloud * brain cloud * cloud bank * cloud base * cloudburst * cloud chamber * cloud computing * cloud cover * cloud mass * cloud nine * cloud number nine * cloud on title * cloud storage * cloud street * cloudish * cloudless adj * cloudlet noun * cloudlike * cloudling * cloudly * cloudy adj. * every cloud has a silver lining * funnel cloud * have one’s head in the clouds * Magellanic Cloud * mammatus cloud * molecular cloud * mushroom cloud * Oort cloud * point cloud * rain cloud * star cloud * tag cloud * thundercloudVerb
(en verb)- The glass clouds when you breathe on it.
- The sky is clouded .
- All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.
- One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, / Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth.
- Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks.
- I would not be a stander-by to hear / My sovereign mistress clouded so, without / My present vengeance taken.
- to cloud yarn
- the nice conduct of a clouded cane