Wave vs Web - What's the difference?
wave | web |
(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"
The silken structure a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web.
* Hawthorne
* Washington Irving
Specifically , the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web).
(baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
A latticed or woven structure.
* George Bancroft
The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
(rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.
(manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
(lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
(dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
* Fairfax
# The blade of a sword.
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# The blade of a saw.
# The thin, sharp part of a colter.
# The bit of a key.
: the World Wide Web.
to construct or form a web
to cover with a web or network
to ensnare or entangle
to provide with a web
In intransitive terms the difference between wave and web
is that wave is to have an undulating or wavy form while web is to construct or form a web.In transitive terms the difference between wave and web
is that wave is to signal (someone or something) with a waving movement while web is to provide with a web.As a proper noun web is
alternative case form of Web: the World Wide Web.wave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) waven, from (etyl) .Verb
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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.
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.web
English
(wikipedia web)Noun
(en noun)- The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web .
- the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-colour or gold
- Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures.
- Let me search the web for that.
- He caught the ball in the web .
- The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
- The colonists were forbidden to manufacture any woollen, or linen, or cotton fabrics; not a web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, on penalty of exile.
- And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.
- The sword, whereof the web was steel, / Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.
Derived terms
* cobweb * spiderweb * webbed * webbingProper noun
- I found it on the web .
