Wove vs Waved - What's the difference?
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(weave)
To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
To spin a cocoon or a web.
To unite by close connection or intermixture.
* Shakespeare
* Byron
To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
A type or way of weaving.
Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.
To move by turning and twisting.
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To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(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 wove and waved
is that wove is (weave) while waved is (wave).wove
English
Verb
(head)- She wove a beautiful basket out of reeds.
weave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , Swedish '' .Verb
- This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.
- Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
- This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.
- these words, thus woven into song
- to weave the plot of a story
Noun
(en noun)- That rug has a very tight weave .
Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) veifa'' ‘move around, wave’, related to Latin ''vibrare .Verb
(weav)- The drunk weaved into another bar.
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- The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.
- Weave a circle round him thrice.
References
* * English irregular verbswaved
English
Verb
(head)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.