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WAVING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of signaling by a movement of the hand
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("waving" is a kind of...):
gesture; motion (the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waving"):
brandish; flourish (the act of waving)
Derivation:
wave (signal with the hands or nod)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb wave
Context examples:
One Eye, with pointed, interested ears, laughed at her, and beyond, outlined against the white light, she could see the brush of his tail waving good-naturedly.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Opposite her stood a brutal, heavy-faced, red-moustached young man, his gaitered legs parted wide, one arm akimbo, the other waving a riding crop, his whole attitude suggestive of triumphant bravado.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see nothing.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Fluttering veils and waving plumes filled the vehicles; two of the cavaliers were young, dashing-looking gentlemen; the third was Mr. Rochester, on his black horse, Mesrour, Pilot bounding before him; at his side rode a lady, and he and she were the first of the party.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
And when she came to the meadow, she sat down upon a bank there, and let down her waving locks of hair, which were all of pure silver; and when Curdken saw it glitter in the sun, he ran up, and would have pulled some of the locks out, but she cried: (...)
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I got up immediately, and observing the good people to be in much concern, I took my hat (which I held under my arm out of good manners,) and waving it over my head, made three huzzas, to show I had got no mischief by my fall.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
This was a great relief, and Buck caused even the weazened face of Perrault to twist itself into a grin one morning, when François forgot the moccasins and Buck lay on his back, his four feet waving appealingly in the air, and refused to budge without them.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
His face was flushed, as if he were in wine, and he was waving what seemed to be a letter in the air.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Ten paces from the fringe of trees he glanced around, and waving his hand he crouched down, and was lost to sight among a belt of furze-bushes.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Of her waving her little hand, and our going away once more.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
