What's the difference between waive and wander?

Waive


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A waif; a castaway.
  • (v. t.) A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
  • (v. t.) To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
  • (v. t.) To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
  • (v. t.) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
  • (v. t.) To desert; to abandon.
  • (v. i.) To turn aside; to recede.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The HSE wants to streamline the assessment of new reactor designs by waiving certain aspects through a series of "exclusions".
  • (2) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
  • (3) The chief executive has already waived his bonus for 2012 following the furore surrounding the £1m he was to be handed for 2011 before the political outcry forced him to hand it back.
  • (4) Under Spanish law, anyone who has more than €120,000 in undeclared income automatically faces a jail sentence, but this is generally waived if the offender agrees to pay.
  • (5) Ost claims that patients cannot make informed rational decisions without full information and that, therefore, the right to waive information also involves the right to waive one's responsibility to act as an autonomous moral agent.
  • (6) It directs agencies to “waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay” other penalties, fees, taxes and costs.
  • (7) The business secretary will instead back a voluntary scheme in which employers and staff can sign settlement agreements that would allow an employee to leave a company with a good reference providing they waived their right to pursue unfair dismissal proceedings at a tribunal.
  • (8) Lavery has waived his right to make an argument in court.
  • (9) But the Kumamoto governor was a fan, and cannily waived licensing fees for Kumamon, encouraging manufacturers to use him royalty-free.
  • (10) 2010 February: Waives £1.6m bonus after coming under pressure from ministers over his pay.
  • (11) Those who should never have been given loans and have fallen more than 30 days behind with repayments will have their debts wiped entirely, while a further 45,000 who are up to 30 days in arrears will have their interest and charges waived.
  • (12) Each day, he waived his right to a lawyer and his right to remain silent every day in writing, the affidavit states.
  • (13) Past fines ranged from €35,000-€50,000, against which organisers successfully appealed and had reduced or waived.
  • (14) The decision to waive the preferential treatment for the bailout fund on the Spanish rescue was a one-off that would not be repeated in any further programmes, Merkel said.
  • (15) They were, therefore, never “in law” and so could not be “oulawed”, hence they were “waived” instead.
  • (16) US telecommunications companies such as AT&T and T-Mobile are waiving the cost of texts offering donations.
  • (17) The assistant commissioner told MPs colleagues had written to the NYT again to urge them to waive that privilege because of the "quite exceptional circumstances" surrounding the case, but admitted he was "not hopeful".
  • (18) The EU agreed in September to waive tariffs on Pakistani textiles, but only temporarily.
  • (19) Vacant buildings are being pressed into service, and the usual high standards set by the immigration service are being waived.
  • (20) It has waived the administration fee for the duplicate ticket and sent you £50 in travel vouchers.

Wander


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
  • (v. i.) To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
  • (v. i.) To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.
  • (v. t.) To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) lyase activity was determined by the recently described spectrophotometric method of Wanders et al.
  • (2) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
  • (3) Residents had called police after spotting a man wandering around the park and yelling incoherently.
  • (4) Wandering is movement changing over time and, thus, is a nonlinear ultradian rhythm, with locomoting and nonlocomoting phases.
  • (5) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
  • (6) I would like to place on record our sincere thanks to Owen, Sandy Stewart [Coyle's assistant] and Steve Davis [coach] for all their hard work during their time at Bolton Wanderers."
  • (7) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
  • (8) 7.13pm BST The starting XIs England: Hart (Oxford University), Walker (Barnes), Cahill (Harrow Chequers), Jagielka (Cambridge University), Baines (1st Surrey Rifles), Wilshere (Old Harrovians), Gerrard (Wanderers), Walcott (Swifts), Cleverley (Old Carthusians), Welbeck (Royal Engineers), Rooney (Old Etonians).
  • (9) Boy, a new play by Leo Butler , follows Liam, a 17-year-old Neet (not in education, employment or training) for 24 hours as he wanders the capital, trying to find friends, connect with a family who have given up on him and with community services that communicate so differently from the way Liam does, it seems like they are speaking another language.
  • (10) An electronic security system can improve the quality of life for alert, oriented patients (and their families) who share a unit with confused, wandering patients.
  • (11) Hagere Selam remains a modest place of mudwalled shops with corrugated roofs, cows, donkeys and sheep wandering unpaved streets and children idling away an afternoon at table football – a generation with no memory of the famine that killed hundreds of thousands and woke up the world.
  • (12) He's fouled out on the right, and takes the free kick very quickly, taking advantage of a wandering Krol, but the referee deems the kick was not take from the right place, and was probably moving as well.
  • (13) For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths."
  • (14) Larry Page, Google's chief executive, believes self-driving cars have enormous economic and health implications: they should cut the number of road deaths, either through drivers' attention wandering, or through driving too close to other cars and being unable to react.
  • (15) After scarfing platefuls of seafood on the terrace, we wandered down to the harbour where two fishermen, kitted out in wetsuits, were setting out by boat across the clear turquoise water to collect goose barnacles.
  • (16) Distribution of the recurrence was different: some previous sites had apparently become refractory and remained clear, some involvement had recurred in the same site, and new areas of involvement had appeared, causing the eruption to "wander," as is often seen in acute fixed drug eruption due to acetaminophen.
  • (17) She manifested not only episodic bulimia, impulsive self-injury, suicidal attempt, and obvious depressive emotion; but also self-provoked-vomiting, wandering, stealing and lying.
  • (18) Baseline wander and muscle artifact are particularly troublesome sources of interference.
  • (19) O’Malley, the only candidate to wander into the spin room, was asked if he thought he had broken through.
  • (20) Individuals have shown transient AV block, irregular sinus rhythm, wandering pacemaker, and inverted T waves.