(v. i.) To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
(v. i.) To be moved to and fro as a signal.
(v. i.) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.
(v. t.) To move one way and the other; to brandish.
(v. t.) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
(v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation.
(v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation.
(v. i.) Water; a body of water.
(v. i.) Unevenness; inequality of surface.
(v. i.) A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
(v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.
(v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.
(n.) Woe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
(2) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(3) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(4) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
(5) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
(6) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
(7) The amplitudes of the a-wave and the 01 decreased in dose-dependent manners, but their changes were less striking than those of the 01 latency.
(8) Enzymatic activity per gram of urinary creatinine was consistently but not significantly higher before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy than in control subjects.
(9) It is the route the authorities are now adopting, after the wave of taxpayer bailouts in2008-09.
(10) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
(11) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
(12) Total abolition of the CR ensued when the wave of CSD reached the motor (frontal) cortex and again was independent of the CS modality.
(13) One thousand singleton low-risk pregnancies were cross-sectionally studied at 36-40 weeks gestation with continuous-wave Doppler ultrasonography in order to assess its usefulness as an antepartum monitoring technique for the identification of fetuses at risk of developing an adverse outcome.
(14) Yet in 4 patients in whom no aortic late systolic pressure wave was apparent (group II), nitroprusside did not alter the difference between aortic and radial systolic pressures.
(15) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
(16) F-wave latency was consistently increased in the affected hands of the patients, compared with results from the unaffected and control hands.
(17) The b-wave in the ERG was lacking and the EOG was flat.
(18) In only six patients (14%) the ventricular tachycardia was initiated by an ectopic ventricular complex interrupting the T wave.
(19) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
(20) The following results were obtained: 1) In normal subjects, the changes in ABR waveforms according to the changes of the rise-time, interstimulus interval and frequency of the stimulus were mainly attributed to component wave C. 2) In patients with central disorders, component wave C were initially affected.
Wavy
Definition:
(a.) Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.
(a.) Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames.
(a.) Undulating on the border or surface; waved.
Example Sentences:
(1) In MTC cases, a strong labelling was present over two types of aggregates: one composed of rigid, criss-crossing fibrils 7-10 nm in diameter, suggestive of amyloid, and the other consisting of loosely arranged fibrils, 4-7 nm in width, often wavy or poorly defined.
(2) Wavy fiber and colliquative myocytolysis of non-specific ischemic lesions were seen only microscopically in both peripheral and subendocardial areas of infarcted foci.
(3) Moreover, the basement membrane of the seminiferous tubule showed wavy lamellae and infolding to the seminiferous epithelium.
(4) Twenty three dogs were subjected to periods of ischemia, from 30 minutes to 4 hours; wavy fibers were present in 87% and 91% of the ischemic and non-ischemic samples respectively.
(5) A wavy arrangement of mitochondria, fragmentation and stacks of mitochondrial cristae were observed in 20-week-old SHR.
(6) The lines then take on a wavy and oscillating appearance, which is followed by scintillation of the pattern.
(7) Hunter-Schreger bands of cats circumscribed the teeth in relatively straight segments, but these bands showed pronounced waviness in dog teeth.
(8) The outer membrane appeared wavy with distortion of its tripartite structure.
(9) The collagenous fibers were arranged in longitudinal bundles, straight when stretched and wavy when unstretched, with a delicate network of fine elastic fibers coursing in all directions.
(10) We conclude that a rapidly growing renal mass in a young patient (less than 35 years old) that is shown to be complex and cystic by CT or sonography and that is hypovascular with fine, wavy neovascularity on arteriography is suggestive of adult Wilms tumor (75-80%).
(11) Although no characteristic findings indicative of neurogenic differentiation could be confirmed with anti-S-100-protein, a fair number of positive cells were seen in the area where the tumor cells were loosely arranged and displayed a wavy pattern.
(12) The first mesothelial mitoses appeared: in the first series (I) of experiments - in 24 h, in the second series (II) of experiments - 21 h. Further, proliferation of the mesothelium appeared in different parts of the tissue with various intencity and was of wavy character.
(13) The literature concerning these effects is reviewed and several experiments are reported which examined the apparent waviness and scintillating disappearances.
(14) And I don't mean being a wavy-haired, wealthy francophone from Massachusetts (although, in this climate, that's burden enough for a Republican nominee).
(15) HII is the more recently described multibranched, wavy-axoned horizontal cell.
(16) In addition to severe atrophy and degeneration of the generalized striated muscles and many foci of laminar necrosis of the cerebral cortex, the following abnormalities were observed: 1) hypertrophy of the myocardium, 2) fatty change of the liver, 3) focal sclerosis of the glomeruli and dilatation of the tubules of the kidneys, 4) hyalinous degeneration of the Langerhans' islands of the pancreas and 5) wavy change of the smooth muscle fibers of the muscularis propria of the gastrointestinal tract.
(17) The change most characteristic of the senescence of the retinal pigment epithelium was found to be the appearance of wavy undulating 12nm wide filaments having a periodicity of about 80nm after the 12th month.
(18) The wavy suture ring of the prosthesis makes it "low profile".
(19) Ultrastructurally, the primary cyst wall shows sloping villi with irregular wavy outlines.
(20) The wavy character of sympathectomy is thought to reflect integral behavior of the nervous cells subpopulation in the course of development of homeostatic reactions.