 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
waving
adjective: streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current
of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her";
"flying banners"; "flags waving in the breeze" [syn: {aflare},
{flaring}, {flying}]
noun: the act of signaling by a movement of the hand [syn: {wave},
{wafture}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wave \Wave\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Waved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Waving}.] [OE. waven, AS. wafian to waver, to hesitate, to
wonder; akin to w[ae]fre wavering, restless, MHG. wabern to
be in motion, Icel. vafra to hover about; cf. Icel. v[=a]fa
to vibrate. Cf. {Waft}, {Waver}.]
1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the
other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
His purple robes waved careless to the winds.
--Trumbull.
Where the flags of three nations has successively
waved. --Hawthorne.
2. To be moved to and fro as a signal. --B. Jonson.
3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to
vacillate. [Obs.]
He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither
good nor harm. --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "waving":
ambages, anfractuosity, brandish, brandishing, circuitousness,
circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution,
convolution, crinkle, crinkling, flaunt, flaunting, flexuosity,
flexuousness, flourish, flourishing, intorsion, involution,
meander, meandering, rivulation, shaking, sinuation, sinuosity,
sinuousness, slinkiness, snakiness, torsion, tortility, tortuosity,
tortuousness, turning, twisting, undulant, undulating, undulation,
undulatory, wave, wave motion, winding
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