Answer:
1a: a moving ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid (as of the sea)
bchiefly literary : WATER, SEA
… this our island in the wave …
— Charles Dickens
The buccaneer on the wave might relinquish his calling and become … a man of probity and piety on land …
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The sea was open to them, and they achieved their victories on the briny wave.
— The Book of Commerce by Sea and Land
2a: a shape or outline having successive curves
b: a waviness of the hair
c: an undulating line or streak or a pattern formed by such lines
3: something that swells and dies away: such as
a: a surge of sensation or emotion
a wave of anger swept over her
b: a movement sweeping large numbers in a common direction
waves of protest
c: a peak or climax of activity
a wave of buying
4: a sweep of hand or arm or of some object held in the hand used as a signal or greeting
5: a rolling or undulatory movement or one of a series of such movements passing along a surface or through the air
6: a movement like that of an ocean wave: such as
a: a surging movement of a group
a big new wave of women politicians
b: one of a succession of influxes of people migrating into a region
c(1): a moving group of animals of one kind
(2): a sudden rapid increase in a population
d: a line of attacking or advancing troops or airplanes
e: a display of people in a large crowd (as at a sports event) successively rising, lifting their arms overhead, and quickly sitting so as to form a swell moving through the crowd
7a: a disturbance or variation that transfers energy progressively from point to point in a medium and that may take the form of an elastic deformation or of a variation of pressure, electric or magnetic intensity, electric potential, or temperature
b: one complete cycle of such a disturbance
8: a marked change in temperature : a period of hot or cold weather
9: an undulating or jagged line constituting a graphic representation of an action
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