I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a crime wave (= a sudden increase in crime in an area )
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Larger cities have been the worst hit by the crime wave.
a series/spate/wave of attacks (= a number of attacks in a row )
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The killing follows a series of brutal attacks on tourists.
a wave of nausea (= a sudden strong feeling of nausea )
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A terrible wave of nausea swept over her.
a wave of nostalgia (= a strong feeling of nostalgia )
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As I drove into the city I felt a wave of nostalgia sweep over me.
a wave of redundancies (= a sudden increase in the number of redundancies )
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The latest wave of redundancies resulted in 4,000 job cuts.
a wave of unrest (= a sudden increase in unrest )
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A wave of unrest had resulted in seven deaths.
a wave/burst/surge of enthusiasm (= a sudden feeling of enthusiasm )
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The new year began with a fresh wave of enthusiasm.
a wave/flood/surge/rush of emotion (= a sudden very strong emotion )
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A great surge of emotion swept through her when she learnt that he was safe.
a wave/influx of immigrants (= a large number of them )
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A new wave of immigrants arrived in the 1950s.
a wave/surge of optimism (= a sudden strong feeling of optimism )
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The team are riding a wave of optimism after their recent victory.
a wave/surge of panic (= a feeling of panic that you suddenly have )
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A sudden wave of panic overcame him.
a wave/surge of pity
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The woman looked so dejected that a wave of pity washed over me.
carry/raise/wave etc the banner of sth (= publicly support a particular belief etc )
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She’d never felt the need to carry the banner of feminism.
cheery wave
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He left them with a cheery wave .
crime wave
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More police officers are being brought in to help tackle the current crime wave.
dismissive gesture/wave/shrug etc
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Cath spread both hands in a dismissive gesture.
freak wind/wave/storm etc
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The men drowned when a freak wave sank their boat.
give a wave/movement/signal
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He gave a wave of his hand.
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Don’t move until I give the signal.
heat wave
long wave
medium wave
Mexican wave
new wave
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a new wave of feminism in the sixties and early seventies
permanent wave
radio wave
sent shock waves through
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The child’s murder sent shock waves through the neighborhood.
shock wave
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The shock wave from the blast blew out 22 windows in the courthouse.
short wave
sound wave
tidal wave
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a tidal wave of crime
wave a magic wand
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I wish I could just wave a magic wand and make everything all right.
wave a (magic) wand (= move a wand about to make something magical happen )
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I can’t just wave a magic wand and make it all better.
wave of bombings
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a terrorist network responsible for a wave of bombings in Paris
wave power (= energy produced by waves in the sea )
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Wave power can be used to generate electricity.
wave your arms (= to attract attention )
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The man was waving his arms and shouting something.
wave your hand
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Marta waved a hand to attract his attention.
wave/raise/show etc the white flag
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Despite the loss, the team refuses to wave the white flag and give up on the season.
waving flags
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Children waving flags greeted the Russian leader.
wind/wave energy
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The windmill uses wind energy to crush grain and pump water.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
approaching
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The colinear case Consider first the case when the approaching waves have colinear polarization.
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In the Szekeres class of solutions, the approaching waves have constant aligned polarization.
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This time is also affected by their relative polarization and is a minimum when the approaching waves are colinear.
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When and, the approaching waves contain an impulsive component.
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The approaching waves have a step wavefront if, and the wavefront is continuous if.
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It can thus be seen that this transformation with may be used to change the profile of the approaching waves .
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Some profiles for approaching waves of this type are illustrated in Figure 10.1.
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In terms of colliding plane waves , these solutions all involve approaching waves with initial impulsive components.
big
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But deep down he had the feeling that sooner or later, he would have to face the big wave with her.
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Nobody in the Republican presidential field is riding a bigger wave than Pat.
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Holding hands with your man in the sea and jumping over the biggest waves you've ever seen?
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Now he is looking around for a new challenge, the next big wave .
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Most of the rocks and small islands were under water. Big white waves were breaking over them.
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Well now, one surely would have thought that for such little things those great big waves might have seemed threatening.
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These interfere with each other, cancelling each other out or reinforcing each other to produce bigger waves .
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It was almost a shock to realise that there were actually big waves out beyond the flimsy rim of woven basketwork.
electromagnetic
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The Bell-Szekeres solution Bell and Szekeres have considered a very simple situation involving a collision of two step electromagnetic waves .
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They were young children under a sky that was empty of electromagnetic waves .
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Radio waves are electromagnetic waves with a very long wavelength, measurable in metres.
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X-rays and gamma rays are the shortest electromagnetic waves , with wavelengths less than a 1000 millionths of a centimetre.
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Indeed, Maxwell showed that when the fields propagate as electromagnetic waves they actually carry definite amounts of energy with them.
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The field equations for colliding electromagnetic waves have already been obtained in Chapter 6.
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In the collision of plane electromagnetic waves with non-aligned polarization, it must therefore be concluded that the dynamics remains unaltered.
gravitational
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In the alternative case of thick gravitational waves , they are non-scalar curvature singularities.
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It must be concluded that the above solution can not be interpreted in terms of an interaction between plane gravitational waves .
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Modern detectors which should be capable of detecting the gravitational waves from a supernova collapse in our Galaxy are described.
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It does not therefore describe the collision of genuinely non-aligned gravitational waves .
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It thus excludes situations involving impulsive gravitational waves .
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During the passage of gravitational waves it is the structure of space-time itself which oscillates.
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It is in fact a general feature of colliding electromagnetic plane waves that gravitational waves are always generated by the collision.
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A gravitational wave at the natural frequency for longitudinal oscillations of the bar would set it ringing like a tuning fork.
great
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She's sending out great waves of nastiness.
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And in this sense, the great capitalist wave seems to have lost little of its power.
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Now the water was chest-high - more than that as we struggled round a corner, to meet a great frothing wave .
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The increase in efficiency promised by the apostles of reengineering and the apologists for the great merger wave remains invisible.
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Suddenly the lack of sleep and tension seemed to be catching up in one great wave of dizziness.
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Another great wave strikes us, and the boat rolls over, and tumbles and tosses, I know not how.
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It was only when he plunged, wallet-first, into the great post-war building wave that people began to take notice.
huge
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Dawn came slowly, uncertainly, with first, the white foam on the huge breaking waves becoming more noticeable.
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At least 20 others were run aground, driven into sand bars by huge waves and winds topping 100 miles per hour.
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A huge wave swamped the canoes, overturning them and tipping the hunters into the foaming water.
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A fierce gale, huge waves , and a drenching rain bear down upon the frail whaling ship with all their might.
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At any moment, thought Endill, a huge wave would rise up and carry him away.
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I did not see any whales, but I did see huge waves .
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As Nell Anderson came to the surface yet another huge wave arrived.
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Except for a huge wave of media attention, the Great Solar Storm of April 1997 apparently has failed to make landfall.
light
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The behavior of light or radio waves is similar.
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Diffraction occurs with all types of radiation, including radio-waves, light waves and X-rays.
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Radio waves , like light waves and sound, are a means of transmitting energy.
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They then appear to us as what a classical physicist would call waves , such as waves of light or gravitational waves.
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White light consists of light waves of all different wavelengths, or colors.
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Because light waves have a high frequency, modulated light can carry signals of wide bandwidth.
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The principle of using a Doppler shift to indicate flow velocity can be applied with sound waves instead of light waves.
long
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And make use of long wave .
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It is perfectly true that Blake did have a battery-operated radio in his cell which worked on medium and long waves only.
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Thus short-wave radiation, which has more energy, is likely to be more dangerous than long wave .
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It is on the basis of this that the latest - fifth - long wave is emerging.
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As was seen in Chapter 1, the main debate here has revolved around how to explain the long waves .
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That is to say, his explanation of long waves lies in technological change which results from the bunching of innovations made by entrepreneurs.
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If long waves exist and are caused by the bunching of innovations, how can we explain that bunching?
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The core of her body was in a moment melted. Long waves of pure ecstasy washed through and through her.
new
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Yet new waves of allegations continued.
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A new wave of pro-independence demonstrations began in earnest in late 1987.
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They crossed the former's tight disco-funk arrangements with witty incisive lyrics more usually associated with new wave bands.
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A new comedy wave , I suppose, is waiting in the wings.
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Instead, González came more and more to personify the new wave of 1980s socialism with the social largely left out.
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Read in studio Scientists have developed a new wave machine which could save hundreds of homes threatened by the sea.
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Jaguar's new wave of optimism will need to endure.
seismic
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These records provided a rare opportunity to study the attenuation of strong seismic waves as a means of assessing seismic hazard.
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In fact, they are similar to the seismic waves from any other earthquake anywhere in the world.
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Also, the short scarps opposite the Caloris impact could be the result of seismic waves acting on such pre-existing faults.
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Some studies showed the seismic waves that passed through it speeding up; others showed them slowing down.
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The seismic waves from deeper earthquakes lose much of their energy by the time they reach the surface.
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These stages are a result of the different batches of seismic waves that such a jolt releases.
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This was a rare opportunity to study the attenuation of strong seismic waves and thereby improve seismic hazard assessment.
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If the seismic waves miss the plume, their record of it is lost to geophysicists.
shock
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The shock waves have been felt as far away as Wall Street.
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In general, both shock waves from airbursts and tsunami waves from ocean impacts may present serious hazards to populated areas.
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The shock-waves go through the whole; every part is affected.
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As this strong shock wave races outward from the impact site, it raises a storm of dust.
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The shock-waves from the disaster are still being felt in a whole host of unanswered questions and accusations.
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The shock wave was felt even in my plane, several miles away from the harbor.
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The grisly double homicide sent shock waves through this south Berkeley neighborhood.
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The Bundesbankers felt they were just not responsible for the shock waves their actions sent across the border.
short
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The cavity magnetron was simple, rugged and cheap, and produced short wavelength radio waves - microwaves.
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They reported to superiors in Havana through short-wave radios and computers.
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X-rays and gamma rays are the shortest electromagnetic waves , with wavelengths less than a 1000 millionths of a centimetre.
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They are fast, short waves .
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And the key to being small was to use short radio waves .
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Broadcasting was on short wave only and at such low power that the reception area was limited, scattered and unpredictable.
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It says that, in affected areas, only a minority listens on short wave .
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I had a clear voice suitable to the short waves , and I had broadcast a bit when I was at college.
slow
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These subjects slept like short sleepers in so far as sleep efficiency was improved, and deep slow wave sleep was maintained at baseline levels.
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Those with simple partial seizures may have focal spikes and / or slow waves .
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In addition, slow waves consistent with being asleep may occur during lapses in performance.
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Almost instantly, Edward began to come, in slow , tearing waves .
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When the slow waves occupy 50 percent or more of the record the subject is judged to be in Stage 4 sleep.
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Typically, the amplitude of slow waves in deep sleep becomes smaller with ageing.
sound
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And setting up the sound waves in the air at the other side.
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Perhaps it is an acoustic source of sound waves .
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A sound wave has a much greater chance of being scattered and absorbed by such dense vegetation.
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At these higher frequencies, radio uses a mixture of vibrating electric and magnetic fields instead of fluctuating sound waves .
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The equipment they use to perceive sound waves in the air is, however, quite new.
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The sound waves come legato, not staccato.
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The free-flowing water across the surface serves to dampen these sound waves and minimize the problem.
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In such experiments, the disturbance is usually provided as a sound wave from a nearby loudspeaker.
tidal
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She is suddenly engulfed by a tidal wave of self-loathing.
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Her almost flat nose tended to widen at the nostrils, flaring over a tidal wave of a mouth.
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On the other hand, thirteen percent hardly constituted the tidal wave of popular support that de Gaulle was looking for.
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Huge tidal waves swamped the town, damaging almost half the buildings.
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There is a tidal wave of youth crime, and the Government have not begun to answer it.
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She clung to the raft of her identity as the hurricanes and tidal waves lashed her.
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Mungo imagined them shattering, burying the floor in a tidal wave of crystal.
■ NOUN
crest
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As we approached the breaker line, a normal boat would have pitched and tossed awkwardly on the wave crests .
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The seawater flowed up through the cracks between the bamboo poles, and the wave crest traveled right over the raft.
crime
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Along with other rural areas, the villages have suffered a crime wave recently.
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On Wednesday, he said he will help Maskhadov fight a postwar crime wave .
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He believes the police are overstretched and moves are urgently needed to tackle Darlington's crime wave .
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He was part of a crime wave that shot up a house, robbed some one and then killed some one else.
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A supposed crime wave is sweeping the land.
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The crime wave that spurred them has been falling steadily in times of greater economic prosperity.
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He concludes that changes in genetic factors obviously can not explain the crime wave .
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The election-year crime wave is starting in Congress.
front
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The Szekeres solutions are only flat behind the wave front in the special case when.
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For by your account they are zigzagging across the wave front .
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In plunging breakers the wave front becomes vertical and the crest plunges nearly vertically downwards with far less surge up the beach.
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Profiles are shown for the special cases in which or, when the wave front is continuous.
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The wave front is smooth if.
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These solutions contain a subclass in which the approaching waves have smooth wave fronts and the metric is everywhere at least C 2.
heat
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She shivered at the memory of the horrors that had accompanied that awful heat wave .
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People were saying that a cold spring meant an early heat wave in summer.
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Computers, faxes and photocopiers generate heat waves of their own.
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Killer heat waves fell hundreds in Calcutta and Chicago.
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I remember we arrived during a heat wave and had to go into this refrigerator where they kept the furs.
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Early in August a heat wave hit.
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A great heat wave descended; it was a beautiful day, the sun turned red at three.
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Ideas flowed out of me like water out of a Brooklyn fire hydrant in the midst of a summer heat wave .
ocean
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And when they got into difficulties in the rolling ocean waves , the whales came to their rescue.
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In one elevator, a small electronic picture keeps an ocean wave on the move.
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The average ocean wave is five feet in height.
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On some nights, I would pretend the sounds were ocean waves and I was in a mansion on a nameless beach.
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Provision for students with special needs can be viewed as analogous to a small ship on the ocean waves .
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Have you ever seen an ocean wave pass over a submerged reef?
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Officials said there was no immediate threat of tsunami, a seismic ocean wave , which could be catastrophic to the area.
pressure
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Morphology of individual colonic pressure waves has eluded reliable classification.
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We call this the breathing pressure wave .
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The reference point for timing of swallows was taken from the onset of this pressure wave .
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According to our data, non-deglutitive repetitive simultaneous pressure waves may occur as a normal oesophageal motor pattern.
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The amplitude of the pressure waves declined after a latency period of about 2 to 3 minutes.
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The frequency of the pressure waves remained unchanged.
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As it swims, a fish creates a pressure wave that travels ahead of it.
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His last sensation was of pressure waves rippling against his body.
radio
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The idea behind radar was to send out radio waves and listen for echoes from enemy craft.
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By surrounding the radio with aluminum foil, we neutralize or block the radio waves .
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The radio waves may come not only from transmitters but power supplies, motors or other electrical devices.
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Radio antennas receive radio waves and change them into electrical signals which are then turned into sound by the speakers.
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The field theory progressed even more dramatically when, a few decades later, Hertz produced the radio waves predicted by the programme.
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And the key to being small was to use short radio waves .
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The behavior of light or radio waves is similar.
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A strong magnetic field made the electrons swirl around and so shed energy in the form of radio waves .
■ VERB
break
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It was a special method that allowed fishermen to avoid the jagged rocks that lay beneath the breaking waves .
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Unable to break them free, waves thrashed the jagged tubes of aluminium over the foredeck.
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The breaking waves were washing clear across the midships space between the cabins.
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The noise was like thunder breaking in uninterrupted waves .
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Along its jagged shores broke the waves of a worldwide ocean, Panthalassa.
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Then breaking waves began to roll him slowly landward and finally spit him on to the beach.
catch
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Karlheinz caught the wave , then turned the camera on the group of figures standing by.
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Even Newsweek caught that wave several years ago.
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I should have caught some more waves so they couldn't underscore me.
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Naihe caught a wave into shore and so escaped his assassins.
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In the coming decades, Lee hopes to catch that business wave .
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For those such as Mike, it was like a surfer trying to catch his wave .
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Along the path by the side of the warm regenerative earth she caught sight of blue waves .
feel
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She felt a wave of uncertainty and relief.
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And for a moment Glover had felt a wave of fear for the boys.
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He felt a sudden deep wave of depression, coupled with uncertainty.
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I try to feel every wave with my feet.
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Finally Fran led the way down the gangplank, feeling waves of tiredness washing over her.
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You feel a small wave of fear.
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Then she felt a wave of dizziness as he slipped right up inside her.
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I said, feeling a slight wave of nausea.
ride
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He rode women the way he rode waves .
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On weekends, this connoisseur of contemporary language stations himself on the couch, clicker in hand, riding the on-air waves .
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Despite this the finale still manages to ride on a wave bigger than any individual personality, bigger than the music itself.
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Rex later commented on how smoothly she rode out the waves .
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They are always seen together, flying or riding the waves .
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At the end of the day, who cares if they're boogie boarding off Newquay or riding big waves in Scarborough?
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But they all ride upon guiding waves , which determine their destiny.
send
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She's sending out great waves of nastiness.
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The guide was lecturing telepathically, simply standing there, sending out thought waves to the crowd.
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The idea behind radar was to send out radio waves and listen for echoes from enemy craft.
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The grisly double homicide sent shock waves through this south Berkeley neighborhood.
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It closed possessively on the aroused peak, sending delicious waves of pleasure shuddering through her.
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The slaying sent waves of fear through the community, especially after three teen-agers were charged in the murder.
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Steamers sent waves up the banks and naked brown boys jumped into the wash, shouting and laughing.
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It sent shock waves through the education establishment.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be on/riding the crest of a wave
ride a wave
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Trevor has been riding the waves for more than half his life.
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He rode women the way he rode waves.
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I wanted to ride a wave with her.
shock waves
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I gave him a friendly wave .
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Kelly's hair has a natural wave to it.
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Leona dismissed the servants with a wave of the hand.
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radio waves
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Security chiefs fear a new wave of terrorist bombings.
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Ten-foot waves crashed against the shore.
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The country has been brought to a standstill by the latest wave of strikes.
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The mayor has promised tough action in response to the city's rising crime wave .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As he approached it, the non-existent waves under his feet became clammy and smelt unpleasantly of chemicals.
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Economic fluctuations are unpredictable tidal waves.
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In addition, slow waves consistent with being asleep may occur during lapses in performance.
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Only your four top waves would count.
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Soon, the craft was making its way through the darkness over twenty-foot waves and taking on water.
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The noise was pitched to a fury he located in the mind, a satisfying wave of rage and pain.
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The rapid delivery of the auctioneer is keyed to a wave or nod by those bidding on the animals.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
arm
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People may shout, mouth words, wave their arms about or feel generally inadequate and give up.
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He too was waving his arms , then lifting a leg each in turn and shaking his feet at the leaden sky.
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We were waving our arms and yelling.
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The Doctor was left to wave his arms and shout; he could not be heard above the din.
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Then, they screamed, waved their arms and jumped up and down, spewing love for the Cowboys.
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Bones stopped at the gate only because Uncle Bean stood in front of it waving his arms .
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I stiffen, I wail, I wave my arms , I kick my feet.
banner
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The silver banner of the Merkuts waved everywhere.
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With banners waving , with steady step, they sweep on like an irresistible wave of fate.
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An attractive feature of his branch are the promotional banners waving in the air conditioned breeze.
crowd
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When he left an hour later, he paused on the steps to wave to the still-waiting crowd .
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They were up there sitting on carnations, waving to the crowd .
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It was an exultant feeling, climbing on to the rostrum, waving to the crowd and receiving my medal.
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It's the window he's stepping through to wave to the crowd .
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But whoever it is, waving to the exultant crowds , he will have become a legend.
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Earl Spencer loved the carriage ride, waving enthusiastically to the crowds .
finger
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Don't wave a finger in front of the screen - use a pencil and be precise.
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She waved a finger , dismissing this remark.
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Instead he saw a pair of gloves, suspended in water and waving fleshless fingers at him.
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He then broke the whole continuity of the conversation by waving his ten fingers ten times in front of her!
flag
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Tasks range from flag-waving and fire protection, to working in the circuit car park.
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The soldiers were lined up in the square again, flags waved , the band played the welcoming march.
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Balloons were released and Czechoslovak flags were waved as passing motorists sounded their horns in noisy support.
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A Confederate flag waves in the breeze and a Rottweiler named Cocoa Puff stands guard on the front porch.
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A man with a flag waved them down.
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They moved by companies past the President, bands playing national aIrs, the drums beating, and the flags waving .
goodbye
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People laughing, people crying, some boarding vessels, others disembarking, and others waving goodbye to their loved ones.
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As we left, I turned to wave goodbye to Harada.
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She usually waves goodbye to men as casually as she greets them, but this time she is hooked.
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He waved a general goodbye , said his thanks, and left.
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The whistle would blow and Aunt Dorothy would wave goodbye .
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We waved goodbye and started back to Lobethal.
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This time, Wilson did not go out in the street to wave goodbye nor did she weep.
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An hour later she had ordered a taxi and Paige had waved her goodbye in some bemusement.
gun
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Had to wave the gun at her.
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The khthons were in control and waved their guns as if they had captured the travellers.
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He turned there and waved his gun at us.
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Mrs Wright waved her gun at him and Caspar charged past her, picked up the dead magpie and disappeared.
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The gang ran through the streets off the Limestone Road waving guns in the air to terrorise residents.
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Anya, possibly by waving her gun again, has finally persuaded Riva to change into drier clothes.
hand
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No deaths or injuries, but a few hands waving feebly from under the pile of bodies indicated that rescue was required.
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Afterward, they held hands and waved at people and pretended not to know the things they knew.
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Firing the bolter with one hand he waved the sizzling power sword frantically in front of his face as if fanning wasps away.
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It was a dead hand , waving a tiny, posthumous good-bye.
paper
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A man struggled towards her, calling her name and waving a piece of paper .
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The captain of the research ship was waving a piece of paper at us and then pointing to it.
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He had glanced back, to see Ashton standing at the depot gates, waving a piece of paper at him.
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After a few minutes she went out and Quigley came in, waving a piece of paper .
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You can even wave your order paper in the air.
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Quigley waved the paper over my face.
stick
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Three men stood in the entrance of the courtyard, waving sticks .
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Two shepherds took off after him, waving their sticks .
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Toasting their successful ascent to the summit, she lifts her flask in the air, and father waves his walking stick .
wand
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Don't wait for life to wave its magic wand and make you joyful.
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I ask, if you could wave a magic wand , what would your life look like?
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If that is true, he is waving a magic wand with a sledgehammer on the end.
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In time, one hopes and trusts that Gilmore will wave his magic wand and refurbish the theater to its former glory.
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We wave our own magic wands .
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The government has waved the magic wand of legislation over longstanding curriculum problems: overload, differentiation, progression, examination domination.
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But London's pattern of hospitals is such a historical muddle that no one can wave a wand and transform everything overnight.
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Anyway, I imagined him waving a wand , and the world came into existence.
■ VERB
begin
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An assistant began waving his arms and talking to the dealer noisily in his native tongue.
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Partway there, I stopped, took off my hat, and began waving it in the air by its ribbons.
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A moment later they closed the ambulance door, a siren started up and the traffic warden began waving me on.
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People began to clap and wave flags.
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She began to wave to a seat, but stopped herself - she realised it must look grimy to them as well.
shout
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A witness had seen him in deep water, shouting and waving for help.
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Then one of the men shouted something, waving his arms in the general direction of the forest.
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You turned, shouted something back and waved your hand.
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He stepped out of the shadows, shouted , and waved his arms to attract attention.
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They shouted a great deal, and waved their arms.
smile
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Then she smiled , waved her hand weakly, and was gone.
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After a nearly 30-minute wait, her bus came, and she smiled and waved as it roared away.
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When the villagers stared, they smiled and waved as if on a royal tour.
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Like some one leaving on a boat or train he smiled and waved .
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He smiled tightly and waved a hand at the slowly diminishing figure on the hillside far below.
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They had smiled and waved as we passed.
turn
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Once, she turned to wave .
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As though sensing his glance, she turned around and waved to him.
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He turned there and waved his gun at us.
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Mike turned around and waved , too, and motioned for me to come out.
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He turned and waved to his fellows then gestured towards the hill.
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Mrs Cohen shuffles away, then turns and waves at me encouragingly.
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Once across, they turned and waved , then were soon out of sight beyond the belvedere.
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As we left, I turned to wave goodbye to Harada.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be on/riding the crest of a wave
shock waves
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Get out of here!" he shouted, waving his gun.
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Her parents stood in the doorway and waved goodbye.
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Nelson was waving from the upstairs window.
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She continued to wave as the car drove out of sight.
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The customs officer at the border waved us through.
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The emperor waved to the crowd from the palace balcony.
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The flag waved proudly in the breeze.
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Who's that waving at you?
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Yolanda waved for us to come over.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A Confederate flag waves in the breeze and a Rottweiler named Cocoa Puff stands guard on the front porch.
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Nanny held Artemis aside and told her to wave , which she did.
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She waved to the young man and called out something which he could not catch.
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The guard at the desk waves us through.
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The Patrician waved a hand again.
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We turned one last time to wave to Mr Bunea and Maria.
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When he waved down a taxi, he saw that her hand ferreted in her bag.