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wa⋅ver

1  [wey-ver]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
2. to flicker or quiver, as light: A distant beam wavered and then disappeared.
3. become unsteady; begin to fail or give way: When she heard the news her courage wavered.
4. to shake or tremble, as the hands or voice: Her voice wavered.
5. to feel or show doubt, indecision, etc.; vacillate: He wavered in his determination.
6. (of things) to fluctuate or vary: Prices wavered.
7. to totter or reel: The earth quaked and the tower wavered.
–noun
8. an act of wavering, fluttering, or vacillating.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME (see wave, -er 6 ); c. dial. G wabern to move about, ON vafra to toddle

Related forms:
wa⋅ver⋅er, noun
wa⋅ver⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
4. quiver. 5. Waver, fluctuate, vacillate refer to an alternation or hesitation between one direction and another. Waver means to hesitate between choices: to waver between two courses of action. Fluctuate suggests irregular change from one side to the other or up and down: The prices of stocks fluctuate when there is bad news followed by good. Vacillate is to make up one's mind and change it again suddenly; to be undecided as to what to do: We must not vacillate but must set a day.

wav⋅er

2  [wey-ver]
–noun
1. a person who waves or causes something to wave: Election time brings out the wavers of flags and haranguers of mobs.
2. a person who specializes in waving hair.
3. something, as a curling iron, used for waving hair.
Origin:
1550–60; wave + -er 1
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wave   (wāv)   
v.   waved, wav·ing, waves

v.   intr.
  1. To move freely back and forth or up and down in the air, as branches in the wind.
  2. To make a signal with an up-and-down or back-and-forth movement of the hand or an object held in the hand: waved as she drove by.
  3. To have an undulating or wavy form; curve or curl: Her hair waves naturally.
v.   tr.
  1. To cause to move back and forth or up and down, either once or repeatedly: She waved a fan before her face.
    1. To move or swing as in giving a signal: He waved his hand. See Synonyms at flourish.
    2. To signal or express by waving the hand or an object held in the hand: We waved goodbye.
    3. To signal (a person) to move in a specified direction: The police officer waved the motorist into the right lane.
  3. To arrange into curves, curls, or undulations: wave one's hair.
n.  
    1. A ridge or swell moving through or along the surface of a large body of water.
    2. A small ridge or swell moving across the interface of two fluids and dependent on surface tension.
    3. A moving curve or succession of curves in or on a surface; an undulation: waves of wheat in the wind.
    4. A curve or succession of curves, as in the hair.
    5. A curved shape, outline, or pattern.
    6. A surge or rush, as of sensation: a wave of nausea; a wave of indignation.
    7. A sudden great rise, as in activity or intensity: a wave of panic selling on the stock market.
    8. A rising trend that involves large numbers of individuals: a wave of conservatism.
    9. One of a succession of mass movements: the first wave of settlers.
    10. A maneuver in which fans at a sports event simulate an ocean wave by rising quickly in sequence with arms upraised and then quickly sitting down again in a continuous rolling motion.
    11. A disturbance traveling through a medium by which energy is transferred from one particle of the medium to another without causing any permanent displacement of the medium itself.
    12. A graphic representation of the variation of such a disturbance with time.
    13. A single cycle of such a disturbance.
  2. The sea. Often used in the plural: vanished beneath the waves.
  3. Something that suggests the form and motion of a wave in the sea, especially:
    1. A moving curve or succession of curves in or on a surface; an undulation: waves of wheat in the wind.
    2. A curve or succession of curves, as in the hair.
    3. A curved shape, outline, or pattern.
    4. A surge or rush, as of sensation: a wave of nausea; a wave of indignation.
    5. A sudden great rise, as in activity or intensity: a wave of panic selling on the stock market.
    6. A rising trend that involves large numbers of individuals: a wave of conservatism.
    7. One of a succession of mass movements: the first wave of settlers.
    8. A maneuver in which fans at a sports event simulate an ocean wave by rising quickly in sequence with arms upraised and then quickly sitting down again in a continuous rolling motion.
    9. A disturbance traveling through a medium by which energy is transferred from one particle of the medium to another without causing any permanent displacement of the medium itself.
    10. A graphic representation of the variation of such a disturbance with time.
    11. A single cycle of such a disturbance.
  4. A movement up and down or back and forth: a wave of the hand.
    1. A surge or rush, as of sensation: a wave of nausea; a wave of indignation.
    2. A sudden great rise, as in activity or intensity: a wave of panic selling on the stock market.
    3. A rising trend that involves large numbers of individuals: a wave of conservatism.
    4. One of a succession of mass movements: the first wave of settlers.
    5. A maneuver in which fans at a sports event simulate an ocean wave by rising quickly in sequence with arms upraised and then quickly sitting down again in a continuous rolling motion.
    6. A disturbance traveling through a medium by which energy is transferred from one particle of the medium to another without causing any permanent displacement of the medium itself.
    7. A graphic representation of the variation of such a disturbance with time.
    8. A single cycle of such a disturbance.
  6. A widespread, persistent meteorological condition, especially of temperature: a heat wave.
  7. Physics
    1. A disturbance traveling through a medium by which energy is transferred from one particle of the medium to another without causing any permanent displacement of the medium itself.
    2. A graphic representation of the variation of such a disturbance with time.
    3. A single cycle of such a disturbance.
Phrasal Verb(s):
wave off
  1. To dismiss or refuse by waving the hand or arm: waved off his invitation to join the group.
  2. Sports To cancel or nullify by waving the arms, usually from a crossed position: waved off the goal because time had run out.

[Middle English waven, from Old English wafian; see webh- in Indo-European roots.]
wav'er n.
wa·ver   (wā'vər)   
intr.v.   wa·vered, wa·ver·ing, wa·vers
  1. To move unsteadily back and forth. See Synonyms at swing.
    1. To exhibit irresolution or indecision; vacillate: wavered over buying a house. See Synonyms at hesitate.
    2. To become unsteady or unsure; falter: His resolve began to waver.
  3. To tremble or quaver in sound, as of the voice or a musical note.
  4. To flicker or glimmer, as light.
n.  The act of wavering.

[Middle English waveren; see webh- in Indo-European roots.]
wa'ver·er n., wa'ver·ing·ly adv.
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Waver

Wa"ver\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wavered; p. pr. & vb. n. Wavering.] [OE. waveren, from AS. w[ae]fre wavering, restless. See Wave, v. i.]

1. To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.

With banners and pennons wavering with the wind. --Ld. Berners.

Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror to all evil speakers against dignities. --Sir W. Scott.

2. To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment.

Let us hold fast . . . without wavering. --Heb. x. 23.

In feeble hearts, propense enough before To waver, or fall off and join with idols. --Milton.

Syn: To reel; totter; vacillate. See Fluctuate.

Waver

Wa"ver\, n. [From Wave, or Waver, v.] A sapling left standing in a fallen wood. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : waver
Spanish: vacilar, titubear,
German: wanken,
Japanese: ためらう
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waver  (v.)
c.1280, weyveren, "to show indecision," probably related to O.E. wæfre "restless, wavering," from P.Gmc. *wæbraz (cf. M.H.G. wabern "to waver," O.N. vafra "to hover about"), a frequentative form from the root of wave (v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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