Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
- intransitive verb To have a wavelike appearance or form.
- intransitive verb To increase and decrease in volume or pitch.
- intransitive verb To cause to move in a smooth wavelike motion.
- intransitive verb To give a wavelike appearance or form to.
- adjective Having a wavy outline or appearance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wavy; having a waved surface.
- To have a wavy motion; rise and fall in waves; move in waves.
- Synonyms Waver, etc. See
fluctuate . - To cause to wave, or move in waves; cause to vibrate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Same as
undulated . - transitive verb To cause to move backward and forward, or up and down, in undulations or waves; to cause to vibrate.
- intransitive verb To move in, or have, undulations or waves; to vibrate; to wave.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To cause to move in a
wavelike motion . - verb transitive To cause to
resemble awave - verb intransitive To move in wavelike motions.
- verb intransitive To appear wavelike.
- adjective
Wavy in appearance or form. - adjective Changing the
pitch andvolume of one'svoice . - adjective botany, of a margin
Winding up and downgradually relative to theblade .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a wavy margin and rippled surface
- verb stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- verb move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- verb occur in soft rounded shapes
- verb increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Enveloping him, she watched as his face began to undulate through the variations she was sure were those of pleasure.
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Enveloping him, she watched as his face began to undulate through the variations she was sure were those of pleasure.
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The nylon structure consists of 9 hexagonal canopy units and is stabilized by anchors and lighting equipment in each of its 35 columns, allowing it to undulate and shift in wind and changing weather.
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Find a cozy spot on your lover's lap in the Lapland region of Finland to watch rare blue-hued Northern Lights undulate across dark skies.
Amy Chan: 10 Romantic Date Ideas For Valentine's Day Amy Chan 2011
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The wind made feathery grass undulate like a golden sea.
So Far, So Good Sara Clemence 2012
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The only part that required much thought was generating the floor polygons, which undulate back and forth between two shapes.
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These flat, white, square pieces of audio equipment--"They almost remind you of an empty white canvas," says Rudolf Frieling, SFMOMA's curator of media arts, who curated this piece -- rotate and undulate gracefully on pivot points, randomly directing laser-like beams of sound from the fifth-floor pedestrian bridge, which sits just under the museum's iconic circular skylight.
Cherie Louise Turner: The Sound of Architecture: Bill Fontana's "Sonic Shadows" at SFMOMA Cherie Louise Turner 2011
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These flat, white, square pieces of audio equipment--"They almost remind you of an empty white canvas," says Rudolf Frieling, SFMOMA's curator of media arts, who curated this piece -- rotate and undulate gracefully on pivot points, randomly directing laser-like beams of sound from the fifth-floor pedestrian bridge, which sits just under the museum's iconic circular skylight.
Cherie Louise Turner: The Sound of Architecture: Bill Fontana's "Sonic Shadows" at SFMOMA Cherie Louise Turner 2011
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With the precision placement of bricks made possible by a robot, it ought to be possible to build a flat wall that would undulate in 3D when viewed as a stereogram.
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Find a cozy spot on your lover's lap in the Lapland region of Finland to watch rare blue-hued Northern Lights undulate across dark skies.
Amy Chan: 10 Romantic Date Ideas For Valentine's Day Amy Chan 2011
mollusque commented on the word undulate
A wavy word, with "d", "l" and "t" rising above the surface.
December 1, 2007