Synonyms of the word wafture


WAFTUREGESTURE - MOTION - WAVE - WAVING

wafture

  • n. Something that is wafted.
  • n. The act of wafting something.

gesture

  • n. A motion of the limbs or body, especially one made to emphasize speech.
  • n. An act or a remark made as a formality or as a sign of attitude.
  • n. (obsolete) The manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a gesture or gestures.
  • v. (transitive) To express something by a gesture or gestures.
  • v. (transitive) To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action.

motion

  • n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
  • n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
  • n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
  • n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
  • n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
  • n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
  • n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
  • n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
  • n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
  • n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
  • n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
  • v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
  • v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
  • v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

wave

  • v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
  • v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
  • v. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion,…
  • v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
  • v. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
  • v. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
  • v. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
  • v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
  • n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
  • n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
  • n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
  • n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
  • n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
  • n. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of…
  • v. Obsolete spelling of waive.

waving

  • v. present participle of wave.
  • n. Repeated moving of arms or hands to signal.

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