Translation
wave
Examples
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The waves beat against the shore.
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A big wave covered the boat.
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The sea was without waves.
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She listened to the sound of the waves.
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A wave of joy filled his heart.
is the wave in water and, by an old and unremarkable extension, the wave of feeling that goes through a crowd. It is not the wave of a hand, which is . The verb ondi means to undulate, o is a ripple with the diminutive doing the work, and i is to set something rippling. The word also carries the physics sense, so sonondo is a sound wave, the metaphor having travelled from the sea into the laboratory here as it did elsewhere.
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