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Undulate   /ˈəndʒəlˌeɪt/   Listen
Undulate

verb
(past & past part. undulated; pres. part. undulating)
1.
Stir up (water) so as to form ripples.  Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ripple, ruffle.
2.
Occur in soft rounded shapes.  Synonym: roll.
3.
Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion.  Synonyms: flap, roll, wave.  "The waves rolled towards the beach"
4.
Increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves.
adjective
1.
Having a wavy margin and rippled surface.






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"Undulate" Quotes from Famous Books



... objects are at the same time within the sphere of their distinct vision; and when a child first can stand erect upon his legs, if you gain his attention to a white handkerchief steadily extended like a sail, and afterwards make it undulate, he instantly loses his perpendicularity, and ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... rollers, but had rather the appearance of 'ground-swells' in deep water," the height of which from crest to trough he estimated at not less than two feet. In the words of another observer, "The vibrations increased rapidly and the ground began to undulate like the sea. The street was well lighted, having three gas-lamps within a distance of 200 feet, and I could see the earth waves as they passed as distinctly as I have a thousand times seen the waves roll along Sullivan's ...
— A Study of Recent Earthquakes • Charles Davison

... interkonsenti pri. Undertake entrepreni. Undertaking entrepreno. Underwrite garantii. Undesigned senvola, senintenca. Undignified malinda. Undisciplined malobeema. Undo malfari. Undo (the hair) malligi. Undress (one's self) malvesti, senvestigi. Undulate ondolinii. Undulating ondolinia. Undulation ondolinio. Unearthly supernatura. Uneasiness maltrankvileco. Uneasy maltrankvila. Unemployed senokupa. Unendurable nesuferebla. Unequal neegala. Unerring neerara, certa. Uneven neebena, malglata. Unexpected ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... incomplete view of the matter. Besides the visible mechanical result, sound is produced; or, to speak accurately, a vibration in one or both bodies, which is communicated to the surrounding air; and under some circumstances we call this the effect. Moreover, the air has not only been made to undulate, but has had currents caused in it by the transit of the bodies. Further, there is a disarrangement of the particles of the two bodies in the neighbourhood of their point of collision; amounting, in some cases, to a visible ...
— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer

... to the station; I jump into a car; the train moves; I have left Evreux. The coach is half full, but I occupy, fortunately, one of the corners. I put my nose out of the window; I see some pollarded trees, the tops of a few hills that undulate away into the distance, a bridge astride of a great pond that sparkles in the sun like burnished glass. All this is not very pleasing. I sink back in my corner, looking now and then at the telegraph wires that ...
— Sac-Au-Dos - 1907 • Joris Karl Huysmans


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