Undulate
['ʌndjʊleɪt] or ['ʌndʒə'let]
Definition
(verb.) increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves; 'The singer's voice undulated'.
(adj.) having a wavy margin and rippled surface .
Typed by Deirdre--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Same as Undulated.
(v. t.) To cause to move backward and forward, or up and down, in undulations or waves; to cause to vibrate.
(v. i.) To move in, or have, undulations or waves; to vibrate; to wave; as, undulating air.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Wave, fluctuate, move up and down.
Editor: Seth
Definition
v.t. to wave or to move like waves: to cause to vibrate.—v.i. to wave: to vibrate.—adj. wavy.—adj. Un′dulant undulating.—adv. Un′dulātely.—adj. Un′dulāting.—adv. Un′dulātingly.—ns. Undulā′tion an undulating: a waving motion or vibration: waviness a set of waved lines: a feeling as if of an undulatory motion about the heart: the peculiar motion of the matter within an abscess on being pressed when it is ripe for opening; Undulā′tionist one who holds an undulatory theory.—adjs. Un′dulātive undulatory; Un′dulātory moving like waves: relating to the theory of light which considers its transmission as wave-motion in a medium filling space; Un′dulose Un′dulous undulating.
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Examples
- Again--a fine, full, lofty tone, a deep, soft sound, like a storm whispering, made twilight undulate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There was about it an undulating and aerial grace, such as one might dream of for some mythic and allegorical being. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- On a rainy day, even in a gently undulating country, we see the effects of subaerial degradation in the muddy rills which flow down every slope. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Then the unthinkable high vibration slackened and became more undulating. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Sometimes the undulating movement was noticeable, but that was all. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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