Waived vs. Waved — What's the Difference?

To give up (a claim or right, for example) voluntarily; relinquish.

To move freely back and forth or up and down in the air, as branches in the wind.

To refrain from insisting on or enforcing (a rule, penalty, or requirement, for example); dispense with

To make a signal with an up-and-down or back-and-forth movement of the hand or an object held in the hand

To refrain from engaging in, sometimes temporarily; cancel or postpone

To have an undulating or wavy form; curve or curl

(Sports) To place (a player) on waivers.

To cause to move back and forth or up and down, either once or repeatedly

Simple past tense and past participle of waive

To move or swing as in giving a signal

To signal or express by waving the hand or an object held in the hand

To signal (a person) by using the hand to move in a specified direction

To arrange into curves, curls, or undulations

A ridge or swell moving through or along the surface of a large body of water.

A small ridge or swell moving across the interface of two fluids and dependent on surface tension.

Often waves The sea

A moving curve or succession of curves in or on a surface; an undulation

A curve or succession of curves, as in the hair.

A curved shape, outline, or pattern.

A movement up and down or back and forth

A surge or rush, as of sensation

A sudden great rise, as in activity or intensity

A rising trend that involves large numbers of individuals

One of a succession of mass movements

A maneuver in which fans at a sports event simulate an ocean wave by rising quickly in sequence with arms upraised and then quickly sitting down again in a continuous rolling motion.

A widespread, persistent meteorological condition, especially of temperature

A disturbance that travels through a medium. Energy is transferred by a wave from one region of the medium to another without causing any permanent displacement of the medium.

A graphic representation of the variation of such a disturbance with time.

A single cycle of a periodic wave.

Simple past tense and past participle of wave

Having a wave-like form or outline; undulating.

(heraldry) Indented.

(biology) Having on the margin a succession of curved segments or incisions.

Exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as, waved edge.

Having a wavelike appearance; marked with wavelike lines of color; as, waved, or watered, silk.

Having undulations like waves; - said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc.