knockdown vs wave

knockdown

noun
  • a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet. 

  • The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface. 

  • An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down. 

  • A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room. 

  • A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly. 

  • A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced. 

  • The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene. 

  • An overwhelming blow. 

verb
  • To employ the knockdown technique 

adj
  • To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening. 

  • reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer 

  • powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down 

  • Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal. 

wave

noun
  • A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands. 

  • One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games. 

  • A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation. 

  • Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings. 

  • A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions. 

  • The ocean. 

  • A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field. 

  • A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something. 

  • A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit. 

verb
  • To generate a wave. 

  • To swing and miss at a pitch. 

  • To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate. 

  • To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure. 

  • To have an undulating or wavy form. 

  • To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to. 

  • To produce waves to the hair. 

  • To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement. 

  • To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely. 

  • To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. 

  • To cause to move back and forth repeatedly. 

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