squeegee vs wave

squeegee

verb
  • To use a squeegee. 

noun
  • A tool used to remove excess moisture from a print. 

  • A street-cleaning machine consisting of a roller made of squeegee blades pulled by a horse. 

  • A short-handled tool, especially as used on car windshields and home windows. 

  • A long-handled tool used on ships for swabbing the decks and spreading protective coatings. 

  • Similar long-handled tools used for drying or leveling surfaces such as paths and roadways. 

  • A tool used to force the ink through the stencil in silk-screen printing. 

  • A person who uses a squeegee, especially one who "cleans" the windshield of a car stopped at a traffic light and then demands payment. 

wave

verb
  • To have an undulating or wavy form. 

  • 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 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. 

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. 

How often have the words squeegee and wave occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )