undulate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
stir up (water) so as to form ripples
Types & categories
- flux hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 adjective
having a wavy margin and rippled surface
Related & opposite
- smooth similar to
Sense 3 verb
occur in soft rounded shapes
The hills rolled past
Related & opposite
- ringlet derivation
Sense 4 verb
move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
The curtains undulated
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- wave derivation
- wave derivation
- rolling wave derivation
- undulation derivation
- flapping derivation
Sense 5 verb
increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves
The singer's voice undulated
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | riffle |
| 1 | entails | Related & opposite | fold |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | flux |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | smooth |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | ringlet |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | wave |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | wave |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | rolling wave |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | undulation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | flapping |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | luff |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |