undulate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin undulātus (“undulated”), from an unattested *undula (“small wave”), diminutive of Latin unda (“wave”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈʌndjəleɪt/, /ˈʌndjʊleɪt/, /ˈʌnd͡ʒəleɪt/, /ˈʌnd͡ʒʊleɪt/, /ˈʌndəleɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (adjective, non-merged vowel) IPA(key): /ˈʌndjəlɪt/, /ˈʌndjʊlɪt/, /ˈʌnd͡ʒəlɪt/, /ˈʌnd͡ʒʊlɪt/, /ˈʌndəlɪt/
- (adjective, merged vowel) IPA(key): /ˈʌndjələt/, /ˈʌnd͡ʒələt/, /ˈʌndələt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]undulate (third-person singular simple present undulates, present participle undulating, simple past and past participle undulated)
- (transitive) To cause to move in a wavelike motion.
- 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: […], London: […] T. N[ewcomb] for J[ohn] Martyn printer to the R[oyal] Society, […], →OCLC:
- Breath vocalized, i.e., vibrated and undulated.
- (transitive) To cause to resemble a wave.
- (intransitive) To move in wavelike motions.
- 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
- Come lovely and soothing death, / Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, / In the day, in the night, to all, to each, / Sooner or later delicate death.
- (intransitive) To appear wavelike.
Translations
[edit]transitive: cause to move in a wave
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transitive: cause to resemble a wave
intransitive: move in wavelike motions
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intransitive: resemble a wave
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See also
[edit]Adjective
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undulate (comparative more undulate, superlative most undulate)
- Wavy in appearance or form.
- Changing the pitch and volume of one's voice.
- (botany, of a margin) sinuous, winding up and down.
Translations
[edit]wavy in appearance or form
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changing one's voice
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Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]undulāte
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