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wellen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • crimp verb To press or bend something into small folds or ridges.
  • undulate verb To make something move up and down like a wave.
  • wave noun A moving ridge on the surface of water, especially the sea.

Senses

wellen is used for these senses in English:

  • corrugate To fold into parallel folds, grooves or ridges.
  • crimp To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
  • undulate (transitive) To cause to resemble a wave.
  • undulate (intransitive) To move in wavelike motions.
  • wave (transitive, metonymic) 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.

crimp — full definition

  1. verb To press or bend something into small folds or ridges.
  2. verb To fasten two pieces of metal together by squeezing or bending them.
  3. noun A tight wave or kink, especially in hair.
  4. noun Informal: something that restricts or limits (usually in the phrase "put a crimp in").

undulate — full definition

  1. verb To make something move up and down like a wave.
  2. verb To shape something so that it looks like a wave.
  3. verb To move smoothly up and down, the way waves do.
  4. verb To look as though it is moving in waves.
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