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moving ridge - one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) | ||
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motion, movement the act of changing location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" | ||
breakers, surf, breaker waves breaking on the shore | ||
backwash, wake a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's no weeping at an Irish wake" | ||
swash the movement or sound of water; "the swash of waves on the beach" | ||
rippling, wavelet, riffle, ripple shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners | ||
crestless wave, swell a crescendo followed by a decrescendo | ||
rise, lift the act of changing location in an upward direction | ||
billow, surge a large sea wave | ||
tidal wave a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun | ||
tidal wave a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun | ||
tsunami a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption; "a colossal tsunami destroyed the Minoan civilization in minutes" | ||
rolling wave, roller, roll a grounder that rolls along the infield | ||
comber a machine that separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool |