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New Wave

Definition: New Wave

New Wave

Noun

1. An art movement in French cinema in the 1960s.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: New Wave

Synonym: Nouvelle Vague (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: New Wave

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The term "new wave" has been used to describe several movements in art:

  1. The New Wave movement in science fiction
  2. New wave music -- U.S.and U.K in the late 1970s and early 1980s
  3. Punk rock music -- specific to the U.K in the 1970s
  4. The French new wave (nouvelle vague) in film


Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "New Wave."

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Crosswords: New Wave

English words defined with "New Wave": heterodyneNew Waver. (references)
Specialty definitions using "New Wave": Huygens waveletsIon acoustic wave. (references)

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Modern Usage: New Wave

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Suspicion of the tradition's so new wave. (Shock Treatment; writing credit: Richard O'Brien; Jim Sharman)

Lyrics

Next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways ("It's Still Rock and Roll To Me"; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Movie/TV Titles

New Wave Hookers 7 (2003)

Where Confucius Meets the New Wave (1987)

New Wave Comedy (1986)

California New Wave (1978)

New Wave (1974)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: New Wave

DomainTitle

References

  • New Wave Group AB: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • French New Wave (reference)

  • Glock : The New Wave In Combat Handguns (reference)

  • Nomar Garciaparra: Non-Stop Shortstop (Baseball's New Wave) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Just Can't Get Enough - New Wave Hits of the 80's, Vol. 2 (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: New Wave

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Although Japan's recession has depressed the market for robotics somewhat in recent years, the aging of automation equipment at many Japanese factories should lead to a surge in pent-up demand for robotics in Japan in the near term. In particular, new technologies such as software and computer tools that will enable robots to sense, recognize, and learn artificially will particularly be in high demand as a new wave of capital investment is made in Japan. (references)

Economic History

India

Though some form of direct selling had been in practice in India, a new wave of interest to sell in the Indian market through the modern concept of direct selling has begun only recently. (references)

Afghanistan

On January 1, 1994, Dostam switched sides, precipitating largescale fighting in Kabul and in northern provinces, which caused thousands of civilian casualties in Kabul and elsewhere and created a new wave of displaced persons and refugees. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: New Wave

CountryName
Sweden

New Wave Group AB

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: New Wave

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

new wave

256

new wave technology

47

new wave music

45

80s new wave

35

french new wave

16

new wave entertainment

14

new wave miniature

12

new wave hit of the 80s

10

business e new wave

10

hit new wave

9

new wave kayak

8

cafe new wave

7

new wave radio

7

new wave sound

6

new wave band

6

aquatics new wave

6

80s band new wave

6

new wave song

6

brave new wave

6

city new wave

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: New Wave

Language Translations for "New Wave"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

nouvelle vague. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ニトロ基 (mnemonic, new, new academism, new adult, new age, new city, new jazz, New Jersey, New Journalism, New South Wales, New Zealand, Newcastle, newcomer, news, news analyst, news group, news source, news value, newscaster, news-feed, newsletter, newsmagazine, news-reader, newsroom, news-server, news-spool, news-station, news-system, new-wave, NG, nihil, nihilism, nihilist, nihilistic, Nina Ricci, nitro group, nuclear family, nuisance). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ニューウェーブ . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ewnay aveway

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: New Wave

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-n-v-w-w"

-2 letters: veena, venae, weave.

-3 letters: anew, awee, eave, even, nave, neve, vane, vena, wane, wave, wean, ween.

-4 letters: ane, ave, awe, awn, eve, ewe, nae, naw, nee, new, van, vaw, vee, wae, wan, waw, wee, wen.

-5 letters: ae, an, aw, en, na, ne, we.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: New Wave


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 65 77      57 61 76 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100101 01110111 00100000 01010111 01100001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#101 &#119 &#32 &#87 &#97 &#118 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0065 0077      0057 0061 0076 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

487189257678871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Names: Company Usage
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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